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Webinar I Mentioned: Help the People And the Dogs: Allyship and Anti-Racism in Animal Advocacy - https://youtu.be/0mXFaVs_Lt0

New Patreon Level: DoggyU Inner Circle where we're going to be doing an additional special topics livestream each month :) 

Topics: 

- When to consider starting public access training in non-pet-friendly stores. Test Resource Mentioned: - https://www.psychdogpartners.org/resources/public-access

- Do I work my SD if it's in season? 

- Should I train escalators? If so, how? 

- Interlude of me working with Whip on some alarm barking behavior we're experiencing here in California out in the middle of nowhere and how I'd work on it if this is something I wanted to reduce or eliminate

- Service dog quality of life considerations vs. Handler quality of life considerations

- Stigmas around rehoming dogs 

- Eliminating food reinforcers in play/creating buy-in from your dog surrounding toys and play 

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Victoria Krzyzanowski

In this Q&A like 5 minutes before the end, you mention that fetch can be bad for dogs because of the sharp turns. Now I feel bad because that's my current dog's main form of exercise, we don't really go on walks anymore we just go out to a field, let her off leash, and let her chase the toy. And I'm not strict about her bringing it back right away because it's just exercise. I guess we could go back to hiking every day, but it's a longer drive now. Are there any other games that would be safer? Should I try teaching her to run around my back? It's already not structured at all so I feel like that might be more work than it's worth. She's almost 6 and a mini aussie

DOGGY•U

running around your back to face the object is definitely helpful. Throwing so that they can run through the ball is also helpful. We basically want to be conscious of how often they're doing tight turns and pivots.

Helen Sabo

Thanks Laura, this one was so helpful for me, especially the interlude with Whip! My puppy doesn't bark much, but if he sees my husband or one of our cats in the backyard, he'll bark at them and we'd prefer to help him stay calm and quiet, especially around the cats! I tried your suggestion to engage Oliver in doing some basic behaviors and treating him for that, and it worked very well.

DOGGY•U

I'm so glad that was helpful Helen! The other thing I'd do is ideally set it up so you have some low level opportunities to reward prior to having to "manage" the barking through asking for behavior like I did in the video. So using asking for behavior to get a chance to reward in the presence of stimulus, and then setting it up to practice like I did with the knocking. Glad it was helpful!

Melody Townsend

Thank you fantastic live bees and all!!!