Cog-Dog Radio

Mar 23 2025 398 ep. 34 mins 906
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Dog trainer, blogger, competitor.

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Slow School Part Two: Emotional Regulation

Mar 23 2025 5 mins  
What do gentle parenting, emotional down-regulation, and dog training all have in common? They’re all part of slow schooling your dog. Sign up for courses and join the membership here: sarahstremming.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cogdogradio Music by AlexGrohl from Pixabay

Slow School Part One: What the F is Slow School?

Mar 16 2025 4 mins  
Ok, what is slow school? It’s a little bit somatic therapy, a little bit self-regulation, and a lot of skill building. It is vital for the dogs who find it hard to access decompression, and their guardians benefit too. Sign up for courses and join the membership here: sarahstremming.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cogdogradio Music by AlexGrohl from Pixabay

Patreon Minisode 4

Mar 11 2025 8 mins  
How do dogs make friends? How do we even begin to find dogs for our dogs to be friends with? And, does protective aggression actually exist? Sign up for courses and join the membership here: sarahstremming.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cogdogradio Music by AlexGrohl from Pixabay

Behavioral Diversity in Sports Dogs

Mar 09 2025 13 mins  
If you stopped doing your sport tomorrow, would your dog’s life still be good? How much do you pay attention to the behavioral diversity in your dog’s life? This episode is for all folks who participate in dogs sports. Sign up for courses and join the membership here: sarahstremming.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cogdogradio Music by AlexGrohl from Pixabay

Do 99% of Dogs Have Behavior Problems? With Dr (Jessica) Perry Hekman

Mar 02 2025 46 mins  
A recent paper (The Prevalence of Behavior Problems in Dogs in the United States) claimed that over 99% of pet dogs have behavior problems. That number is staggering! But what does the data really say? In this crossover episode with the Functional Breeding Podcast Dr Perry Hekman and Sarah Stremming break down this spin on the data and what we might actually gleam from the numbers.

Dogs as Captive Animals Part Three: Radical Imagination

Feb 23 2025 18 mins  
Congratulations, you’ve taken the red pill. Now adjust your mind, then your behavior, and finally society to better serve the animals in our care, including ourselves. If you listened, let us know: what are your “red pill moments”? Sign up for courses and join the membership here: sarahstremming.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cogdogradio Music by AlexGroh

Dogs as Captive Animals Part Two: Does Animal Welfare Science Have it Right?

Feb 18 2025 8 mins  
The field of animal welfare science is expanding into and affecting the industry of pet dog behavior, and that is a good thing. But this science is not enough, and it is important to appraise what it can and can’t do before we as behavior professionals or guardians of captive dogs hang up our hat and claim we’ve done our best. Explore modern egg farming as a metaphor for keepin

Dogs as Captive Animals Part One: Dog More, Type Less

Feb 11 2025 12 mins  
In the first of a three part series about dogs as captive animals Sarah explores how we can better care for our dogs by encouraging them to “dog more” and respond to stress in breed-typical ways a little less. Does the border collie staring at cats have a better life than the one who doesn’t fixate on anything at all? Do terriers need to kill or fight to be happy? Are guardia

Patreon Minisode 3

Feb 06 2025 11 mins  
In this patreon question minisode Sarah addresses balancing chronic pain with high drive needs, a barking dachshund, a scared puppy, and more! Sign up for courses and join the membership here: sarahstremming.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cogdogradio Music by AlexGrohl from Pixabay

Resilience and Tenacity Continued: States or Traits?

Feb 04 2025 19 mins  
Are resilience or tenacity fixed? What can we do to enhance resilience or inspire tenacity? Join Sarah as she dives into improving the welfare of dogs via the biopsychosocial model and how it applies to these traits (or states?) in dogs. https://www.physio-pedia.com/Biopsychosocial_Model https://www.companiondogproject.org/ Sign up for courses and join the membership here: sara