Positive First is a descriptive term Glenn Cooke announced earlier in one of our episodes.  He feels better describes what the Balanced dog training community have been trying to represent. - Naturally, there are counter arguments that it doesn't repr...

Moments to be proud of was a hard episode for both of us to record.  For Pat it was difficult to relive something that caused a lot of raw emotion.  For Glenn it was a high degree of shock to hear the story. -

A Birdy's eye view on Anxiety is a welcomed episode to bring back our great friend, Birdy O'Sheedy.  If you haven't listened to an episode with Birdy yet, it's important to note that she is a practising psychologist.

Getting out of the shit, although a nasty sounding title, has something relevant to do with Pat. Whilst walking through the desert one day on patrol, he got himself in a shitty situation. - However, the main focus point in this show is,

Meagan Karnes, otherwise known as the Collared Scholar was in Australia running a series of seminars.  Glenn and Pat had the good fortune of sitting down with her to get some insight into her origin story. -

Diagnosing problems in training came from points our listeners were posting in our Facebook group. Given that anyone who has owned or trained or been around dogs knows that there are always going to be problems.

Dealing with difficult clients and people is a show we have danced around for a while but decided to finally do it.  Anyone in business or life, has moments where discussing issues with people can be difficult. -

Jerry Bradshaw is known around the world as the father of PSA, (Protection Sports Association).  Jerry is also well known through his successful training company, Tarheel canine. - The Tarheel team have been supplying and training Police and law enfor...

Dog parks dystopia or utopia came about after Glenn had a small rant on social responsibilities and then Pat re-listened to the episode to correct a point on dog parks. - As Pat has a local community dog park area that functions well,

Glenn & Pat discuss the social responsibility issue with people making poor examples of themselves and particularly their breed when out in public spaces.  A lot of people want to be out in public spaces with their dog,