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Scotland Outdoors

A Doggy Special - Sheep Dogs, Dog Walkers and a Deathly Disease

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Forvie Nature Reserve is known for its seal population. Ythan Seal Watch are a volunteer group who promote responsible viewing of seals, Mark met up with them to find out more.

Rachel heads to the beach at Broughty Ferry to chat with Isla Fowler and Jessica Giannotti about SeaDyes, a young company working with the James Hutton Institute to create natural dyes from seaweed.”

Listener and professional dog walker, Liz Merchant challenged Mark to join her and two of her dogs for a walk in a very wet Edinburgh.

Just outside Glasgow, the Salvation Army is turning its outdoor space into a spot for gardening and recovery. Mark visits the Eva Burrows 1st Stop project in Cambuslang, where programme manager Rosie Kehoe is ready to give him a tour.

On the Finzean Estate in Aberdeenshire, Mark joins stalker Hedge Shand who has been teaching chef Sanjay Bhattacharya the art of stalking.

Elizabeth Cameron, Director at Blairgowrie Vets joins Mark and Rachel to discuss loupin ill and how we can protect our dogs.

In Eyemouth, a sculpture called The Wives and Bairns tells the story of those left behind when 189 fishermen, most of them local, died in the storm of October 1881.

Phil Sime and Morven Livingstone speak to Auctioneer Daniel Urquhart from Dingwall Auction Mart at Scotland’s only live sheepdog sale.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:07.0

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it.

0:13.3

But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go?

0:19.2

I remember having this very sharp thought

0:21.7

that what you do right now,

0:23.6

this is it, this defines your life.

0:26.0

I'm ready to talk and ready to listen.

0:28.3

I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this.

0:33.9

Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast.

0:37.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:39.7

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:49.1

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. I'm Mark Stephen. She's Rachel Stewart.

0:54.4

And this is the version of the Scotland Outdoors podcast

0:56.7

which we build from the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland

0:59.8

called Out of Doors.

1:01.2

And this week it's all about our canine companions.

1:05.7

Out of Doors with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart

1:09.2

on BBC Radio Scotland.

1:16.3

I'm not complaining, right, but yesterday we were trying to record in what was the least disciplined, most chaotic recording environment I've ever encountered in my life.

1:27.0

It was hilarious hilarious at one stage

1:28.8

there were 12 people, three babies

1:31.3

and three dogs in a space

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