233: Changing Your Agility Dog’s Unwanted Behavior

In this episode, Denise Fenzi returns to the podcast to talk about the common strategies that we use to help our dogs cope with distractions and anxiety-provoking situations in agility.

• the relationship between a dog’s emotional state and agility performance
• how counterconditioning should work
• why distraction training often fails
• how to build your dog’s confidence

• Episode 56: Interview with Denise Fenzi – Part 1
• Episode 57: Interview with Denise Fenzi – Part 2
• Fenzi Blog Post: Counterconditioning, Distraction food or distraction training?
• Fenzi Dog Sports Academy