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Sexier Than A Squirrel: Dog Training That Gets Real Life Results

Exercise Done Right: Keeping Dogs Fit and Injury-Free ft. Mel Doyle

Sexier Than A Squirrel: Dog Training That Gets Real Life Results

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4.5543 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this episode of the Sexier than a Squirrel podcast, the podcast that brings you real-life dog training results, and sometimes human training ones too! This week, Lauren is joined once again by canine physiotherapist and hydrotherapist Mel to tackle a topic that every dog owner thinks they’ve got covered: exercise. Because your dog’s walk should be the best part of their day… not the moment an avoidable injury begins. From dogs launching out of the boot and sprintin...

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0:00.0

If I could bang ball chuckers out of the marketplace, I really would.

0:03.8

I think they're the biggest ones, unfortunately, and they cause the most injury.

0:16.7

Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast.

0:20.0

I'm Lauren Langman.

0:20.9

I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority.

0:26.5

In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and communicate with your dog like never before,

0:31.5

creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most exciting part of their world.

0:36.1

Exercise, Mal.

0:37.2

So exercise, a diet that's wise, and you know what,

0:40.0

people have always said, that's important. Now, when we talk exercise, you're a physio. Tell us about

0:45.5

what you do day to day. So yeah, I'm a canine, well, I say canine physiotherapist. I'm a small

0:51.0

animal physiotherapist. So I can actually do all small animals. It's within my sort of

0:55.0

scope of practice. I generally, though, stay with dogs because they're my own things, but I have done a few

0:59.5

cats. I have done a few rabbits as well. Wow. Rabbit rehab. Rabbit rehab. So mainly canine, but not large

1:06.9

animals, so I don't do horses or any large animal. That's not part of my. And I'm also a hydrotherapist as well, but I see them as a integrated practice. You know, so my, although I'm a physio and hydrotherapist, my sessions are integrated. So some I might do land-based, some I might do land and water, some might just do land and some shower, some we might do all, some, so it all varies.

1:28.5

It just really depends on what that individual dog needs at that particular time.

1:33.3

Now, exercise, we were out walking our dogs yesterday, and it just made me think about how specific

1:39.5

you are about what you want, how specific I am about what I want, even in terms of how they interact

1:44.6

or how they meet or how they greet or what they do on their walk. And yet there are so many

1:48.1

people I wouldn't or couldn't walk with because of how their dogs exercise, sprinting, racing,

1:53.2

ball throwing, frisbee chucking, potential risk and damage and injury for me is really high

1:59.1

after experiencing Brave with her spinal

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