Why you shouldn’t dress up your dog. Also: Dog training with “Buy Nothing,” Tooth Fairy tales & more

Annie talks about why she is generally against costumes for dogs and suggests some alternatives to dressing up your dog on Halloween. She also discusses some feedback she got about last week’s episode, which featured an interview with the lawyer representing the woman who was mauled by Cesar Millan’s dog. Lastly, she shares two anecdotes: one about how she is using a Buy Nothing group on Facebook to get neighbors to help her train her dog (unbeknownst to them) and the other about how her attempt to use negative reinforcement to get her daughter to brush her teeth ultimately back fired (in a sort of hilarious way). Like this episode? Leave a review on iTunes! Follow us on Instagram: @schoolforthedogs @annie.grossman Mentioned in this episode: Treat N Train Remote treat dispenser http://Schoolforthedogs.com/TT School For The Dogs Community App http://Schoolforthedogs.com/community Pet Paint - http://petpaint.com Ronda Kaysen’s NY Times article on Buy Nothing https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/realestate/buy-nothing-facebook-group.html Other episodes mentioned in this episode: https://anchor.fm/dogs/episodes/Suing-Cesar-Meet-the-lawyer-of-teen-mauled-by-Dog-Whisperers-dog--And-How-to-train-2-dogs-at-once-e18r9eb https://anchor.fm/dogs/episodes/The-mainstream-media-is-confused-about-dog-training-Two-journalists-turned-trainers-discuss-a-misguided-WSJ-op-ed--more-featuring-Kiki-Yablon-e176pjj Previous episodes and blog posts Annie has done about dogs and Halloween: https://anniegrossman.com/2018/10/podcast/episode-31-halloween-dogs-how-to-make-costumes-less-scary-for-pets/10052/ http://anniegrossman.com/2010/11/training/the-psychological-torment-of-a-dog-on-halloween/346/ https://www.theawl.com/2011/10/the-east-village-halloween-parade-for-east-village-humans-who-enjoy-dressing-up-dogs/ --- Partial Transcript: Annie: So today's episode is a little bit of a hodgepodge. I have four things I want to talk about. One is a response to last week's episode. One is a bit of advice. And then I have two, I guess, stories to tell. One about operant conditioning and my daughter, and the other about some dog training success I've had with my own dog. A sort of clever solution to a problem I was having that I'd like to tell y’all about. Because maybe this, what would you call it, scheme that I've come up with could work for you too. Okay. First thing I want to address is that we're about a week away from Halloween and I've had a couple of people say to me, you really need to do some kind of episode about Halloween. Although every year when people start suggesting this, it's already October, and I think to myself I should have done an episode about this six months ago. Full Transcript at SchoolfortheDogs.com/Podcast Get full access to Don't Be a Dick to Your Dog at dogtraining.substack.com/subscribe