EP7: How to own your own training without pissing anyone off
We’ve been picking up a comment from one of our listeners about being new in dog sports and finding it hard to get the space and wiggle room to own your own training without offending your decoy, trainer or more experienced training buddies with boundaries or suggestions. How do we navigate the respect for the experience and the knowledge around us without having to give in and give up everything we want to try, believe in or see working?
Emma tried to spark an inspiring conversation about where in the world we want to live, but Tanya is neutral to everything and Alba wants her mom.
Hosts:
Emma @ravenk9dogtraining
Alba @saneisboring
Tanya @belgianfurmissile
This episode is sponsored by the amazing Poppy Parker photography
https://www.poppyparkerphotography.com/
We have Ann on, not to talk about her malinois Patty - the dog who she is the current world champion in PSA3 with - but her three offsprings; who are all bred, owned and trained by Ann; a fascinating experiment and an example of total, and a bit insane, devotion.
When will she even trial her younger dogs? What do we think about social media, why do Ann talk about her clients tits and is there electricity on the island we’re sending her to?
HOSTS:
Alba @saneisboring
Tanya @belgianfurmissile
Emma @ravenk9dogtraining
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EP5: Markus needs to buy a horse
Emma has bought a horse, and Alba needs to get a life. We talk about how we attach too much of our identities to dogs, and dog sports, and how that makes it harder to make good choices - for yourself, and for your dogs.
Did that affect us when all three of us choose to retire our main sport dog? How did people around us take it? And can dogs be a hobby, family and work without having you go ✨mad & sad✨?
Hosts:
Tanya @belgianfurmissile
Alba @saneisboring
Emma @ravenk9dogtraining
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EP4: The Backlash of Speaking Up
In this episode we have Helena as a guest, who got her first sport dog 2021, and went from a newbie to making a reserve spot as US-6 for the world championship for German Shepherds in IGP 2024. But what happened with Helenas spot in the team? Why do we need to talk about the hair of the German shepherd for 10 min? Where does her bravery to speak out against the very well establish top of the sport come from? And how does she manage the backlash of doing so? Have dog sport welcomed her, as a new and young female talent?
Fill up on bravery and learn why you shouldn’t meet your heroes during this very open and vulnerable episode.
Helena wants to send a big thank you to Joeri Veth for getting her to her goals and believing in her.
Hosts:
Emma @ravenk9dogtraining
Tanya @belgianfurmissile
Alba @saneisboring
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EP3: Our Dogs Do Suck a Little
Let’s take off the rose colored glasses and take a look at what we hate with our dogs. In a social media world where it sometimes feel like a race between lifting your own dogs up and searching for faults in others; to end up with the most perfect dog - we admit that all of our dogs have faults. They do things we hate and we tell you all about it, dog by dog.
We bring a bunch of the listeners pet peeves with their own dogs, most of them very relatable - and some of them hilariously specific.
Hosts:
Emma @ravenk9dogtraining
Tanya @belgianfurmissile
Alba @saneisboring
Girls Just Want To Train Dogs is an all girl podcast, a best friend for and by girls in the dog training industry. A safe space for discussions about successes, struggles and all things girls. And dogs. Pet dogs, sport dogs and the dogs we pet on the vacations we never have.
We’re cleaning poop, buying iced coffees and want to to excel in dog sport, run our businesses and try to remember to eat while men on instagram won’t believe that our dogs can heel without a visible reward.
Emma @ravenk9dogtraining
Alba @saneisboring
Tanya @belgianfurmissile