HeyJaredJust a Dog Podcast
Just a Dog Podcast isn’t about obedience or quick fixes. It’s about reflection. Host Nadine, a long-time volunteer dog walker and soon-to-be fosterer, speaks with psychologists, behaviourists, artists, and everyday dog guardians to explore what our treatment of dogs reveals…
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Dogs at work | What dog creators can learn from Hollywood trainers | Julie Strang | Cue the Dogs (opens the original)
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Julie Strang is a Hollywood animal trainer and founder of Cue the Dogs. She has trained animals for film and television since 2000, including Dog, John Wick 3 and 4, Fallout, and Lioness, as well as more than 200 national ad campaigns. She now teaches guardians how to train their dogs for the camera and get paid for brand work.In this episode, we talk about how dogs get cast, who owns them, where they come from, what a day on set is like for them, how much rest they get, how they are trained, an
Animal rescue burnout | The signs of compassion fatigue rescue workers miss | Jessica Dolce (opens the original)
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Most people arrive in animal welfare believing that if they work hard enough they can save everybody. Jessica Dolce spent 20 years working with dogs, from dog walking in Philadelphia to animal sheltering in Maine, before her own burnout sent her looking for the language to describe what was happening to her. She now teaches that language for a living, as a Certified Compassion Fatigue and Grief Educator, an instructor in the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida, and the person b
Myths and best practice | What a rescue dog from abroad needs | Toby Craze | Craze Dog Training (opens the original)
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Toby Craze works with street dogs and with rescue dogs brought here from abroad. He traces what the trip from Romania or Thailand does to a dog, long before anyone talks about settling in. The conversation covers who checks a dog before they go on transport, what the first week looks like from the dog's side, and why the urge to walk them and show them the house can backfire. Toby runs Craze Dog Training in Cornwall and spent years as an adoptions coordinator at a rescue bringing dogs over from
The invisible injury | Why your dog's pain never shows up on a scan | Julia Robertson, Galen Myotherapy (opens the original)
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In the mid 1990s, Julia Robertson had a 6 month old Labrador who couldn't lift his head. Nothing showed up on the imaging, nobody could name the problem, and she was told the kindest thing left was to put him to sleep. Then a vet came out, took one look and said he'd hurt his neck. Julia started asking him to lift his head for a biscuit, and within a week he could do it on his own. The injury had been real the whole time, sitting in the muscle and fascia that no scan shows. She founded Galen Myo
Knowing their normal | The power of observing your dog(s) | Jo Middleton (opens the original)
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Your dog can't tell you when something's wrong, so they rely on you to notice. The person who lives with a dog knows their normal in a way no vet or trainer ever could, because you're the one who sees them every day. That everyday knowledge is easy to underestimate, right up until the moment it matters. Jo Middleton found that out with her own dog, when 2 vets told her everything was fine and she wasn't convinced. This conversation is about the power of observing the dog in front of you, what a
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