Bad dog or bad owner? Who’s really to blame?
Short & Curly
abcpodcasts@abc.net.au
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Most dogs are loving companions, but what about the ones that bite, bark, or cause chaos? Is a dog's bad behaviour their own fault or is it down to the way they were raised? From neglected pups to misunderstood mutts, we dig into the debate: Who's really responsible when a dog goes rogue, and what should we do about it?
Brains Trust — Gibbs Street Public School, Perth: Layla, Avjot, Johanna, Imogen, Sampada, Claudia.
Listen to Short & Curly, the fun and educational ABC kids podcast about philosophy and ethics. Join hosts Molly Daniels, Carl Smith, and philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith as they explore big questions about right and wrong, fairness, truth, knowledge, logic, beauty and art.
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| 0:00.0 | ABC Listen |
| 0:02.0 | What a cute little dog |
| 0:05.0 | Isn't she gorgeous? |
| 0:07.0 | She's a cavoodle so smart and cuddly |
| 0:10.0 | We just love her, don't we? |
| 0:12.0 | Don't we, darling? |
| 0:14.0 | How long have you had her for? |
| 0:15.0 | Had her for? |
| 0:17.0 | Well, actually... |
| 0:19.0 | Pudding! |
| 0:20.0 | Come back here, pudding. |
| 0:21.8 | Come back to Mama. |
| 0:23.9 | Pudding isn't exactly our dog. |
| 0:26.9 | Yeah, we're just big fans. |
| 0:28.5 | You know, we're fans of all the dogs here in this park, actually. |
| 0:31.6 | Look, there's tiger. |
| 0:33.4 | And pumpernickel. |
| 0:35.1 | Oh, and little baby Sherbert, the American Stappie, he is one of our favourites. |
| 0:40.2 | We just come here to Dog Watch. Oh, okay. See, we can't have dogs of our own because, you know, we travel a lot for work. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, we work on short and curly, so sometimes we go to Russia or travel under the ocean and we've been to Greece and to Mars, like quite a lot. |
| 0:57.5 | But then when we're back home, it's dog watching time. |
| 1:01.6 | Carl, that man we were talking to actually walked away a while ago. |
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