Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and

communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. So we're talking resilience. We're talking resilience for puppies,

resilience for adult dogs, resilience all round. And I know that this is always going to be a good thing for dogs.

I'm joined by the wonderful Amanda today. Amanda, what are we thinking? Where are we going? Where are we

heading with resilience? Resilience is like the most critical foundation for any dog. I've had the

great fortune of having what I regard is the most

resilient dog in the world, right? Salty dog, my Labrador Retriever. And this is a dog who I could literally

take anywhere. He was a sailor. He was a traveler. He went up and down gondolas. Like this dog was

unbelievable. He could have been a service dog um he he was like

bomb proof i have a fantastic photograph out there somewhere of my boat which had been pulled out

it's sitting there on the hard on the ground um being worked on with a ladder at the back end a great

huge travelish a lift which is moved to, I used to move like

really huge boats, and he's sitting there in his crate fast asleep upside down. I mean, if that's

not resilience, I don't know what is. So, as you know, I do volunteer work with the Canadian

Disaster Animal Response Team, and I helped to train their team

on working with dogs specifically. And so for me, disaster preparedness is a massive thing,

and that's a massive topic that we can talk about later. But at the core of this is how do we

build a resilient dog? And I mean, you have some amazingly resilient dogs.

And me, thinking about resilience, listening to you there, I mean, Tokyo was a salty dog for me.

I could take him anywhere and he would just like collapse and sleep. And you might be thinking,

hey, boy, we're at a dog show. Like, come on. Or you'd be like, we're in the office. And you might be thinking, hey boy, we're at a dog show, like, come on.

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