Episode 29 - Interview with Hannah Branigan

02/21/20 • 70 min

In this episode, I chat with Hannah Branigan about:

food motivation - and how to work with dogs which lack it (especially in the field or in high arousal situations) and
the importance of planning our training sessions

You can find out more about Hannah herself via her own website. But she also has her own dog sports podcast, called Drinking From the Toilet - which you most definitely want to check out and subscribe to.
Hannah has two competition obedience DVDs available - Obedience FUNdamentals and Beyond FUNdamentals - and the easiest way I've found to access these from the UK, is to subscribe to the TawzerDog streaming service for a month and binge-watch them(!).
Hannah also has a super book on competition obedience, published last year - called Awesome Obedience. It's available from Amazon UK and probably worldwide(!).
Hannah is on the faculty for the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy and frequently instructs online courses there, if you'd like to learn more with her.
In the podcast, I mentioned a free planner which Hannah has created - and which you can download from her website. If you go to this page of her site here, and look in the small box on the right of the screen (on a computer), you will see where it says 'Need help planning your training sessions?'. Here, you can input your email address to subscribe - and in return get her free planner and video on how to use it :)

In this episode, I chat with Hannah Branigan about:

food motivation - and how to work with dogs which lack it (especially in the field or in high arousal situations) and
the importance of planning our training sessions

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Episode 28 - Interview with Ellen Naumann about BAT

In this episode, I talk with Ellen Nauman - programme director of OBATs - the Official BAT School.
We discuss BAT, developed by Grisha Stewart - and how BAT helps dogs to remain under-threshold in the presence of triggers which would previously have put them over-threshold. These triggers are conventionally other people or other dogs, but can also be game - or anything else animate.
If you'd like more information about training as a BAT instructor, check out the link above to the Official BAT School. If you'd like more general info about BAT, see Grisha's website.

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Episode 30 - Sight blinds, permanent blinds and cold blinds

Today, I talk about the most important qualities for training a blind retrieve:

Run or confidence
Maintaining a straight line

And which types of blind retrieve we can use, to ensure we really isolate those components of our chain and work on them - without muddying the waters by ending up handling and casting and stop whistling the dog...