The Canine Paradigm

Sara Brueske has the best last name by Australian standards. However, that’s not why she is so well know. Sara has made an international name for herself as a professional trainer mainly through disc dogs and dock diving. She has a long list of accomplishments after her name in not only competing, but judging and ambassadorial roles too. There’s a bunch of things we could tell you abou...

Never stop learning should be a mantra that most people adopt throughout their lives. When we open ourselves to learning something we expand so many opportunities. It enhances lives, communities, businesses you name it. The more we open ourselves up, the less ignorant we are and the more progressive we can be. rather than fight something on rumour or innuendo, we can really know what we’re f...

Tobias Gustavsson is one of the team behind the Scandinavian Working Dog Institute. Tobias is not only involved in just training, he and his team are heavily involved in the science application. If you know anything about scent detection, you will know that it is considered an evolving science. There are so many areas about Canine olfaction we are still learning about. This is why it’s so im...

Ben Geurts is well known in Australia for for producing quality working dogs for law enforcement agencies. Both he and his business partner Jason Kelly have valuable experience and backgrounds in canine training. Because of this, they saw it as a good opportunity to unite into a business. Along with the business, Ben runs a sport dog group and general obedience as well. So not only is it a job, it...

Rescue dog remedy is an episode that we felt should be discussed as an help file for new owners. not just new owners, it’s also for people who have been given incorrect information. For example, some people are told that their rescue dog has been a part of a bait ring. In a majority of cases, this is highly unlikely. It doesn’t mean some dogs are not subjected to this torment. It does...

Taking care of you may sound arbitrary, however it’s often so easy overlooked and undervalued. In many cases, dog handlers will fuss more over what their dog is eating while not giving a second thought to themselves. It’s so wonderful that we are learning to take better care of our dogs. Owners are making better choices in diet and staying more informed on what should go into their pet...

Cameron Ford is a fascinating person Pat met while he was in Las Vegas. Cameron is steeped in knowledge and has an extensive background in training dating back to 1995. He began his professional career as a canine detection handler for explosives and narcotics in the US air-force. From there, Cameron was posted in Germany and had access to most of the best canine training in Europe. When you hear...

Urban Myths Part 2 was inevitable after we had a backlog of myths from our last farming session. There are so many myths out there it’s almost impossible not to hear them. However, there were a few that we had not heard before that were both comical and troubling. For example, If you give a working dog milk, it will never work again! Or you can get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat. That&...

Reflection and Gratitude are virtues that most share around the time midnight ticks over on the 31st of December. Reflection allows us to examine life in and around us with a little more detail. Gratitude is recognising the many good people and things in our life that have made it great. For example, if we both reflect on the past 2 years, we are very grateful for where we are. We are also gratefu...

Surviving Christmas is about enduring the fatigue which comes at this time of year for almost everyone. Ideally, Christmas should be about spending time with loved ones and if your religious, it about the birth of Christ. It has however become a hard time of year for so many people for many different reasons. It’s also a time of year where we need to be more vigilant about our dogs, their be...

Ask us anything part 3 is the third and final part of our string of listener questions. We had a lot of fun doing this and being able to interact with out audience. Also, when you ask for anything, you get some very good questions. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions. We hope you like and enjoy the responses and always remember this point. We do not and will not ever claim to be the authori...

Patience is a virtue. It’s also one of those traits many of us lose all too often. We all know we should have more of it as it serves us well in so many life aspects. Such as work, family and dog training, just to name a few. Luck for us we have our beloved Birdy to join us on the show once again to coach both of us in patience. We know we can benefit from it as it highlights so many applica...

Ask us anything part 2 is obviously a flow on from our part 1 episode as we had so many questions to get through. If you’re excited about this, you’ll be excited to know there’s a part 3 in the pipeline as well. Thanks to all our loyal listeners who make the time to do this with us. We both hope you enjoy our rendition of your questions. Further details If your looking for contac...

Katrina Hartwell is one of those people who will come into your life and you wont be able to forget her. It may not occur to you why at the time that she’s one of the nicest people to meet. She doesn’t say much at first. Katrina is quite quiet when you first meet her, however she is a deep thinker with a big heart. We didn’t know it at the time that Katrina is a known and celebra...

Ask us anything Part 1 obviously means there’s a part 2 in the works. However, if our devoted listeners have questions, we try and do our best to answer them. Some of the questions were fantastic too and it was great to see so many of them. We have professed before and we will continue to do so, we are not the authority on everything. If we don’t know the answer to a question we hope t...

Heather Beck IACP is another interview we were fortunate enough to record while in Colorado Springs. If you don’t know Heather, you need to see what this lady can do. She trains dogs, camels and rides a bull! If that hasn’t got your interest peaking yet, we’re not sure what will. Along with all this, she has invented her own training lead, called the Transitional lead. You can ch...

Minds blown depicts both our minds after recent discussions with people we have interviewed recently. It’s a wonderful sensation at any time in your career that you can experience that “wow” moment. Some may even refer to it as an epiphany of sorts. Further details If your looking for contact details and supporters of The Canine Paradigm, look no futher. Below is a vast array of...

Supplements, SIBO & Diet is another pocast from our natural health expert, Narelle Cooke. In this episode, Narelle goes into more detail on how supplements work for your dog and how they compliment diet. She also discusses in detail SIBO, which is the acronym for, small intestine bacterial overgrowth. Narelle has written three guides for improving canine health from puppies to adults. In addit...

Episode 100: The Mix Tape, is a collaboration of interviews by some of the industries best and most successful. It gave us the opportunity to look back over the time we have been doing this show while showing us how far we have come. 100 Episodes seemed like it was so far away when we began. Now we are excited to work on the next 100. We hope you enjoy this interview series and we thank all the pe...

Dr Roger Abrantes IACP is an interview we have both been eagerly waiting for. Dr. Abrantes is an author on the behaviour of animals He has a PhD in evolutionary biology and ethology and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. He is the divisional director at the Ethology Institute Cambridge where he holds regular lectures. Because of the work or people like Dr Abrantes, we now understand a lot more abou...

Dr Ian Dunbar IACP conference was quite an honour and privilege for us to meet and speak with him. Ian Dunbar is well known throughout the world as a vet, behaviourist, author and speaker. The good Dr is also known for his outspoken views which has gained him both hot and cold receptions. It was quite an experience getting to meet Ian Dunbar. He is a very charismatic personality in public life, ho...

Canine consent is a topic we chose to look into on the weeks podcast as it’s one of intrigue. There is now a growing number of supporters suggesting that we should ask consent from a dog before certain practices. However, when there’s an argument for a practice, there is usually one against. So naturally, there is a suggestion that it is not possible for a dog to consent to. Now, we&#8...

Catching up with Emma Murdock IACP was great as we spent some down time with our number 1 fan. Anyone who’s listened to the show and been in our forums has known this for a while. Emma Murdock has her own business in Ottawa, Ontario Canada and we got to see it in person. Her business name is Walk with me Ottawa which you can see below in the links. We have also befriended many of the Walk wi...

Jay Jack on Flexi’s at IACP was always bound to be a topic of controversy and hilarity mixed with education. It’s almost impossible now to know this show and not know Jay Jack as he has contributed a so much. In fact you would most likely know of his podcast with Chad Mackin, Dog training conversations. So at this years conference, Jay got to present on Flexi Leads and as expected, it...

Episode 94: Our summary abroad is really that. A summary of our time and experience during the Canadian seminar and the IACP conference. We started with a very long plane flight from Sydney to Montreal, followed by a 2 hour drive the next day to Ottawa. From there we had a little time to settle in before the seminar started. Over the following days we got to meet and teach some amazing people who...