In episode 56, Sean responds to a question from some listeners about how he approaches aggression cases. They had a bad experience with a trainer in their local area and want to know from Sean what sorts of things they should look for in a trainer that can help them solve some aggression issues with [...]
In episode 55, Sean interviews Ron Pace about his Diabetic Alert Service Dog Training. Ron explains how he finds the right dogs to do this sort of work, as well as outlining his training process. Ron has some great stories about how dramatic the benefits could be for diabetics when they have a diabetic alert [...]
In episode 54, Sean interviews David Van Kirk of Dogwatch Hidden Fence Systems to answer some of the questions that have come in over the last few months about these types of systems. Sean and David discuss the outdoor and indoor systems that this technology provides to create permanent boundaries for your dogs in and [...]
In episode 53, Sean answers a question from a professional dog trainer. She asks Sean about the differences in results that she gets when training a dog personally as opposed to the results that her clients get when training their dogs themselves. Sean outlines the top three mistakes dog owners make in training their dogs [...]
In episode 52, Sean answers a question from a listener who is thinking of adding a second dog to their family. Sean covers three areas: 1) how to decide whether it’s a good idea to add a second dog 2) some items to think about in finding a good match with your current dog 3) [...]
In episode 51, I interview Megan Esherick, Program Director for Canine Partners for Life. CPL is a service dog organization in Pennsylvania. They provide highly competent service dogs to recipients to assist with physical limitations, mobility issues, various medical alert services as well as many other issues. Megan and I discuss their breeding program, their puppy [...]
In episode 50, I give you the starting steps of training a deaf dog. Also, I answer some questions in the update section from the U.K., Australia and Canada. In answer to one of the listener’s questions I also give you a quick overview of what the online dog training video course covers. [...]
In episode 49, I interview Heather Jo Cutting, K9 handler and operations leader from King County Search Dogs. We talk about what breeds of dogs they look for, they’re training program and their mission parameters. In this session: What does it take to be a search and rescue K9? [...]
Cesar Millan seems to be having a rough few weeks in the public relations department. A woman was severely bitten by an aggressive dog that was once at his training facility, he aired a TV show in which a pig got attacked by a dog he was training, and thousands of people sign a petition to [...]
In episode 47, '55pxagb4' I interviewed Dr. Jake Tedaldi DVM. In our discussion, we cover the basics of puppy vaccinations as well as some of the controversy around how safe vaccines are or aren’t for your puppy. Dr. Jake gives us his usual balanced, logical approach to thinking through some of the decisions about vaccinating [...]