The Canine Paradigm

Breaking free from an echo chamber discusses the realities of supporting a narrative that may be misleading. Getting stuck in the echo chamber will not help you grow. It creates limitations in your ability to learn more about what you don’t know. This in itself is where the main issues arise as your group is now convinced there’s nothing more to know. One of the points that you need to...

Arguing with an avatar is our thoughts around discussions that occur over social media. We find that many times arguments break out, we create an image or avatar of the person. This can be a genuine issue as they may have so many more layers to them that we are unaware of. So the identity of the person may be lost to the bias around the social media avatar. If you can choose anything in life, choo...

J Humps and the right paw is the story of Jen Humphrey, aka Jen Banks. We both met Jen at the IACP conference in Florida. Jen has recently had a baby and was eager to share her experience of having a dog school, then becoming a new mother. She also did a re-brand which is where the right paw originated from. If you want to know what on earth the J humps part is all about, well you had better liste...

Working Dog Radio is a podcast show run by Ted Stickels and Eric Stanbro. The ethos of their program is around working dogs in all applications. Most guests on working dog radio are either Police or Military and they share their experiences and stories. We haven’t had a chance to have a group catch up as yet so it was fortunate that the planets aligned and allowed it. We both enjoyed our tim...

Ivan Balabanov is one of the most recognised master coaches in the sporting dog world. Ivan has a career spanning 40 years in the dog training industry and has amassed multiple titles. He has achieved 2 world champion positions through IGP, he’s a celebrated FCI judge and author. In fact you would have to be living in a vacuum if your are in the dog world and have never heard his name. Crede...

Purpose breeding puppies is usually on the minds of owners, trainers, breeders. We wouldn’t say that’s always the case as there are so many people who did it without reason. Puppies and puppy breeding have come under a lot of scrutiny in the last 10 years. Namely as there are so many puppies that never makes it to adulthood. However, puppies do play an important part into preserving li...

Poking Larry Krohn’s bear isn’t easy to do as Larry is a really great guy. However, like most of us, we have a straw that breaks our back under load and this industry can sometimes do that. Given that Larry has amassed such a large following of people all over the world, he also get some haters. Most of them are just sad, lonely people, some are people who should know better. Regardles...

Reasons for sharing knowledge is that we all have a responsibility to pay it forward. This allows others to use it and even find ways to make it better. Knowledge is a gift given to all of us. We owe it to ourselves to ensure that we help to raise the ceiling of overall knowledge. This in turn ensures we leave this world in a better way than what we came into it. Some inspiration minds have summar...

HNY and FU 2020. Hopefully this brand new, untouched, untarnished year will provide some much needed relief. 2020 really pinned us all to the yoke of unfortunate circumstances. Yet while some cried, some triumphed. We do hope that the worst of 2020 is behind us. Even though 2021 doesn’t magically make it disappear, it does provide hope. We hope that you and all your loved ones and well and t...

Rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change of status in society. In this show, we discuss a little in detail about the rite of passage dog in the working dog world. For anyone who doesn’t know what that means, it’s the hardest most powerful dog. It’s the dog that puts y...

Restructuring your business for health is a topic our friend, Melanie Benware came to us as a conversation piece. Naturally we both liked it as it’s something we try to encourage anyone to do who’s in an impossible situation. Melanie speaks of the necessity of restructuring and how she had to do it for her health. Sometimes when people consider restructuring themselves, they can find t...

Cheese, dancing dogs & Chi balls is this weeks discussion points based on some interests that developed from past weeks. Pat saw a Netflix documentary with a lady from Russia who does amazing routines in dancing dogs. It now has him on a path to learn the nuances of people who are high end in this field. The show was supposed to focus on listener questions, however as things often do, it took...

Birdy’s new flight path is a discussion and kind of an unveiling around Birdy’s new business plan. As many listeners are aware, Birdy is a regular on our show and has been a great source of emotional support and knowledge. We have often stated that this industry needs someone to help us through the emotional hurdles. It just so happens that Birdy has been listening and is filling those...

Grisha Stewart became very well known to the canine community after she authored her book BAT. The acronym of the book is Behavior Adjustment Training, which is mainly directed at dogs with aggression issues. As well as being an author and trainer, we got to find out a bunch of things Grisha used to do. The great part of the podcast interviews is not only meeting and making new friends like Grisha...

Misia Bielicki’s introspection is a detailed account of our friend Misia who we first met at an IACP conference in Florida. She’s a fun lady with a great sense of humour and a wonderful outlook on life in general. In this episode, Misia reflects on a conversation her and Glenn had whilst having some brews one night. Not that either of them knew it at the time but it had a meaningful ou...

Aimee Sadler is an amazing lady we had the pleasure of first seeing at an IACP conference in Florida. We later got to have a chat with Aimee in Colorado the following year and have been planning to have her on for a while now. If you haven’t heard of Dogs Playing for Life, you really need to check out this initiative. Aimee and her team have done amazing things for dogs across America and ho...

Tyler Muto meditations is a catch up on someone who has does a lot for the industry. Not just that, Tyler is a mate to us and many people around the world. It was alarming to hear that Tyler had slipped into a depression over the last couple of years. He was kind enough and trusting enough to share that information with us and speak about how he combatted it. Similar to Tyler, many people fall vic...

Brent Dry’s lock down experience was an eye opener for us in Australia who didn’t realise what was happening in Victoria. Brent who is usually an upbeat, happy social community leader lost his mojo. The good news, he got it back, however it was a eye opener on what lock down did to him and so many others. Victoria, the south eastern state in Australia was subjected to one of the most i...

The dangers of obsession can expand into every corner in our lives. Obsession can be controllable, however it can also get very far out of control. The activity of dog training can be one of those fields with strong pulls of obsessive behaviours. The trick is to know when to say when and try and find healthy life balance. No one said it would be easy. Obsession is a sneaky and seductive mistress a...

Just because you don’t understand it, it doesn’t mean it’s not right. This is an epidemic worse than our current pandemic. It’s nothing new, however it appears to be getting worse. Subjects that people clearly don’t understand are passionate subject matter in conversation. How can we have so many people claiming knowledge in fields they have no experience? Is it more...

No more one more time, is an old phrase that Glenn has been saying frequently on the show. It’s a statement that began since the early days of Australian Dog Training, used to prevent clients over training. The rule of no more one more time applies to all of us in many different aspects. It encourages us to use our time wisely and focus on making training more successful. We find that we pus...

You can’t handle the V8 is a metaphor in relation to how a dog owner may desire a strong dog. Even though they want this type of dog, they may not be ready for it. If they ignore the advise or signs and go ahead and get their V8 dog, it’s going to be schooling. so, if it’s the V8 dog you desire, do your homework. Know what you’re going to get into. Work with people that und...

Language is important all over the world. It can determine acts of love, compassion, offence, hatred, war and entire cultures. It’s a point of interest in our own industry as we often find ourselves arguing over terms and definitions. The very language that many of us operate under can be the same that divides us. The reason language is important is that it allows us, if we make the time, to...

Denise Fenzi is a very well known and accomplished trainer in the canine world. She is an accomplished author, blogger and influencer through her business, Fenzi dog sports academy. She was kind enough to join us on the show to talk about what matters to her. Also Denise discusses how life with dogs has given her so much and the many things she’s learned and still learning. One of the many t...

Ben Lepinski is an interesting young man. Pat got to meet him along with many other big names in the PSA world on his travels. Ben works full time for Jerry Bradshaw at tarheel Canine, teaching students and fulfilling Government contracts. He has made a name for himself as an explosive detection trainer and Ben is making his name in PSA. It was great to hear Ben tell his story and how he got picke...