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Congratulations Martina! I celebrate the day I started to listen to your podcast.
It opened my mind and my relationship and communication with my dogs got better…
This evening I was listening again to some of the episodes while I was working: the one about teaching distance lie down, the one with Megan Wallace and the one about raising awareness.
So inspiring. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🤗🙌
Episode 28: Border Collie Geekery with Sarah Stremming from the Cognitive Canine
In this episode we are going to talk about Sarah Stremming’s four steps to behavioural wellness as well as general Border Collie Stuff! Listen to the episode by clicking here! If you want to learn more about Sarah training tips and knowledge you can find her on her...
Episode 27: My puppy is stalking cars… now what do I do?!
This episode was due! My experience with Tay that at 13 weeks old he showed me interest in wanting to herd cars and how I dealt with the situation, making sure that he never developed that behaviour in the first place!Not everyone understand what is the best way to...
Episode 25: My dog pulls on the lead! Let me talk to you about it.
Lead walking! Everyone hates it... I don't know anyone that likes to teach their dogs to walk on the lead! It can be frustrating, it takes a long time and a lot of external factors will sabotage your plans, mainly things you have no control of. Choosing what to use to...
Episode 23: Border Collies and Obedience with Kamal Fernandez!
Today's guest is the world known obedience coach and trainer Kamal Fernandez.We ended up geeking out about Border Collie genetic predisposition, breeding of different lines for different sports and obedience. I had million of questions but we had limited time so I'm...
Episode 21: Border Collies and herding dogs helping wildlife in Australia with the Skylos Ecology team!
New Podcast Episode! This week we chat with Skylos Ecology, based in Australia! They work with Border Collies and herding mixed breeds to help wildlife and the ecosystem. The job they do is one close to my heart as I'm a wildlife enthusiast and being in love with...
Episode 14: Kids Around Dogs with Debby Lucken
In this episode I'm chatting with Debby about her work with KAD to help families with dogs having the support they need to make sure kids and dogs can understand each other and have all the right introduction and management. In this episode we talk about how to get...
Episode 13: How to teach a distance lie down
As requested from someone of my listeners, here is how I teach a reliable distance lie down, a behaviour that every Border Collie owner should have in their tools! Border Collie are trained to lie down to work with sheep as second most important behaviour after a...
Episode 12: Training multiple dogs and sports, goal setting and residential training and more with Lila Zachwatowicz
Lila is a trainer based in Surrey but originally from Poland. Lila and I got in touch as both moved to the UK in the same period and both are Border Collie obsessed and training fanatics. We trained together a few times and we spend time chatting about Border Collies...
Episode 11: how to manage ball obsessed Border Collies on walks?
This is a question I have been asked to answer from a person in my audience! Do you have a ball obsessed dog? But your dog is also in the habit of chasing runner, bikes and everything that moves!My first suggestion is to remove the ball from your Collie life... at...