Your Dog's Best Life
Hosts Liane, Emily, and Maggie will explore topics affecting our dogs. From training and veterinary science, to husbandry and more, we will take the time to explain what we see as the biggest issues affecting our dogs today. With extensive experience in the field of dog and animal training, the veterinary field, and shelter work, we explore issues where we disagree, and where we see eye to eye. Our goal is to bring you up to date explorations of dog behavior and training in a fun, easily understood (and possibly geeky) manner
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 58
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Ep. 37 : It's Just Behavior
In this episode Liane discusses three dog bite situations and explains how they differ. She shows that a behavior divorced from motivation tells us nothing. She also discusses why attributing emotion…
Ep. 36 What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Liane tells a crazy tale about sheep on the lamb, road trips, herding trials, swimming sheep and more. She somehow manages to briefly talk about dogs as well. Facebook: Empire Ridge Ranch. Website is…
Ep 35. Where Does My Dog Come From?
In this episode, Liane discusses the origin of of our dogs, and why understanding the evolutionary history of the domestication of the dog matters to you, and to them.
Why do dogs dig? Why do dogs go …
Ep 34: Dog Memes with Emily Magnuson
In this episode, Liane, and guest, Emily Magnuson, discuss common social media memes about dogs.
Too many dog-themed memes either dumb down or entirely misrepresent the facts as we know them about ca…
Ep 33: Training Your Dog Vs Managing Your Dog: Is One Better?
In dog training we discuss management vs training a lot. Which is better is sometimes a matter f opinion, training styles and methodology, and more. What we know for a fact is that we are all managed…
Ep. 32 So Much Dog Training Geekery! With Maggie Evans
Maggie Evans and Liane start off talking about the mechanics of dog training, then things get out of hand! From there they leap into a debate of the pros and cons of shaping during luring (Yes, faste…
Ep 31: Why Relationship Matters
In spite of the 'fuzziness' of the word, how our dog sees us is incredibly important to our overall life with our dog. Relationship implies give and take as well as mutual interest and obligation. Li…
Ep 30: Pitbull Attacks Horse, Our Take
In a recent video circulating on social media, a pitbull-type dog attacks a draft horse in a public park. In this episode Liane discusses how to interpret situations like this.
Liane argues that dogs …
Ep. 29: Train Your Dog to Come When Called
In this episode, Liane visits the many reasons the our dogs to come when called, and how to fix our dog's recall
Why How We See Dogs Matters
In this episode, Liane Explores the shifting views of what a dog is both biologically, and within our family. She discusses how these views affect our dog's ability to enjoy their best life, and how …
Why Won't My Dog Listen to Me??
So often we find ourselves struggling for our dog's attention, repeating cues, and being ignored. In this min-cast, Liane explains why that happens and how to fix it!
How to Survive Your Dog's Injury
In this episode, Liane discusses her dog, Dice's recent injury, and what it's like to deal with an injured, high-drive dog without going nuts. She covers everything from how to address the injury in …
How Habits Affect Dog Training
In this episode, Liane discusses how dogs create habits, and how training through those habits can be complex and cause our training to seem ineffective. She discusses why habits exist, how they func…
Ep 24. The Power of Targeting
In this podcast Liane introduces you to the incredible versatility or target training in dogs (and other critters too!). By teaching our dogs this incredibly simple task, we can create a diversity of…
Ep 23. Your Most Powerful Training Tool - With Nita Gandera
In this podcast Nita Gandera and Liane Ehrich discuss using your leash to prevent unwanted behaviors when your dog is in the house. Many common issues that we face as dog trainers are caused by our d…
(ep 22) How to change your relationship with your dog
In this episode, Liane discusses why how we define our dog, and how we look at our dog's behavior affects how we see our dog. She also discusses what we can do to fix a broken relationship with our d…
Aggression in Dogs
Maggie and Liane discuss the three most common forms of aggression that we see in dogs: resource guarding, dog on dog aggression, and human aggression. We discuss strategies to prevent aggression fro…
Episode 20: Set Your Training Up For Success
Too often our dog training plans fail because we didn't spend enough time setting up a successful picture. In this episode, Liane discusses how to ensure that your dog has every chance to succeed in …
Episode 19 - Understanding Impulse Control in Dogs
In this episode Liane explores what Impulse control is, and how to gain a better understanding of how to help our dogs make better decisions.
Liane Explains the difference between Impulse Control and …
Why Positive Reinforcement Training Fails
Liane is all by herself on this one, so be kind! In this podcast she discusses the reason that positive reinforcement training fails and how you can avoid these common pitfalls.
Positive reinforcement…