The Davidthedogtrainer Podcast
Aug 11, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 11 segments
today we do a live Q&A where we dissect many reasons why your clients are not as successful as you want them to be.
David TirpakHostJoshHost
So, yeah, I was working with a client the other day, and they had mentioned something a handful of times over the course of the last handful of sessions I've done with them.
They were basically saying, you know, they were nervous going into wintertime because last year when— Um, you know, when, when winter had, you know, they did all this training work with their dog and as they approached winter and they stopped working with the dog as much, understandably because it's fucking cold out that they noticed their dog regressed a lot.
Yeah.
And basically they were alluding to or connecting the dots of, um, Less repetition equals regression.
I think a lot of times people look at success of training and whether their dog knows things or repeatedly does the things that they want them to do or not.
where, you know, if I stop working my bed stays or I stop going for walks in busy public places, that somehow the next time I go into busy public places, if it's three months from now, my dog is going to be terrible because of it, right? And I just wholeheartedly disagree with that premise.
And I'll kind of explain why, right? So we work with dogs, right? Like we've been working with dogs for a long time, right? Like I've had a business now since, you know, 2014.
And we've had a lot of clients reach out to us like years later of like, you know, life got in the way.
every single time we do that assuming this dog has done a complete training program with us and assuming that dog was was good by the end of the training program what happens is these dogs come in life got in the way they stopped using their e-collar they stopped correcting for things they stopped rewarding for things insert whatever right they just they they slipped on how they were how they were doing stuff with the dog And the dog was out of practice for, in some cases, like years before reaching back out to us.
And as soon as we take the dog and we start working the dog and we start enforcing things how we always used to enforce things, the dog immediately performs exactly how we want them to perform, right? Mm-hmm.
So that tells me that if a dog can instantaneously turn back on listening mode, right? Or turn back on well-behaved mode, that this has nothing to do with them forgetting stuff because they've been out of practice with it.
This has to do with reinforcement dissipating over time, right? So behavioral issues, right? Compliance of commands, like any of those types of things, contingent on the consistent reinforcement of them and those behaviors will have an extinction cycle over time right so like hypothetically if my dog has not like like my dogs have now at this point like jumping is a behavior that's been virtually extinguished with them right they don't do it anymore but let's say four months from now, one of my dogs decides that they're going to go jump on a person, right? For whatever reason, arousal got too high.
You know, they just like were enticed by the person to do it, whatever, right? Insert whatever reason why they would do it.
So, yeah, I was working with a client the other day, and they had mentioned something a handful of times over the course of the last handful of sessions I've done with them.
They were basically saying, you know, they were nervous going into wintertime because last year when— Um, you know, when, when winter had, you know, they did all this training work with their dog and as they approached winter and they stopped working with the dog as much, understandably because it's fucking cold out that they noticed their dog regressed a lot.
Yeah.
And basically they were alluding to or connecting the dots of, um, Less repetition equals regression.
I think a lot of times people look at success of training and whether their dog knows things or repeatedly does the things that they want them to do or not.
where, you know, if I stop working my bed stays or I stop going for walks in busy public places, that somehow the next time I go into busy public places, if it's three months from now, my dog is going to be terrible because of it, right? And I just wholeheartedly disagree with that premise.
And I'll kind of explain why, right? So we work with dogs, right? Like we've been working with dogs for a long time, right? Like I've had a business now since, you know, 2014.
And we've had a lot of clients reach out to us like years later of like, you know, life got in the way.
every single time we do that assuming this dog has done a complete training program with us and assuming that dog was was good by the end of the training program what happens is these dogs come in life got in the way they stopped using their e-collar they stopped correcting for things they stopped rewarding for things insert whatever right they just they they slipped on how they were how they were doing stuff with the dog And the dog was out of practice for, in some cases, like years before reaching back out to us.
And as soon as we take the dog and we start working the dog and we start enforcing things how we always used to enforce things, the dog immediately performs exactly how we want them to perform, right? Mm-hmm.
So that tells me that if a dog can instantaneously turn back on listening mode, right? Or turn back on well-behaved mode, that this has nothing to do with them forgetting stuff because they've been out of practice with it.
This has to do with reinforcement dissipating over time, right? So behavioral issues, right? Compliance of commands, like any of those types of things, contingent on the consistent reinforcement of them and those behaviors will have an extinction cycle over time right so like hypothetically if my dog has not like like my dogs have now at this point like jumping is a behavior that's been virtually extinguished with them right they don't do it anymore but let's say four months from now, one of my dogs decides that they're going to go jump on a person, right? For whatever reason, arousal got too high.
You know, they just like were enticed by the person to do it, whatever, right? Insert whatever reason why they would do it.
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