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Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast
Hosted by Melissa Breau · EN
Published every Friday, the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast is brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. Each episode of the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast will feature an interview with a leading name in the competitive dog sports training world, talking in depth about issues that often get overlooked by traditional training methods.
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E470: Petra Ford - Engagement for Competition
1w ago00:40:11Tap to summarizeEver wondered how leading competitors build the incredible engagement we see in the ring, where the dog stares up at their handler and the team looks totally in sync and in step? Petra Ford joins me to talk about how she builds engagement strong enough to win Obedience Nationals with mulitple dogs.
Transcribe →E469: Nicole Wiebusch - Building from Stillness to Stay
2w ago00:38:27Tap to summarizeTeaching our dogs the concept of "stillness" is more complex than we sometimes realize — after all, how do you teach a dog that what we want is the absence of a behavior? In this episode, Nicole and I talk about how she teaches the concept, and then how it serves as a foundation behavior for teaching rock solid stays to her competition dogs.
Transcribe →E468: Jennifer Kunst, PhD: The Intersection of Dog Training & Psychology
3w ago00:42:17Tap to summarizeIn this episode I interview clinical psychologist Dr. Jennifer Kunst about the intersection of dog training and psychology. We look at how her three-strand approach to living a good life—embracing reality, choosing change, and surrendering control—applies to dogs and dog training.
Transcribe →E467: Arousal Modulation with Christina Young, Kelly Daniel, Jane Ardern, and Irith Bloom
4w ago00:39:50Tap to summarizeFour of the presenters from the upcoming one day conference, Arousal Modulation: Building a Clear-Headed Dog!, join me for a conversation about how arousal works, why it's not all good or all bad, and what handlers who have dogs that tend toward overarousal should stop doing... then what they should start doing instead.
Transcribe →E466: Irith Bloom - "Dealing with Your Dog's Demand Barking"
Jun 2600:45:33Tap to summarizeIn this conversation, Irith and I talk about what causes demand barking, what we can do about it, and why the advice to "just wait it out" is often completely ineffective.
Transcribe →E465: Amy Cook, PhD & Josefin Linderstrom - "The Power of Touch in Dog Training"
Jun 1900:50:01Tap to summarizeDr. Amy Cook and Josefin Linderström, founders of the Social Approach, join me for a deep dive on the topic of touch and our relationships with our dogs. In this episode they share some of the research that's been done on the benefits of touch, their take on how much of our dogs' preferences are nurture vs. nature, and how they'd add touch to training (including as a reinforcer!).
Transcribe →E464: Julie Flanery - Are We Ever Really Finished Training A Behavior?
Jun 1200:48:20Tap to summarizeIf you're like most dog trainers and handlers out there, you've started training lots of different behaviors that never quite reached a finished and fluent state. In this episode, Julie and I discuss why that happens, the phases behaviors need to go through, and what it takes to get them there. And, of course, she answers the question of whether it's even possible to "finish" training a behavior.
Transcribe →E463: Bronagh Daly - "Big Feelings in Dog Agility"
Jun 500:49:01Tap to summarizeDoes your dog have big feelings about dog agility? Whether they love the sport so much they can't contain themselves or have big feelings about new environments, other dogs, or strangers, in this episode Bronagh and I talk about how big feelings impact your dog's agility performance and what you can do about it.
Transcribe →E462: Melissa Breau - "Teaching a Reliable Recall"
May 2900:32:17Tap to summarizeWant your dog to come running when you call them? In this episode Crystal Wing steps in as guest host to talk to Melissa Breau about her upcoming class on building a reliable real-life recall, including why reps matter, how reinforcement history builds a better recall, and what to do if you have a recall cue that your dog has learned to ignore.
Transcribe →E461: Sarah Rida - "Teaching A Contact Heel"
May 2200:28:46Tap to summarizeCurious why and how to teach a contact heeling behavior? Contact heeling is a transport behavior distinctly different from formal obedience heelwork or loose leash walking – and in some instances, it offers significant advantages over either of those other options. In this episode Sarah Rida joins me to talk about why she teaches contact heeling, when it can be helpful, and how to actually begin training this useful skill.
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