Raising Indiana: Final Episode with Patricia McConnell

In this our last installment of our three part conversation with Dr. McConnell, we take an audience question and discuss dominance theory, discerning fear in dogs, biophelia (Yep I never heard that word before) and learning to read dog's facial expressions.  

As like to finish with style and we couldn't imagine a better way to conclude the series.  A big whopping thanks to Dr. McConnell for taking the time out of her extremely busy schedule to help us with Raising Indiana.  

Upcoming Podcast Guests

Raising Indiana airs every Thursday at 8pm EST

So who’s going to be Indy’s guest in 2012?

January 26th--Part 3 of our fantastic interview with Patricia McConnell, PhD
Dr. McConnell is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist (CAAB), highly-sought after dog trainer, speaker and the author of much-acclaimed books including The Other End of the Leash.
http://www.patriciamcconnell.com/
http://www.theotherendoftheleash.com/

February 2nd--Ian Dunbar.  Dr. Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist and dog trainer. Dr. Dunbar is the author of numerous books and DVD series including AFTER You Get Your Puppy. In 1982, Dr. Dunbar designed and taught the world’s first off-lead puppy socialization & training class. We’re speaking to Dr. Dunbar as SIRIUS Puppy Training celebrates its 30th birthday!
http://www.siriuspup.com/index.html
http://www.dogstardaily.com/

February 9th--Kyle Peterson with P.E.T.S. LLC Transport
Kyle and Pam Peterson’s animal transport company has saved the lives of 34,326 pets since their beginning in 2003! We chat with the star of Animal Planet’s Last Chance Highway about animalrescue, long-haul drives and his love of puppies. http://www.petsllc.net/index.php

We have a cool blog addition to this podcast that follows the life on a rescued dog in Tennessee, Sonic, through his foster home (with me and my family), his journey with P.E.T.S. LLC to Connecticut and his life with his new forever family!

Valentine’s Day Special—February 16th--Sheryl Matthys of leashesandlovers.com
Should we set Luke up with an online dating profile? Our Valentine’s Day Special Podcast is all about the love and connection pet owners share. Sheryl Matthys is the founder of leashes and lovers online match-making service and author of the book by the same name. You don’t want to miss this Raising Indiana podcast!
http://leashesandlovers.com/

February 23rd--Jackie Obando, DVM
Dr. Obando was born in Brazil where she studied veterinary medicine, afterward traveling to Europe to further study homeopathy. We chat with Dr. Obando about homeopathic therapies and raw food
nutrition.  http://mercyvet.com/

March 1st--Jill Gainer with Nature’s Variety
Nature’s Variety is a natural pet food company passionate about providing proper, holistic nutritionfor our pets. Our conversation with Ms. Gainer continues a theme on Raising Indiana to provide accurate information about the importance of what our pets eat. If your dog has allergy be sure to tune in! http://www.naturesvariety.com/

March 8th--Cathy Ball, VMD, MS with Summit VetPharm
How do I prevent fleas and ticks is a common question we hear at Raising Indiana. Dr. Ball discusses how the Summit VetPharm line of products including Vectra for Dogs and Vectra3D can help prevent fleas and ticks. Hudson tested and approved!
http://www.summitvetpharm.com

March 15th--Linda Westin from Friends of Cookeville Putnam County Animals
President of the FOCPCA, Mrs. Westin, has exciting news about the first-of-its-kind P.E.T. Care Campus being designed and built in Cookeville, Tennessee from funds raised by this non-profit organization. Shelter Directors, Humane Society Directors and animal welfare caregivers should not miss this podcast!
http://www.friendsofcpcanimals.org/

March 22nd--Dr. Jean Dodds of Hemopet
Dr. Dodds founded Hemopet, a non-profit animal blood bank & greyhound rescue/
adoption program, in 1986. She is a highly-respected authority of endocrine disorders in dogs, titer testing and vaccinations. We’ll be speaking with Dr. Dodds regarding the later topic - vaccinations of our pets. Dr. Dodds will return to Raising Indiana later in the year to discuss her other various expertises.
http://www.hemopet.org/

We had an overwhelming response of audience questions for Dr. Dodds. We’ll be presenting an accompanying blog for this podcast. Dr. Dodds was kind enough to answer all of our questions there.

**We want to disclaim that Raising Indiana is not against vaccinating our companion animals. For the safety of our pet population it is important that the majority of the herd population be vaccinated against common diseases. Please discuss all vaccine options with your veterinainian.

March 29th--Lisa Spector
Luke is in his element with Lisa Spector from Through a Dog’s Ear. Did you know Luke used to sing opera to his first dog, Malcolm? Well, we can’t wait to discuss the applied theories of calming your pet in various situations with classical music!
http://throughadogsear.com/
http://throughadogsear.com/lisa-spectors-blog/

April 5th--Robert Mueller, co-founder of BARF World
We so enjoyed our first podcast with Mr. Mueller that we jumped at the chance to have him back to discuss disease and diet with Luke. Catch up with the first interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBW2ZfCrLg0&list=UUg-8QUs87Hq2lVXrKqqgfSA&index=9&feature=plcp
http://www.barfworld.com/
http://www.barfworld.com/blog/

This has been a popular topic with many audience questions that Mr. Mueller will answer in an accompanying blog post.

April 12th -Nick Dodman, BVMS from Tufts’ Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.  Dr. Dodman will be joining us and Indy to discuss his books The Well-Adjusted Dog and Puppy’s First Steps. Dr. Dodman is one of the world’s most celebrated veterinary behaviorists and prolific authors. He also has a book about dogs behaving badly—watch out Indy!
http://www.thepetdocs.com/who_nick.html

April 19th-- Susan Lauten, PhD
We are so excited for Dr. Lauten’s Raising Indiana podcast on nutrition! As our pets grow and mature one of the most defining aspects on their health is nutrition. Dr. Lauten began Pet Nutrition Consulting in 2001, and she works daily with veterinary specialists, pet owners and veterinarians to provide the appropriate nutritional recommendations.
http://www.petnutritionconsulting.com/

April 26th--Dog Scouts of America
Dog Scouts of America was founded in 1995 as a non-profit dedicated to enriching the lives of pet owners and their dogs. This is going to be fun! DSA has so many fun programs and events— they love learning new things & so does Indy!
http://www.dogscouts.org/MI_camp_photos_C899.html

May 3rd-- Kat Martin
Kat Martin from Nashville’s Dogs and Kat has been voted Nashville’s Best Dog Trainer 4 years in a row! Not to mention that she runs the very fabulous See Spot Eat boutique and treat shop. We’ll chat with Kat about puppy socialization and training.  http://dogsandkat.com/

Indy, Luke and myself have many more exciting guests coming up on future Raising Indiana podcasts.

Don’t forget we’ve had amazing experts on for previous podcasts such as Dr. Temple Grandin, Dr. Stanley Coren and Dr. Sharon Startup, to name a few. You can listen to all the past podcasts at http://www.youtube.com/user/RaisingIndiana

Raising Indiana airs every Thursday at 8pm EST on http://raisingindiana.com

Here’s to Raising Indiana and all of our pets to be the best they can be!

Raising Indiana Producer, Sheila Rinks

Raising Indiana: Patricia McConnell Part II

Today Indiana turned 7 months old... my little snowflake my oh my how time flies..

This week we continue our discussion with Dr. McConnell on a whole host of issues like separation anxiety in puppies, her books The Other End of the Leash and Love Has No Age Limits as well as helping shelter dogs.  

It's another exceptional and information packed episode of Raising Indiana. Enjoy!

FLP

If you've never read Michael Crichton's autobiography Travels you should.  In it, he talks about some of the curiously inane traditions of doctors, one of which is their use of secret acronyms to describe patients.  Like FLK for 'Funny Looking Kid'.

Breakfasting with Kerry and Robin at PJ's Pancake House last week in Princeton, it became apparent that their Newfoundland puppy, Beanie, is going through the same  awkward growth stage that Indiana is - where he's all knees and elbows.

So we decided Beanie was a FLN 'Funny Looking Newfie' and Indiana is a FLP 'Funny Looking Pyrenees'.

What's yours?

Raising Indiana: Patricia McConnell Part I

To ring in the new year, we are surpremely honored to welcome one of the true greats in the world of animal behavoir & dog training - Dr. Patricia McConnell.

Her accolades are many; she has a doctorate in zoology, her book The Other End of the Leash, has been translated into 13 languages, and she's published many others as well.

Above and beyond all that, she's warm and personable, a wealth of information, and a truly gracious guest.

In Episode I of a three part series Dr. McConnell gives her top three pieces of advice for new puppy parents, why puppies don't come 'Plug and Play', and whether everyone with a new dog consult with a professional dog trainer.  

You won't want to miss this episode of Raising Indiana

Check out some of Dr. McConnell's other great books:

The Puppy Primer

And her latest, Love Has No Age Limits 

A New Year, A New Look, and a New Home

And a Bigger Purpose!  

Welcome to Raising Indiana v2.012  - formerly a podcast about the joys and pains of puppyhood.  When the new year comes it's always a good time to take stock of things and Sheila and I spent some time talking over the holidays about where we're going with the podcast and what do we want it to be when it gets all grow'd up.  

And, perhaps, more importantly, when does a puppy stop being a puppy and become a dog?  And when Indy does become a dog is that the end of the podcast?  Have we served our purpose and time to move on?  I get a little existentialistic during the silly season.  

Why not instead use this platform to follow his entire life since, as pet parents, there never really is an end to learning and growing and even though the relationship changes over time it still requires lots of work.  

As I am writing this blog I've realized how fortunate we are that we get to experience every phase of dog's life, an impossibility within species.  

And that's what we're going to do here at Raising Indiana.  Every happiness and hardship; every adventure and challenge will be posted here as well as our weekly podcasts with pet experts and people we meet on our travels.  We hope you'll be with us on our journey...