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Do you want to make your video viral? Surprising as it may sound but YouTube is not the best platform for that. In this episode, Nate Woodbury shares with us what it means, how a video becomes one, and his strategies in making a video viral. Check this out! Do you want to know how to make a YouTube video go viral? I know how to have a video get millions of millions of views but there's a secret. You actually can't have a video go viral on YouTube. What!? -What? -I'm going to explain how to get a lot of views and what I'm talking about. -So, how do you get a million... How do you get a YouTube video to go viral if it's not on YouTube? I don't get it. -Yeah. So, what viral means is that it's shared a lot, right? So, if the Facebook is the place where things can go viral, if you put a post the people just love. Maybe it's a video of your dog. You know, just really cute. Then somebody else shares that they share it, they shared. So, it spreads and it goes viral, okay? YouTube is really not a good social platform. It's an amazing platform but you're not social. If you wanted to show me a YouTube video, how would you show me that YouTube video? -I usually text a link. -You get the link and you text it? Or you'd message it or you email it. I mean you can't really YouTube it. -That's interesting. -Right? You're not going to like somehow share... We're not connected on YouTube. -It's interesting. -So, things really can't viral... they are trying to fix it. But YouTube just doing so many things right. The other platforms are doing wrong that it's like. They don't want to... They don't want to break what they've got a good thing going. -Yeah. So, but that's interesting though. Because you've heard of videos going viral. And a video can go viral but it can't go viral on YouTube. Somebody can take a YouTube video and have it go viral. Maybe it gets featured on a news station or in a newspaper or somebody else's blog or on Facebook. Even though Facebook and YouTube are enemies. And... -What? -Yeah. If... This is just a side note a little bonus.  If you put a link in your YouTube description that goes to Facebook, YouTube will... And somebody clicks on it they... "What? That person left and went to Facebook? We're going to we're not going to show this video as much." Same thing on Facebook. If you're on Facebook and there's a link, "Hey go check out my YouTube video." And they leave  and they go to YouTube." Facebook is going to bury that post. -Oh, my gosh. -So, they're ay war. Anyway. That's just a side bonus. -So, how does one do it then? -If you... I mean to go viral, you've got to create viral worthy content. And I don't know I don't know how to do it. I have never created a video that's gone viral yet. I have videos that have gotten millions of views. -Which sounds like...? -Well just end the video there. Alright. So my strategy on YouTube to get views to get traffic, there's actually 2 different strategies. 1 is search. Meaning that YouTube is an amazing search engine. People go to Google and YouTube asking questions. And they're looking for videos to watch to answer their questions. And so, I love doing... We've talked about this before. Keyword research before filming. Because you can really pull in all these searchers. I mean people all around the globe right now are asking questions about interior design that you have the answer for. So, just by making videos that answer their questions, you're pulling in that search traffic. And that's... That's kind of the foundation with all the clients that I work with, is we start with keyword research. Finding all those questions and we just go after question after question after question. And you start to build a gradual momentum. I like to look at each video as a machine. So, if you make one video that's pulling in a little bit of search traffic every single month and I set that one aside and it still keeps working but then you make another one. And you set that one aside and each video becomes the machines. And I've got this these army of video machines that are just pulling in traffic. So eventually, you're getting thousands and tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of views every month even though each video is just pulling in there a little bit. You've got a whole pile of them. -Do the videos keep pulling in there a little bit indefinitely over time or do they kind of like put the older videos down the...? -It's a very good question. The answer is they keep pulling their bit all for years and years to come. In fact, I've typically seen it gets better and better over time. -Really. -Which is the opposite of Facebook or email or... I mean if you if you write... You put your heart into an amazing email, right? You just, "I've got so much value." I'm going to you send it out. It gets viewed a lot that day. Maybe it trickles the next day. Same with Facebook. If you put amazing post on Facebook, you know, it might last a week. It's just as if it's a super amazing, it might go 2 weeks. And you get thousands of views on this post, right? A month from now, a year from now. How many views is it getting? -And that's the thing about Facebook too, is you can't really search Facebook. You can only scroll on Facebook and so... Like we know, people don't scroll very far down. -The Facebook's trying to fix that and like bringing up memories. "Remember this happened a year ago?" And that's how they're trying to repurpose old content. But I don't I get annoyed by those most the time. Sometimes they're cute. Sometimes if  it's like, "Oh, look at him 5 years ago." You know, my son or something but... -Anything about my son and I think it's awesome. -But it's not... It's not... It doesn't even compare to what YouTube has done where you can create a video, 5 years from now, it'll still be performing for you. -Yeah. That's one of the benefits. Okay, so that that's one huge way that you can get a lot of traffic. But that's gradual. Usually when you think of viral, you think of something getting a spike like... Also and it just took off. And you can actually do that on YouTube. In a previous episode that we filmed together I was providing you some coaching. I didn't introduce you. -Hi! -Katie Gutierrez. You need to check her out. She's really wanting to do some amazing things on YouTube and that's why I'm here helping her out. And we thought we would film it. So... Alright. In a previous video, we talked about... What do we talk about? We talked about how to make money on YouTube? And I talked about how YouTube has this partner program. Where advertisers pay money to YouTube. Go ahead just yawn. It's okay. So, YouTube as the partner program we talked about. Where advertisers pay money to YouTube to show their ads. 55% of that goes to the creator of the videos. Which is really cool. -That's very cool. So, YouTube is looking for good videos to promote. Meaning, good videos that perform well and bring in more advertising revenue. And that's good for us because we get 55% of that revenue. It's like we've got this partnership. It's not like it it's... We do have this partnership with YouTube. It's really really cool. While you're following the search strategy, if you make 5 videos a week, meaning 5 videos go live each week on YouTube. And you do that for 4 months, there's something magical that happens. -Oh my gosh. -Okay? That sounds like a lot and it is. Their strategic ways of doing it if you've got a busy schedule like we do, okay? We're filming 20 episodes today. Okay. It's lighten up. That's an entire month's worth. Okay. So... -And it's so effortless. -So, if we launch 5 episodes per week and we do that for 4 months, then in addition to getting all that search traffic that's gradually building momentum, YouTube will take one of our videos... Get a high 5 five. High 5 for yawns. She's having a hard time  staying awake in this this topic. When I told her that video can't go viral on YouTube, she's like... -Forget it, I'm done. You know what it is? Is that I have a bad habit of holding my breath? - Breathe. -Yeah. And I realized that I don't and I could benefit from working on it's like breathing. Because then I like hold my breath hold my breath away rather hold my breath and then my breath is like, take a deep breath, you need to yawn." -You're making her nervous. -Stop it Margaret. -Okay, Margaret. So, 5 videos a week for 4 months. What YouTube will then do is pick one of your videos and start to promote it for you. So, you don't have to pay. This is all organic. You just create the great content. And YouTube will take one of your videos and start to put it as a suggestive video next to other people's videos. So have you seen that? When you weren't watching YouTube, you've seen recommended videos. -"You like this, you might like this." -Hmm. So, your videos will start to appear there and will start to appear on the YouTube home screen. And so when your your views are going like this getting gradually was steeper and steeper and all of the sudden you'll just have a spike. And then it will settle down. But that spike not only did it cause a lot of views but it brought in a lot of new subscribers. So, let's say this is your average, we'll keep my hand here. Then you have a spike when it settles back down, you're at a new baseline. A much higher average. And then later to have another spike and another spike. -And those baseline  keeps growing with every spike. -Mm-hmm I've seen a channel double in size in 5 weeks from 80,000 to 160,000 subscribers. -What? -Just because we were... -So I'm seeing it's very very important to be putting out a lot of content all the time. That seems to be like a key. -Yeah, YouTube loves consistency. They love to promote channels that are doing the right things creating the type of content that are going to benefit YouTube. So, if we really are in a partnership with YouTube, if we create videos that we know is going to make YouTube money, they're going to promote it which in turn we get paid 55% of that and when we got a business behind it. You know, we're we make way more. -So, it's like a snowball effect. -So, that's how you make a video viral. It's not really going viral. But it's almost better than viral because it doesn't like... Something that goes viral it kind of it eventually cools down and slows down. Whereas the the videos that YouTube starts to promote... Its promoting it because it's a moneymaker for YouTube. And it will continue to promote that video because it likes to make money. The difference between a video going viral and  what you're talking about is a viral video like you only want to watch that cute cat video one time. But with this like cultivating this YouTube following, you're really creating a loyal follower. And then it's the loyal follower that's going to keep watching all your videos and then if you create this tribe of loyal video watchers. Then all of your videos are more likely to be viral, viral. -Now, that that's really the huge point here. The huge advantage of YouTube is it's not just a marketing platform. This isn't just advertising or getting traffic that turns off. You're actually building a real following. These are real people that subscribe, that love you that want to want more from you and want what you have to offer. So, let me know what you think about that? What do you think about me saying that a video can't go viral on YouTube. Do you agree with me or do you disagree? I'm interested to hear your comments below. And we'll see you tomorrow.

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‘I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.’That quote is from Genghis Khan. Now, he is no hero to me, but still his words ring with truth. Whatever Genghis was, he certainly was successful! He conquered the largest land mass in all of history; he was kind of an Eastern Alexander the great. I think the quote is germane, because what I see in the modern, Western world is a falling away from virtue, from our ancient traditions and ideals. We have allowed ourselves to become slothful, to be liberal in our thinking, since that makes us look politically correct and fashionable. In England, France, Sweden, and much of the rest of Europe in the E.U., we have not only allowed endless migration from non-western peoples into our advanced, high IQ, wealthy cultures; but we have paid for it all in welfare dollars! Our leaders have rolled out the red carpet for the invaders who despise us, and are displacing us from the cultures, cities, and countries our ancestors have built.As Genghis foretold, we are now in the process of “losing everything”. We have too much- we have had it too good, living in well heated and air conditioned environments, taking endless television, electric conveniences, and all of our other luxuries for granted. IN fact- we no longer even think of such things as two or more vehicles, multiple TVs and elaborate kitchens ( in which most of us never even cook, relying on takeout orders instead), and clean water and trash removal and sewage treatment and… well, the list goes on and on! They all are now our rights! And, in our hubris, we now, especially those of us on the LEFT insist that this luxury list is not ours at all, not really- it is for the whole world! If we have it, so should they!!Never mind that their own, low IQ countries can never, and will never be able to build such systems for themselves in their own countries- it is up to us, the despised, racist, white European to provide it for them- in our own countries.Genghis hated cities, and civilization. His whole purpose was to destroy civilization and all it built, leveling the wonderful buildings and temples of the West and the East, returning all once again to the bare, grassy plains of Central Asia, where horses could run free. He was evil, but he did perceive correctly that riches and luxury corrupt and ruin a people. And that is why, logically for him, he decided that riches and luxury should be destroyed- only then would the youth not be tempted by decadence and bad thinking and living. Everyone sees clearly and distinctly when dealing with the basics- life and death, conquest or defeat, freedom or slavery. And rest assured, what we are facing now is the very survival of our Ancestral, paleo, Western civilization! Letting Mulsims, our sworn ancient enemies, within our borders, is eventual domination and slavery- for US. They know it, even if we smile, and welcome them in a misguided attempt at a one-sided so-called friendship. They hate us, and laugh at us as we do their bidding.Likewise, a collapse of our morals, where now the Left celebrates 11 year old drag queens on television, and lets utter lawlessness rule our inner cities (all of them!) because to arrest these rapists, murderers, and thiefs would be RACIST. WHAT?? Just because the vast majority of violent criminals are black?

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Summary: Nancy Tucker is a certified pet dog trainer and behavior consultant in Sherbrooke, Quebec. She teaches seminars, webinars, and workshops on dog training, dog behavior, and the business end of training in Canada, the U.S., and in Europe. She specializes in common behavior issues that affect the family dog, including more complex issues like aggression and anxiety. Nancy has also written numerous articles on dog behavior and is a regular contributor to Whole Dog Journal. At FDSA, she teaches a great class on separation anxiety, another on desensitization and counterconditioning, both of which are coming up in October, and a more lighthearted class on door greeting manners, which is currently running. Next Episode:  To be released 8/17/2018, featuring Helene Marie, talking about R+ Herding. TRANSCRIPTION: Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high-quality instruction for competitive dog sports using only the most current and progressive training methods. Today we’ll be talking to Nancy Tucker. Nancy is a certified pet dog trainer and behavior consultant in Sherbrooke, Quebec. She teaches seminars, webinars, and workshops on dog training, dog behavior, and the business end of training in Canada, the U.S., and in Europe. She specializes in common behavior issues that affect the family dog, including more complex issues like aggression and anxiety. Nancy has also written numerous articles on dog behavior and is a regular contributor to Whole Dog Journal. At FDSA, she teaches a great class on separation anxiety, another on desensitization and counterconditioning, both of which are coming up in October, and a more lighthearted class on door greeting manners, which is currently running. Hi Nancy, welcome to the podcast! Nancy Tucker: Hi Melissa. Melissa Breau: So, to start us out, can you just share a little information to remind everybody who the dog is that you share your life with and what you’re working on with him? Nancy Tucker: Yep. We’re a single-dog family, and I know that this is sometimes shocking and even an alien concept to lots of people, especially a trainer who has only one dog. “What? Just the one dog? Oh no, what happened?” Nothing happened, we just have the one dog, and I just find life far more enjoyable and easier to manage with just the one dog. He’s a 1-year-old Border Terrier named Bennigan — or Benni, for short — and we’re not involved in any dog sports or organized activities. I work on run-of-the-mill pet dog behaviors with him, and of course he’s my demo dog for lots of teaching videos, so sometimes I end up teaching him behaviors I’ll never ask of him again. But he loves to learn and he’s total eye candy on the video because he’s crazy-cute. Melissa Breau: I cannot believe he’s already a year old. It feels like you just got him. Nancy Tucker: I know! Melissa Breau: I do understand he has his own fan club. Nancy Tucker: He does. He has his own Facebook page called Bennigan’s Shenanigans. It’s where I post lots of silly things, like our pretend conversations between us, or photos and videos of some of his activities. And I’ll sometimes post some really easy training videos, especially when his fans ask how I trained a particular thing he was doing in another video they saw. I really like doing “how to” videos for pet dog stuff because it gets people to interact with their dog in a way they’ve never done before. I didn’t realize just how popular Benni was until I was teaching a seminar in another city a couple of months ago on separation anxiety for trainers. I had photos and videos of Benni in my presentation, and after hearing me refer to him as “my dog, Benni,” one of the participants looked up suddenly and said, “Oh my god, you’re Benni’s mom?” It was a really humbling experience. She was more excited about that than my presentation. So I’m thinking I should probably put that on my business card: Benni’s mom. Melissa Breau: How’s his door behavior looking these days? Nancy Tucker: Pretty good, actually. We’ve come a long way with Benni, because his greetings are super-expressive, especially when me or my husband walk through the door. To be honest, I let it slide for the longest time because it’s incredibly easy to let these things slide with little dogs. When a large dog greets you by jumping up or weaving between your legs, you can’t ignore that. But when a little guy does it, it’s cute and far less dangerous, of course, so we let it slide a lot more often. But we worked on his door greeting skills a lot more this summer and he’s a star now. He still needs some help remembering what to do once in a while, and we still use management sometimes, which is normal, but overall he does me pretty proud. Melissa Breau: Nancy’s class this session, for anybody who doesn’t know, is on just that — getting a calm door greeting, instead of the crazy chaos I know I tend to have at my house when someone gets home. Looking at the syllabus, Nancy, it looks like the first few lectures are heavy on management. Why is managing this behavior such an important step in starting to fix it? Nancy Tucker: The first step in modifying behavior is doing everything we can to prevent the old behavior from being practiced. Every time a dog gets to do that behavior, it gets reinforced by something, and that means that we’re actually helping to maintain it somehow. Reinforcement, in this case, can be in the form of getting immediate access to somebody at the door, or sometimes it can also be attention from the person at the door, or attention from us. Even if we’re yelling or grabbing at our dogs to corral them or try to move them out of the way, we could inadvertently be reinforcing that behavior. Obviously the dog is getting something out of that behavior, or he wouldn’t keep repeating it. If we can prevent it by using some management, we’ll at least stop reinforcing it. Melissa Breau: Is it possible to manage it forever without actually working on it? Nancy Tucker: Yeah, for sure. In some instances I’d even recommend it, if the circumstances make training a new behavior more challenging than simple management. My goal is always to find a solution that will make life better for both the human and the dog, so yeah, if management is the best way to obtain that result, then I think it’s perfectly fine. On the other hand, polite door greeting is actually a fairly simple behavior to teach. It can take some time, especially if the dog has been practicing an unwanted behavior for a long time. But once we’ve got some polite behaviors in place and we continue to reinforce them, it’s so nice to not have to worry or scramble when someone comes to the door. Melissa Breau: As folks progress from management to training, what are their options? What kinds of alternative behaviors do you like to teach? Nancy Tucker: Contrary to popular belief, reducing a dog’s access to the door area is not the most effective approach. I talk a lot about this in class. We get the feeling that we need to control our dog’s access to the door, and to get him to stay somewhere else and to stay quiet, and that’s actually really hard. My goal is never to create robot dogs who stay away from the door and give all visitors a really wide berth. I want to allow dogs to check out who’s coming into their home. I want to encourage interaction. But I also want to help people teach their dogs more appropriate interactions in that context. So while we do cover some behaviors that essentially send the dog away from the door area when someone walks in, because that can be really handy at times, we’ll also be teaching our dogs that one of the most effective ways for them to get access to visitors is to keep their paws on the floor or to carry something in their mouth. This one’s really good for happy barkers or dogs who get mouthy when they’re excited. And we’ll use nose targeting and other fun games that allow the dog to regain some composure before he interacts with someone at the door. So it’s not about reducing access to visitors. It’s all about adding a little finesse to their greeting behavior. Melissa Breau: I’m going to guess that some of those things are initially taught away from the door. After all, as with all dog training things, we want to start small and then build up. So how do you go about making the door “small”? How do you break something down like that? Nancy Tucker: You’re right, we’ll start by working on all the new behaviors in a more neutral area of the home with very little distractions, just like any new behavior. And then we move the whole thing over to the door area, but with nobody coming or going. We’re just helping the dog generalize the behavior to a new location. And then we’ll start introducing the door into our training sessions by first we’re just opening and closing it with no one else around. Again, it’s all about adding an element of difficulty very gradually. And then we’ll go out and come back in and practice the new behaviors, which really, when you think about it, is not at all exciting to the dog. He’s thinking, “I just saw you two seconds ago. This is boring.” And this is what we want. We want the dog to be able to practice the new behaviors when he’s not excited. And then, when the dog is able to offer those behaviors in that context, we’ll ask someone else to practice the exercises with us, someone familiar to the dog who has already greeted them, spent a little time with them prior to practicing these exercises — again, we’re trying to make it least exciting possible for the dog — and then we’ll gradually make our way to having a stranger enter the home. That’s the Holy Grail. I know it can be very difficult for people to find, or they think it can be very difficult for them to find somebody to help them with these types of exercises, especially if they live in a more rural area, for example. But in the past, people have asked neighbors to help play this role, or they’ve invited a co-worker to stop by, and people are generally really happy to help. Melissa Breau: You’re also covering multi-dog households, right? Nancy Tucker: That’s right. Melissa Breau: How does adding extra dogs into it further complicate all of it? Nancy Tucker: When you have a door-greeting issue with a single dog, that’s usually a pretty basic situation to handle. But when you have multiple dogs, you sometimes need Ninja-level management and handling skills just to even get to your door. So we’ll be handling multi-dog households the same way we train any other behavior with multiple dogs, and that means one dog at a time. In the lecture that introduces multi-dog households, I talk about the instigator dog. Every multi-dog household has one of those. He’s the one that usually sets the others off by being the first to respond to a sound or other stimulus, and anyone who has more than two dogs can probably already recognize which one of their dogs I’m talking about here. Anyway, we’ll be working with one dog at a time, and ideally we’ll start working with the instigator dog first. And then those handlers can work with each of their other dogs also individually, just like any other training session. And then, once each dog has learned the new behaviors and they’re doing well with them, we can start working with multiple dogs at the door. But that’s an advanced level of difficulty, and there’s no rush to get to that point. So it’s always best to work systematically with one dog at a time before putting them all into an exciting situation where they can’t possibly succeed. Melissa Breau: It feels like you’ve got lots of pieces in here. I know you also cover door dashing. Personally, I think door dashing is super-frustrating, in addition to being incredibly dangerous in some situations. Any thoughts on why dogs do that, why they build a habit of dashing out the door? Nancy Tucker: In most cases, dogs push past us at the door because they’re in a terrible rush to greet whoever is there. Those that run out for an unauthorized adventure when there’s no one there to greet — they’re simply getting out there to have a good time, whether that means exploring the neighborhood or going into the yard down the street to meet up with their buddy. Sometimes it can be a sign that maybe the dog is a little bored or his needs aren’t being met, but most of the time, as long as we’re not talking about a dog who is aggressively running out the door — and we’ll talk about that a little later as well — but most of the time it’s just to have a good time, or because we’re taking too long to open the door. They want to get there quick. Melissa Breau: How do you approach that? How do you start to work on door dashing and what do you want the dog to do instead? Nancy Tucker: I like to teach the dog that an open door is not an invitation to step outside, and I make it really attractive and rewarding to stay put, even while the door is wide open and they can see or hear or smell the outside world. Naturally, we get there gradually through a series of exercises, but it really doesn’t take that long to teach. I’ve got a couple more exercises that I like to add to the end of this process that makes it even more likely that a dog will stick around close to the door, even if he does manage to step outside. But you have to take the class to know more about those. Melissa Breau: Some dogs may have years of practicing bad door habits — you mentioned this in passing earlier. Do you find that it can take a really long time to retrain? Obviously every dog is different, and people should move at their dog’s speed, but still, over the course of six weeks, what kind of progress can people expect to make? Nancy Tucker: You’re right — how long a dog has been practicing a behavior can affect how long it might take to change his behavior in any given context. But generally, once we get rolling with practicing the new games and exercises, people begin to see a shift in their dog’s response to the usual signs that someone’s at the door. Within a few weeks they often see reduced barking, or a faster response to the simple cues that they’ll be working on. For some people, they’ll get a handle on the door greeting part pretty quickly, and then they’ll spend a few more weeks after the class is finished to work on the dog’s interaction with guests after they’ve come inside and are visiting for a while. You get the dogs that stay excited and happy and are constantly trying to get visitors’ attention, but by then the students have lots of tools and ideas to work with to tackle that part of the problem. That’s kind of outside of the scope of the class, but the things that they learn during class will definitely help with that as well. Melissa Breau: What if we kind of … you know, secretly LIKE that our dogs are so excited to see us when we get home? Is training control in this situation going to change that? Nancy Tucker: If you’ve ever taken a training lesson from me, or followed one of my classes, you’ll probably have figured out that I actually like normal dog behaviors. I’m far from one to create super-quiet robot dogs, and I use the term robot dogs a lot. I like natural dog behavior. I think dogs should be allowed to greet guests, and so my goal here is not to take the fun out of it for them, but to at least take the chaos out of it. If, by the end of the class, your dog is running to the door to greet you or your guests with a super-wiggly body and a toy in his mouth with four paws on the floor and nobody’s tripping over each other and the door can be left wide open and nobody’s running off, then I will consider that a massive success. Melissa Breau: It sounds like my idea of success. I know you’ve got a note at the bottom of your class description about who is and isn’t appropriate for the class. I wanted to ask you about that. Can you share, along with a bit more information on who might want to consider signing up? Nancy Tucker: This is a super-important note. I want people to recognize that this class isn’t for the dogs who are fearful of strangers coming through the door, or dogs who might bark and lunge aggressively toward guests. Those dogs that bark at someone walking through the door and at the same time they’re backing up or they’re avoiding eye contact — they’re not happy to see or greet somebody. And that’s a whole other topic. That’s not what we’re addressing in this class. This class is for the dogs who are so excited about greeting someone, and their behavior is a little over the top, but they don’t know what to do with themselves when someone walks in, or they push past you when you go to open the door, or they knock you out of the way, or they’re jumping up on the door before you even get a chance to open it. These are dogs who are happy to greet someone, not fearful or upset about seeing somebody at the door. So this class is for those happy, excited dogs. Melissa Breau: Gotcha. So one last question — my new “last interview question” — what’s a lesson you’ve learned or been reminded of recently when it comes to dog training? Nancy Tucker: A-ha. Well, this summer I was reminded about how training a behavior in one context, like in one location maybe, doesn’t mean that our dog will know how to behave in a different context. It’s funny you bring this up, because this just happened again last night, but it’s a pretty simple concept and you would think that I would know this by now, but when the summer weather arrived and we started eating our meals outside on the deck, I realized that I had to teach Benni table manners all over again. He knows what’s expected of him when I’m eating at the kitchen table, or on a coffee table in the living room, or even when I’m sitting at my desk in my office, because we’ve practiced those. I eat all over the house, basically, and we’ve practiced those behaviors, and he’s really, really polite and he’s got this down pat. But when I sat down … we have an outdoor couch with a table, and when I sat down on the outdoor couch to eat my first meal on the deck this summer, Benni had no manners and he was all up in my face. It only took us a few repetitions to straighten this out, but it really reminded me about the importance of not assuming our dog knows something just because he can do it in another context or another location. It’s easy for us to forget that and to get frustrated with our dog because he’s doing a behavior that we don’t like, and we think, Well, he knows this. He knows he shouldn’t do this. But the context has changed, and it’s a good reminder that we just need to brush up on our training when we change the context or location. Melissa Breau: For anybody who is thinking about signing up, class registration closes on the 15th, so that should be in just a couple of days. This will come out, I think, on the 10th, so you’ve got just a couple of days before things close. So if you want to hop in, go over and do that. Also, we are going to be back next week with Helene Marie to talk about a topic that gets asked about a lot: herding in an R+ way, so using positive reinforcement to train herding behaviors. Thank you so much for coming back on the podcast Nancy! This has been great. I’m glad we got to chat through all this. Nancy Tucker: This is so much fun! I love chatting with you on podcasts! Melissa Breau: And thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in! If you haven’t already, subscribe to our podcast in iTunes or the podcast app of your choice to have our next episode automatically downloaded to your phone as soon as it becomes available. CREDITS: Today’s show is brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. Special thanks to Denise Fenzi for supporting this podcast. Music provided royalty-free by BenSound.com; the track featured here is called “Buddy.” Audio editing provided by Chris Lang and transcription written by CLK Transcription Services. Thanks again for tuning in -- and happy training!

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