Podcast Episodes

Example of controlling behavior but not an emotion

Dice gave a perfect example of controlling his behavior without impacting the underlying emotion. This goes along with the fact that we can control e…

3 years, 5 months ago

Condition emotions & train behaviors!

It is critically important to know the difference between an emotion and a behavior. Changing a behavior to look the way you want does not mean the d…

3 years, 5 months ago

Errors: The Big Three

Handling errors of impulse, quality and understanding!

There are many reasons why dog make errors. In this live, I covered the three that showed up …

3 years, 5 months ago

Sensitive Dogs with Guest Sharon Carroll

Guest Sharon Carroll and Denise chat about sensitive dogs

I have spent a lot of time talking about dogs who express arousal through high levels of e…

3 years, 6 months ago

The Spaces Inbetween

The reality is, in most dog sports 70% of your time is spent waiting for the judges direction, moving to the start of an exercise, etc. Relatively li…

3 years, 6 months ago

Stubborn, lazy, biddable?

Are these developmental possibilities in a dog? Heck, are they even about the other, or are they about the one doing the describing?

Follow my traini…

3 years, 6 months ago

Splitting for Reactivity

Can you separate what your dog sees, hears, smells and feels? Splitting these factors apart can help your reactivity training go faster.

Follow my tr…

3 years, 6 months ago

Emotional well-being vs observable behavior

It's OK to be frustrated with your dogs behavior. And sometimes it's OK to change the dog's behavior so that you can be more comfortable. But that do…

3 years, 6 months ago

Reward Placement

In this live, we talked about how the placement of reinforcement impacts both precision and attitude. We considered this both in the realm of pet tra…

3 years, 7 months ago

The Great Book Rules

What things do you teach your dog? Why do you teach these things? How about your clients? Do you change your expectations for different dogs in diffe…

3 years, 7 months ago