The Handler's Post

From Idaho Ranch Life to Dog Training: Robin Brown’s Beginning In this first podcast episode, Kimberly Thiessen and Robin Brown introduce themselves and explain the purpose of the show: to share Robin’s 30+ years of dog training experience in a more accessible way, with Kimberly interviewing and learning as a beginner who needed a dog after adding sheep to her longtime cattle experience. Robin des...

Robin and the host discuss how her stock dog training evolved from physically exhausting methods to a pressure-and-release approach that created better communication and partnership with her dogs. Robin compares this shift to a breakthrough moment in skiing—after years of trying too hard under her demanding father’s coaching, she finally made an effortless, correct turn later in life, which helped...