Madcap Radio

Today’s question comes from a viewer who’s wondering how early puppies need to be separated from their littermates to avoid the dreaded “Littermate Syndrome.” In this episode, I tackle that question and discuss key issues around “littermate syndrome.”‌ Is littermate syndrome a real thing?‌ Is it ever a good idea to keep two littermates?‌ If you do keep two littermates, how can you successfully rai...

​In a brand new Madcap Radio podcast series, Jane grabs a question from the Puppy Culture discussion group that sparked interested and talks about it on air. In this first episode, the person asking the question finds herself torn… she’s very attached to a particular puppy in a litter, but also feels like that puppy does not interact a lot with the rest of the litter. This person has previous expe...

Dietary Choline for Lactating Dams In this episode, Jane is joined by Magda Chiarella to review dietary supplements and food sources that can help prevent mastitis in lactating dams.  Although sunflower lecithin is often recommended, sunflower lecithin has some potentially serious side effects and there are many far superior dietary sources of the active ingredient in sunflower lecithin, which is...

Why It Hurts So Bad to Be Wrong   Why is it so threatening to realize that you might have been wrong about something?  Turns out there's an evolutionary basis for this. Plot spoiler: that evolutionary strategy was awesome in the stone ages, but maybe not so much now.  

Act One: Low Birthweight Puppies How our "stories" can blind us to what's before our eyes and potentially keep us from learning something new.

Act Two: Food Wars   Nothing forms strongly-defended tribes better than food ideology.  But what if you learned something new that made the picture bigger and changed the considerations? Would you be willing to challenge your food tribe's assumptions?  

Act Three: Early Off-Premises Socialization Sometimes you really were right.  But then the circumstances changed.  How changing your mind about something does not always. mean you were wrong in the first place.