Fenzi Food For Thought

We've all been there. Watch this live to get some ideas for how to handle it when you're ready to throw in the towel over a single bad day.

Once again we covered a lot of territory! This live will introduce you to the quadrants (operant conditioning), and also classical conditioning. We discuss when reinforcement makes the most sense and when you might consider punishment if that is in your mental paradigm. We talk about extinction, habituation, and other random topics that dog trainers might find of interest!

Does your dog become more or less reactive to triggers when you increase your dog's exercise? While counterintuitive, it appears that some dogs might do quite a bit better if they receive less exercise!   Link to the research study mentioned in this Instagram live.

Are you teaching what you think you're teaching? This live covered correlation is not causation and the risks of superstitious learning in humans! We talked about evaluating your training choices with care and reflection; modulating emotions in dogs; a few thoughts on how to change human behavior in life; a few thoughts on how to be happy in life; and a bit of problem-solving. Enjoy!

I hear this word used a lot in dogtraining. Usually it's the trainer saying that the dog trusts them. How do you know that? Trust is given, not taken from another. Consider how you do, or do not, have trust within your training relationship. This is from an Instagram Live I did last year. Enjoy the replay!

Yes, bitesports can be done positively. But if you put a traditional foundation first it will be a whole lot harder, if you can do it at all. **Since my first podcast wasn't clear and/or was widely misunderstood on the topic of instinct sports trained as force free as possible, this re-recording is designed as a summary and clarification.

Denise & I hung out with our very first guest, Erin Lynes, FDSA instructor and breeder of the most versatile labs around--in our humble opinion, that is... We talk about what temperament adds to versatility and those wrecking ball puppies we just can't resist! Plus, we get an insider look into the world of dock diving and learn about some skills you can train even before hitting the water. Enjoy!

It's helpful to try and meet your client where they are at. Plus we talked about lots of other stuff!

Denise & Ingrid got together to discuss harmony in dog training, between the client and pet professionals, dogs and culture and we got a Della the hamster update. Unfortunately, she's not as keen on doing things for sunflower seeds as we originally hoped, but she's pretty cute :)

We've all been there. Listen to this episode to get some ideas for how to handle it when you're ready to throw in the towel over a single bad day with your dog.

The tradition in bitesports and the hunting world is to build a dog's drive and add control later. That brings unnecessary anxiety and lack of clarity to training and makes the need for aversives highly likely. This is from an IG live about how one might balance drives and control from the very beginning to prevent problems throughout the dogs career.

Denise & Ingrid get together to chat with this conversation about who we are, how uniquely cute & talented our puppies are among other things that made us laugh and captured our dysfunctional brains this week. Enjoy!

What can a balanced trainer learn from a force free trainer? What can a force free trainer learn from a balanced trainer? Where are we strong? What can we add to our training plans that make us better trainers? This is a recording of an Instagram live I did last year. Look out for new episodes soon where I chat with some guests!

I've got another IG live for you I did last year on handling errors of impulse! Enjoy! Music provided royalty free by Bensound.com

In this first episode of Fenzi Food for Thought, I'm sharing with you  a popular instagram live I did on the topic of movement vs. stillness and why this matters for training the individual dog in front of you.