Fenzi Food For Thought
By Denise Fenzi
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Catch me here telling stories, conversing with curious and warm-hearted friends, breaking down barriers in the training world, and of course, sharing my love for these amazing beings we share our lives with: the dogs!
I'd love to hear from you!
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The Best Training Isn't On Social Media
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May 08, 2026 |
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Let's Talk About Spay & Neuter
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May 01, 2026 |
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When Choice or Structure Isn't Obvious
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Train the Dog in Front of You: Breed Tendencies vs. Individual Quirks
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Your Dog Doesn't Need Intentional Aversives to Learn
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Accepting Misunderstanding
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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The Benefits of Management
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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The Dog Conversations We Avoid
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Trainers Behaving Badly
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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The Least Aversive Option
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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The Art of Choice in Dog Training
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Are Dogs Really More Anxious Today? …And Other Things We Can't Actually Know
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Punishment in Training: Does Safety Justify It?
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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The "Click" and Training the Dog in Front of You
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Reading Stress in Dogs
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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The Depth of Behavior Challenges
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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About That Stress Inoculation...
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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From Sheep Crosses to Kindness in Communities
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Why You Have A Dog Will Impact Your Training Choices
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Relationship is the Key to A Bomb-Proof Recall
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Fences, Escapes, and Ruling Out Medical Concerns
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Rethinking Change in Dog Sports
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Pain & Behavioral Issues
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Fallout in Dog Training
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Crating: Different Dogs, Different Issues.
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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How R+ Has Evolved Beyond the Training
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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What is Good Training
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Stress & Resilience
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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When There Are Upsides to Training We Don't Like
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Take An Extra Minute
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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What is Superstitious Learning? And What is Single Incident Learning?
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Lessons from Electric Fencing
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Beyond Reinforcement and Punishment
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Conversations About Reactive Dogs
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May 30, 2025 |
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What is "Not Fine" For a Dog?
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May 17, 2025 |
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Dog Training Jargon
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May 04, 2025 |
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Training Outcomes in the Dog World
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Can Dogs Be Willful?
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Balancing Priorities in the Dog World
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Understand What Motivates Your Dog
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Trial Analysis
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Puppy Integration
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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I Have a Puppy!
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Getting Through Your First Competition
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Raising a Puppy
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Structure
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Reactive or bored?
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Habit
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Cooperative Care vs. Low Stress Handling
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Safe Walks
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Who are dog sports really for?
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Puppy Genetics
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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A Quick Look in the Mirror
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Force Free Beyond Training
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Critical Thinking
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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How and why science matters and where does it fit in the big picture?
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Facing Bias in the Dog World
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Learn About People
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Do aversives cause aggression?
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Different Opinions for Different Animals
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Can We Stop Talking About "Them"?
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Relationship-Based Training
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Live with OC Canine Coaching
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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I Answer Your Questions About Moving Our Community Forward
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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The Rooster Problem
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Train Your Dog!
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Why Do I Play In Bite Sports
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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The Meaning of "Train the Dog in Front of You"
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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The Minutiae of Dog Training
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Aversives for Clarity?
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Life Is Complex
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Words Are Power!
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Counterconditioning, Desensitization, and Habituation
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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What Drives Behavior?
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Get to the Root of the Problem!
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Training or Management?
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Pain, Discomfort, or Something Else?
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Showing Up On Social Media
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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So Very Random
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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What's The Fastest Training Method?
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Training a Concept Over Precision
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Listening to Misunderstand
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Response to Zak George
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May 29, 2024 |
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A Dog-Centric Existence?
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May 24, 2024 |
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Do Biting Sports Make Dogs Aggressive?
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May 18, 2024 |
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Dominance? Pack? Words...Are Hard.
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May 04, 2024 |
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Be kind!
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Leashes!
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Know How Training Works
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Emotional and Overly Emotional
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Dog World Problems
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Bite Sports and Aggression
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Handling off-leash dogs
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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About those dog sports...
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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More On Eye Contact
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Reactivity Training in the Wild
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Communication or Control?
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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The Quick and Dirty of Reliable Recalls
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Reinforcement strategies for high arousal dogs
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Instinct, emotions and behavior
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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From the vaults! Q&A on drives and arousal following a training session
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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From the Facebook vaults - Classical and operant conditioning to teach behaviors
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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From the Facebook Vaults - Crating
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Dogs aren't children?!
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Can you reinforce emotions?
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Toddlers, elderly folks and dogs
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Dog training versus reality
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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What can a board & train do (and not do!)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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How are we using our words?
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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How do dogs get trained?
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Eye Contact
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Treating a dog like a dog
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Stress: a necessary evil?
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Training for the competition picture?
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Does punishment work?
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Live with Crystal Wing on High Drive Dogs
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Choosing a Foundation Strategy
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Building Toy Play in Low Drive Dog
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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But Does It Work For...?
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Conversation vs. Education
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Behavior Medication for Dogs
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Great Training Debate
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May 29, 2023 |
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Is Withholding Rewards Aversive?
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May 22, 2023 |
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Breeding Dogs and Getting a Dog
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May 18, 2023 |
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Mother Dog Behaviour
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May 08, 2023 |
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Relationship or Training?
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May 02, 2023 |
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Props in training
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Emotions & Behaviors, again
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Choosing reinforcers
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Logic in Dog Training
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Structure + Q&A
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Adolescence
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Reactive dog handler
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Classical Conditioning Live with Q&A
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Interview with The Canine Diva, Laurie Williams
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Evaluating Dogs
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The Blame Game
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Structure or Choice?
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Train Behaviour, Condition Emotions
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Risk-Benefit Analysis
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Societal Norms & Dogs
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Guest: Dr. Amy Cook
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Aggression with Guest Michael Shikashio CDBC
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Reward "Ugly" Behavior?
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Want to be a Dog Training Professional? With Guests Michael and Jamie Badial
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Errors and the R+ World
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Separation Anxiety with Guest Malena DeMartini
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Engagement Training
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Pros and cons of pushing a dog in training
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Guest: Dante Camacho and Denise chat
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Relationship
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Behavior Meds for Dogs
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Play in regards to behavior
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Example of controlling behavior but not an emotion
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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Condition emotions & train behaviors!
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Errors: The Big Three
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Sensitive Dogs with Guest Sharon Carroll
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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The Spaces Inbetween
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Stubborn, lazy, biddable?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Splitting for Reactivity
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Analyzing Your Training Session
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Emotional well-being vs observable behavior
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Reducing behavior (in degrees)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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The Great Book Rules
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Perfection Paralysis
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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The Consolation Prize
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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All about criteria
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Barking
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Punishment in "degrees"
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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The Process of Behaviour Change
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Flooding & Habituation
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Matters of Arousal
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Forging in Heeling
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Reducing Reinforcement
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Pros and cons of pushing a dog in training.
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Singular vs. Mass Distraction
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Planning your training session
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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So you had a bad day
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Classical & Operant Conditioning
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May 27, 2022 |
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Exercise and reactive behavior
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May 19, 2022 |
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Correlation is not Causation
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May 06, 2022 |
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Trust. What is it?
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Positive Bitesports
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Adventure & Versatility
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Get On Your Client's Radar
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Harmony
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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So you had a bad day...
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Balancing Drives & Control
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Meet the hosts! Squeeze cheese fame, teenage dogs, and Fly Ball!
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Bridging the Dog Training Divide
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Handling Errors
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Fenzi Food for Thought E001 - Movement Vs. Stillness
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Dec 13, 2021 |