UNLEASHED (at work & home) with Colleen Pelar

Feb 24 2025 127 ep. 32 mins 147

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Unleashed (at Work & Home) helps pet professionals manage their stress and find more joy so they can continue making a difference without burning themselves out. Each episode sheds insight into the world of human behavior by talking with a variety of pet pros about their work, their successes, their frustrations … and their love of dogs. Are you ready to be more productive, more positive, and more personally empowered? Get ready to be UNLEASHED!

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135. Robynn Harris, ODMN, CCFT

Feb 24 2025 31 mins

Colleen Pelar of Unleashed (at work & home) chats with dog trainer Robynn Harris. Join us for a discussion about the importance of community, the nature of grief, and how guilt can help us do better going forward.

134. Phil Arkow

Feb 10 2025 38 mins

When we talk about the “human-animal connection,” most of us tend to think of it in positive terms–therapy animals, childhood pets, and all the many ways that animals enrich our lives. What we don’t often think about, however, is the darker side of that bond–how animal abuse and other forms of domestic and family violence are often interconnected and can even be warning s

133. Liz Ford, KPA-CTP, CPDT-KA, LFDM

Feb 04 2025 34 mins

Pet professionals, by and large, are giving people. We pour ourselves out in service to animals and their owners, often to the point of forgetting to take care of ourselves (or only giving ourselves enough care that we can keep helping others). All too often, this leads to exhaustion and burnout.My guest today wants pet professionals to know that you are worthy of having a good lif

132. MaryKaye Kendrick, IAABC-ADT, CSB-D, FPPE

Jan 13 2025 33 mins

We often think of our human intelligence as being superior to that of animals. But what if we’re wrong? What if the intelligence of animals is equal to ours, only different? How might that change our view of the world around us, and of the animals sharing our planet?My guest today is a pet professional who embraces the view of animals as distinct-but-equal travelers accompanying

131. Elysia Ostrander, CPDT, FPPE

Dec 30 2024 29 mins

Bringing home a new dog is a major life change, bringing home a new baby even moreso. Yet resources designed to help families adjust to having both two and four-legged babies in the house seem to be few and far between and often focused more on dogs and kids as antagonists than anything else. That’s where my guest today comes in. Dog trainer Elysia Ostrander specializes in helpin

130. Ashley Orcutt, IAABC-ADT, FDM, FPPE

Dec 17 2024 25 mins

A little kindness can make all the difference to someone- and a lot of kindness can make even more. Especially in a world that seems increasingly negative and toxic, kindness definitely seems to be the one thing you can’t have too much of.My guest today takes that philosophy to heart, always striving to be as kind as possible and then some. Ashley Orcutt is a killer-whale-toy-des

129. Frances Dauster, CC, IAABC-ADT, NADOI

Dec 02 2024 37 mins

Colleen Pelar of Unleashed (at work & home) chats with dog trainer Frances Dauster. In this episode, you’ll learn about the importance of flexibility, what an incident at boarding school taught her about integrity, and the humbling experience of training chickens.

128. Maggie Marshall

Nov 18 2024 31 mins

“What do you want?” It’s a simple question and it seems like it should have a simple answer. Yet so many of us, especially as we get older and lose ourselves in the business of our lives, seem to lose sight of what should be a very straightforward thing. What do we want? And even if we know (or somehow figure out) what we want, we’re often too uncertain or timid to ask for

127. Deb Jones, PhD

Nov 11 2024 34 mins

Slow and steady…gets the toenails trimmed? While that may not be my guest’s official motto, it’s one she would probably agree with. Dr. Deb Jones wrote the book- literally- on cooperative care, an approach to animal care that requires patience but yields great rewards. Her years as a psychology professor, dog trainer, and writer have taught her a lot about the importance of h

126. Dallas Rising

Oct 01 2024 44 mins

Grief is a part of life for all of us, but--as too many pet professionals know all too well--there is a particularly deep strain of it that often runs through work with animals. That grief, and the toll it takes on on us--not just mentally and emotionally, but physically and even spiritually--is the reason so many of us become utterly burnt out.Although she isn’t your typical pet