Season 3 Episode 5: Feral, F-bomb heavy, and full of chaos.

Hosts Jenny Nordin and Ashlyn Kauh start off “normally” enough—updates on the Dog Detective Case Files, Fixers Collective, and some behind-the-scenes strategery involving a spreadsheet so convoluted Jenny had to learn something called Javascript just to make it work. But then… Jenny goes off the rails. Spreadsheet-induced madness? Or just every day insanity of running the largest dog rescue in the PNW? You decide.

Main topic: Dogs biting kids. Not great. Often complicated, but sometimes just screamingly obvious bad (human and/or canine) parenting.

Lately, every day (9-5 and then some) has been full of Crazy Shit so this episode throws the usual segments into a blender and hits puree. (Cue the F-Bombs.) From “Dangerous Dog" designations who "just need a CGC" to maniacal keyboard warriors and delulu adopters sending novels to an overflowing inbox, the drama is real and the feelings are big.

Grab your popcorn if you're here for the soapbox. Otherwise, skip to the Questions for super useful info on Nutriscan testing for food allergies.

POD MENTIONS:

Aversive Control Seminar
Michael Ellis School
Melanie Uhde [Canine Decoded]
Bite Level in Dogs [Veterinary Partner]
NutriScan [HemoPet]
Dr. Jean Dodds [HemoPet]
Animal Apologists Podcast [Spotify]
Kayleigh and Dogs (Animal Apologists) [Instagram]

PARNTER MENTIONS:

Fixers Collective [Instagram]
Crossroads Vet
Dog B Good
Double Down Dog Training
The Good Dog Way
All the Best Pet Care

ADOPTABLE DOG MENTIONS:

Luna
RexPenny
Leo
Freya
Rico

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Chapters

00:00 3.5 Dogs Biting Kids

01:45 3.4 Updates: Luna, Sprinkles, Heist

09:01 What we've been up to (it's a lot)

12:34 Aversive Control Seminar at Michael Ellis School

14:28 Fixers Collective 2.0

17:24 Adoption Updates (Thank you Kris)

18:21 Main Topic: Dogs Who Bite Kids

19:30 Screening adult dogs for placement in homes with kids

23:21 Dog in the home and having a baby

24:55 But first: Bite Levels (The Bite Scale)

30:56 Lessons from Mando

37:48 Adding a dog to a family with kids

44:50 Ash's Adopter - Training YAY

49:28 Mango's Adopter - Not Great

55:21 Hindsight is 20-20

01:01:04 Take home message

01:05:49 A 9 to 5 of Crazy Shit

01:06:15 A 'dangerous' husky at Monroe PD who just needs a CGC

01:10:51 Most presumptuous surrender email ever

01:13:45 Freaking giant waste of time keyboard warriors

01:28:56 Questions: Nutriscan by Hemopet

01:32:08 Rico's Nutriscan results

01:38:53 Closing thoughts

01:39:32 Deleted Scenes