They explore the meaning behind saying a dog (or a person) is reactive.

Jess talks a bit about why she has taken up a new thing to learn - thermal imaging! And this leads Dawn and Jess into discussing energy in people and auras!

All of this links into realising that neither dogs nor humans are going to be robots - nor should they be. True resilience is not about the lack of reaction, its about you quickly you recover.

They also start talking about the XL Bully's that are in the press in the UK and the discussion on banning the breed. But get sidetracked! So listen to the rest of the discussion in episode 75

Dawn Walton, a human therapist, and Jess Probst, a dog behaviourist talk about addiction and what it really means. It can be used in a positive way in dog training.

Dawn Walton, a human therapist, and Jess Probst, a dog behaviourist talk about the new Mali puppy that Jess has called Percival, and how he is already demonstrating behaviours that could lead to large problems once he's older, if you didn't have a knowledgeable owner. He's quite difference to the golden retriever puppies.

Dawn Walton, a human therapist, and Jess Probst, a dog behaviourist talk about animal welfare and how we seem to have lost the idea that our dogs have their own needs. Jess talks about the idea of needing something more than food and shelter to meet these needs and gives us two scenarios to consider with two different islands.

On that note - do you remember the Timotei advert? Willow doesn't but then she's only 15!

This is recorded on a snazzy new microphone in Tim Hortons. Does it work for you?

Dawn Walton, a human therapist, and Jess Probst, a dog behaviourist talk about empathy and what it really means. Of course we then discuss how that applies to dogs! There was an altercation in Starbucks the other day and we discuss the different ways we both interpreted the event.

Finally we look at the difference between working on symptoms (the branches of a tree) and root cause (the roots of the tree)

We talk about the fight, flight and freeze response - and the similarities between dogs and humans.

Dawn Walton, a human therapist, and Jess Probst, a dog behaviourist are joined by Jessie Montague (story_of_Atlas on instagram) to discuss the current process where owners are attending a 6 day residential with their reactive dog. What is so different about Jess's approach (hint: it's not just how well she understands dogs - it's a team effort)

2 months down the line, Jessie is able to share some of the things she has learned from the journey. It is quite the journey for a dog and the human!

We talk about the social contract with our pet dogs, and what happens when they break it.

In this episode Dawn Walton, a human behaviourist, and Jess Probst, a dog behaviourist decide to refer to themselves as Dr. Dawn and Dr. Jess.

Maybe the problem with energy is not so much the nature of energy itself, but when it's blocked.

This episode is taken from a zoom call so not so much background noise - yay!