Episodes

  • Episode 118 - (field) trials - and tribulations
    Nov 12 2024

    In this episode, I waffle about trials as a form of assessment.

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    46 mins
  • Episode 117 - what is going on with the cost of vet care and insurance?
    Nov 1 2024

    Roche just cut her foreleg on (we think) barbed wire. The quote for sedation and stitching was astronomical. I ramble about what is going on, systemically, and about various societal factors from poverty to capitalism in a failed attempt to make sense of any of this...

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    24 mins
  • Episode 116 - help, my dog won't pick game!
    Oct 24 2024

    In this episode, I talk about how to help dogs make the transition to picking up game.

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    35 mins
  • Episode 115 - is your dog ready for a shoot?
    Sep 25 2024

    How do you find a shoot? Is your dog ready to work on a shoot? What is required from them? What different kinds of shoots are there? What are the roles on a shoot? This is all things shoots 101.

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    34 mins
  • Episode 114 - the recent 'chasing' research paper (e-collar vs food reinforcers)
    Sep 19 2024

    In this episode, I look at a recent research paper called 'Comparison of the Efficacy and Welfare of Different Training Methods in Stopping Chasing Behavior in Dogs' by Johnson & Wynne https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14182632

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    54 mins
  • Episode 113 - the current dog training controversies and listener questions
    Sep 5 2024

    In this episode, I talk about why the best way forwards is for us all to advance together - instead of fostering division and us/them splitting.

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    38 mins
  • Episode 112 - mouthing or chomping the dummy
    Aug 26 2024

    I talk about how to stop mouthing or rolling of the dummy (it's the clicker retrieve again, this time the part of it called 'proofing the hold against food').

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    31 mins
  • Episode 111 - don't let shot get attached to retrieves!! (and listener questions...)
    Aug 8 2024

    In this episode I answer a few listener questions and then waffle about why we need to keep shot unattached to a retrieve for as long as possible. Shot means 'sit'. Like the sit whistle means 'sit'.

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    43 mins