Dealing with difficult clients and people is a show we have danced around for a while but decided to finally do it.  Anyone in business or life, has moments where discussing issues with people can be difficult.

We all have different ways and recommendations of managing these outcomes to attempt to better resolve the outcome.

Glenn and Pat share a few of many experiences over the years of dealing with some of the more memorable people and how they worked on the outcome.

Conflict resolution is a big business in this day and age with books, seminars, pod-casts and more.  Add animals to that mix and you can sometimes be looking at a bigger explosion.

An earlier episode we did, http://www.thecanineparadigm.com/2018/07/18/episode-36-keeping-sane-in-the-dog-industry/ helps a little for trainers and industry people when they need a time out.

You can also check in with our resident psychologist, Birdie O’Sheedy for some back to sanity assistance.

Jerry Bradshaw is known around the world as the father of PSA, (Protection Sports Association).  Jerry is also well known through his successful training company, Tarheel canine.

The Tarheel team have been supplying and training Police and law enforcement agencies with dogs that will suit the needs for tactical street work.

Along with that, Jerry has been travelling the world lecturing and teaching on canine behaviour. He has his own podcast called Controlled Aggression and also a tactical manual by the same name.

If you have been a listener of the show for anytime you would know that both Glenn and Pat are involved in the sport of PSA and Pat was largely involved with successfully setting up PSA in Australia, forming a club, Iron Fist PSA with Glenn and trialling dogs.

You may even recall us speaking with Shawn and Janet Edwards in an earlier episode who have worked for, decoy for and judge for Jerry.

Dog parks dystopia or utopia came about after Glenn had a small rant on social responsibilities and then Pat re-listened to the episode to correct a point on dog parks.

As Pat has a local community dog park area that functions well, he felt the need to makes some valid contributions about how well good people and their dogs behave in some areas.

Like everything, there are good and bad dog parks, so the important take home message is to ensure good research is conducted prior to taking your dog there and coming home with a bad experience.

We unpack a few topics through this discussion and it goes around in a few different directions, however the modus operandi is always around being responsible and following a good duty of care when out in public with your dog.

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Glenn & Pat discuss the social responsibility issue with people making poor examples of themselves and particularly their breed when out in public spaces.  A lot of people want to be out in public spaces with their dog, enjoying the social environment, however there are people who are very vague about their dog and mistake excitability for aggression and problematic behaviour.

As always we are advocates of training and we encourage all people who own dogs to become more educated about teaching better form of engagement so you can really enjoy your dog without being in fear of it risking public safety or an altercation with another dog.

We also mention that Jay Jack’s SR test through his GRC program is a very easy, very accessible platform for all dog owners, especially the ones that need it, to give them a platform to help in providing a working outlet.

Hot seat stories from the IACP, comes directly from our time in Florida where we got to sit in a room with some of the many amazing people we know or met along the way at the conference.

We got to share stories, listen to origins of other trainers, share some laughs and generally hang out with amazing people while Jay Jack was heckling in the background.

As we have mentioned, one of the amazing experiences of travelling is meeting new people and making new friends from around the world as we have had the good fortune of doing and by having a conduit such as The Canine Paradigm and other industry shows, we can reach out to people all over the world to help bring our industry closer together.

We would like to thank, George Kittridge, Emma Grae Murdock, Bill Church, Josh Moran, Byron Flores, Jay Jack, Chad Mackin, Alex Edwards and Jas Whiting for a great session.

Get ready to get sweaty.

Glenn and Pat and a whole bunch of sweaty Aussies have returned from the IACP conference in Tampa Bay Florida with a whole bunch of stories and a podcast that was done in Glenn’s hotel room that will be following soon from the IACP wrap up.

We meet with some amazing people and had an awesome time networking and sharing stories and experiences, dancing on the beach, getting intoxicated at the gala and generally having a lot of fun together.

We had a lot of amazing feedback on the show from a lot of USA residents and several of the Canadian crew that were too.  We cannot express our appreciation from you guys for following our show and offering such supportive feedback.  it was overwhelming.

We were also advised that we should be making a Patreon account, which we have done to help sponsor the show.

Much love again to all those who make time to listen to our podcast.

More questions, more answers.  As we didn’t have time to cover the questions asked of us in the last episode, we agreed that it was only reasonable to do another session so we could make our way through more from our listeners so enjoy Questions from our audience Part 2.

This episode gets a little preachy but not without good cause.  There are factions in our industry that are not cooperating with each other and it’s not due to any good reason other than ego getting in the way and preventing good relationships from occurring and productivity.

As an industry we need to look at more reasons to come together, not for more reasons to separate.  we are small and vulnerable when we argue and fight.

We like to acknowledge the people who listen to our show because without you it would just be two Johno’s sitting in a room entertaining each other. In this episode we answer some listener questions with TCP pearls of wisdom.

Thanks to everyone who took a moment to write in and again to those who provide feedback and send words of support to let us know what you like, what made you laugh, made you cry, what’s important and much more.

we want to do more of this in the future so please feel free to join us in our forums to discuss important topics OR even let us know about one you may be aware of.

We get to speak with one of Americas top dog training Vloggers and all round nice guy, Larry Krohn about his origins and his book. Larry has an amazing following and fan base of frustrated dog owners who he has shed some wisdom to in many of his on-line recordings.

We also find out that Larry is also a federal agent for homeland security, so he has to train dogs around his very important full time job.

An incredibly nice guy and an asset to our industry, we hope to speak more with Larry in the future.

Dissecting ego is an episode we have wanted to look at for some time now as it can be a troublesome emotion that many of us find damages opportunity, relationships and more. This week we get our resident psychologist, Birdie O’Sheedie back for her 3rd time on the show to help us look at what this little monster is and how to keep it under better control.

If you find that people start to disappear from your life, perhaps it’s time to start thinking about looking within to make some small or large changes to enjoy those relationships rather than continue to drive them away.