Dog Save The People

Jack Jackson is the Co-Founder of the Don’t You Want Me Project, which highlights the empowerment and healing the queer and trans community has found in the unconditional acceptance of their dogs. Ja…

Chris Hannah is an elementary school teacher who along with his “deaf superhero” pitbull, Cole, has made it a mission to help teach students the importance of empathy. In particular, they try to teac…

Christine Hassing is an author, leadership mentor, and inspirational speaker. Her soulmate dog, Roo, inspired her first memoir “To the Moon and Back to Me” and sparked her passion for writing. But wh…

Sally Muir is a dog artist, author, and former knitwear designer. Her lifetime love for dogs eventually became her artistic muse, focusing on the beauty and patience of dogs in their old age, and wha…

Host John Bartlett talks to Ellen Furlong, an Associate Professor of Psychology at Illionis Wesleyan University, about her lifetime work studying dog behavior – which includes an emphasis on the impo…

Sylvia Heisel is an award-winning fashion designer and now the Co-Founder of DogPark Production. It’s a company she started with her husband, Scott Taylor, to rethink the idea of what dog parks could…

New European Correspondent, Nina May, talks to Nick Poulton about Dudes & Dogs, a mental health wellbeing initiative for men that is based around the simple idea of going for a walk together with you…

Host John Bartlett talks to Kate Leaver about how her new book, Good Dog, which tells positive stories of how dogs help people cope with life hardships and how that's backed up with science. For more…

Host John Bartlett talks to Michael Burke, dog behavior consultant and life coach, about how our own actions can be reflected in our dogs. He shares what he has learned through his own experience wit…

Host John Bartlett talks to Philip about how he co-founded the Institute for Human-Animal Connection and what he's learned about the dog-human relationship in his decades of research. For more inform…

Host John Bartlett talks to Topher Brophy about his journey to fatherhood that really started with becoming a Dog Dad to his furry soulmate, Rosenberg, who he adopted after struggling to find his pur…

Host John Bartlett talks to Elizabeth Lo about her experience filming the 'Stray' documentary and how Istanbul's way of living with stray dogs as an independent part of society and really enriches th…

Host John Bartlett talks to George Hahn about how he fulfilled a promise to his childhood dog, who he neglected, to get his own dogs as an adult and take care of them. For more information about the …

Host John Bartlett talks to Dr. Robert Garafalo about the journey of his dog helping him through his HIV diagnosis, and his new book 'When Does Heal' about how dogs have helped people with HIV across…

Correspondent Ellen Ballon Dante of Deity Animal Rescue talks to a fellow single mother, Lara Bazelon, about how the pandemic puppy she got for her family and two kids ended up actually being even mo…

Host John Bartlett talks to Peter Bogyo about his book, "A Dog’s Life: A Collection of Humorous Tributes Celebrating Man’s Best Friend." They discuss what he discovered across writing obituaries for …

President-elect Joe Biden’s dog, Major, will make history this week as the first-ever rescue dog to live in The White House. Host John Bartlett talks to author Joy McCullough about the importance of …

We are re-issuing our interview with book author Dean Koontz as it was the most popular episode of Dog Save The People during 2020. With the circumstances this past year of the pandemic, many found c…

For the last day of the year, we thought it would be a good time to look back on the many guests we’ve had the pleasure of hosting on the podcast throughout 2020. During this crazy year, our dogs hav…

Porochista Khakpour was struggling with an undiagnosed case of late-stage Lyme Disease, having to go through medical treatments every day. As a suggestion to help Porochista get through her disease r…