This is the puppy training podcast, episode 155, Why You Need Ready Rescue with Dr. Matt Glassman.

This podcast is designed to help you on your journey of becoming best friends through love and learning as you train your own dog from home.

And I'm here to help you every step of the way.

This is the puppy training podcast and I'm your host, Amy Jensen.

Hey, you guys, welcome to the puppy training podcast. Thank you for listening. I'm really glad you're

here today. I have a special guest with me. Dr. Matt Glassman is here from Dr. Cuddles, and he's going to

tell us a little bit about his new product, ready rescue, and why you need it. So welcome, Dr.

Glassman. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Really appreciate it. To start off with, will you introduce

yourself? Tell us a little bit about you.

Yeah. So I, I'm a veterinarian, a veterinary surgeon by training. I was born into veterinary medicine, both my mom and dad are vet. So some of my earliest memories were running

around a vet hospital getting bitten. And for some reason, I decided to stay in the family biz and

go to vet school, do an internship, residency, all that sort of thing. So I've been practicing in

D.C. for about 12 years and love it. And probably about four or five years ago, I decided to go back to get an MBA,

go back to school. And in that process, met some of my then co-founders that wanted to start a

pet brand. And at that time, that pet brand was going to be really more of a, but didn't have a name

yet, Dr. Cuddles was going to be really more of a hygiene company, leashes and collars that were

curated by a veterinarian. And over time, I started to take more of a leadership role and then

eventually took over the

business completely and really wanted to shift the business to in a direction that was more

what my life goal was, which was to take care of pets better and keep them comfortable,

keep them happy and hit on some of the

pain points that I saw over the past 12 years as a veterinary surgeon in private practice in

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