Episode 58: End of year circle jerk

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End of year circle jerk is a celebration of accomplishments within our show for 2108. We would like to thank everyone who listened, made time for interviews, helped, gave feedback and believed in us.

We have both had a phenomenal year, making friend, reaching out, learning about others and networking. The stories and the people we have met on the journey have been surreal to say the least.

We cannot thank you enough for taking us into your homes, laughing, crying, learning and celebrating with us.

2018 was a great year and we want to make 2019 even better and we would love your input into how we can make that happen. If there’s a person you think we should interview, let us know. If there’s a topic you think we should discuss, tell us about it. If there’s a fucker in the industry we need to tear apart, drop us a line.

Finally, we want to send warm gooey love to our Patreon supporters. You cannot know what your support means to us and how much we appreciate your patronage.

We hope you enjoy the End of year circle jerk as much as we did putting it together.

Have a safe and Happy New Year everyone. We love you all

Episode 42: Questions from our audience Part 1

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Episode 57: It’s me isn’t it?

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It’s me isn’t it? The words most trainers hear after they have spent a little time working with clients. Yes, it’s you. It’s not a terrible process for clients to come to terms with either.

Once your clients accept they have had a major impact on their dogs education, or lack of, we can progress.

After all, our job is not to judge or embarrass them. We are there to serve and coach and to improve the overall relationship. When this happens, true language develops and it’s a beautiful thing to behold.

No more excuses, minimal problems and manageable dogs who understand you. What you telling them is now clear and they can hear you.

If you’re having trouble with your training, reach out to a reputable trainer.

Pat can be reached at Operant Canine

Glenn can be reached at Canine Evolution

Now instead of saying, I’s me isn’t it? I’m the problem. You start to say, I’m the solution.

Episode 32: The art of communication
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Episode 56: Interviewing Michael Ellis

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Michael Ellis is a name known very well to many of the people in the dog training community.  If you have been on youtube or Leerburg looking for a trainer series, you would no doubt come across Michael’s work.

Both Glenn and Pat have been waiting for some time now to speak with Michael and we had our prayers answered

Apart from being an all round great guy, Michael has been teaching students all over the world.

If you too would like to train with Michael Ellis or learn more about him, you can find out more here

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Episode 55: Positive First

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Positive First is a descriptive term Glenn Cooke announced earlier in one of our episodes.  He feels better describes what the Balanced dog training community have been trying to represent.

Naturally, there are counter arguments that it doesn’t represent the industry based on the correct scientific terms. There was additional points that it could be perceived as to closely associated with positive only.

Glenn and Pat start to unpack the success of starting with positive reinforcement and then re assessing.  This way if you start positive and can remain within that system of training, there is no problem.  If you need to move along to adding aversive, then you can implement the LIMA system.

If you have never heard of LIMA, it is the acronym for, Least Invasive Minimally Aversive.  it does a very nice job of describing a better selection pathway for training when using the Operant system.

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Episode 54: Moments to be proud of

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Moments to be proud of was a hard episode for both of us to record.  For Pat it was difficult to relive something that caused a lot of raw emotion.  For Glenn it was a high degree of shock to hear the story.

This story unfolds around a young boy and his mum that Pat helped train an assistance dog.  Although it sounds simple enough, it came with some heavy baggage for everyone.

The story is still far from finished, however there have been some incredible breakthroughs, both via a mothers love and Pats persistence and compassion.

Mental illness is a serious issue that has serious implications requiring the right people for treatment.  It also carries a stigma as people don’t know how to behave or what to say.  The best thing you can do though is be supportive and not judgemental.  Learn more about it and how you can better help.

We have done several episode now on mental health and we will definitely do more in the future for both humans and dogs.  This is why having a contact like Birdy O’Sheedy is so helpful and healthy as she understand both fields.

If you don’t feel great and the world is getting difficult, speak to someone.  You’re not a burden.  You’re not invalid.  You have people that love you and people that do want to be supportive.

We would love to hear what you moments to be proud of are too.

We have several episode as suggested that would be worth listening to, to support the above.

Episode 53: A Birdy’s eye view on Anxiety

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Episode 53: A Birdy’s eye view on Anxiety

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A Birdy’s eye view on Anxiety is a welcomed episode to bring back our great friend, Birdy O’Sheedy.  If you haven’t listened to an episode with Birdy yet, it’s important to note that she is a practising psychologist.  Birdy works in both the human and pet dog realms and has fast attracted attention based on her genuine results.

In this episode, we discuss the realms of anxiety and how it starts and what it looks like.  It should be noted that we always recommend dealing with suitably trained professionals prior to working on this.

We get to learn about the term, transgenerational transmissions and how that creates a transfer of anxiety.

So all aboard ladies and gentleman.  Get ready to drop your anchor and join us on this wonderful journey with our resident Psychologist.

If you want to know more about Birdy the click here

Be sure to check out some of our past episodes with birdy as well and if you need her, contact her.

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Episode 52: Getting out of the shit

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Getting out of the shit, although a nasty sounding title, has something relevant to do with Pat. Whilst walking through the desert one day on patrol, he got himself in a shitty situation.

However, the main focus point in this show is, how to say goodbye to a dog for behavioural reasons.  This is a predicament that many of us Professional trainers have had to assess and help make the right choice.  We also unpack a little bit about the difference between decision and choice.

The show gets a little deep and turns a few corners, however we had an interesting chat.

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Episode 51: Interviewing Meagan Karnes

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Meagan Karnes, otherwise known as the Collared Scholar was in Australia running a series of seminars.  Glenn and Pat had the good fortune of sitting down with her to get some insight into her origin story.

Prior to Meagan throwing her hat in the ring of dog training, her role was a little different.  Or maybe a lot different.

Meagan told us the reasons why she became so frustrated prior to starting her new career. This is why she changed her stars in the first place.  She also discusses her dogs, how she came to have them and the people who inspired her.

It was great to watch her work and introduce us to her style of training, which has hints of other remarkable training mentors.  we also enjoyed her infectious laugh and enthusiasm into helping transform relationships between dog and owners.

We also spoke briefly about puppy raising which we have spoken about here as well in the picking and raising puppies episode

Meagan has her own website and on-line training programs that you can find by clicking here

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Episode 50: Diagnosing problems in training

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Diagnosing problems in training came from points our listeners were posting in our Facebook group. Given that anyone who has owned or trained or been around dogs knows that there are always going to be problems.  We figure it’s best to identify what they are and how we can reduce or completely extinguish them.

In addition to that, it’s our 50th show!  We are happy to celebrate with you and appreciate all the love and support from people all over the world.

We have a lot more great content to come on top of what we have already so buckle in and get ready for a wild ride.

More sweat, more laugh, more education and more Glenn and Pat.

A couple of good episodes to listen to in relation to this episode would be, selecting and raising puppies.  If you haven’t heard the box episode, that’s almost a TCP staple.

In closing, Pat started a new client business called Operant Canine. If you want to book some extra time with him you can find him on Facebook.

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Episode 49: Dealing with difficult clients and people

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Dealing with difficult clients and people is a show we have danced around for a while but decided to finally do it.  Anyone in business or life, has moments where discussing issues with people can be difficult.

We all have different ways and recommendations of managing these outcomes to attempt to better resolve the outcome.

Glenn and Pat share a few of many experiences over the years of dealing with some of the more memorable people and how they worked on the outcome.

Conflict resolution is a big business in this day and age with books, seminars, pod-casts and more.  Add animals to that mix and you can sometimes be looking at a bigger explosion.

An earlier episode we did, http://www.thecanineparadigm.com/2018/07/18/episode-36-keeping-sane-in-the-dog-industry/ helps a little for trainers and industry people when they need a time out.

You can also check in with our resident psychologist, Birdie O’Sheedy for some back to sanity assistance.

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