Arizona's Courtney Denham is the CEO of Wilderness Athlete, which is a company that also produces the K9 Athlete product lineup. Denham is dedicated to human and canine fitness, and is an expert on how to assess and address quality of life in working dogs of all ages and activity levels. We cover it all from canine health & wellness to whether or not dogs have a 6th sense. This is a great one full of extremely valuable information to improve your dog’s quality of life, as well as your own!

Nathan Hall is the Director of the Canine Olfaction Research and Education Laboratory as well as an Assistant Professor of Companion Animal Sciences at Texas Tech University. His current research is designed to fully understand what our dogs are capable of and how we can use that to our advantage as amateur handlers. We discuss the history of the canine and talk in-depth about the detection abilities of a dog’s nose.

Susanna Love has been training dogs for 14 years, but developed a love for communicating with animals in her childhood while growing up on a ranch in West Texas. Today, Love and her husband Ronnie Smith, are recognized as some of the best pointing dog trainers in the country.

Seattle's Don Wargowsky spends part of his year guiding clients on the highest peaks in the world, including Everest. During one of his recent climbs, a mutt showed up in camp and attached itself to Wargowsky to the point where it wouldn't leave his side and eventually summited a 23,000-foot peak with him. This one is a must-listen.

Joe Spoo is a veterinarian who lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He's also an upland hunting addict who owns several bird dogs and is a wealth of knowledge on in-field and off-season sporting dog care. This podcast is full of valuable information including weight & nutrition, ACL issues with specific breeds, when to spay & neuter your dog and much more. This one is definitely worth a listen.

Craig Koshyk is an accomplished photographer who has pivoted his career into work that involves sporting dogs of all varieties. He also owns a Picardy Spaniel and is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to the history of many different bird dog breeds.

Pete Coppolillo is the Director of Working Dogs for Conservation, which is an organization devoted to utilizing dogs to combat poaching efforts and stem the movements of invasive species throughout the world. He's also an avid bird hunter from Montana who spends much of his time each fall hunting with his Griffon. We discuss how these dogs are trained for conservation work to help with ecological monitoring & wildlife crime & what is involved in combating invasive species.

Owner of Standing Stone Kennels, Ethan Pippitt, is most well-known for breeding top-quality German shorthairs and for his ability to take problem dogs and turn them into dream companions. His training style is built around reading and truly understanding the individual dog, and then working with them to achieve full potential. Ethan covers some unique training techniques including formal retrieval work & much more.

Hannah Decker has spent much of her advanced education developing an understanding of the human/canine relationship while simultaneously training dogs to use their noses for unconventional roles. She is also currently working to build a network of citizen dog owners to combat the spread of invasive species at a local level. This is a fascinating podcast in which Hannah explains how she trained an archaeological detection dog, her methodology when it comes to scent training & motivation and much more.

Sammy Livingston is the owner of Livingston Gun Dogs. He prides himself on producing some of the best British Lab litters in the country, as well as developing top-notch gun and companion dogs through a structured and consistent training philosophy.