Positively Dog Training - The Official Victoria Stilwell Podcast
Aug 25, 2026 · 52 min · 11 segments
Join Victoria and Irith Bloom as they explore habituation, stress coping skills for animals, and how to effectively use these techniques in training and behavior…
Irith BloomGuest
Victoria StilwellHost
So this is a program that, as you mentioned, is really designed around the idea of stress coping skills for animals who seem to have difficulty regulating their emotions and regulating their stress levels in sort of everyday life.
And what we do is we teach the humans skills that help support the animals in these situations.
And of course, we also have animal skills that these humans are teaching to the animals they live with.
The idea is if we can get the human and the animal communicating well and teach the animal a whole new set of ways to cope with the environment, then they are easier to live with.
So it's really about reducing stress for everybody in the household on every level.
And if you go to our application, you're gonna see that some of the questions in the application have to do with-
But what we're going to do is we're going to help professionals level up their ability to interact effectively with clients, to help their clients teach the skills to the animals that they live with.
Because in the end, we don't live with the animals, right? It's the clients who are living with the animals and need to have these skills.
And our job as professionals is to help clients learn and convey those skills, both, you know, the skills that they themselves as handlers need to have, like how do you hold a leash well? What do you do when your dog starts to panic? Those are human skills, right? And also teaching the horse or parrot or cat or whatever animal it might be, skills that are gonna be useful for them in these challenging situations.
There's a one-to-one element that allows students to focus in on specific goals that are important for them, things that either are going to benefit their business or are going to allow them to achieve some other kind of dream or goal that they've had.
So this is a program that, as you mentioned, is really designed around the idea of stress coping skills for animals who seem to have difficulty regulating their emotions and regulating their stress levels in sort of everyday life.
And what we do is we teach the humans skills that help support the animals in these situations.
And of course, we also have animal skills that these humans are teaching to the animals they live with.
The idea is if we can get the human and the animal communicating well and teach the animal a whole new set of ways to cope with the environment, then they are easier to live with.
So it's really about reducing stress for everybody in the household on every level.
And if you go to our application, you're gonna see that some of the questions in the application have to do with-
But what we're going to do is we're going to help professionals level up their ability to interact effectively with clients, to help their clients teach the skills to the animals that they live with.
Because in the end, we don't live with the animals, right? It's the clients who are living with the animals and need to have these skills.
And our job as professionals is to help clients learn and convey those skills, both, you know, the skills that they themselves as handlers need to have, like how do you hold a leash well? What do you do when your dog starts to panic? Those are human skills, right? And also teaching the horse or parrot or cat or whatever animal it might be, skills that are gonna be useful for them in these challenging situations.
There's a one-to-one element that allows students to focus in on specific goals that are important for them, things that either are going to benefit their business or are going to allow them to achieve some other kind of dream or goal that they've had.
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