Kathy Santo's Dog Sense

Hey guys, we're back with a new episode, and today, Sarah and I will be discussing something many of you have asked us about: Why do dogs bark

In today's episode of Dog Sense, Sarah and I will be discussing a super exciting topic: How to feed your dog

Today, we're talking about something crucial for your puppy's growth: the amount of exercise they need to be a happy and healthy dog

The logistics of flying with your puppy can be stressful, and then there’s the emotional strain……

I love puppies, you love puppies, everyone loves puppies

Anyone‌ ‌who‌ ‌has‌ ‌known‌ ‌me‌ ‌for‌ longer ‌than‌ ‌5‌ ‌minutes‌ ‌will‌ ‌know‌ ‌that‌ I don't love talking about myself (I’d rather talk about YOU and your DOG!), but this needs to be done, so here we go: The Kathy Santo origin story! Many people ask me how I started in this industry, or “When did you know that you wanted to be a dog trainer?”.  My answer is usually along the lines of “from the minute I met my dog!”  Which is true.  But more specifically, it all started with some deli meat (sorry, mom!), my childhood Great Pyrenees “Teddy”, and a six-year-old (me!), wanting desperately to prove my parents wrong! It’s not an exaggeration to say that after that first dog training experience with Teddy, I knew that it was what I wanted to do forever! I wanted to learn everything I could about dogs so that I could communicate even better with them.  And possibly get my dog to do some even cooler tricks…….. And even though I’d never met a dog trainer (plus I was 6, and you don’t have that big of a friends circle

Kathy: Welcome to Kathy Santo’s Dog Sense, I'm your host Kathy Santo and I'm here to teach you everything I've learned in my over three decades of training dogs, their families, competing in dog sports, writing about dogs, and being a guest on radio and TV shows. And I am with one of my trainers, Sarah out in Colorado and we are doing an episode on traveling, because I don't know about you Sarah, but I've traveled a ton with my dogs.  Sarah: Yeah. So specifically, we'll be talking about if you were to go on a long road trip with your dog. We'll touch on a little bit of if you are traveling on an airplane with your dog, but mainly we'll go over our tried and true tips. I mean I've traveled halfway across the country with my three dogs multiple times, and I'm sure you've done a ton of traveling with your dogs as well. Kathy: I have. And back in the day when I was competing a lot, there were a lot of airline flights as well. So yeah, a lot to say about that. And I think that this topic came up because we hear it

Transcript Kathy: Welcome to Kathy Santo’s Dog Sense. I'm your host Kathy Santo, and I'm here to teach you everything I've learned in my over three decades of training dogs, their families, competing in dog sports, writing about dogs and being a guest on radio and TV shows. And I'm here with one of my trainers staff in Colorado. And wait, did you guys get snow?  Sarah: Oh my God, we got like two feet of snow right now. It's awesome. Kathy: Oh my gosh, I'm glad you said “Aw”, I was thinking “ful”, she said awesome. I'm like, that's why she should be in Colorado and I should be here in Jersey where it was like 52 today. Sarah: I know you guys have some nice weather. I got some of the pictures from the teams today. It looked really nice there. Kathy: Yeah, it's, it's really great. And the dogs are loving it because if it feels like spring and, you know how we have a few dogs who definitely don't like the cold weather, so we're planning some extra indoor activities at daycare for them. Fun, warm activity. What el

Kathy: Welcome to Kathy Santo’s Dog Sense Episode Five: How Many Heels Do You Need? And I'm here with my trainer and good friend, Sarah, who is out in Colorado. How's the weather out there? Sarah: The weather is absolutely beautiful. How are you guys doing in Jersey? Kathy: I think it's the first official day of Fall. Sarah: It’s getting there. Kathy: Yeah, I'm not, I'm not ready for the cold weather, which I know you love.  Sarah: Yes, I do. Kathy: But anyway, so in classes lately I've been realizing that my students have lovely formal Heels. They have not-so-lovely when they're not on a formal command. And I kind of wanted to sort of flesh this out and talk about the difference between formal heel and informal heel and everything in between. So, when you tell your dog to heel, when I tell my dog to Heel, there's a message conveyed and that means, “Stand next to me, pay attention whether it's peripherally or with your head up and change pace with me, change direction with me. Basically you and I are in sync.

Transcript: Kamal: Hi everybody in Facebook world. I'm here with my good friend Kathy Santo and I thought this, I'm in The States at the moment and I am in the middle of doing filming as I showed you earlier for my upcoming coming online training, which is going to be hopefully launched imminently. So, we've been working really hard about that and I thought it'd be good to have this conversation with Kathy about adolescent dogs. And it's been a bit of a conversation of late because of Kathy's young dog, Valor, Val, her border collie puppy who is now seven months. Kathy: He'll be eight months on Sunday. Kamal: Oh, okay, eight months. So, and, the things that he's going through as present, which I thought would be insightful to share with you guys and, again, invite you to questions. So, those of you that haven't met Kathy and me did the live last year. What was that on our comment? Was it, do you know what? I can't remember now. Was it? Kathy: We did a couple of them. Kamal Yeah. We've done a couple of them. K