How To Train Your Dog With Love And Science - Dog Training with Annie Grossman, School For The Dogs show

How To Train Your Dog With Love And Science - Dog Training with Annie Grossman, School For The Dogs

Summary: Journalist-turned-dog trainer Annie Grossman, owner of NYC-based dog training center School For The Dogs and author of How To Train Your Dog With Love & Science (Sourcebooks, 6/2024), is obsessed with positive reinforcement dog training and thinks you should be, too. This podcast will help dog owners become literate in the basics of behavioral science in order to help their dogs and themselves . Tune in to learn how to use science-based methods to train dogs (and people) without pain, force, or coercion! Show notes at http://s4td.com/pcast (Formerly known as School For The Dogs Podcast)

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 Recycled treats and retractable leashes: The good, the bad & the hilarious | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:47:03

In this episode, you'll learn about two products, each invented by a woman. The first is something you've probably encountered:  the retractable leash. The second is a new brand of treats called Shameless Pets, which makes yummy stuff for dogs from pre-consumer food waste.  The former can be quite dangerous, but Annie suggests a way to make it safer; the latter is a successful version of a Seinfeld-esque business plan that Annie's neighbor came up with in the 1990s.  In between tips about using a retractable leash and the story of Shameless Pets, you'll hear a hilarious piece of standup by comedian Drew Lynch.   Drew Lynch on retractable leashes - Mary Delaney's patent - Shameless Pet Treats - Free guide to house training --- Partial Transcription: Annie: Do you need some help teaching your dog where you want him to pee or poop, and when?  If so, I hope you’ll check out our brand new totally free house training guide. You can find it at schoolforthedogs.com/house. It’s filled with lots of really good tips on how to train a dog to potty in the right spot. But it also is going to explain to you how to teach your dog to do it on cue. So go check it out.  Schoolforthedogs.com/house. [Intro music] Hi, thanks for being here, humans. There are two parts to this episode. One part is about retractable leashes and the other part is a conversation I had with Alex Waite, who is one of the founders of Shameless, which is a really cool brand of treats that you’re going to learn a lot about. They’re doing things differently in a very interesting way. Just a reminder that if you liked this podcast, please go to iTunes and leave a review and support us by shopping in our online store storeforthedogs.com. I think we have the greatest stuff in the world there, for people who love their dogs.  Enjoy. So here’s something you might not know if you’ve never worked with a dog trainer or you don’t hang out with dog trainers.  Most dog trainers, at least the ones that I know, don’t like retractable leashes. And there are a bunch of reasons for this. For one, we want our dogs to ideally be walking on a loose leash. I always say a leash should be there the same way a seatbelt is in a car.  You don’t wear the seatbelt and then feel like, okay, now I can drive like a madman. It’s there in case of an emergency. Ideally your dog should be able to walk in a vicinity that is acceptable, but the leash should be there in case of an emergency. And if you have a leash that is always taut, your dog can get used to feeling that the leash has to have some kind of pull on him at all times.  So often dogs on retractable leashes are dogs who have learned to pull. Another reason is that the cord that attaches the class to the plastic chunky part of the retractable leash is very thin. And if you, if you get it wound around a finger or your leg or a dog, it can really do some damage. Actually, if you go to Google and you start typing in retractable leash, at least on my computer, the first suggested thing that comes up for you to be Googling is retractable leash injuries. Thanks to the magic of Google images, you can see what retractable leash injuries look like, and they’re pretty awful. Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/Podcast

 Annie's BFF Daisy Carrington on growing up with a stolen dog, being a childhood loan shark & more | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:41:45

In this bonus episode, Annie talks to one of her best friends, Daisy Carrington, who she has known since high school. After Daisy recently came in second place at a Moth story telling event, Annie asked her to share her story on this podcast. Her story doesn't really have to do with dogs, so Annie drilled her about her childhood with dogs to justify having her on as a guest.  Daisy remembers her screenwriter father, who lived in Malibu with a stolen Staffordshire Terrier named Zeb who he loved "as if he were an ex-wife," and talks about the time in tenth grade when Annie "ran away" to her apartment with her Wheaten Terrier, Zeke.  Annie and Daisy met when they were seven, became friends in high school, and later both became journalists. Their children were born ten weeks apart. They discuss both of their transitions away from journalism into new careers.  But the best part of the episode is when Daisy tells the story of how, as an 8-year-old living in Malibu, she became a loan shark to a famous British con man, Count Guiy de Montfort. Learn more about Guiy de Montfort here - Daisy's dad was screenwriter Robert Carrington, who wrote, among other things, the Audrey Hepburn movie Wait Until Dark - Learn more about Daisy Carrington at DaisyCarrington.com - Paris Themmen - What ever happened to the Oompa Loompa actors? --- Partial Transcript: Annie: This is a bonus episode in which I am talking to one of my very best friends about her life with dogs and some other things, too. This is a conversation with Daisy Carrington. We’ve been friends since we were kids. We both grew up to be journalists and are now both working in other areas. I hope you enjoy our lively conversation. I miss you. Daisy: I miss you too, my love. Won’t be gone for too long. I mean, I know it’s a couple months, but it will fly by. Annie: So I feel like I, since I’m going to record this, I feel like I need to explain to anyone listening, why I wanted to talk to you, as you are not someone who has a dog or works with dogs. Or I don’t think you have even very strong feelings about the things that I do as a dog trainer. But, as you know, you are one of my oldest and best friends, and I will take any excuse to chat with you. But, a few months ago back when people went out and did things, you told me that you went and did a story at The Moth. And I was sad that I didn’t get to go see it.  And also sad that you didn’t win, that you came in second because you are such a great and hilarious storyteller that I’m sure that you should have won. Daisy: I did feel robbed. Annie: I’m sure you were robbed. And we just haven’t had a moment where I could be like, sit down and perform it for me. So I thought, all right, well, if I can like, have you on the podcast, then it’ll be more of an occasion. And you will be forced to tell me your story, which I guess I’ve heard, because I’ve just known you for so long, but I haven’t heard the perfect telling of it. So I don’t if you’re up for it, but in order to warm up and to justify having you here, I thought we should talk a little bit about dogs first. Full transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/Podcast

 Dog Training Q and A! 10/22/2020: Taking the Karen Pryor Academy and e-collars | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:44:44

Join Annie Grossman for a live Q and A most Thursdays. Sign up at http://schoolforthedogs.com/qanda. Have a question? Visit AnnieGrossman.com/ask or upload a recording at anchor.fm/dogs. In this episode, Annie answers questions about attending the Karen Pryor Academy. She suggests how you can deal with someone who seems to be needlessly  yelling at their dog.  A listener asks about Temple Grandin's use of e-collars and prey drive, and also asks about training using the beeping and vibrating function of a shock collar. Also: Can you train a dog to not pee near a water source? And can you pay the neighbor's kid to train  your dog?  --- Partial Transcript: Annie: Hey everyone. This is a bonus Q and A episode. I try and answer questions live every Thursday. You can sign up to come to my free live Q and A at schoolforthedogs.com/qanda, you will see the next one I'm doing. I then am trying to take recordings of those Q and A's and post them here to the podcast feed. If you have a question, you can email me directly Annie@schoolforthedogs.com. You can also go to anchor.fm/dogs and record your question there. Thanks for being here. Hello. Can you hear me? If you're here, please tell me if you can hear me this. Can you hear me? And hello, Kathy. Hello, Yolanda, Kathy. Where are you joining us from? Oh, great. You can hear me. Yolanda sent me thank you so much for the super sweet email you sent me Yolanta. Actually it was so sweet. Could I read it? Would you mind if I read it? Let me know. And I should tell you Yolanta. I just heard from -- so I took Amos, my dog to Blue Pearl yesterday, an animal hospital in New York City. And they did a needle biopsy of this mass that he has on his liver and it came out that it doesn't look like it's cancer. So, I mean I figured the chances of it not being cancer were like tiny.  I was really not prepared for that good news. So I'm thrilled. I mean, they said his heart’s a little big, like he clearly is an old dog with the beginnings of some issues.  But it’s possible he just had this really big mass on his liver for a long time. So overall just feeling quite glad about that. And my computer, which I spilled water on this time last week is working. I don’t want to jinx life, but the two terrible things that happened last Thursday are now a lot less terrible than they were. And I spent a lot of time over the last week, just like mourning him, even though he’s not gone yet. Just really had a lot of emotions, thoughts, feelings about life, death, time, et cetera. I’ve been a little emotional. And I am having a doctor who does acupuncture and like Chinese herbs stuff come, actually later today, see if maybe we can get his appetite going. And yeah, I feel also just so grateful to my two friends who are vets who have just gone above and beyond to help me through this scary week. Dr. Andrea Tu who’s with Behavior Vets, they used to rent space from us. They used to operate kind of outside of our studio for a long time. There are very few behavior vets in the country and she is, she and Dr. Christiansen are just such spectacular people. Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/podcast

 The "closet behaviorist" running for president: An interview with Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:50:38

Did you know there is a woman running for president? Her name is Jo Jorgensen, she is the Libertarian candidate, and the only third party candidate who is going to be on the ballot in all 50 states.  Dr. Jorgensen has a PhD in organizational and industrial psychology and teaches at Clemson University. She has a Basset Hound named Gertrude, and she has trained her to not beg at the table... but that's not actually why Annie wanted to talk to her.  Annie wanted to talk to her because she has been trying to figure out if a world view and values informed by behavior-based dog training have turned her into a Libertarian. After she became a dog trainer, Annie started thinking about something that had never taken up much brain space for her before: Government. We can govern our pets' worlds, and produce good behaviors, using environmental management and conditioning. If we can do all that without punishment or coercion, couldn't it be possible to -- at least to some extent! -- govern people that way as well? Isn't "freedom" just the ability to make choices that will be positively reinforced, rather than doing things because of coercion? When Karen Pryor first started using a conditioned reinforcer to operantly condition dolphins to do tricks, she was using literature that had been given to her from the lab of Harvard Professor BF Skinner. He was experimenting on training animals in labs, but he was also writing about how humans could be conditioned. Last week, Annie looked at examples of people conditioning other people in some recent documentaries and biopics; this week, Annie speaks with the Libertarian presidential candidate about what it could mean to give people choice and to ease up on the use of coercion and punishment. Notes:  Ukulele version of America The Beautiful By Roy Sakuma - Jo Jorgenson's Campaign Site - Annie's dad Robert Grossman's illustration of Ronald Reagan as Mickey Mouse - Walden Two by BF Skinner - Beyond Freedom and Dignity by BF Skinner  --- Partial Transcript: Annie: Today’s episode is a little bit different. It’s an interview with a presidential candidate, Jo Jorgensen. She is the libertarian candidate for president this year. She is a professor of psychology at Clemson University. She has been an entrepreneur. She, her specialty is industrial and organizational psychology, and she is the only candidate other than Biden and Trump who is going to be on the ballot in every state. She’s also the best looking candidate that’s going to be on the ballot in every state. I guess that’s debatable, but I could say she looks more like me than anyone else running for president this year. I’m about to share with you a conversation I just had with her. But let me back up a little bit, because I feel like I need to explain that. First of all, I don’t actually think I’m a libertarian. And second of all, I feel like I need to explain why I’m having this conversation with this person on a dog training podcast. I mean, I’m sure she is a much better dog trainer with her dog than Biden is. And of course, Trump doesn’t have a dog, so that makes her the best dog trainer in the race, but that’s sort of over simplifying why I was interested and talking to her. I really have never considered myself a political person. My father was a political cartoonist and growing up politics to me like politics and cartoons went hand in hand. Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/podcast

 Dog Training Q and A! 10/15/2020: Dealing with an adolescent dog and trying to find the perfect puppy | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:09:55

Join Annie Grossman for a live Q and A most Thursdays. Sign up at http://schoolforthedogs.com/qanda. Have a question? Visit AnnieGrossman.com/ask or upload a recording at anchor.fm/dogs. In this episode, Annie talks about her epically bad day. She describes how a teenager has trained people to stop leaving her voicemails.  She talks to Joan, a Manhattan woman who has MS and an out-of-control adolescent shepherd in downtown Manhattan. She wants the dog to be a service dog, and also wants to breed him. She also talks to her longtime friend, New York Times columnist Ronda Kaysen, about her recent search for a non-shedding puppy. --- Partial Transcript: Annie: Hey everyone. This is a bonus Q and A episode. I try and answer questions live every Thursday. You can sign up to come to my free live Q and A at schoolforthedogs.com/qanda, and you will see the next one I’m doing. I then am trying to take recordings of those Q and A’s and post them here to the podcast feed. If you have a question, you can email me directly annie@schoolforthedogs. You can also go to anchor.fm/dogs and record your question there. Thanks for being here. I was going to wear sunglasses for this episode, but I think I can’t see properly. Hey Yolanda, nice to see you and Joan is here. Hi, Joan. I just, I need a second to recover. It’s been a bad day. I would say this has been a really bad… first of all, well second of all, second of all, I just posted a podcast episode, like just bonus…well bonus sounds like it should be like a nice cherry thing. It didn’t feel like a nice cheery thing, but anyway, but I felt like I needed to post this episode. And as I posted it, like the microphone has like a little thing on it ….. Anyway as I… it’s actually, the second part is funny. The second part is right as I posted this episode, just now I like spilled an entire bottle of seltzer on my laptop. Like not a little bit, like the entire bottle of water just went over on my laptop. Fortunately, I have like a desktop PC, so I have a computer, but it was like, anyway. And the first thing that happened today, which was much worse, thing is I just learned that my dog is dying. It was like that phone call that you don’t ever want to get. Well, I got that call this morning where that said that he has something in his liver that’s inoperable most likely. I mean, I guess I could get a second opinion, but it sounds like, sounds like this is probably it. And he’s been in really good health up until pretty recently when a couple things started to seem off. He’s 15 and a half-yesterday was his 15 and a half birthday. And you know, they don’t live forever. It’s just just processing. He’s doing really well, he’s doing pretty well. We’re going to give him something to help his appetite, but he’s been his perky self, mostly. My daughters and him are so sweet together and I’m really glad that like she had the experience of having him as a dog, even though she probably won’t remember it, but like, he’s just been such an important part of my life for so long. And obviously now I have her and  it’s different, but I’m glad that they had a little bit of overlap in my life. Full transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/podcast

 Virtual private training session: Heidi, a rescue greyhound living in Manhattan | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:54:14

Sit in on an initial virtual private dog training session with Annie Grossman and NYC residents Aquilla and Briana and their new rescue greyhound, Heidi.  Heidi doesn't want to sit and is trying to get to Aquilla and Briana's food whenever they eat while sitting on the couch. Annie offers some practical solutions and shows them how to shape Heidi to lie on a mat. Annie also shares Norwegian writer/dog trainer Turid Rugaas' thoughts on why we shouldn't train dogs to sit at all.  Book a private session: http://schoolforthedogs.com/services  - Get a free thirty minute private session when you purchase our Good Dog Training Course.  https://storeforthedogs.com/products/726834 - Turid Rugaas: http://en.turid-rugaas.no/sit.html Mentioned in this episode:  The Treat n' Train: https://storeforthedogs.com/products/treat-train - SFTD training mat: https://storeforthedogs.com/products/school-for-the-dogs-training-mat  Also see these pertinent episodes:   On dog food: https://www.schoolforthedogs.com/podcasts/episode-63-a-pet-food-killed-my-dog-susan-thixton-the-truth-about-pet-food/ On shaping a dog to go to a mat: https://www.schoolforthedogs.com/podcasts/episode-33-how-to-shape-your-dog-to-go-to-a-mat-and-to-be-a-polite-thanksgiving-guest/ --- Partial Transcript: Annie: This session is a recording of a private session we did with a client. You can book a private session schoolforthedogs.com. And for a limited time, if you purchase our online good dog training course available at schoolforthedogs.com/courses, you can do a complimentary 30 minute virtual private training session with a school for the dog strainer. The  trainer in this session is me, Annie. Aquilla, Brianna and their dog  Heidi are clients of ours who live in New York city. Heidi is a rescue  dog that they just adopted. Annie: Hi, hi, Pretty rainbow collar. So how did Heidi come into your life, your lives? Brianna/Aquilla: We got Heidi almost a month ago now. I think a  month tomorrow on the 19th, we rescued her from a Greyhound rehab. The  organization’s called Greyhound Rescue and Rehab, and they take  greyhounds that are retired from the tracks, rehab them and foster care  and then adopt them out. So she was a racer for a couple of years. She’s  three years old. So far we’ve done…we started on the 21 day training.  Right. That’s where we started. She is really good with “look,” pretty  okay with “touch” still working on that in distraction areas. So like  when we go to the park depending on whether or not there’s a squirrel,  she’ll respond or if there’s a lot of stimulus, she loves people. So  people are a big distraction for her. Like, she’ll stop walking if she  sees a person, which in New York, it’s like every three feet just so she  can get pets from other people. Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/Podcast

 Sociopaths as dog trainers, Negative Reinforcement at NXIVM & how to train humans to wear masks | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:39:26

Creepy Episode alert! It's all about sociopaths and cult leaders today. Some are both cult leaders and sociopaths! And one is a president. And one is the Unabomber.  Annie talks about animal behavior manipulation methods observed in the following shows: The Vow (https://www.hbo.com/the-vow), Filthy Rich (https://www.netflix.com/), The Social Dilemma (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0), Manhunt (https://www.netflix.com/). And then she looks at how the President is curing the Coronavirus with positive thinking, and looks at the differences between positive thinking, positive psychology and positive reinforcements.  And... Annie offers ideas on how to train people to wear masks. If you like this episode, think positive thoughts about it. Or positively reinforce Annie for doing it by leaving a review on iTunes. Annie on Instagram: @Annie.Grossman School For The Dogs on Instagram: @schoolforthedogs  Annie on her parents and Positive Reinforcement Vs Positive Thinking: http://anniegrossman.com/2013/03/training/positive-reinforcement-vs-positive-thinking-and-why-pollyanna-wouldve-sucked-at-dog-training-93401/7820/ Woof Mask by Found My Animal and School For The Dogs: https://storeforthedogs.com/collections/found-my-animal-1/products/woof-mask-by-found-my-animal Unabomber quotes https://www.quotetab.com/quotes/by-theodore-kaczynski --- Partial Transcript: Annie: I have a couple of quotes here I just wanted you to hear and think about whether they make sense to you. I'm going to come back to them in a little bit. The first is this one. “Imagine a home for a dog that subjects the dogs to conditions that make the dog terribly unhappy, then gives the dog drugs to take away the happiness. Instead of removing the conditions that make the dog depressed, the dog owner gives the dog antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying the dog's internal state in such a way as to enable the dog to tolerate social conditions that the dog might otherwise find intolerable.” Second quote. “Many dog owners tend to regard as a sickness, any mode of behavior that is inconvenient for the people in the home. And this is plausible because when the dog doesn't fit into the home, it causes pain to the dog and to those in the household.  Thus the manipulation of a dog's behavior to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as a good.” **intro** Annie: Humans, friends, listeners. I need to talk to you about some things that have been on TV recently which I've just been thinking about so much because there's so much dog training in these two particular shows that I've watched recently. You know, never, ever did I think that becoming a dog trainer would make me think so much about cult leaders and also like sociopaths. One of these stories is about cult leader. The other is about a sociopath, actually, they might be both cult leaders and sociopaths in their own ways. Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/Podcast

 Three funny things and one terrible thing just happened | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:10:09

Alternative titles Annie thought of for this episode:  -Toddlers are hilarious and death sucks -And the dog dies in the end Annie is doing a Q and A.  Join at schoolforthedogs.com/qanda  If you like this podcast, go leave a review on iTunes please. Thanks!   Instagram: @annie.grossman, @schoolforthedogs --- Partial Transcript: Annie: So, I think I'm posting this as a bonus episode because I already have an episode ready to go for tomorrow. But a couple of things happened in the last 24 hours I wanted to share three are silly and just funny. One isn't. So like the first three things are all funny mom/dog training-related things. My friend, Lori, sent me a text message, well she sent it to this mom group that I'm in on WhatsApp. She's been trying to wean him at night, wean him, so he won’t nurse at night. Actually, her son is one day older than Magnolia. So she wrote, Elliot is obsessed with morning and the sun because I told him we nurse in the morning when the sun comes up but not at night. So now, any old time, he says, “morning, sun, nursing, nursing.” And outside, he will suddenly point at this sky and say, “Sun, nursing, boobs.” So he's making long speeches where the only recognizable words are “sun,” “boob,” “nursing, “morning.” Just thought it was a funny example of classical conditioning, how he has this need to nurse now when he sees the sun. It’s kind of funny. Oh then I was thinking about it, a lot of animals must associate signs of morning with, “hey, its time to eat,” “hey, mom- person, feed me.” One of the other funny things have happened was I got a new like pop socket for my phone to hold on in the back and the pop socket thing comes on this piece of cardboard that's kind of like the size and shape of a phone, and she grabbed onto this thing, and has been using it as a phone for the last couple days. And one of the very first things she did was to hold it up to her toy dog as if she was showing her dog to someone. And I sent it to Alix Kris, head of marketing, she wrote back, “dog momager in the making,” which I thought was pretty funny. She doesn't have a lot of words yet but one word she does have is “shoes,” which she says, “oohg”. And she's always talking about “oohg”, and whenever we're on the phone with her with her grandparents or whoever, and we try and get her to say the words, her big word right now which is shoes. You know, we ask her to say it when she's doing Facetime so as she was holding up the phone to her toy dog, she was holding it in front of him and saying, “oohg, oohg.” put it up on my Instagram and stories, made me laugh. And then the other thing that made me laugh so hard and Jason wasn't around, it was just me so I couldn't even share it with anyone but I was like cracking up, it seemed so funny to me... Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/Podcast

 Dog Training Q and A! 10/8/2020: Reactive Dogs, food toys, management of space | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:53:12

Join Annie Grossman for a live Q and A most Thursdays. Sign up at http://schoolforthedogs.com/qanda.  Have a question? Visit AnnieGrossman.com/ask or upload a recording at anchor.fm/dogs. Here, Annie takes the following questions:  How can you train a dog to not freak out if strange dogs, off leash, appear out of no where?  What work-to-eat toys can you use with wet or fresh food?  Can you train a dog to stay away from the litter box and the cat food?  A dog likes playing fetch but doesn't like going on walks. Is fetch going to be enough exercise for him?  A new rescue dog barks all night at nothing in particular. Why? And how can you get him to stop barking?  How can you get a dog to pee on a curb instead of on trees?  --- Partial Transcript: [Intro] Annie: Hey everyone. This is a  bonus Q and A episode. I try and answer questions live every Thursday.  You can sign up to come to my free live Q and A at schoolforthedogs.com/qanda.  And you will see the next one I’m doing. I then am trying to take  recordings of those Q and A’s and post them here to the podcast feed. If  you have a question, you can email me directly at annie@school for the  dogs. You can also go to anchor.fm/dogs and record your question there. Thanks for being here. You know, I was just thinking about how, when, when I used to work at an  office, which was not for very long, but in my early twenties, it was  so wonderful to have like an IT person, like just someone there, like  when something doesn’t work, you can be like, excuse me. I remember this  one great IT guy’s name was Ramon would just be like, Ramon, my mouse  won’t click won’t make the right clicky sound, or whatever, like  whatever little thing, and Ramon would be there and he would fix it or  he’d like, go to get me like another computer or whatever. Like, don’t  you like, I mean, I haven’t had that for a long time because I’ve been, I was just thinking that I bet right now in the, in the moment of COVID everybody working from home, that a lot of people are missing their…  people are missing their IT people. That’s the moment of greatest  appreciation for IT people. I say that because every time I have to do anything, I feel like I need a friking IT person. It’s like, it’s see right now, I’m trying to like  record on in Audacity, which is what I record the podcast in while  recording on whatever else, this thing is that I’m recording in. And,  and it’s like, doesn’t want me to do it. Like it’s….I mean, the amount  of stuff you have to figure out as an adult person is just beyond, like,  there’s just like, like life involves so much paperwork and so much  figuring things out. All right. Hi, Annie Grossman here I am answering dog training questions. I have a  few lined up. This went well last week. So it went well. I mean, getting  some questions in the chat area here I’m doing this on Instagram live  at the same time and you…if you want to ask the question, do it through  the computer  at schoolforthedogs.com/qanda... Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/Podcast

 Be your dog's superhero: An interview with UK-based trainer and pet business coach Dominic Hodgson | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:57:31

Here's a cool approach to dog training: Teach your dog that you are a benevolent god. A superhero, if you will. That is UK-based trainer Dominic Hodgson's approach. In this episode, Annie interviews Dom about his journey from actor to tobacco salesman to dog walker to dog trainer to pet business consultant through his company, Grow Your Pet Business Fast. Annie learns about several dog business areas she never considered, and gets some great business advice from this titan in the field.  Join Annie for a FREE Q and A next week! Sign up at http://schoolforthedogs.com/qanda Head over to Dom's Podcast, The Poodle To Pitbull Pet Business Podcast, to hear Dom interview Annie! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-poodle-to-pitbull-pet-business-podcast/id1395354685  How To Be Your Dog's Superhero! https://www.amazon.com/How-Your-Dogs-Superhero-Transform-ebook/dp/B01IE1KTIO Free offer from Dom: 33 marketing ideas for pet business professionals http://www.growyourpetbusinessfast.com/33ideas  Enjoy this podcast? Please leave a 5-star rating and review on iTunes! Learn more about School For The Dogs at schoolforthedogs.com  --- Partial Transcript: Annie: There’s this thing that dog trainers  sometimes say, which is that the only thing two dog trainers can agree  on is that the other person is doing everything wrong. And, you know, I  kind of hate that kind of way of looking at things. It’s not how I see  things. I do think that there are some good dog trainers out there and  bad dog trainers. There’s maybe two large categories of dog trainers,  but there are so many good dog trainers who are doing so many cool  things and I’m always excited to learn about what they’re doing. Today’s  conversation is with a dog trainer who is indeed doing so many cool  things. I am speaking to Dom Hodgson who went from being an actor to  being a tobacco salesman to starting his own dog-walking business,  realized he needed to learn about dog training in order to be a better  walker. And now he is a pet business coach and he has his own podcast  called the Poodle to Pit Bull pet business podcast.  I am on his podcast this week and he is on mine. And this meant that we  got to have two really great conversations recently. So if you want to  learn more about me, head over to his podcast, if you want to learn more  about him, keep on listening. I’m thrilled to be able to share this  conversation with you. *Intro* Dom: Hello, and thank you for having me on the show, Annie. My  name’s Dom Hodgson. I am a dog trainer, a pet business coach and a  regular dog owner slash lover. And I live in Sunderland, which is a city  in the Northeast of England, probably near Newcastle. That’s probably  where most of your listeners will maybe be familiar with the nearest. Annie: What is your business called? Dom: So there are two, well, three, two main kind of arms to the business. So my original business, was Pack Leader Dog Adventures... Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/Podcast

 Q and A! 10/1/2020: A new nervous rescue dog, working with dog barking, and helping a dog potty outside | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:41:54

Join Annie for a live Q and A most Thursdays. Sign up at http://schoolforthedogs.com/qanda. Have a question? Email Annie@schoolforthedogs.com or upload a recording at http://anchor.fm/dogs  Here, Annie takes the following questions:  A new young rescue dog seems to be nervous about some men but not others. Why? A dog is barking: Do you need to say "quiet" and do you reward even if the dog is barking? What do you do when a Shih Tzu won't go to the bathroom in the yard? Why didn't an adolescent male become less aggressive after being neutered? My dog is going crazy because the neighbor's dog is in heat! This puppy will not stop biting my feet! Why! How do I teach my Pomsky not to pull? The following products are available at StoreForTheDogs.com: Ruffwear Front Range Harness - Freedom Harness - Liquid Treat Dispenser - K9 Sport Sack - Flirt Poles --- Partial Transcript: Annie: Hey everyone. This is a bonus Q and A episode. I try and answer questions live every Thursday. You can sign up to come to my free live Q and A at schoolforthedogs.com/qanda. And you will see the next one I'm doing. I then am trying to take recordings of those Q and A's and post them here to the podcast feed. If you have a question, you can email me directly annie@schoolforthedogs. You can also go to anchor.fm/dogs and record your question there. Thanks for being here. Hey guys, Annie Grossman here. I am live answering dog training questions today, and we're starting with this one from Rachel. “So my husband and I had just started listening to your podcast. When we adopted our puppy, Penny. She's a total sweetheart and very passive. When you go to get her, she just rolls over and wants belly rubs. We brought her home a few days ago and she met our neighbor and loved him. However, after a day of settling in, she began barking at him whenever we were outside or going for walks. Also on our walk, she started barking at all older men. She met another neighbor who was a younger man, and she did not bark at all. She's only six months and we are hopeful we can get her comfortable with some training, any advice or guidance with this. Thank you, Rachel.” Annie: So great question, Rachel, and I'm glad that you're dealing with this on the sooner side because you know, so many behaviors that can develop into, you know, behaviors that are really difficult and dangerous stem from fear. And it sounds like you're noticing that Penny is a little bit fearful of your neighbor. Now, you know, it's possible that, you know, it looks like you're noticing a pattern that it's men. It's possible she had some kind of bad experience with a man in the past and that's causing this behavior.  It's possible also that she just wasn't really exposed to that many men before this who knows, but rather than worrying too much about what's causing her to be this way, I would just really focus on how you can help her feel good about whatever men are around her. Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/podcast

 What is a bully stick? A very detailed answer to an awkward question... | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:43:59

Dogs love to chew on bully sticks. We sell loads of them every day at School For The Dogs, and, very often, people ask what they are. The answer? They're penises! This answer makes some people giggle, some gag and then there are those, like Annie, who are just left with more questions. In this episode, Annie interviews Greg Claypool, a second-generation bully stick fabricator, about the origins of this canine delicacy, how they're produced, and what you can do in order to make sure your purchasing ones that don't stink (literally). Warning: This episode is pretty graphic!   Bully sticks at storeforthedogs.com  https://storeforthedogs.com/products/bully-sticks  Bully Sticks Direct  https://www.bullysticksdirect.com/ Bully Stick Ball Jerky  https://www.bullysticksdirect.com/bully-stick-ball-jerky-7-ounces/  Turkey Tendon Strips  https://storeforthedogs.com/products/turkey-tendon-strips?_pos=1&_sid=d7be10867&_ss=r  Blog post: Dogs love bull penises, and you will, too https://anniegrossman.com/2012/12/funnies/dogs-love-bull-penises-and-you-will-too-73608/7517/  Related episode: A better mousetrap: Building the perfect bully stick holder  https://anniegrossman.com/2018/09/podcast/episode-25-better-mousetrap-building-perfect-bully-stick-holder/9763/  Bull Penis Canes: https://fashionablecanes.com/collections/bull-penis-walking-canes Four Ways To Sautee a Sow's Vulva: https://medium.com/idle-musings/iv-ways-to-saut%C3%A9-a-sows-vulva-170f5f00d26a Toast Garden: http://youtube.com/toastgarden --- Partial Transcript: Annie: I am testing out a new community platform. If you like this episode, and you would like to discuss it with other podcast listeners, please go to schoolforthedogs.com/podcastcommunity. Make an account, it's totally free. If you would like to ask any dog training questions you can do so there as well. Thanks for helping me beta test this new platform. *Intro* Annie: In my career as a professional dog person over the last 10 years or so, I have developed some weird sub interests. Some of which are kind of gross. For instance, over the last few years, I've thought a lot about how we carry dog poop. I have thought deeply about poop bags and poop bag accoutrements. I have also thought a lot about certain dead animal body parts and no body part of any dead animal has taken up quite as much brain space for me as the bully stick, which is a dried bull penis that dogs love to chew on. Particularly as someone who has sold many bully sticks in her life, I have often found myself in the awkward position of having to explain to people that it really is made out of a dried bull penis, which is a conversation that has just concluded with giggles many, many times. Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/podcast

 When your home isn't the right home for your dog (and other subjects) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:42:40

Warning: This episode meanders a bit! Annie's Facebook friend made the difficult decision to rehome her rescue dog, and Annie considers what it means to decide that a different family might be a better fit for anyone you love, be it human or dog, temporarily or forever. What if all forms of parenting were truly voluntary? Is it a dog's fault if behavior problems are exacerbated by an environment that may have been chosen for him or her more or less at random? Were slaves insane if they tried to escape their masters? Annie follows a line of thinking that touches on how we could use positive reinforcement to help prevent unplanned pregnancies, and on how both fear and generalizations based on false assumptions can cause racism. She also explains BF Skinner's unusual argument in favor of teen pregnancy.  Join Annie for a live Q and A this Thursday (10/01/2020) @ 12 pm EST! https://event.webinarjam.com/register/183/n7z7lsnw Sign up for Annie's free Master Class at http://anniegrossman.com/masterclass School Sucks Drapetomania episode: https://schoolsucksproject.com/053-drapetomania/ Walden Two: https://www.amazon.com/Walden-Two-Hackett-Classics-Skinner/dp/0872207781 The Cut's story about the Stauffer family and their adopted son: https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/youtuber-myka-stauffer-rehomed-her-adopted-son-huxley.html --- Partial Transcript Annie: Hello,  human animals. And hi to the dogs that may be in the room. If you are  listening, that means you are alive. And that’s, that’s a good thing  right now. So I’m glad to know that about you. I have a lot of really  cool episodes coming down the pipeline that I am excited to share with  you all. I’ve been doing interviews with the people who work at School  for the Dogs and well, last week I got, sometimes I say “we” cause like,  I think of School for the Dogs as like me and Kate, but then I know  sometimes I say “I,” and sometimes I get lost. Like, am I, am “I”? I  think, I think this podcast is “I.” I interviewed Anna Heyward, our apprentice, one of our apprentices last week that was kind of, I guess, part of the inside School for the Dog  series. But I have been  talking to lots of different people on our staff and I’m going to be  sharing those conversations, just talking about to them about how they  got into what, what they, how they got into training and what they’re  doing now. And so that’s been really fun. You know, running a business through a  global pandemic, I now know is intense and I think I feel so  appreciative of our staff right now. I just feel gratitude. I think, you  know, the intensity and shared mission of, you know, trying to keep a business afloat through all of this and trying to, you know, continue  helping dogs I think has brought us all closer together. So it’s really  been lovely to get a chance to talk to some of these wonderful people. And I am also doing a series of episodes  about some of the really cool products we have in our shop. I’ve been interviewing some of the brand owners people who have worked to develop  really interesting things that I’m psyched we get to share it with our clients. Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/podcast

 Lessons learned from foster dogs: A discussion with our apprentice Anna Heyward | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:00:36

At School For The Dogs, we've been lucky enough to be able to mentor a handful of aspiring dog trainers through our apprenticeship program. One of our current apprentices, Anna Heyward, first came to us as a client. Anna, a writer who is originally from Australia, has fostered dogs in NYC for years; last year, she took in a dog whose separation anxiety was beyond anything she'd ever seen. She came to School For The Dogs after consulting with several dog trainers. Some suggested the dog was just being dramatic and that she just needed to let him manipulate her; others told her to use a shock collar on him. In this episode, Anna explains how her experience fostering dogs in New York City and her work with our trainer Anna Ostroff led her to rethink everything she thought she knew about behavior, and ultimately pursue a career in dog training.  If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes! You can also support us by shopping in our online store: StoreForTheDogs.com  --- Partial Transcript: Annie: So,  I’m about to share with you is a conversation with one of School for  the Dogs’ apprentices, Anna Heyward. And I wanted to talk to Anna for a  bunch of reasons. I’m really interested in how people are finding their  way and to the world of dog training, whether that’s because they aspire  to doing it professionally or not. And I met Anna when she started our  six month apprenticeship. And we’ve gotten to know each other this year a  little bit. And Anna is a very talented writer and recently I read an  essay she wrote, a not yet published essay about her experience  fostering. Specifically fostering one very difficult dog. And I was just  so moved by what she wrote and how she wrote about the experience of  being a temporary home to a dog who has behavior issues that are extreme  and what that mean. What it meant-meant both for her, for the dog. What  it helped her learn about the world. What she learned about the people  around her, her family, her loved ones through this very difficult  experience of being a foster, a foster mother to two dogs. And so I was thrilled when she said she  would talk to me a little bit about her experience as a fosterer on  the  podcast. But I… before  I share with you this conversation, I just  wanted to mention another Anna who you’re going to hear about a little  bit in this episode because Anna Heyward would not have come to School  for the Dogs without Anna Ostroff, who is a woman I just love so much.  And I was, I’m trying to think about how do I express my feelings… it’s  like, I feel like it’s such a special thing when you get to mentor  someone and then you see them being a mentor to someone else. And I should specify  I’m talking about  as a mentor, but I think more of sort of Kate and me and School for the  Dogs as an entity, a mentoring entity, I guess, is sort of how I think  of what we’re doing in a lot of ways to shape people to be better dog  owners, if not dog trainers and Anna Ostroff came to School for the Dogs  about four years ago with a very sweet and shy young dog named Ginger  and her husband, Alan.  They are theater producers and had, I believe  had pretty recently before coming to us, won a Tony for a Broadway play  that they produced. And I just enjoyed getting to know them as these  very interesting people with an interesting theater background. So they  were clients with whom I became friendly. Full Transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/podcast

 My family thinks I'm crazy: Dealing with those who don't see the "whole" picture of holistic dog training | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:47:09

What does it mean to be a holistic dog trainer? To Annie, it means addressing issues using what we know about the science of behavior as it applies to both  dogs and humans, and looking at the whole picture of a dog's life in order to address issues. One alternative approach involves narrowly focusing on getting rid of a problem using punishment, which can produce new unwanted behaviors which are then part of the whole picture, too. Sometimes, that whole picture contains people who don't see that they're part of the whole picture, and Annie has found this can be tricky terrain to navigate as a dog trainer ... especially when those people are family members. Annie opens up about how she has learned to keep quiet about all things relating to dogs when she is with certain people in her family, and attempts to take a holistic view of a problem behavior they've dealt with in different ways: barking.  Check out Annie's free Master Class at anniegrossman.com/masterclass  Support this podcast by leaving a five-star review and by shopping in our online store, storeforthedogs.com.   --- Partial Transcript: Annie: I recorded this episode a few weeks ago, and then I kind of hesitated about whether or not I should post it because it has to do with my family. And it’s tricky to talk about real live people, and I’m not eager to offend anyone or get into arguments. So after I recorded it, I thought, you know, let’s just let this one sit for a few weeks so that I can think about whether or not I want to go there. And I decided that the beauty of the podcast [laughs] as a medium is that you really have to show up and be interested in order to listen to a podcast at all. It takes some effort and it’s kind of in a lot of cases on, at least this podcast is like a one-way conversation where I get to sit alone in a room and tell you what I think about something.  If you disagree with me, if you think I’m a jerk, you don’t have to keep listening, and you never have to listen again.  And if you have no interest in what I think about dog training, then you don’t ever have to listen to begin with, and frankly, I think my family falls into that latter category. So I’ve really learned to bite my tongue when anything about dogs comes up in conversation when I am with many people in my family, because it’s just not worth having an argument.  Even if it means suppressing my thoughts and feelings, it’s worth it for the sake of having a relationship at all and maintaining some degree of peace.  But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to have my own thoughts and feelings going on. And this isn’t something that I have a few thoughts about.  I have a lot of thoughts about it. I have a whole business devoted to a science-based approach to dog training, a behavior based approach to dog training. It’s pretty much my entire life. So I guess I decided I’m not going to suppress an entire part of my life all the time. And if the people mentioned, although unnamed, [laughs] in this episode are interested in what I think, they can listen to my one way side of a conversation whenever they please, and they’re welcome to record their own podcasts on their points of view. I would actually be interested in hearing that.  Full transcript available at SchoolfortheDogs.com/Podcast

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