Today’s question comes from a viewer who’s wondering how early puppies need to be separated from their littermates to avoid the dreaded “Littermate Syndrome.”

In this episode, I tackle that question and discuss key issues around “littermate syndrome.”‌

• Is littermate syndrome a real thing?‌

If you do keep two littermates, how can you successfully raise them together?‌

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​In a brand new Madcap Radio podcast series, Jane grabs a question from the Puppy Culture discussion group that sparked interested and talks about it on air.

In this first episode, the person asking the question finds herself torn… she’s very attached to a particular puppy in a litter, but also feels like that puppy does not interact a lot with the rest of the litter.

This person has previous experience with a puppy that was somewhat retiring within her litter, and that puppy grew up to be reactive to other dogs. The person is hoping that this new puppy will be her next big performance prospect, but she’s worried about winding up with another reactive dog that she can’t run in dog sports.

What should she do?

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Dietary Choline for Lactating Dams

In this episode, Jane is joined by Magda Chiarella to review dietary supplements and food sources that can help prevent mastitis in lactating dams.  Although sunflower lecithin is often recommended, sunflower lecithin has some potentially serious side effects and there are many far superior dietary sources of the active ingredient in sunflower lecithin, which is choline – phosphatidylcholine, to be exact.

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One Species Evolutionary Meat is another Species Evolutionary Poison

So, your dog eats poop.  Is it deviant?  Or an elegant evolutionary solution?  

In this podcast, Jane and Mark look at the research and talk about the possible functions of poop-eating, what works and does not work to stop it, and why.  

We won’t say you’ll come away happy that your dog eats poop, but for sure you’ll see it in a different light.

Act One: Low Birthweight Puppies

How our "stories" can blind us to what's before our eyes and potentially keep us from learning something new.

Act Three: Early Off-Premises Socialization

Sometimes you really were right.  But then the circumstances changed.  How changing your mind about something does not always. mean you were wrong in the first place.