Your Family Dog Podcast

06/12/2024

Today we're talking to Will Ryan, the young founder of Service Dawg Nation, a non-profit dedicated to providing service dogs to military veterans. Tune in to find out what it's all about!

Email from A Positive Connection Dog Training Happy Thanksgiving! Julie is still on hiatus this week, but Tina is back with a special guest! Will Ryan is the young founder of Service Dawg Nation, a no

03/12/2024

Julie is still on hiatus, but Tina is here this week, accompanied by a special guest. Although he's still only in high school, Will Ryan is the founder of Service Dawg Nation, a non-profit dedicated to helping train and match service dogs for veterans. He and his mother came on the show today to tal...

26/11/2024

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26/11/2024

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22/11/2024

Dr. Zazie Todd returns to the show to discuss her newest book "Bark!: The Science of Helping Your Anxious, Fearful, or Reactive Dog."

Email from A Positive Connection Dog Training Anxious Dogs with Dr. Zazie Todd One of our favorite guests of all time is back! Dr. Zazie Todd makes her third appearance on the show, this time to discu

21/11/2024

This week on the Your Family Dog Podcast, we welcome back Zazie Todd to talk about her newest book, "Bark! The Science of Helping Your Anxious, Fearful Dog". The book is chock full of great support for families. Enjoy and let us know what you think!

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20/11/2024

One of YFD's favorite guests is back! Dr. Zazie Todd joins the show again to talk about her newest book "Bark!: The Science of Helping Your Anxious, Fearful, or Reactive Dog." Tune in for a conversation about fear versus anxiety, common mistakes owners make with fearful dogs, and how to know when it...

07/11/2024

The Struggles of Rehoming

Email from A Positive Connection Dog Training Rehoming The decision to rehome a dog is never easy. It's often fraught with anxiety, doubt, and guilt, all of which can be compounded by outside judgment

06/11/2024

Nobody gets a dog planning to rehome it. But sometimes circumstances change and what we thought would be forever just isn't a good match. What happens then? Today Julie Fudge Smith and Tina Spring talk about the painful but sometimes necessary process of rehoming- when it's necessary, what it means,...

26/10/2024

Resource Guarding- What is It and What to Do About It

Email from A Positive Connection Dog Training When Fido Won't Let His Guard Down Most of us like the idea of our dog guarding us. Less desirable, though, is when our dogs start guarding against us. Wh

26/10/2024

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23/10/2024

A good guard dog can be a great thing- many of us even get dogs in part because of the feeling of protection they can provide. But when those guarding instincts go astray or get directed towards the wrong thing, the results can be stressful and even dangerous. Fortunately, if caught early and handle...

13/10/2024

Emergency Readiness for You and Your Pet

Email from A Positive Connection Dog Training Be Prepared As scenes of the devastation left by recent hurricanes continue to flood our newsfeeds, many of us are probably wondering what we would do in

08/10/2024

In the wake of Hurricane Helene, Julie Fudge Smith and Tina Spring take the opportunity to talk about emergency preparedness for your dog. Tune in to this week's episode for advice on packing a go bag for your pets, making sure your dog is properly microchipped, and other steps you can take to make....

02/10/2024

Tina and I, as Your Family Dog Podcast, have donated to the International Fund for Animal Welfare to aid those families (and their pets) in need of help from hurricane Helene. We hope you will consider supporting them as well.

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27/09/2024

Default Behaviors (And Why Your Dog Should Have Them!)

Default Behaviors Wouldn't it be great if we all knew exactly what to do in any given situation? Well, your dog can! That's the magic of default behaviors. What's a default behavior, you ask? Tune in