Doggie Stoic

The Shelter Series continues with Gina, founder of Korean K9 Rescue. While visiting family in South Korea, Gina found a “shelter” that was just cages in an open field, and a few hundred feet down the road, a dog meat farm holding 200 dogs. She brought a few dogs back to New York. Today her rescue runs a 20,000-square-foot rehabilitation center outside Seoul and has placed more than 3,700 dogs in the tri-state area. Andrew and co-host Ana talk with Gina about Jindos, the “pit bulls of Korea,” why she requires every adopter to work with a dog trainer, and how play transformed her center. In this episode: Why Jindos fill Korea’s shelters, and what’s behavior versus breed What it really costs to bring one dog 7,000 miles The mandatory-trainer rule, and the Jindo Journey Fund that helps adopters pay for it How play changed everything at the rescue center Mongoon: the shut-down dog who was “never going to see the light of day” Remy: why the dog everyone thought was broken was actually overmedicated The constraint of time: why two-week board and trains fail dogs Korea’s upcoming ban on the dog meat trade Adoption since COVID, vet costs, and keeping dogs in homes Starting positive, then building on it: Gina’s approach to training rescue dogs

Shane Hudson has volunteered at his local municipal shelter in Michigan for six years. It started with his own dog, Weller, a friendly 90-pound pit bull mix who became so reactive that Shane couldn’t take him anywhere. He’d been told never to correct a dog. He learned to reward everything and had no way to stop anything, until one afternoon in a friend’s backyard changed how he saw training.In this episode of the Doggie Stoic Shelter Series, Andrew and co-host Ana talk with Shane about:Baby Ruth, the “unadoptable” dog who now loves crowdsWhat really leads to a “bite case” labelWhether any dog is truly unfixableForce-free vs. old-school compulsion: which does more harm?Puppies on SSRIs, and why Shane weans dogs off medication before trainingA live debate on telling a 4-month-old puppy “no”Why free clients fail, and how trainers can make training affordableFollow Shane on Instagram at @useddogenthusiast.

Note: Windows Theory is Jay Jack and TWC certification is Ivan Balabanov She’s fostered more than 500 dogs. Here’s what she’s learned about the ones nobody else will take. The Shelter Series continues with Jenny, founder of Dog Gone Seattle, a foster-based rescue that usually has more than 100 dogs in care. Eleven years ago, Jenny saw how rescues can fail dogs and decided to start her own. Since then, her home has been a revolving door for the dogs that failed out of fosters, were returned by adopters, or were labeled “behavior cases” and left with nowhere to go. Andrew and co-host Anna talk with Jenny about building a rescue from scratch, why her crate rules aren’t optional, and what it costs to be open about using tools in a world that wants to ban them.

What happens to a dog after it’s labeled “aggressive”?Welcome to the first episode of the Shelter Series on Doggie Stoic, a new series looking at where so many of the dogs we train come from, and why so many end up back there.Andrew is joined by his new co-host, Anna, who has volunteered with shelter dogs across the US, Croatia, and Estonia, and by Noah from Canine Nexus. Noah spent years working in a Humane Society before starting his own training business. Together they look at what shelter life actually does to a dog, the labels that follow dogs for life, and what trainers and everyday dog lovers can do to change it.In this episode:What 23.5 hours a day in a kennel does to a dog’s mind and bodyHow a single stressful moment at intake can become a label that decides a dog’s future“Trashcan,” the dog whose life changed with one hour a few times a weekWhy some shelters turn away trainers who want to helpThe rise of behavioral medication in shelters, and what owners are rarely toldWhy can’t we tell a shelter dog “no”? Rewarding calm vs. stopping the behaviorThe pet corrector story that got Noah called into his manager’s office, and got a dog adoptedAndrew’s beef with the “pup cup era”Why every new trainer should spend time in a shelter

For five and a half years, Brendan and Mia did everything they were told. They hired a local force-free trainer, worked with a veterinary behaviorist, tried medication, and followed every protocol. Their Goldendoodle Hallie only got worse. She guarded food, toys, napkins, and anything that hit the floor, in a house with two young children. Eventually every expert they trusted gave them the same answer: she was terminal. Then they found Dylan Jones. Two months after Dylan's case video, Death Sentence Denied: Balanced Training Saves Lives, drew 30,000 views and a wave of backlash, Hallie's owners sit down with Doggie Stoic to tell the story in their own words. They cover what went wrong, what finally worked, the day Mia confronted Hallie for the first time, and the week she spent taking what she believed were her dog's last walks. Whether you're an owner facing an impossible decision or a trainer working behavior cases, this is the side of the story the internet didn't hear. 🎥 Watch Dylan's full case video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syzqcyFnPfQ 🎧