Emerging Minds in Dog Psychology

What does it cost to stand as a wall between a dog and a culture of fear? In the final portrait of our limited series, we meet Drayton Michaels in his studio. This is a story of a "big ass life" and the unshakeable promise that defines it: The Covenant. Drayton reflects on the absolute refusal to cause a dog fear or pain—a moral line he drew as he emerged from the rock-and-roll scene of New York C...

What do you do when your first mentor in dogs is also your first lesson in what not to do? Diane Garrod shares her journey from a childhood where she was to be "seen and not heard," to becoming a foundational voice for force-free, relationship-based dog training. It began with a look—a dog named Lady slinking in fear from Diane's father. In that moment, a fourth-grader drew a line in the sand, mak...

Between the inherited wound and the healing gesture. A boy learns safety from a German Shepherd during a fight he cannot stop. Decades later, a man faces a dog under a table and sees a ghost in his own hands. What is built in that silence? And what must be broken? Entered dog training to seek connection, he found a profession wired tracing the junction of control, domination and betrayal. But in a...

Before the first story arrives on December 10th, here is how this series began. We didn’t start with a plan—we started with a question, asked quietly across the field of dog psychology: Who needs to be recognized not for what they’ve built, but for how they’ve evolved? Emerging Minds in Dog Psychology is an audio-documentary series built from the answers. It is not a podcast about methods or crede...

Listening to the silence within, to hear the dog's truth. What if the key to understanding a dog lies in excavating your own past? This is Annie's story. From a traumatic childhood in Texas where a dog was her "first proof of love," to a career initially built on dominance and control, and finally to a revelation that reshaped her life. Annie discovered that her hypervigilance—forged in a dysfunct...