The Dog’s Way Podcast: Dog Training for Real Life
Kids & Family:Pets & Animals
Today I speak with Kellee Zenk, who has a very interesting origins that led her to dog training. She's the founder of Dogs Decoded, based in Minnesota.
Kellee has a background in training bears and elephants! We discuss how she got started in that area and how it led to where she is today.
Kellee got her start at private zoos in Minnesota and loved training bears and really enjoyed marker and clicker training. She talks about some early mistakes and talks about the full range of experiences.
Kellee and I contrast the dynamic of dog trainers and how you develop better communication with the dog owners as you gain more experience. We also talk about our approach to "play" with dogs, and how to help owners create certain distinctions regarding when play time is on and off, and how to establish that relationship over time as the relationship is clarified.
I ask Kellee about her method or philosophy and how it has evolved. Kellee talks about how she is not a "purely positive" trainer. She is very versed in Skinner's theory, which we've detailed in podcast episodes 73 (part 1) and 74 (part 2).
We talk about bridging signals as part of verbal markers and get deeper into Skinner's four quadrants.
Session 19: How to become a registered therapy dog team
Session 18: The overview of what to teach a puppy and when, and teaching two dogs to not go after each other’s fetch toys
Session 17: Teaching your puppy to greet people, and teaching your adult dog to learn to be brave around things like vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers
SESSION 16: Nose work games and how to condition your dog to using a muzzle.
Session 15: Step by step plan to help with grooming procedures.
SESSION 14: Protocol for solving problems when your dog is at the office.
SESSION 13: Questions from the email bag
SESSION 12: interview with Michael and Elizabeth Kohl
SESSION 11: In this episode I interview Laura Tonkin
Session 10
SESSION 9: Puppy Stuff: How to pick a puppy from a litter | Adult Dog Stuff: How to condition your dog to like having a bath
SESSION 8: Interview with Dr. Jake Tedaldi, author of What’s Wrong with My Dog
SESSION 7: How to introduce a new puppy into your home when you already have an existing dog. And, Sean goes through some of the problem solving in a question from an email when a dog has shown aggres
SESSION 6: Puppies meeting, greeting and interaction with other dogs and puppies and our for dogs over 7 months old: Try our New Year’s 21 day behavioral challenge!
SESSION 5: House breaking for puppies and preparing your dog to be better behaved during holiday parties.
SESSION 4: Follow up on homework from Session 3 & switch gears to learn how to train younger puppies.
SESSION 3: Learn how to structure your dog’s lifestyle more.
Session 2: Starting out – Are you having some “policy” disagreements with your dog?
Session 1: (Introduction Podcast) So, Who’s This Sean Mcdaniel Guy?
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