Just a Dog Podcast
Just a Dog Podcast
Podcast Description
Just a Dog Podcast isn’t about obedience or quick fixes. It’s about reflection. Host Nadine, a long-time volunteer dog walker and soon-to-be fosterer, speaks with psychologists, behaviourists, artists, and everyday dog guardians to explore what our treatment of dogs reveals about us as individuals and as a society. This isn’t a how-to. It’s a mirror. A space for asking better questions, challenging inherited beliefs, and living more intentionally, with dogs, and with ourselves.
Because they’re never just a dog.
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The podcast delves into topics related to human-animal relationships, dog psychology, and societal values surrounding pet care, with episodes examining themes like emotional impacts of dog grief and mental health advocacy for animal welfare, showcasing insights from experts like psychologists and behaviorists.
Just a Dog Podcast is a dog-centred podcast for thoughtful dog lovers and guardians who want to understand dogs beyond obedience, training tips, or quick fixes.
Hosted by Nadine, a long term volunteer dog walker and galgo fosterer, the podcast explores the dog world through conversations with people whose lives and work are shaped by dogs. Each episode examines behaviour, welfare, ethics, and inherited beliefs, using a dog centred lens to reflect what our relationship with dogs reveals about us as individuals and as a society. | https://www.instagram.com/justadogpodcast
A dog screaming during a dog training session in a pet store aisle set something in motion that became a 20,000-member global movement.
Niki Tudge went in for supplies and came out in tears, and the Pet Professional Guild exists because of what she heard that day. That moment crystallised something she had already suspected: that the dog training industry was broken, unregulated, and unlikely to fix itself from within.
This conversation covers the culture clash between punishment-based and force-free training, why licensing won't protect dogs but consumer pressure will, and what a landmark $2 million shock collar lawsuit in California signals for an industry at a crossroads.
Niki also shares what the latest research on pet owner behaviour is revealing, and why she believes the industry is closer to a tipping point than people realise.
What makes her optimistic is not legislation or professional consensus but the shift happening at ground level, in the questions pet owners are starting to ask and the choices they are starting to make.
Niki holds a master's degree from Oxford and is the founder of the Pet Professional Guild, DogNostics Career Center, and The DogSmith.
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