Hey Everyone is this episode of the podcast Kris and Rodney are joined by TMWD trainer Stetson! Together we cover our most controversial position yet, the cons of neutering your dog. Covering a few different medical studies and drawing from our personal experiences, we dive into some of the risk that can come from neutering your dog. If you have any questions please hit us up on our social media platforms and thanks for listening!

(*show note, there are some bleeped curse words in this episode*)

Hey Listeners! On this episode, Kris and Rodney touch on the requested subject of how to pick your new puppy! Kris has some great tips, and suggested mindsets for helping all of you add to your family with a new pup! Hope you all enjoy and don't forget to send us more topics to cover!

In this episode Kris and Rodney invite their fellow crew members Lynn and Liz onto the podcast. The group goes over the incredibly important roles these ladies fill here at TMWD and Wild Instincts. We also discuss nutrition issues and Liz's scary detailed eye! Please enjoy getting to know some more of our crew members that really make up the back-bone of what we do!

In this episode Kris and Rodney talk about what stress does to our dogs. Stress can have a place in training, but we also go over options to help mitigate stress for our dogs. This is a very common reason for pet owners to seek out help for their dogs in the first place, so please enjoy, and remember to start sending us questions and topics you would like covered in the future!

In this episode Kris and Rodney talk about expectations you should have for your dog when you're ready to start training. They also cover the differences in obedience and bite work based training. Hopefully at the end you can approach your training with an open mind, open eyes, and an open heart!

In this episode, Kris and Rodney talk about the overuse of the word "no" in dog training. Both sports trainers and pet dog trainers are almost guaranteed miss-assigning the best times about when to say the phrase "no". Now this seems like a surface issue, but using any cue incorrectly can confuse our dogs and lead to stress we don't need in our training. Please join us for this conversation, and re-think "no".

In this episode, Kris, Ian, and Rodney discuss different motivational "drives" for your dog. We try to identify all of them, and discuss there "strength" and "endurance." These are strong devices to manipulate our dogs in to achieving what both you the owner, and the dog want. Ian and Rodney also throw and curve-ball to Kris leading to a funny conversation (baseball pun intended for those who get it). Please enjoy!

In this episode the guys sit down with Thom Payne. Thom Payne is a retired San Diego Police Officer who literally wrote the book on K-9 procedures for law enforcement across the world. Thom is a long time friend and mentor for Kris. He is an expert dog handler and drops a lot of history on us. We also get the details on how Kris found his amazing dog and former champion, the unfortunately late and great Gordon! Gordon fans this ones for you!

In this episode, Kris and Rodney sit down and go over the positive benefits of healthy nutrition for your dogs! They cover different types of diets, ingredients in foods, and highlight the raw food company that is sister to TMWD wild instincts raw! Find out how to improve your dogs learning performance and overall health in this episode! Also, please start to send us questions this episode generates for you at any of our social media (links in show notes)!

In this episode, TMWD introduces the hosts, Kris Taylor, Rodney Daniel, and Ian Sachs. We go over our respective histories in the dog and pet industry, and touch on how we came to work together. We also deep dive into the history of forming Taylor Made Working Dogs in order to help establish why we are in a position to help you and your dog(s)!