Best Kay Laurence Podcasts (2024)

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Learning Flexibility 28:20

1y ago28:20

28:20

When 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 training plans quite narrow and centric to our expectations. Instead if we view them as learners that can be flexible then there is no limit to what they can learn for all of their future.…

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Too Much Freedom? 25:09

1y ago25:09

25:09

As 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 desires of your adolescent dog means that: "Explore" morphs quickly into reverse engineering your sofa, laptop, waste bins; or run the neighbourhood until darkness and hunger drives them home "Learn" is discovering of …

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Setting the Future with a Family of Dogs 54:06

1y ago54:06

54:06

Important 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 habits? Delivering rewards, you only have two hands, training one dog without excluding the other: learning the important skills of spectating and not feeling left out. Walking together: your body language is the d…

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Hands that are magic 31:53

1y ago31:53

31:53

Our hands are very often used for communication and for the pup most importantly CONTACT. The way we use our hands, where they touch the puppy, how they touch the puppy will be building associations for life. Hands that can be trusted and hands that will deliver sensational rewards. Hands that will later becomes tools: hands can begin the feelings …

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Growing so fast: 16-20 weeks old 25:29

1+ y ago25:29

25:29

A period of exceptional growth where the pup's world seems to shrink as they grow larger. Feet seem gigantic and unmanageable, teeth are falling out, appetites and growing and sleep is the deepest kind. Not a time we should be expecting cognitive gymnastics but still need to feed the learning appetite. Having survived many of these transition perio…

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Building Confidence with Familiarisation 40:21

1+ y ago40:21

40:21

Most 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 go on holiday, stay in hotels or visit friends, perhaps go to classes, a dog show or the local garden fête. To ensure these outings are as pleasant an experience for your dog as they are for you we need to begin to f…

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Active Learning: 16 weeks old 26:33

1+ y ago26:33

26:33

Kay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. You can follow Nika and Frances through their first year exploring the many questions that arise. In this episode: Nika is 16 weeks and a voracious learner. We talk about Nika's learning in particular what lifeskills …

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Learning to say "no" to your pup 28:03

1+ y ago28:03

28:03

Kay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. You can follow Nika and Frances through their first year exploring the many questions that arise. In this episode: we talk about learning to say "no". and at the same time avoid shutting down your enquisitive pup who …

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A Partnership: stand up for your puppy 22:48

1+ y ago22:48

22:48

Kay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. You can follow Nika and Frances through their first year exploring the many questions that arise. In this episode: we talk about those tricky situations where you need to protect your pup from uninvited approaches fro…

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Building the First Routines 21:45

1+ y ago21:45

21:45

Kay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. You can follow Nika and Frances through their first year exploring the many questions that arise. In this episode: Nika’s learning is already well underway, but toileting outdoors is a work in progress. In this episod…

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Introducing Nika 20:56

1+ y ago20:56

20:56

Kay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. You can follow Nika and Frances through their first year exploring the many questions that arise. In this episode: "Introducing Nika we talk about choosing a puppy from a litter, introducing a new dog to an existing c…

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First Days at Home 23:31

1+ y ago23:31

23:31

Kay Laurence and Frances McCormack of Learning About Dogs introduce a new member of Frances’ family: Nika, a collie pup from rescue. You can follow Nika and Frances through their first year exploring the many questions that arise. In this episode: "First Days At Home" we talk about making the transition for the new pup, and setting up success for h…

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Craig Bennett - CEO of Wildlife Trusts 34:03

3y ago34:03

34:03

Bianca Pitt is joined by Craig Bennett - CEO of The Wildlife Trusts - a federation of 46 independent wildlife conservation charities covering the whole of the UK. Prior to joining Wildlife Trusts, Craig was CEO of Friends of the Earth, where he fronted several high profile campaigns on bees, fracking and against the expansion of Heathrow Airport. …

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Season 4 Finale: Can YOU Identify Good Training? 37:18

3y ago37:18

37:18

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. This is the final episode of Season Four, which featured short, one subject podcasts. This episode deserved a deep dive because we ask some very important questions. In this episod…

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Teaching Irrelevant Cues While Teaching Relevant Cues 6:02

3y ago6:02

6:02

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Keeping Track of All That You Have Taught Your Dog 7:33

3y ago7:33

7:33

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Sam Reeve - CEO of Resource Futures 36:21

3y ago36:21

36:21

Liz Gyekye is joined by Sam Reeve - CEO of Resource Futures - an innovative company helping clients enable the positive management of material resources. Sam leads the company to maximise positive impact by working collaboratively with its customers through evidence gathering that is robust; insight that provides answers and facilitates change; and…

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Can We Ever Do Enough Work on Discrimination Skills? 8:09

3y ago8:09

8:09

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Being a Square Peg in the Round Hole of the Dog Training World 7:14

3y ago7:14

7:14

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Competition is Great! But Not at a Cost to the Dog 17:17

3y ago17:17

17:17

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. This e…

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Teaching a Dog to Walk Well Before Running 10:15

3y ago10:15

10:15

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Simple Moves Before Complex Ones 7:29

3y ago7:29

7:29

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Rewards are Cues and Cues are Predictors 7:16

3y ago7:16

7:16

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Sitters Anonymous 7:18

3y ago7:18

7:18

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Laurence Kemball Cook - CEO of Pavegen 18:48

3y ago18:48

18:48

John Higginson is joined by Laurence Kemball Cook - CEO of Pavegen - an innovative flooring manufacturer which converts footsteps walking on the pavement into energy.Laurence encourages a revolutionary approach to the renewable energy industry. Pavegen have clients worldwide and have partnered with key brands such as; Schneider Electric, Centrica, …

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Standing Still is a HUGE Default Behavior 7:22

3y ago7:22

7:22

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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What are Default Behaviors and Why Teach Them? 5:44

3y ago5:44

5:44

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Teaching False Behaviors 12:14

3y ago12:14

12:14

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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The Trap of 98 Not Rights 12:03

3y ago12:03

12:03

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Adaptations Build Resilience in Behaviors 6:08

3y ago6:08

6:08

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Approach Dynamics 5:36

3y ago5:36

5:36

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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What do you need to know before teaching dogs? 6:17

3y ago6:17

6:17

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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Can You Measure Learning? 5:09

3y ago5:09

5:09

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In thi…

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What to Learn 6:01

3y ago6:01

6:01

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In this…

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What is learning? 12:18

3y ago12:18

12:18

Learning. Is it a construct? An idea? We cannot do the learning for the dogs, we can only set up situations where learning happens. Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaching Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast…

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Juliet Davenport - Founder of Good Energy 21:14

3y ago21:14

21:14

John Higginson is joined by Juliet Davenport OBE - Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Good Energy, one of the UK's first entirely renewable electricity supplier and generator companies. Juliet is a figurehead for climate change action. She sits on the board of the Renewable Energy Association and Innovate UK and is Vice President of the Energy …

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Dog Considers Their Name is White Noise? 5:43

3y ago5:43

5:43

It'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 start training. Nagging? Or would you rather consider reward approach a better plan? Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaching Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely succes…

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Proofing. A term that makes us crazy 11:51

3y ago11:51

11:51

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Plays with Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast. Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought. In this episode…

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Season 4 Premier! Same friends, new format and new ideas! 6:59

3y ago6:59

6:59

The Learning About Dogs podcast is your main source for all these dogs, teaching dogs, understanding dogs, and living with dogs. Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaching Dogs, join together to continue the promotion of teaching that which benefits dogs. But how and when, methods, concepts and plans to teach dogs a…

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Arthur Kay - Founder of Skyroom 29:54

3+ y ago29:54

29:54

John Higginson is joined by Arthur Kay - the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Skyroom, an urban development initiative installing sustainable and affordable homes on building rooftops to help tackle the housing crisis in cities. Arthur is also Founder of bio-bean, a clean tech company that manufactures advanced biofuels and biochemicals out o…

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Reward Skills: Markers: To Click or Not to Click 39:21

4y ago39:21

39:21

Markers are an integral part of the communication process when we are interacting with our learners. Whether you choose to use a clicker or not, the whole process behind "marker training" needs a close examination. Hanging your training psyche on the use of a clicker may not be the best use of your time. Especially if you are just starting out. On …

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Reward Skills: Habit or Active Learning? 39:54

4y ago39:54

39:54

Do 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, to the dog of course. On this episode of podcast, Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and TAKL graduate and host Sue McGuire talk about the advantages and drawbacks of teaching behaviors to the habit level…

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Reward Skills: Introducing You to Our New Friend, Reward Predicting Stimulus 44:55

4y ago44:55

44:55

On 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 McGuire and Kay Laurence of "Learning About Dogs," introduce you to our new friend--REWARD PREDICTING STIMULUS. Season 3 of the "Learning about Dogs" podcast is about rewards and reward skill. Article: Shaping by Re…

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The Point of Learning or How to Get Peaches 40:52

4y ago40:52

40:52

What 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 needed for life, and once that is achieved set about finding the very best rewards, and lots of them. On a daily, minute by minute basis." In this episode of the "Learning About Dogs," Sue McGuire and Kay Laurence of …

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Rewards!! Delivery Patterns and Sources of Rewards 45:03

4y ago45:03

45:03

In the early days of using positive reinforcement and clicker training, the delivery of that reinforcer, (reward), was not part of the consideration. The format of the research experiments favoured a mechanical magazine to deliberately remove any variables that human delivery would include. When people become the mechanism of delivery we have to co…

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What are Rewards? 51:22

4y ago51:22

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ALWAYS REMEMBER: REWARDS ARE DEFINED BY THE BEHAVIOURAL REACTIONS THEY INDUCE. It is the individual that decides if it is rewarding or not. What are rewards? We are in Season 3 of the "Learning about Dogs" podcast. Kay Laurence of "Learning About Dogs," and Sue McGuire, host/producer, are calling this our "A Season of Rewards," because that is exac…

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Where is the reward receptor in the brain? 41:54

4y ago41:54

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“REWARDS ARE NOT DEFINED BY THEIR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES BUT BY THE BEHAVIOURAL REACTION THEY INDUCE.” Welcome to our "Season of Rewards" on the Learning about Dogs podcast with Kay Laurence and Sue McGuire. This third season of the podcast is all about living a "reward centered life" with our dogs. What do we mean by that? Take a read of Kay's blog S…

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Living a Reward Centered Life : Reward Skills 34:10

4y ago34:10

34:10

"Having discovered this world of rewards and reinforcement I protectively wrap my dogs’ learning with an envelope of reward probabilities. This is where I begin," says Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs. And this is where we begin this season's journey. We are dog trainers, who must make the conscious and scientifically appropriate decision, to le…

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Multiple Dogs; Group and Individual Learning 30:30

4y ago30:30

30:30

Living with multiple dogs can be fun and challenging. It comes with a demand to develop a great deal of observation skills to make sure your group is working for the dogs as individuals, and their life with you. How many is too many dogs? What breeds and what sex combinations? It depends. Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire a TAKL g…

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Mnemoics: The Four D's of Dog Training, Question These. 38:01

4y ago38:01

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Menomics can be handy when it comes to finding a quick and simple way to remember a spelling or phrase. But using these devices does require us to decide if they actually help learning or hinder it. In dog training, we have a few of these devices that require much more consideration before accepting them as valid. The three Ds. Duration-distance-di…

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