PPG Podcast

Join Niki Tudge as she Chats and Chuckles with Debra Millikan, a PPG Board Member and Steering Committee Team Member. Niki and Deb spent an hour talking about the Pet Professional Accreditation Board and the development of the three PPAB credentialing levels. Learn how these credentials evolved, what they involve and how you can become an ethical credentialed force-free professional. The Accredita...

Join Niki Tudge as she chats with Veronica Sanchez M.Ed CABC CPDT-KA. Veronica is the founder of the Cooperative Paws Service Dog Coach™, an educational certification program for professional trainers. She teaches dog trainers how to train service dogs and how to incorporate service dog training into their pet dog training businesses. She also offers a variety of online courses on different aspect...

Niki Tudge is joined by Laurie Williams the Owner of Pup N Iron® in Virginia. Join Niki and Laurie as they talk about this extremely important topic, diversity in the dog training profession. Laurie C. Williams CPDT-KA has had a love of and connection with dogs from as far back as she can remember. She is the owner and director of training and behavior counseling at Pup ‘N Iron Canine Fitness and...

Join Niki Tudge where she Chats and Chuckles with Judy Luther. Niki and Judy chat equine, canine and captive animals. Their discussion ranges into the great programs the PPG Canine Committee are working on such as Project Trade, Boundary SOP's and so much more. Judy  is based in the St. Louis, Missouri metro area and Branson, Missouri and has provided training and behavior consulting services...

Niki Tudge the PPG President hosted Denise O’Moore, Chair of INTO Dogs on Facebook to talk Geek Week. For an hour they chatted about the Geek Week schedule, presenters, and all things Geeky education. Tune in to hear the fun news about this great event where for five-day, 24-hours a day there will be more than 130 sessions with over 80 presenters. Learn about the sponsorship opportunities, virtual...

On today’s episode we “Chat & Chuckle” with Kelly Duggan from Kelly Duggan Design. Kelly wears many hats and has several roles in our industry, from her own business to supporting the Academy for Dog Trainers to working behind the scenes helping PPG with their new site. Today we talk to Kelly about marketing and websites and how you can best leverage your website to service more clients and he...

Join us on this podcast where Dr. Fernandez and Nik Tudge chat science, ethics, bears, tigers, data collection and so much more Learn what three things Eduardo has on his desk at all times! Dr. Eduardo J. Fernandez received his Ph. D. in Psychology (minors in Neuroscience and Animal Behavior) from Indiana University and his M.S. in Behavior Analysis from the University of North Texas. Much of his...

Today in our PPG Member group we talked Punishment with Dr. Karolina Westlund. We discussed the downside of using scary punishment, the ethics construct as a side model to science, the humane hierarchy and so much more. Listen here to the audio of this thought challenging conversation between Dr. Karolina and PPG President, Niki Tudge.  Conversations with Dr. Karolina are always science based...

Every Friday, PPG President Niki Tudge hosts a Facebook Live session for PPG members. We were privileged on Friday June 6, 2020 to host Dr. Kristina Spaulding from Smart Dog Training and Behavior where we explored and discussed stress! We can all benefit from knowledge about stress and how this impacts our four-legged family members and it's our goal at PPG to spread the word and help provide educ...

INiki Tudge catches up with Gina Phairas  and Veronica Boutelle  of PPG corporate partner dog*biz to talk about the FREE six-week group coaching program, Survive & Thrive, they launched in April 2020 to help R+ trainers navigate through the COVID-19 crisis.  They talk about their experiences and also their key takeaways from coaching pet professionals and small business owners t...

Join Niki Tudge as she hosts Coleen Ellis from Coleen Rocks to talk about how to get your business “Future Ready”. In this interactive dynamic discussion you will learn how to think about your marketing from a different perspective. We will discuss the importance of “Honoring Your Story” to understanding the “Experience Economy” and how to use these to get your business “Future Ready” Ever wo...

Niki Tudge chats to Dr. Zazie Todd about her new book, Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy . Dr. Todd is well-known among pet professionals for her blog Companion Animal Psychology , but she is also a featured blogger on Psychology Today . Zazie Todd Ph. D. (psychology, University of Nottingham, England) MFA (creative writing, University of British Columbia, Canada) graduated with honors fro...

How much do you not know, but need to know, about canine arthritis, a disease that can affect four out of five older dogs? Join Niki Tudge as she chats to Dr. Hannah Capon of PPG corporate partner Canine Arthritis Management (CAM) about this illness and how you can make changes in your living environment to help with pain management and thus achieve a better quality of life. CAM aims to challenge...

Today I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Kristina Spaulding from SmartDog Training and Behavior.   We discussed an array of issues from why we need more science in our industry to examples of what we might be missing by not keeping up to date on current scientific research? Grab a cup of coffee or tea, settle in and enjoy the chat! To learn more about Dr. Spaulding you can visit www.smartdog...

TransPaw Gear is a PPG Corporate Partner. They offer PPG members fabulous pricing for their TRANSPAW GEAR® HAPPY HARNESS™ 2.0 TransPaw Gear is a small but mighty operation. Joan runs the company in addition to her Santa Barbara training business The Inquisitive Canine . After those early experiences working with businesses and people who brought equal parts integrity and passion to their roles, th...

Niki Tudge interviws Veronica about her business and in particular the certificate program for professional dog trainers her company offers.  Learn about how you can intergrate Service Dog Programs into your existing business model.  As Veronica says "the demand for service dogs has skyrocketed. Whether working with “owner-trainers,” people with disabilities training their own dogs for s...