Kay Laurence - Learning About Dogs
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Learning Flexibility
30 Jun 2023
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Send us a textWhen we plan the future of this wonderful new life we can begin to think in terms of how we want them to be as adults. This can make our...
Too Much Freedom?
23 Jun 2023
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Send us a textAs much as we would love to be able to let our youngsters enjoy plenty of freedom to explore, learn, run free; the realities of the desi...
Setting the Future with a Family of Dogs
16 Jun 2023
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Send us a textImportant conversations when we graduate from one dog to two: Does one dog teach the other bad habits and can we ask them to teach good...
Hands that are magic
21 Apr 2023
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Send us a textOur hands are very often used for communication and for the pup most importantly CONTACT. The way we use our hands, where they touch t...
Growing so fast: 16-20 weeks old
14 Apr 2023
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Send us a textA period of exceptional growth where the pup's world seems to shrink as they grow larger. Feet seem gigantic and unmanageable, te...
Building Confidence with Familiarisation
08 Apr 2023
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Send us a textMost of us want to take our pup out-and-about with us; from the countryside walks to brunch at the local café or pub. We will plan to g...
Active Learning: 16 weeks old
07 Apr 2023
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Send us a textKay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. ...
Learning to say "no" to your pup
31 Mar 2023
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Send us a textKay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. ...
A Partnership: stand up for your puppy
24 Mar 2023
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Send us a textKay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. ...
Building the First Routines
17 Mar 2023
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Send us a textKay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. ...
First Days at Home
10 Mar 2023
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Send us a textKay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. ...
Introducing Nika
10 Mar 2023
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Send us a textKay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. ...
Season 4 Finale: Can YOU Identify Good Training?
12 Jul 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Teaching Irrelevant Cues While Teaching Relevant Cues
08 Jul 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Keeping Track of All That You Have Taught Your Dog
05 Jul 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Can We Ever Do Enough Work on Discrimination Skills?
01 Jul 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Being a Square Peg in the Round Hole of the Dog Training World
28 Jun 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Competition is Great! But Not at a Cost to the Dog
24 Jun 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Teaching a Dog to Walk Well Before Running
21 Jun 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Simple Moves Before Complex Ones
17 Jun 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Rewards are Cues and Cues are Predictors
14 Jun 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Sitters Anonymous
10 Jun 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Standing Still is a HUGE Default Behavior
07 Jun 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
What are Default Behaviors and Why Teach Them?
03 Jun 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Teaching False Behaviors
31 May 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
The Trap of 98 Not Rights
27 May 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Adaptations Build Resilience in Behaviors
24 May 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Approach Dynamics
20 May 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
What do you need to know before teaching dogs?
17 May 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
Can You Measure Learning?
13 May 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely success...
What to Learn
10 May 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successf...
What is learning?
06 May 2021
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Send us a textLearning. Is it a construct? An idea?We cannot do the learning for the dogs, we can only set up situations where learning happens.Kay ...
Dog Considers Their Name is White Noise?
03 May 2021
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Send us a textIt's time to flip another concept on its head--the whole idea that the dog MUST pay attention when you say their name before you st...
Proofing. A term that makes us crazy
29 Apr 2021
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Send us a textKay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Plays with Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Lear...
Season 4 Premier! Same friends, new format and new ideas!
26 Apr 2021
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Send us a textThe Learning About Dogs podcast is your main source for all these dogs, teaching dogs, understanding dogs, and living with dogs.Kay Laur...
Reward Skills: Markers: To Click or Not to Click
07 Oct 2020
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Send us a textMarkers are an integral part of the communication process when we are interacting with our learners.Whether you choose to use a clicker ...
Reward Skills: Habit or Active Learning?
23 Sep 2020
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Send us a textDo we want habits or active learning?Probably both but there is a clear distinction between them which is dependent on the value of the ...
Reward Skills: Introducing You to Our New Friend, Reward Predicting Stimulus
09 Sep 2020
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Send us a textOn this episode of the podcast, we do a little introduction of a new term that is so much BIGGER than a cue. What are cues anyway?Sue ...
The Point of Learning or How to Get Peaches
26 Aug 2020
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Send us a textWhat is the point of learning?"When that brand new brain gets into motion it is going to have to find out how to secure the rewards...
Rewards!! Delivery Patterns and Sources of Rewards
12 Aug 2020
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Send us a textIn the early days of using positive reinforcement and clicker training, the delivery of that reinforcer, (reward), was not part of the c...
What are Rewards?
29 Jul 2020
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Send us a textALWAYS REMEMBER:REWARDS ARE DEFINED BY THEBEHAVIOURAL REACTIONS THEY INDUCE.It is the individual that decides if it is rewarding or not....
Where is the reward receptor in the brain?
15 Jul 2020
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Send us a text “REWARDS ARE NOT DEFINED BY THEIR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES BUT BY THE BEHAVIOURAL REACTION THEY INDUCE.”Welcome...
Living a Reward Centered Life : Reward Skills
01 Jul 2020
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Send us a text"Having discovered this world of rewards and reinforcement I protectively wrap my dogs’ learning with an envelope of reward proba...
Multiple Dogs; Group and Individual Learning
10 Jun 2020
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Send us a textLiving with multiple dogs can be fun and challenging. It comes with a demand to develop a great deal of observation skills to make sure ...
Mnemoics: The Four D's of Dog Training, Question These.
27 May 2020
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Send us a textMenomics can be handy when it comes to finding a quick and simple way to remember a spelling or phrase. But using these devices does r...
What does it mean when a behavior is generalized?
13 May 2020
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Send us a textWhen a dog "generalizes" a behavior, it means they can do the behavior under a wide variety of conditions. But a dog being abl...
Labels Again. A Talk About "Learned Helplessness."
29 Apr 2020
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Send us a textOne must be careful about using terminology we hear at seminars or read in books and apply to our training.Kay Laurence of Learning Abou...
Bonus Episode: Online Dog Training, Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
20 Apr 2020
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Send us a textNot all online learning is created equal.The sudden move to online learning for many disciplines, not just dog training, has been astoun...
Errorless Learning? Yep! Errorless Teaching? Not So Much
15 Apr 2020
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Send us a textErrors are feedback.Set the dog up for success.Develop the skill to know what to change in a teaching set up, and when.Teach the prerequ...
Hands and What They Should Mean to Our Dog
01 Apr 2020
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Send us a textDogs are aware of our every move and have decided which ones are relevant to them and which are of little consequences.This is so appare...
Gen Abacab: Understanding the Original Teaching Table Game
18 Mar 2020
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Send us a textAlmost 20 years ago, Kay Laurence developed a game to teach communication skills and learning concepts to students.Over the years, Gen A...
Best Ways to Learn About Dog Training
04 Mar 2020
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Send us a textWhat is the best way to learn about dog training?In person working seminars or auditing one?How about a webinar, a conference, or a lect...
Teacher or Trainer? Coach or dog parent? Who are we to our dogs?
19 Feb 2020
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Send us a textWhat are we to our dogs?Teacher?Trainer? Instructor? Coach? Parent?On this episode of Learning About Dogs, Kay Laurence and Sue M...
Listener Questions to Learning About Dogs, the Hosts Answer!
12 Feb 2020
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Send us a textOn this episode of the Learning About Dogs podcast, we questions from listenersWe have a Facebook group, "Whilst I was listening to...
Season #2 Premier "FUN" in Training
29 Jan 2020
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Send us a textWe're not quite sure why dog training turned into an exercise of "must be fun" or "must be entertaining" in ord...
Bonus Episode: Cue Technology: Singing your Cues
27 Aug 2019
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Send us a textGiving a cue and responding to a cue is a conversation where questions are asked answered. We give cues and the dog can answer, dog will...
Connected Walking Means Leave the Clicker at Home
24 Jul 2019
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Send us a textConnection is about being aware of each other. There is a way to find comfort and pleasure in walks for both parties. To become a Master...
Learning the Skills of Teaching and Our Dogs will Learn
17 Jul 2019
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Send us a text"Too often the focus of luring is about 'getting the behavior' and not enough about the process of teaching or the learni...
The Value of Teaching Base Behaviors
10 Jul 2019
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Send us a textConnection is our base behavior. It is where learning begins. What are base behaviors and why go through the process of teaching them?&q...
Training Myths: The Three Second Rule
03 Jul 2019
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Send us a textClick - shoveClick - shoveClick - shoveHow many of us have heard that in order for understanding to happen when clicking and reinforcing...
Chains and Sequences. Be aware! You are surrounded by them!!
26 Jun 2019
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Send us a textLiving with dogs successfully requires us to have an awareness of behaviors that are "stuck" together. Often times it's a...
Click Fishing? Dog Trainers and terminology
19 Jun 2019
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Send us a textOur minds are spinning over the terminology we hear at behavior conferences and dog training seminars. We dog people LOVE naming things...
Learning to use silence as part of a training session
12 Jun 2019
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Send us a textYou enter ring at a venue, the routine starts, you look over at your dog and a sinking feeling starts. As you start to go through the ex...
Duration or hold your station?
05 Jun 2019
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Send us a textDogs are exquisite at knowing when a behavior they are doing needs to be slowed down, held or ended quickly. We as handlers need to be s...
Teaching dogs to sustain their activity is not the same thing as duration
29 May 2019
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Send us a textOur language fails us at times when we want to describe what we are seeking when teaching a dog to continue to do an activity. "The...
What is a dog training geek? TAKL 2020
22 May 2019
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Send us a textTAKL2020 is a blend of a study course and a mentoring program. You can follow either route or a combination through self-selecting and s...
Contingencies in Play When Teaching Dogs
08 May 2019
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Send us a textContingencies change behavior, reinforcers maintain or strengthen behavior.Contingencies will include the environment, the space the dog...
Managing the Pace of Your Training Sessions
01 May 2019
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Send us a textAre there signs your dog are showing that indicate to you as a handler to continue a training session? How about knowing when a break is...
The Art of Luring Dogs : Using the Cup on a Stick
24 Apr 2019
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Send us a textSkilled teaching by luring leaves a learner with a strong sense of achievement and a clean behavior with good understanding. Luring is b...
The Art of Luring Dogs
17 Apr 2019
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Send us a textLuring is by definition, the direct use of the reinforcer to elicit a behavior. The operative part of that sentence is the direct use of...
Should You Teach a Dog Eye Contact?
10 Apr 2019
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Send us a textIn this episode, Kay Laurence and Sue McGuire dive into the belief that one should teach a dog to look at handlers in the eye. For yea...
Fade In Protocol
03 Apr 2019
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Send us a textWhen teaching a behavior, we want to surround the stimulus with an environment that encourages success, not error. As a part of teaching...
Cues and Teaching Cue Hierarchy
27 Mar 2019
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Send us a textA strong understanding of cue technology when engaging with our learners is of paramount importance. Kay Laurence and Sue McGuire disc...
Clean Training: Part Three
20 Mar 2019
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Send us a textIn this episode, Kay Laurence and Sue McGuire continue a discussion about what it means to do "clean training." The topics inc...
Clean Training -- Part Two
03 Mar 2019
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Send us a textThis episode continues the conversation between Kay Laurence and Sue McGuire about the elements of Clean Training. Can you, as a handler...
Clean Training : Introduction
03 Mar 2019
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Send us a textClean Training is about really clear communication and self-awareness with a dog's cues, precision marking, a focused and very effe...
Establishing your ethical foundation
26 Feb 2019
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Send us a textWhat does it mean to have a strong ethical foundation when you are a teacher of dogs? We toss around words like "positive reinforce...