[Episode 131] - Erica Feuerbacher; Assistant Professor of Companion Animal Welfare and Behavior

Animal Training Academy

• 3:10 - Ryan asks Erica if she can take the listeners back to the first time she heard about animal training.
• 15:20 - Erica discusses how her curiosity developed from a young age.
• 17:30 - Ryan asks Erica about how she discusses statements from others that may not have any scientific data supporting them - The two questions Erica would love people to ask!
• 21:05 - Ryan asks Erica what she is doing in 2020 and where the listeners can find out more about her.
• 24:30 - Talking about shelter dogs & Eric’s current research.
• 31:25 - Ryan asks Erica to take us through a journey through her research projects.
• 35:00 - Erica unpacks what she means by ‘having fun with the system’ for the dog trainer at home.
• 40:10 - Erica uses an example to help explain how to know if your making progress.
• 42:20 - Ryan and Erica discuss breaking aims down into bite sized goals and approximations.
• 44:15 - Ryan asks - If we are setting approximations, how does Erica decide what to do next?
• 46:45 - Ryan highlights and discusses a phrase that Erica raises “if your worries are changing then you are making progress”
• 48:47 - Erica talks about some of the results of her research regarding the magnitude of food in training
• 55.55 - Erica discusses one of her studies where they look at if access to the owner is a reinforcement.
• 59:00 – Erica takes us into the future and explains what she would like to see happen in the next 5-10 years in the world of animal training.