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Breeders and Owners of Weimaraners for Sport, Hunting, and Companionship

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The below is an index of podcasts intended to provide new puppy owners with tips on how to properly raise a Weimaraner puppy. Linked Podcasts are all episodes we’ve listened to and can personally vouch for. As always, please feel free to contact us directly with any questions, anytime.

List of Recommended Podcasts:

  • The Puppy Training Podcast. Amy Jensen is a professional puppy trainer, service dog trainer and creator of Baxter & Bella’s Puppy Prep – The Online Puppy School. She spends her free time training dogs to be calm, well-mannered household members as well as service & therapy dogs. After receiving many requests to train dogs for people, Amy decided to roll out a comprehensive how-to online training program to help you train your own dog. On this podcast, she shares training tips aimed at helping you be successful on your own puppy training journey.#baxterandbellapuppytraining #puppyprep #theonlinepuppyschool (349 ratings on Apple)
  • Your New Puppy Podcast. Your host, Debbie (owner of Playtime Paws), is a positive trainer with a passion for dogs, their behavior and helping you create a well-behaved dog. This is a dog training and behavior podcast that with help you and your new puppy build good healthy habits right from the start. It will also help you understand your dog’s behavior and build a strong, fulfilling, and fun relationship for years to come. (655 ratings on Apple)
  • Creative Dog Training Podcast. Creative Dog Training is all about taking our over 30 years of experience and passing it on to you! Are you tired of difficult or non-practical advice on how to help you dog? Then our casts are for you! Our casts are short to the point information sessions designed to give you PRACTICAL tools for not just training your dog, but having the dog you’ve always wanted! (120 ratings on Apple)
  • Puppy Talk Podcast. Puppy Talk offers advice and training tips for new puppy owners. We cover topics such as potty training, play biting, basic commands, behavior problems, and leash training. Dale is a graduate of Catch Canine Trainers Academy, and has trained thousands of puppies, as well as raising several of his own own. (17 ratings on Apple)
  • School for the Dogs Podcast. Annie Grossman of the NYC-based dog training center School For The Dogs answers training questions, confronts myths, geeks out on animal behavior, discusses pet trends and interviews industry experts. Annie encourages people to become literate in the basics of behavioral science in order to help their dogs and themselves. Tune in to learn how to use science-based methods to train dogs (and people) without pain, force, or coercion! (152 ratings on Apple)
  • Canine Master Podcast. I am Chris Onthank, the Canine Master. I am an advocate of everything to do with dogs; sharing info, tips, stories, photos & videos. Follow my blog for an in-depth coverage of dog-related topics including training, health, innovative pet products and general information on how to keep dogs happy, healthy and safe. Join me for practical information and tips on all aspects of dogs and their well-being. Topics will include understanding how a dog thinks and feels, the importance of proper training to develop a confident and happy dog, health information and tips on how to keep your dog healthy, choosing the right puppy for your family and so much more! (33 ratings on Apple)

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  • Our Student Basket: Helping Geneticists Improve Pedigrees (School for the Dogs Podcast). School For The Dogs’ clients Samantha Schwartz and Ben Ment wanted to find a mixed-breed Bernese Mountain Dog puppy, figuring that it’d be less prone to health issues than a purebred Bernese. When Samantha’s email inquiries to breeders got posted to social media, she ended up being cyber bullied by hardcore breed enthusiasts/purists around the world. Samantha tells Annie about how this unexpected and bizarre turn of events led her and Ben to Basket, a puppy from the Bernese Mountain Dog Vitality Project, which is run by breeders and geneticists who are working to help modify the breed for the better over time.
  • Let’s Talk About Dog Walking with DivaDog’s Shelley Goldberg (School for the Dogs Podcast). In New York City, a good dog walker can be hard to find. Dog owners open up their homes to them, and put their most beloved and vulnerable family members in their care, but a majority of walkers have no training or even interest in their chosen career. DivaDog is a walking company that strives to bring professionalism to the industry. Annie interviews its owner, Shelley Goldberg, about her three decades in the business, her hiring and management practices, and finding meaning and soulfulness in the pet care industry. You can reach Shelley at 707-DIVA-DOG.
  • Being BF Skinner’s Daughter: Deborah Buzan Dispels the Myths (School for the Dogs Podcast). Renowned behavioral psychologist BF Skinner codified much of the science behind positive reinforcement-based animal training, and is a hero to many dog trainers. But for over half a century, his reputation has been tarnished by rumors that his daughter went crazy and killed herself because he raised her in a box. Annie interviews said daughter, Deborah Buzan, who is alive and sane. She was in fact raised in a box… sort of. Buzan discussed the “Air Crib,” aka the “Baby Box,” and growing up with a genius father who was devoted to engineering ways to make life easier and happier for his wife and daughters.
  • Let’s Talk about SFTD’s Origins with Co-Founder Kate Senisi (School for the Dogs Podcast). In 2011, Annie Grossman and Kate Senisi were both trying to figure out how to make a business out of dog training. They met through the Association for Professional Dog Trainers’ message board, and discovered they lived a block away from one another in Manhattan. They also discovered they had complementary talents: Kate had an eye for detail, a background in graphic design, a head for organization, and a passion for dealing with aggressive dogs; Annie had an entrepreneurial spirit, writing skill, and lots of creative ideas. They decided to join forces, and together turned Annie’s living room into a dog training classroom–they called it School For The Dogs. Here, Annie and Kate discuss SFTD’s early days and their paths to becoming trainers.
  • Let’s Talk About the Future of Dog Food with The Farmer’s Dog’s Brett Podolsky (School for the Dogs Podcast). When Brett Podolsky’s dog was chronically unwell, he had an idea: What if he bought the same ingredients listed and in the commercial brand he was feeding her, and made her fresh food? The change in her health was drastic, and led to Brett, who was then working as a comedian, convincing his best friend, Jonathan Regev, to start a subscription-based high-end dog food company with him. Now three years old, their Brooklyn-based company, The Farmer’s Dog, has secured some ten million dollars in VC funding and their health-supportive recipes are being enjoyed by tens of thousands of grateful dogs throughout the country. Annie and Brett discuss what it takes to start a dog food company from scratch, the problems behind commercial dog food, and the shifts in dog owner awareness that are leading to a tide change in the pet food realm.
  • Dog Training Pet Peeves: The Word “Energy” and the Misuse of the Word “Positive” (School for the Dogs Podcast). In the modern era of dog training, people often rush to blame a person or a dog’s “energy” for behavior issues.  In this episode, Annie addresses why all the talk about using or observing “energy” in order to train a dog makes her cringe, and also why she thinks the misuse of the word “positive” leads to too many misunderstandings about science-based training.
  • Let’s Talk About Dog Breeding with Cherrie Mahon of River Valley Doodles (School for the Dogs Podcast). A few years ago, after years of volunteering at rescue organizations and owning both shelter pups and purebred dogs, Cherrie Mahon, a professor of business in Rochester, New York, did something that’d change her life forever: She got a Goldendoodle.  Cherrie fell in love with the breed, and pitched an idea to her mother, a school bus driver who was looking for a retirement career: Maybe they could start a family business breeding doodles? In the years since, Cherrie, her mother, her sisters and a few cousins have  been in the business of bringing fluffy dreams to life for hundreds of happy families. But there are plenty of moments that haven’t been so… golden. Cherrie and Annie have an honest discussion about the way people acquire dogs, the science of good breeding, and the emotional rollercoaster of rearing puppies.
  • The Body Builder and the Boston: Joe & Lenny on their journey to Westminster (School for the Dogs Podcast). In 2012, Joe Freni’s wife surprised him with a puppy they named Lenny. Lenny, they felt, was simply perfect. In fact, he was so perfect that they decided to start enrolling him in competitions.  In the years since, Lenny has received titles both in dog sports and dog shows, the latter culminating in his recent spot in the Westminster Dog Show. Not long after he started showing his dog in the ring, Joe decided to also start showing… himself. In this episode, Annie learns about Joe’s journey as a body builder, a power lifting world champion, and as a show dog handler.
  • Nobody Cares About Dog Training Right Now (School for the Dogs Podcast). Someone on the School For The Dogs mailing list sent Annie an angry email accusing her of being out of touch because, with everything going on in the world,  “no one cares about dog training right now.” This inspired Annie to outline some reasons why people could, and maybe should, think about dog training and the science of behavior now… perhaps more than ever.
  • How Do You Become a Dog Trainer? A conversation between two women who switched careers (School for the Dogs Podcast). One of the many interesting things about dog training? Every professional has taken a different path. We are in a moment where many people are considering new careers. If you’ve ever thought about becoming a dog trainer, you will want to listen to this interview featuring two women who went from success in completely different fields to success in working with dogs. Annie, who became a dog trainer after working as a journalist for a decade, interviews Marie Poliseno, a former Wall Street Trader turned dog trainer turned CPA. Her company, Dollars & Scents, specializes in working with professional dog trainers who need help with the financial side of things.
  • Is Dominance Really A Thing? Cesar Millan, Libertarianism + A Dog Named Pizza (School for the Dogs Podcast). Before she became a dog trainer, Annie assumed that understanding dogs’ supposed obsession with dominance was an important part of being a good trainer. She pushed her 18-pound Yorkiepoo into alpha rolls so he’d know she was boss. She yelled in his face, and made sure he never entered through a doorway before her, because Cesar Millan said that that would make the dog think he was the one in charge. The whole idea that dog behavior, and the way dogs learn, had anything to do with science simply did not compute; the notion of them existing in a kind of Lord-Of-The-Flies quest for supreme power seemed plausible and not something worth reconsidering. After graduating dog training school, her thoughts on “dominance” shifted 180 degrees. Now,  ten years spent working as a professional trainer, they’ve shifted yet again…
  • Schedules of Reinforcement, “Baked In” Behaviors & How Dog Training Can Help You Take The MCAT (School for the Dogs Podcast). A listener who is studying for the MCAT exam wrote in to ask if there were any dog training scenarios that could help illustrate some of the terms she needed to know for the psychology section of the exam. Annie, who has learned most of what she knows about dog training from working with dogs rather than from studying terms or taking exams, does her best to help make some “science-y” concepts more understandable through the lens of dog training and human behavior as we experience in everyday life. She talks about schedules of reinforcement, learned behaviors vs preinstalled behaviors, learning by observation and more.
  • The Pandemic Puppy Boom (School for the Dogs Podcast). This episode is a second conversation with Cherrie Mahon, with whom Annie spoke last year (Episode 45: Let’s talk about dog breeding with Cherrie Mahon). During quarantine Cherrie, like many breeders, has been inundated with applications. She and Annie discuss how breeders are dealing with the deluge, and think about what this boom might mean in the future for both puppy mills and shelters. Annie also answers a question from a listener whose puppy is jumping up when she tries to prepare food at the kitchen counter.
  • My family thinks I’m crazy: Dealing with those who don’t see the “whole” picture of holistic dog training (School for the Dogs Podcast). What does it mean to be a holistic dog trainer? To Annie, it means addressing issues using what we know about the science of behavior as it applies to both  dogs and humans, and looking at the whole picture of a dog’s life in order to address issues. One alternative approach involves narrowly focusing on getting rid of a problem using punishment, which can produce new unwanted behaviors which are then part of the whole picture, too. Sometimes, that whole picture contains people who don’t see that they’re part of the whole picture, and Annie has found this can be tricky terrain to navigate as a dog trainer… especially when those people are family members. Annie opens up about how she has learned to keep quiet about all things relating to dogs when she is with certain people in her family, and attempts to take a holistic view of a problem behavior they’ve dealt with in different ways: barking.
  • Q and A! 10/1/2020: A new nervous rescue dog, working with dog barking, and helping a dog potty outside (School for the Dogs Podcast). A new young rescue dog seems to be nervous about some men but not others. Why? A dog is barking: Do you need to say “quiet” and do you reward even if the dog is barking? What do you do when a Shih Tzu won’t go to the bathroom in the yard? Why didn’t an adolescent male become less aggressive after being neutered? My dog is going crazy because the neighbor’s dog is in heat! This puppy will not stop biting my feet! Why! How do I teach my Pomsky not to pull?
  • Dog Training Q and A! 10/8/2020: Reactive Dogs, food toys, management of space (School for the Dogs Podcast). How can you train a dog to not freak out if strange dogs, off leash, appear out of no where? What work-to-eat toys can you use with wet or fresh food? Can you train a dog to stay away from the litter box and the cat food? A dog likes playing fetch but doesn’t like going on walks. Is fetch going to be enough exercise for him? A new rescue dog barks all night at nothing in particular. Why? And how can you get him to stop barking? How can you get a dog to pee on a curb instead of on trees?
  • Dog Training Q and A! 10/22/2020: Taking the Karen Pryor Academy and e-collars (School for the Dogs Podcast). In this episode, Annie answers questions about attending the Karen Pryor Academy. She suggests how you can deal with someone who seems to be needlessly  yelling at their dog.  A listener asks about Temple Grandin’s use of e-collars and prey drive, and also asks about training using the beeping and vibrating function of a shock collar. Also: Can you train a dog to not pee near a water source? And can you pay the neighbor’s kid to train  your dog?
  • The Bully Test: How to tell if your dog (or kid or country) is having fun PLUS: FOMO crate training (School for the Dogs Podcast). If two dogs are playing, and you’re unsure if your dog is into it, there is a simple “test” you can perform. The Bully Test, which was coined by Dr. Ian Dunbar, is a great way to tell how your dog feels about his or her playmate. Annie looks at how she herself behaved when faced with childhood mean girls, and how voters reacted when bullied by the Bully-In-Chief.  Also: Is “bully” an inherent quality in a dog? Or a kid? Is there a term that we could come up with that doesn’t vilify one of two puppies when performing this “test?” And: Why you shouldn’t expect dogs to just “working it out” during play. Lastly: Annie explains how to use FOMO to train dogs to love going in crates.
  • Dog Training Q and A! 12/10/2020: Should we send our puppy to do a board and train? (School for the Dogs Podcast). Shari asks:  “A few months ago we had to put our beloved 17 year old dog Lola to sleep. A few months later, when a friend of mine who runs a shelter got a litter of lab puppies, she invited me to come play with them. Not surprisingly, I came home with Jasper, a now 4 month old chocolate lab. Already 50 lbs, Jasper is a big handful. We adore him and we’re doing our best at training him, but we have a crazy busy household with three young children, two cats and two adults working very full time jobs from home.  To be honest, we’re feeling really overwhelmed about training him properly. Would you recommend a board and train program to help give us a leg up?”  Annie talks about the cons of board-and-trains, and suggests a couple of alternatives.
  • Annie gets a puppy: On navigating Petfinder, vetting breeders, and falling in love with a new dog (School for the Dogs Podcast). Two months after losing her 15.5-year-old Yorkiepoo bestfriend, Annie and her family welcomed a new puppy into their home. In this episode, she talks about the experience of falling in love with rescue dogs on the Internet, conversing with breeders charging top dollar, and, finally, landing the perfect puppy for her family.
  • What happens when you try to run a dog training business using dog training techniques… (School for the Dogs Podcast). A decade ago, Annie and Kate set out to become dog trainers.  They ended up with a dog training business. They both knew a lot more about dog training than they did about business management, so they attempted to use what they knew about animal behavior to manage the company… In this episode Annie talks about four business lessons she’s learned that stem from what she knows about dog training. She talks about the importance of creating shaping plans (something she is bad at, both when training dogs and when managing staff), the difficulty of using money to reinforce behavior, and how to use environmental environment and antecedent arrangements to change employee behavior (hint: don’t). She also talks about how classical conditioning, and focusing on people’s conditioned emotional responses, is just as important to think about when dealing with clients as it is when dealing with dogs.
  • Dog Training Q and A! 1/21/2021: Are day cares a good place to socialize your dog? Why did my dog stop liking the crate? Thoughts on wee wee pads? (School for the Dogs Podcast). Here Annie addresses questions about socializing dogs during quarantine, using wee wee pads if the goal is to teach a dog to only go outside, getting a dog to like a crate again,  using daycares to get a dog some social time, and more.
  • Responsible Dog Breeding Part 1 (Creative Dog Training Podcast). In our first part today we will talk about figuring out why you want to breed your dog, selecting a mate for your dog, and what it takes to be a responsible breeder including genetic screenings for your dog and making sure you dog is ready for it!
  • Responsible Dog Breeding Part 2: Welcoming the Pups into the World (Creative Dog Training Podcast). We will talk about caring for your mother to be, planning for the big day, supplies to gather, and helping to whelp the puppies.
  • Responsible Dog Breeding Part 3: Raising the Puppies (Creative Dog Training Podcast). Did you know that only 35% of a dogs potential and personality is genetic. The rest depends on how he is raised. In this cast we will share our tips to make sure all the puppies in your care are ready to take on the world!
  • Responsible Dog Breeding Part 4: Sending Puppies to their New Homes (Creative Dog Training Podcast). To really consider yourself a responsible breeder, your involvement goes well past taking a check and handing over the puppy. We will give you advice on interviewing new homes, what to provide the new home, contracts and guarantees, and a lifetime of follow up.

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