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Hosted by Hannah Branigan · kids · EN · 193 episodes
A behind-the-scenes look into the reality of dog training, behavior, teaching, and learning. We love our dogs, we love our jobs, but sometimes it's not all unicorns and rainbows. Sometimes at the end of the day, you just need a drink and friend who gets it. We'll keep it fun, and keep it real.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA behind-the-scenes look into the reality of dog training, behavior, teaching, and learning. We love our dogs, we love our jobs, but sometimes it's not all unicorns and rainbows. Sometimes at the end of the day, you just need a drink and friend who gets it. We'll keep it fun, and keep it real.
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training is hosted by Hannah Branigan. The show has published 193 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Protected Contact Isn't Just Management." (15 September 2026, 34 minutes), "The Matching Law: What It Is, What It Isn't, and Why It Matters | Hannah Branigan" (14 May 2026, 42 minutes), and "Is Positive Reinforcement Actually Slower? (A Hot Take, Revisited) | Hannah Branigan" (7 May 2026, 40 minutes).
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 56 minutes across 193 episodes.
Booking probability for Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training requires a Pod Score of 84 or higher. Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training are Pet Care & Other Personal Services. Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training has a kids audience.
Hannah Branigan hosts Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training, a kids show with 193 episodes published.
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Episode #191
Protected contact gets filed under zoo training, the thing you do when your learner can eat you. Hannah used to think that way too, right up until she noticed she'd been quietly using barriers with dogs and horses for...
Episode #190
Hannah follows up last episode's hot take on training speed with a deeper dive into the matching law, the behavioral principle that describes how learners allocate behavior in proportion to reinforcement schedules. She...
Episode #189
Episode #188
Somewhere on the internet, someone is arguing that using a leash means you aren't really a force-free trainer. In this solo episode, Hannah unpacks the difference between impact and intent, explains why force-free...
Episode #187
In this episode, we explore strategies to achieve faster and more precise behaviors in dog training. I discuss how clarity, timing, and reinforcement techniques can improve your dog's response times, reduce hesitation...
Episode #186
In this episode we discuss: Speed vs. Latency: Speed is how fast a behavior is completed from the time it starts. Latency is the response time, or the time elapsed between when the cue is perceived and when the behavior...
Episode #185
In this episode, we discuss the practice of avoiding situations as part (or all) of a training plan. Often avoiding certain situations can be an important strategy, helping to prevent mistakes and reduce stress for both...
Episode #184
In this episode we dig into the concept of drilling, and how it applies in dog training. It's pretty common for most of us to have an emotional response just to the term itself - for good reason! But is there any baby...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In this episode, we discuss the history behind Kiki's master's thesis project, Signaled Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior to Address Excessive Vocalization in Dogs, what gave her the idea - the case of the...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In this episode, we discuss using concepts around stimulus control to stop demand barking before it stops, how cues create expectations of what reinforcement is available, using naturally occurring events that are...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In this episode, we are talking about Demand Barking. This is a three-part series, at least for now. For the first two episodes, I'll be sharing my thoughts and what I've learned about working with dogs that "demand"...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In this episode we discuss the importance of getting really, really good at working with reinforcement, how the topic of reinforcement and using it in training is FAR more nuanced than most trainers recognize, food is...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In the last episode, we talked about what errorless learning really means. And I shared a few strategies that might make it easier to apply in your training. Of course, the major benefit to using errorless learning...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In his 1968 book, The Technology of Teaching, B.F. Skinner wrote: Errors are not a function of learning or vice-versa nor are they blamed on the learner. Errors are a function of poor analysis of behavior, a poorly...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In this episode, we discuss what is the ethological definition of dominance?, how does dominance show up in behavior?, how might dominance be relevant in dog training?, differences in dog-dog vs dog-human relationships...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In this episode, we discuss what is stimulus-stimulus pairing and how it works?, what is a "classically conditioned recall" and why might we consider calling it something different, revisiting the differences and...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In this episode, we discuss what is arousal?, how does arousal show up in our training?, how does arousal affect both people and dogs?, how arousal affects reinforcers, and "eating as behavior" and how to build...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In this episode, we discuss the most important thing for dog professionals to know about working with families, the importance of understanding developmental milestones, working with and setting expectations, finding...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
In this episode, we discuss that the first step to dealing with a problem behavior is to identify the function, figuring out a plan to control access if possible and practical, if that reinforcer is not practical to...
Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training
When we pair two stimuli together as part of a classical conditioning training plan, it can sometimes be hard to determine when the association has been made between the old stimulus and the new stimulus… the "food" and...
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