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 welfare podcast for dog guardians, dog professionals and anyone who wants to understand dogs better. Host Nadine Burzler talks to scientists, vets, behaviourists, breeders, trainers and rescuers about the beliefs we inherit about dogs, from breeding and training to rescue and everyday life, and asks what science knows and what anecdotal experience tells us about how dogs think and feel. Each episode looks at the gap between what we know about dogs and what we actually do, and what it would take to close that gap.
New episodes every other Monday.
Nothing in this episode is advice. If your dog is pregnant, speak to your vet.
Stan Airey says he has been helping dogs give birth for over 50 years. He is not a vet and has no formal qualification, and even if he wanted one, it doesn't exist because professional whelping is not a recognised profession in the UK.
And yet there are over 400 known canine fertility clinics in the UK, some of which also offer whelping services. Most of these clinics are not registered as veterinary practices.
Anyone can do this job.
Some clinics and independent contractors even offer caesareans and artificial insemination, both of which are classed as acts of veterinary surgery and are illegal for any layman to perform. Yet they do.
Part 1 of my conversation with Stan, who runs the whelping and fertility service, Call the Midwoof, is out now.
This episode is important because this is a new industry that needs regulation. Anyone can decide from one day to the next to start a business like this with no veterinary oversight, no qualifications, no standards to uphold and no one to answer to.
And Stan agrees.
In this episode, Stan shares some of the puppy births he has attended, he tells stories about the people who hire him, and he describes in detail the side of breeding he calls ”horrendous”.
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