Protected Contact Isn't Just Management.
Protected contact gets filed under zoo training, the thing you do when your learner can eat you. Hannah used to think that way too, right up...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
Kids & family
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
A behind-the-scenes look into the reality of dog training, behavior, teaching, and learning. We love our dogs, we love our jobs, but sometimes it's not all unicorns and rainbows. Sometimes a...
Episodes
20 of 193 episodes
The Matching Law: What It Is, What It Isn't, and Why It Matters | Hannah Branigan
Hannah follows up last episode's hot take on training speed with a deeper dive into the matching law, the behavioral principle that describe...
Is Positive Reinforcement Actually Slower? (A Hot Take, Revisited) | Hannah Branigan
A behind-the-scenes look into the reality of dog training, behavior, teaching, and learning. We love our dogs, we love our jobs, but sometim...
Can you use a leash and still be force free? | Hannah Branigan
Somewhere on the internet, someone is arguing that using a leash means you aren't really a force-free trainer. In this solo episode, Hannah...
Training Faster Behaviors Without Frustration, Part 2 | Hannah Branigan
In this episode, we explore strategies to achieve faster and more precise behaviors in dog training. I discuss how clarity, timing, and rein...
Training Faster Behaviors Without Frustration, Part 1 | Hannah Branigan
In this episode we discuss: Speed vs. Latency: Speed is how fast a behavior is completed from the time it starts. Latency is the response ti...
Avoiding Triggers and Situations | Hannah Branigan
In this episode, we discuss the practice of avoiding situations as part (or all) of a training plan. Often avoiding certain situations can b...
What's Wrong with "Drilling"? | Hannah Branigan
In this episode we dig into the concept of drilling, and how it applies in dog training. It's pretty common for most of us to have an emotio...
#183: Demand Barking, Part 3, with Kiki Yablon
In this episode, we discuss the history behind Kiki's master's thesis project, Signaled Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior to Addr...
#182: Demand Barking, Part 2
In this episode, we discuss using concepts around stimulus control to stop demand barking before it stops, how cues create expectations of w...
#181: Demand Barking, Part 1
In this episode, we are talking about Demand Barking. This is a three-part series, at least for now. For the first two episodes, I'll be sha...
#180: Building Food Drive and Nuanced Reinforcement with Ashlee Osborn
In this episode we discuss the importance of getting really, really good at working with reinforcement, how the topic of reinforcement and u...
#179: More Strategies to Reduce Errors
In the last episode, we talked about what errorless learning really means. And I shared a few strategies that might make it easier to apply...
#178: How to Apply Errorless Learning Principles in Practical Training Sessions
In his 1968 book, The Technology of Teaching, B.F. Skinner wrote: Errors are not a function of learning or vice-versa nor are they blamed on...
#177: Dr. Clive Wynne Says Some Controversial Things About Dominance
In this episode, we discuss what is the ethological definition of dominance?, how does dominance show up in behavior?, how might dominance b...
#176: Taking Short Cuts with Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing with Kiki Yablon
In this episode, we discuss what is stimulus-stimulus pairing and how it works?, what is a "classically conditioned recall" and why might we...
#175: Over the Top - High Arousal in Dogs
In this episode, we discuss what is arousal?, how does arousal show up in our training?, how does arousal affect both people and dogs?, how...
#174: Families with Dogs and Kids with Jennifer Shryock
In this episode, we discuss the most important thing for dog professionals to know about working with families, the importance of understand...
#173: Dealing with Problem Behaviors - Using Alternate Behaviors
In this episode, we discuss that the first step to dealing with a problem behavior is to identify the function, figuring out a plan to contr...
#172: How to Tell That Your Classical Conditioning Plan is Working
When we pair two stimuli together as part of a classical conditioning training plan, it can sometimes be hard to determine when the associat...