The Dog Training Unplugged Podcast
It’s a new dawn. It’s time for change. It’s time to stand up for those who cannot speak for themselves. In this podcast, Vivi MJ, a Professional Dog Trainer & Licensed Family Dog Mediator®, takes you on a journey to help raise awareness of the state of our pet dog population and how our behavior affects theirs. This podcast is the first of its kind to question WHAT we humans are doing to our dogs in the name of training. Vivi is not asking us to stop training all together but to UNPLUG, in order to be able to HEAR our dog’s voice, perhaps for the first time. Let’s DO better for our dogs!
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
#15: Dog bites: It’s time to hear the dog’s side of the story!
It’s estimated that around 4.5 million people are bitten by a dog in the US every year. Most of these are children. Children between the ages of 5-9 are most likely to be bitten by dogs and males are…
#14: Navigating life with your dog in the trigger jungle called sub-divisions
Unless you have a dog who was well socialized as a puppy, who loves other dogs and people and who seems to be the ‘friendly happy-go-lucky’ type of dog nearly all people dream of sharing their life w…
Episode 13: There are no bad dogs, so let's stop the labelling and demonizing of our best friends!
Dogs bark. Dogs growl. Dogs bite.....and dogs do so many other NORMAL dog behaviors. It's time to STOP the labelling and demonizing of dogs.
Think about how often humans REACT to things.... stressors…
#12: The Umbrella Framework & The COMPASS - why you need it to improve your dog’s life quality- and yours!
Did you know that too many dog training sessions are conducted without the trainer understanding what is really going on from the dog’s perspective? Because so many trainers don’t have an educational…
#11: How to connect with your dog emotionally
This is THE no.1 podcast where your dog’s voice is heard. The first of its kind. This podcast is where the TRUTH is told about dogs. You may not like what I talk about. You may not agree with the thi…
#10: It’s a new dawn. It’s time for change: Be a Voice, not an Echo!
It’s a new dawn. It’s time. For change. And if you have listened before, you will notice the new music and the name change.
This podcast is changing name because I have an even more important missio…
Let’s DO better series: Your Soul Dog Is A Jumping Bundle Of Excitement & Joy. How do you stop this behavior?
This episode is the second in the Let’s DO better series.
Today we're going to talk about a very common behavior in dogs that we humans often find to be a nuisance. I am of course talking about jump…
Episode 8: Let’s DO Better series: Is the world even ready for change? Are YOU willing to change your behavior for your dog?
This episode was supposed to be about something else entirely, about jumping, but I have pushed that out for the next episode.
Something happened yesterday which triggered a lot of emotions in me and…
Let’s DO better series: The current state of the modern pet home: Disconnect, Miscommunication, and Misunderstandings between dogs and their humans
This episode is the first of many in a series called ‘Let’s DO better’.
It is a known fact that you cannot do better until you know better, until you understand HOW to approach something and until yo…
Your dog can be your greatest teacher in life if your soul is open to what he has to say
In this episode I talk about my first dog, my soul dog, Rufus, a Miniature Schnauzer whom I lost in 2017 at the age of 11.
Rufus was my greatest, or should I say first, animal teacher in life and th…
How we humans have been misled in our understanding of our dog’s behavior issues.
In this episode, I talk about the trend that is becoming more and more concerning regarding our dogs - that most people seem to think that training will resolve the behavior issues they are dealing w…
Soul Connection: How everything in the Universe is connected and WHY you should not take things personally.
In this episode I dive into my personal journey and talk about what I have discovered - that we are all the same at the core and why we should not take things personally.
You are the creator of yo…
Take back your control of your EGO by becoming the observer of your own thoughts.
Have you ever objectively listened to the conversation going on in your head?
Our thoughts become words, then actions, habits, and ultimately our identity. Our thoughts create our reality.
What you…
Meet your EGO.... that TALL guy or gal who has you fooled.
Meet your EGO, that big TALL guy or gal who leads you, controls you wherewhere you go.
The one who has you convinced that THIS is WHO you are!
The one who is always right, who likes to argue, who l…
Intro
Join me on a spiritual journey as I explore many different avenues that all lead back to the same questions of WHY we are here, WHY we do what we do, how we can heal ourselves and our dogs and develo…