'A Dog's Pace'

Our 'A Dog's Pace' podcast will be recorded every month and include member interviews, special guests and other SLOW focused stories and content. This entire special edition podcast is available here on Spotify. Normally, we only publish a 15-20 minute clip of our newer podcasts and listeners can find our other full NEWER podcasts on our PATREON page.

This special edition podcast is to celebrate Tanya Vishniakova as our new Slow Dog Movement co-director. Tanya Vishniakova and I chat about her life growing up in Siberia, her experience teaching kids about dogs in schools, her present work with dogs with her business, Strawberry Fields Dog School, her new Basset Hound puppy, Vulpi, and more!  I met Tanya in 2020, she was part of the Slow Dog Movement Speaker Series in 2021, and we have been keeping in touch and working on a few projects together over the past three years. This interview isfun, informative, and o ten quite informal. Hope you enjoy it!

If you would like to join me on the podcast and share your Slow Dog Movement story, please get in touch. I would love to host you!

Have super 'tempo giusto' week with some good SLOW times too,

Laura

Links:

1.    Tanya on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/strawberry_fields_dogschool/

2.    Tanya’s bio on our website:  https://www.slowdogmovement.org/about-us (scroll down)

3.    I mentioned the GAPS Diet

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The opinions of our affiliates and other contributors expressed within the content of this podcast are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions or views of the SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C. or its members.

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Our 'A Dog's Pace' podcast will be recorded every month and include member interviews, special guests and other SLOW focused stories and content. 

Hope you enjoy this October episode where Birgitta Geerlings and I discuss ‘Sensory Gardens for Dogs’ and we get to know Birgitta a bit better. Birgitta Geerlings is a dog coach in Lapland and specialises in helping dogs and their humans with separation anxiety. She also runs the Sensory Gardens 4 Dogs website and Facebookpage, celebrating these spaces and providing a plethora of information for those who are interested. Birgitta offers 1:1 or group workshops in creating a sensory garden for your own dog, for other dogs or for a shelter or other business. 

If you would like to join me on the podcast and share your Slow Dog Movement story, please get in touch. I would love to host you!

Have super 'tempo giusto' week with some good SLOW times too,

Laura

© 2020–2026 SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C.

The opinions of our affiliates and other contributors expressed within the content of this podcast are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions or views of the SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C. or its members.

If you want to SHARE, CARE: credit and quote us and use our hashtags #slowdogmovement and #donothingwithyourdog

Our 'A Dog's Pace' podcast will be recorded every month and include member interviews, special guests and other SLOW focused stories and content. Please check out our other full episodes on this platform.

Hope you enjoy this September episode where Pennie Clayton and I discuss ‘Scavenging’ and dogs, amongst other topics. Pennie Clayton is author of highly recommended book, ‘A Dog for All Seasons’ She is also our former co-director at the Slow Dog Movement, runs a sister Facebook group to ours called ‘Enhancing the Life of Your Hound,’ offers enrichment and behaviour services at her wonderful sensory dog garden, Crabtree Canine Enrichment and Training Centre, in East Sussex, is a Bowen Therapist for humans and dogs, runs puppy classes in her area, is a writer for Edition Dog Magazine, and works on a 1:1 basis with both dog and horse guardians amongst other numerous dog professional activities!

If you would like to join me on the podcast and share your Slow Dog Movement story, please get in touch. I would love to host you!

Have super 'tempo giusto' week with some good SLOW times too,

Laura

© 2020–2026 SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C.

The opinions of our affiliates and other contributors expressed within the content of this podcast are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions or views of the SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C. or its members.

If you want to SHARE, CARE: credit and quote us and use our hashtags #slowdogmovement and #donothingwithyourdog

Our 'A Dog's Pace' podcast will be recorded every month and include member interviews, special guests and other SLOW focused stories and content. Please check out our other full episodes on this platform.

Hope you enjoy this August episode where Nadine Mazzola and I discuss ‘Co-regulating with your dog’ in everyday life and while forest bathing. Nadine Mazzola is author of the wonderfully readable and doable book, ‘Forest Bathing with Your Dog.’ She is also a Forest Bathing Guide and teacher and you can read more about her work here.

If you would like to join me on the podcast and share your Slow Dog Movement story, please get in touch. I would love to host you!

Have super 'tempo giusto' week with some good SLOW times too,

Laura

© 2020–2026 SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C.

The opinions of our affiliates and other contributors expressed within the content of this podcast are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions or views of the SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C. or its members.

If you want to SHARE, CARE: credit and quote us and use our hashtags #slowdogmovement and #donothingwithyourdog

Our 'A Dog's Pace' Podcast will be recorded every month and include member interviews, special guests and other SLOW focused stories and content. Please check out our other full episodes on this platform.

Join me for Episode 5 of 'A Dog's Pace' Podcast where I interview Sieske Valk, Founder, CEO & Care Coordinator of Autumn Animals in London. Sieske is new to the Slow Dog Movementbut not to going SLOW with her dog walking canine clients, her Autumn Animals clients (human and mammal), nor herself. Sieske practices yoga and uses breathwork and other mindful methods to help those in her care.

In this episode, Sieske and I talk about slowing down with dogs, her dog walking business, Autumn Animals and caring for dogs in their 'Autumn' time of life, the effect of lockdown on humans and our canine friends, and more!

I hope that you enjoy this belated episode and thank Winkie Spiers for the introduction to Sieske. 

Some promised links: 

Autumn Animals

Free 'qualityof life' assessment

'Howto walk a dog - especially an older one' Blog post

If you would like to join me on the podcast and share your Slow Dog Movement story, please get in touch. I would love to host you!

Have super 'tempo giusto'week with some good SLOW times too,

Laura

© 2020–2026 SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C.

The opinions of our affiliates and other contributors expressed within the content of this podcast are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions or views of the SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C. or its members.

If you want to SHARE, CARE: credit and quote us and use our hashtags #slowdogmovement and #donothingwithyourdog

Our 'A Dog's Pace' podcast will be recorded every month and include member interviews, special guests and other SLOW focused stories and content. Please check out our other full episodes on this platform.

Pennie and Laura discuss their experiences with sensory overload in dogs. Both Pennie and Laura run enriched environments for dogs in the U.K. Pennie’s outdoor space with cover is called Crabtree Canine Enrichment and Training Centre in East Sussex and Laura’swas an indoor‘ sensory dog garden’ in the heart of Old Town, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire and it’s called Snuffl. Laura [did] and Pennie offer 1:1 dog behaviour consultations and they also have three rescue dogs each to add insight into what scenarios and lifestyles push dogs into this unfortunate state and what we can do about it. Pennie is a Bowen Therapist and runs puppy classes, social walks and more. She also just published a book entitled 'A Dog for All Seasons.' 

*Unfortunately, Snuffl closed down in July 2023 due to flooding and future flooding risk.

With references from the Advanced Aggression Course by Dr. Amber Batson (Durham, 2020):

Ref. Berridge, K. C., & Kringelbach, M. L. (2013). Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure anddispleasure. Current opinion in neurobiology, 23(3), 294-303.

And Caston 1993.

If you would like to join me on the podcast and share your Slow Dog Movement story, please get in touch. I would love to host you!

Have super 'tempo giusto' week with some good SLOW times too,

Laura

© 2020–2026 SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C.

The opinions of our affiliates and other contributors expressed within the content of this podcast are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions or views of the SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C. or its members.

If you want to SHARE, CARE: credit and quote us and use our hashtags #slowdogmovement and #donothingwithyourdog

Our 'A Dog's Pace' podcast will be recorded every month and include member interviews, special guests and other SLOW focused stories and content. Please check out our other full episodes on this platform.

Kirsty Falk has been contributing to our Slow Dog Movement C.I.C. Facebook Group since January 2021 and I had only spoken with her once, prior to this recording. Our intro conversation was so interesting that I knew that this would be a thoughtful podcast, on Kirsty’s part and I was right. Her lengthy experience as a caring walker of other peoples’ dogs is evident during this interview. You will want to hear it all! Apologies for the echoey sound on my side of the recording. I have no idea why this happened. 

If you would like to join me on the podcast and share your Slow Dog Movement story, please get in touch. I would love to host you!

Have super 'tempo giusto' week with some good SLOW times too,

Laura

© 2020–2026 SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C.

The opinions of our affiliates and other contributors expressed within the content of this podcast are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions or views of the SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C. or its members.

If you want to SHARE, CARE: credit and quote us and use our hashtags #slowdogmovement and #donothingwithyourdog

Our 'A Dog's Pace' podcast will be recorded every month and include member interviews, special guests and other SLOW focused stories and content. Please check out our other full episodes on this platform.

Hope you enjoy this second episode where our former co-directors, Jonas Thulin and Santos Salcines Nazabal, broadcast from Spain to discuss ‘How We Condition Dogs with Their Sense of Smell.’ Santos and Jonas are good friends and colleagues and have their own podcast in Spanish, called ‘Los Primos,’in English ‘The Cousins’ https://www.youtube.com/@losprimos-santosyjonas5703.

Jonas has his own podcast in Spain called ‘Pongamos Que Hablo de Perros’ or in English ‘Let’s Say I’m Talking About Dogs’: https://pongamosquehablodeperros.info/You can also find him here: http://jonasthulin.com/en/

Santos is a busy man! Probably the best way to see what he is up to is to visit his Faceboook page: https://www.facebook.com/sansalcines
But if you don’t have FB, try visiting his blog page: https://sanjanandogs.wordpress.com/

Both Santos and Jonas are founding members of https://anpecec.org/

If you would like to join me on the podcast and share your Slow Dog Movement story, please get in touch. Either one of our directors or I would love to host you!

Have super 'tempo giusto' week with some good SLOW times too,

Laura

© 2020–2026 SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C.

The opinions of our affiliates and other contributors expressed within the content of this podcast are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions or views of the SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C. or its members.

If you want to SHARE, CARE: credit and quote us and use our hashtags #slowdogmovement and #donothingwithyourdog

Our 'A Dog's Pace' podcast will be recorded every month and include member interviews, special guests and other SLOW focused stories and content. Please check out our other full episodes on this platform.

Hope you enjoy this first episode where Pennie and I discuss 'The Slow Fix' and 'What is the Slow Dog Movement' in our waxing lyrical style. Apologies for some of the sound quality - we had WIFI issues. It can only get better and better.

If you would like to join me on the podcast and share your Slow Dog Movement story, please get in touch. I would love to host you!

Have super 'tempo giusto' week with some good SLOW times too,

Laura

© 2020–2026 SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C.

The opinions of our affiliates and other contributors expressed within the content of this podcast are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions or views of the SLOW DOG MOVEMENT© C.I.C. or its members.

If you want to SHARE, CARE: credit and quote us and use our hashtags #slowdogmovement and #donothingwithyourdog