PPG Podcast

In this session, Niki Tudge and Judy Luther chat with Lorna Winter about the ZigZag Puppy App. What is ZigZag? Zigzag is the easiest Puppy Training App to get a perfectly trained puppy in 8-12 weeks! Every day ZigZag provides pet owners with 3-5 fun and easy exercises to train their puppies in all the important life skills. Read PPG's press release announcing the corporate partnership with Zigzag....

Join Niki Tudge as she Chats and Chuckles with Emily Tronetti, Tracey Lee Davis, Michael Shikashio, Rain Jordan, & Nancy Tucker about their planned sessions for Geek Week 2021. Listen as they explore their topics and what registrants can expect to learn from each of their sessions. ABOUT GEEK WEEK: Geek Week is the Pet Professional Guild’s virtual educational summit taking place this year on N...

Join Niki Tudge as she Chats and Chuckles with Irith Bloom, Paula Garber, Julie Naismith, Suzanne Clothier, and Dr. Simon Gadbois about their planned sessions for Geek Week 2021. Listen as they explore their topics and what registrants can expect to learn from each of their sessions. Register for Geek Week 2021 at: www. GeekWeek. Rocks Geek Week 2021 ( November 13-17) Features: More than 90 e...

Join the PPG Advocacy Panel for a discussion on 'How to Best Advocate for Positive Reinforcement Training.' Pet guardians and pet professionals, listen as panel members share their expertise in a fun, free-flowing format. Your Moderators: Don Hanson & Niki Tudge Your Advocacy Panel for this discussion: Dr. Kristina Spaulding, Dr. Zazie Todd, Pat Miller, Kristi Benson, Helen Phillips, Holden Sv...

Join Niki Tudge as she Chats and Chuckles with Dr. Laura Donaldson, Simone Mueller, & Dr. Holly Tett about their planned sessions for Geek Week 2021. Listen as they explore their topics and what registrants can expect to learn from each of their Geek Week presentations.

In this month's BARKS Newsletter we speak of Geek Week, Shock-Free Coalition "Tag It!" Competition winners, BIPOC Scholarships, new Corporate Partner UnChase! and much more.  Catch up on BARKS news. You can also read the BARKS Newsletter by Clicking Here .

On today’s podcast I chat with Dr. Zazie Todd from Companion Animal Psychology which has been inspiring pet owners to have happier cats and dogs since 2012.  We chatted about Zazie’s upcoming sessions at Geek Week 2021, WAG – The Science of Making Your Dog Happy and much more. You can reach Zazie via her website here . Grab your own copy of WAG by clicking here . Learn more about Geek Week he...

In this months BARKS Newsletter we speak of Geek Week, Your Geek Week schedule, discounted webinars, scholarships winners , The Pet Professional Accreditation Board (FREE to members) and much more. Catch up on BARKS news. You can also read the BARKS Newsletter here

In this podcast  Niki Tudge chats with Jules Morgan and Helen Phillips from The Gundog Trainers Academy Their mission is to support, nurture and encourage high standards of ethical, science-backed, non-coercive, and effective methods of training for gundogs in the UK. They aim to build an extensive network of like-minded, qualified Gundog Trainers to fulfill the demand for ethical gundog trai...

In this months BARKS Newsletter we speak of Geek Week, BIPOC Scholarships, new Corporate Partners PocketSuite and Pet Pro Marketing  and much more.  Catch up on BARKS news. You can also read the BARKS Newsletter here

Join Niki Tudge as she chats with Ken MacLeod.  Ken MacLeod is an Emmy-honored set designer, a positive reinforcement dog trainer, and a major Bruce Springsteen fan.  Throughout Ken's long career in the film industry, he designed sets for many iconic commercials, and worked on several television shows, such as Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and his decade-long residence at Saturday Night Live. Wo...

Join Niki Tudge as she Chats & Chuckles with Rain Jordan from the Fearful Dog Project. In this podcast we talk dog fear, methods for addressing fear and we also explore the Fearful Dog Project program that is described as “TFDP's Fear Abatement Mastery (FAM) program is the most humane, comprehensive program for fearful dogs. Begun in 2014, the program is continually expanded & refined. Ava...

In this months BARKS Newsletter we speak of Geek Week, Pet Dog Ambassador, new Steering Committee appointments, a new Shock-Free Coalition Logo  and much more. Catch up on BARKS news. You can also read the BARKS Newsletter here https://petprofessionalguild.com/News-May-2021 where you will find all the necessary links to delve more deeply into BARKS News and what is happening at PPG

Join Niki as she chats to Dr. Spaulding. It's always great to host Dr. Spaulding and the conversation is always fast moving and fascinating.  In this episode we talk about topics ranging from animal self-awareness to current research papers and how to read and interpret them.  Dr. Spaulding hosts a monthly webinar  called Research Bites, this is the fastest and easiest way to keep u...

Join Niki Tudge and a Panel of Business Experts, Veronica Boutelle Tracey Lee Davies and Coleen Ellis. During the PPG “Up Your Business Game” event we hosted these experts to give us advice on how we can grow our pet businesses. In this podcast other than lots of great yuck and giggles we also discussed packages, social media, pricing and much more. Come and join us and listen in. We hope you enjo...

Join Niki Tudge as she chats with Victoria Stilwell. It’s always a pleasure for me to host and chat with Victoria Stilwell. The conversation moved quickly through comparing Cadburys to Hershey’s chocolate. We covered the important topic of how we, the British, define biscuits versus the term more commonly used in the US, cookies. We did soon reach the important topics and had some thought-provokin...

Join Niki Tudge and a Panel of Business Experts. Dr. Robert King, Gina Phairas and Coleen Ellis.  In this discussion we explore pricing, email marketing, product augmentation, target marketing and more. We hope you enjoy it. Learn more about your Panel Colleen Ellis Gina Phairas Robert King  Niki Tudge

Listen to the April 2021 Edition of BARKS News here. Learn about the Up Your Business Week FREE event for PPG Members, who are upcoming guests are on PPG Facebook Lives, new webinar offerings, job boards, Project Trade winners and so much more. Quick Links Read the PPG Newsletter Subscribe for BARKS from the Guild PPG webinars Upcoming events The PPG Archive

It is always so educational and so informative when we have Dr. Karolina Westlund in the house. Join Niki as she chats with Dr. Westlund about Emotional Learning, and of course so much more. Prof. Karolina Westlund helps pet parents and animal professionals attain happier animals that thrive in the care of humans. She grew up pining for a kitten and pestered her parents until they finally gave in....

Join Niki Tudge and Alex Pietraszko - Head of Marketing for Animals Courses Direct. Learn all about the great programs they offer to pet professionals and the new courses they are working on www.animalcoursesdirect.co.uk. Animal Courses Direct are the largest organisation in the UK offering Ofqual regulated animal care courses that meet rigorous government regulated standards. Their Ofqual qu...

Join Niki Tudge as she Chats & Chuckles with Dr. Dorothy Heffernan about Equines. We discuss Equine communication, training methods, common myths about horse behavior and so much more. Dorothy Heffernan is a psychologist who applies her knowledge of learning, cognition and neuroscience to help horse guardians improve their horses’ lives through a changed approach to management, training and en...

Listen to the March 2021 Edition of BARKS News here . Learn about the Up Your Business Week FREE event for PPG Members, PPAB Launches French Language Option for Training and Behavior Credentials, PPG’s Gizmo Pens Letter to America’s First Dogs , PPG and Victoria Stilwell Positively Link Up  to Offer Training Support to White House Dog, Major, March Cat Behavior Call-In Lounge, Upcoming Facebo...

Join Niki Tudge as she chats to Lisa and Brad Waggoner about their Prison Dog Program. They have been dog trainers for, Rescued Program, Saving Detainees and Dogs One Life at a Time, since its inception in 2012. The program focuses on the rehabilitation of detainees through training their dogs using positive reinforcement training techniques. You can find out more about Lisa and Brad at Cold Nose...

Join Niki Tudge as she chats with Sara Berry McLoudrey from Synergy Behavior Solutions in Portland, Oregon. We chat all about virtual training, the experience of transitioning from a small business owner to working as a Trainer at a Behavior Practice and then all about Horny Dogs. Yes you read it correctly, this is the only podcast where the conversation can go from trees and rain to Horny Dogs al...

BARKS Newsletter February 2021: Issue 62 Each month Susan Nilson puts together the latest news for our PPG Members. We are now podcasting the highlights of the PPG Newsletter so members who prefer Podcasts can catch up on everything PPG. To read the full BARKS Newsletter click here  This podcast was sponsored by 2 Hounds Design.  About 2 Hounds Design 2 Hounds Design almost never was. &n...