Barefoot Paws - The Podcast

PRESSURE

We are all susceptible to pressure and we are all victims of pressure without even realising it. From the fear of missing out, to scarcity to rolling over while your sleeping. We are under a constant and inescapable barrage of different pressures at any moment in time.

Learn how to effectively and strategically use pressure to affect your dogs behaviour and manage a training session. I even break down one of the most effective and least invasive tools to deploy in a social setting such as a day care yard to affect an individual or an entire group of dogs.

Irrespective of your training philosophy, we all use pressure to get the job done. Being able to use pressure in the most subtle of way means we can maximise our output for a minimal input. This makes our training and husbandry much more efficient. Efficiency means greater benefit for our students and teachers.

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Markers, aka Bridges, are signals that allow a dog to understand a specific concept attached to their actions. In dog training we use markers to drive into or away from behaviour.

Markers make training far more efficient, much calmer for you and much more exciting for your dog.

Markers allow you to rehabilitate a dog with problematic behaviours such as fear, aggression, superstitious behaviour and improve lifestyle choices and affect day-day life with greater efficiency and efficacy.

This episode will present a complete system of Markers with which you can teach any dog, anything, anywhere.

We also look at some more advanced concepts such as lag reinforcement, differential reinforcement and a few others.

PS: It is worth noting that a Marker can be anything that your dog can perceive. Pavlov researched this in great depth and published many finding in his work Conditional Reflexes. You can use visuals (QR codes, playing cards, shades of the same colour, hand signals), sounds (whistles, clickers, voice etc), touch (vibration, e-collar, stick etc)...the imagination is (almost) your limit.

PPS: An example of a marker is your doorbell, the doorbell rings, your dog runs and barks at the door. Another example is the appearance of your car, the individual sound and feeling of your car coming up the driveway elicits excitement from your dog. These are accidental markers, we have them everywhere around us. When we begin to use this natural predictive response strategically we are able to allow our dogs to live their best possible life.

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Barefoot Paws teaches your dog to want it, so that when you need it, there is no doubt!

This episode unpacks what is arguably the most polarizing and triggering topic in the K9 industry. Indeed in all aspects of Behaviour Punishment is viewed as brutal, inhumane, archaic, outdated, traditional abuse. If you use Punishment your sticking your neck out for your peers to slice at.

Episode 14 will teach you how, when, where and why to use punishment and when, where and why not to use punishment.

We discuss the limitations of punishment.

I am often asked "When can I be nice to my dog after punishment?". In Episode 14 Punishment I explain the difference between apologizing and sucking up.

You will learn how to switch your dog from a defensive mood back to a social mood.

You will also learn about some old school - but still promoted - false positives.

Lastly we go over some tools that will help with the application of punishment.

BE WARNED: This Episode is focused purely on Punishment both Positive and Negative, Permanent and Temporary. If you are triggered by the content...don't listen.

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This episode deals with the variety of conversations that dogs have when in a social setting.

If you are involved in Day Care, Dog Meets, Socialisation classes and have a multi-dog household then this episode will give you plenty of information to be able to navigate your dogs interactions and give you some ideas on what is cool and what is not!

Defensive

Predatory

Role-swapping v Bullying

Frustration Tolerance

3rd Wheeling

Unwanted refereeing

Desired refereeing

Redirection

Punishment

Reinforcement

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In this Barefoot Paws Podcast Episode we talk about how I put together Training and Behaviour packages and programs.

Every dog must be able to show the desired level of Attention to their team mate and their people. At home, out and about and at Trial.

We are called to build a level of independence which allows our dog to stay at home, endure isolation in general and work without our interference.

The oil that keeps the machine running well is the type of relationship you have with your dog. Enabling your dog to live at liberty and being able to build an enjoyable, productive and positive relationship.

Your training should be part of a complete package. When you start to grab pieces from other areas and shove them all together into a basket, you risk creating a basket case in your dog. Learning to fulfill your dog with a holistic training plan that is able to take your dog to a concise end result is key to reducing anxiety, increasing clarity and having a great journey with your dog together as team!

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Season1 Episode11: SCENTWORK

In this episode I introduce the broad topic of Scentwork, we open a massive and delicious can of worms and dive right in!

Scentwork can be broken down into:

Whilst different breeds have a better bias for specific work - my own Malamute and Hound are two examples - each individual will have their own aptitudes. I hope that this episode give you the encouragement to try something new out with your dog.

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Odd title...common material!

In this Episode we will look at safety, training and working equipment for skills, sport and behavioural applications. Harness', Halters, Collars and Leads.

What to pick, when to use, why to use them and what to avoid.

Heather Beck from K9 Lifeline has a tagline: "Its not the tool, its the fool!"

It really is true! Learn how something simple like a lead works, learn about different types of harness and differing types of collars.

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Resource Guarding is when your dog is defending something (anything) with the intent of driving away the would be competitor.

There are even dog sports that use this natural behaviour and they evaluate and score a dog on their ability to fend of would be thieves!

If you have a dog that is exhibiting Resource Guarding, be sure to get in touch with a professional trainer who can both start and stop behaviour in your dog.

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Socialisation is a massively under-valued aspect of raising a puppy to be a healthy, enriched and adaptive dog!

Season1 Episode 7

This episode is the tiered format. We look at the material in a circular fashion, always revolving deeper into the subject matter.

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