Your Family Dog Podcast

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

25/09/2024

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25/09/2024

25/09/2024

Wouldn't it be great if dogs automatically knew what we wanted them to do in certain situations? Well, with a little training and a few nibbles of cheese, they can! That's the magic of "default behaviors-" those behaviors dogs learn to offer automatically whenever a signal is given or a particular s...

19/09/2024

Dial (Method) It In

10/09/2024

Sometimes, it really is okay to dial it in- at least, it is if you're talking about the Dial Method. What's the Dial Method, you ask? You're about to find out! Today, Julie Fudge Smith and Tina Spring sit down with Dial Method creator Justine Schuurmans to talk about her new program designed to impr...

04/09/2024

(Some of) Julie and Tina's Greatest Hits!

A Blast from the Past New episodes of "Your Family Dog" are on hold for the time being, to allow Tina time to deal with some health issues that have arisen. We hope to be back soon, but in the meantim

21/08/2024

"Paw"-ffee Talk

Kitchen Table Conversation Socialization, canine body language, classical conditioning...all popular subjects here at Your Family Dog, and today we touch on all of them! No scheduled topic today, just