Ep. 394: Houndations - Exploring the Dark Side of Domestic Dogs
Cal of the Wild
MeatEater
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This week, Tony explains that the nature of our dogs isn't always what we think it is, and why acknowledging that can help you be a better trainer and owner.
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| 0:45.9 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Houndations podcast. I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about what our dogs are really like, which includes not only the things we love, |
| 0:55.2 | but the traits we like to ignore. |
| 1:00.6 | The reason that professional trainers can get so much out of dogs when a lot of general |
| 1:04.5 | owners can't isn't just because they know how to ask the right questions, but it's also |
| 1:08.8 | because they understand the fundamental nature of domestic canines. Now that might seem a little crazy, but it's also true. They know |
| 1:17.0 | how dogs think and act better than most of us, and that informs their training choices and |
| 1:21.3 | styles. This is way important to the process, and it allows them to look past the typical |
| 1:27.0 | biases of pet owners to the process, and it allows them to look past the typical biases of pet owners |
| 1:28.4 | to the root of behavioral problems. This, in at least a roundabout way, is what I'm going to talk |
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