Dog Training Conversations podcast notes: Running list

A collection of notes I’ve taken while listening to the Dog Training Conversations podcast hosted by trainers Jay Jack and Chad Mackin.

This is not a comprehensive list of every episode I’ve ever listened to. It is a place to organize highlights that got me thinking enough to write things down!

This post was broken into its own piece out of my previous podcast notes article on January 9th 2024.

About the Dog Training Conversations podcast

“An online resource for dog owners and dog trainers or anyone else interested in the art, science and craft of dog training.” (Archived and not releasing new episodes as of 2018.)

Jay Jack is one of my favorite dog trainers of all time, and Chad Mackin does incredible work as well. This is an old podcast — they had already left it behind by the time I adopted Scout in 2019 — but I’ve still gotten a lot out of it!

Fulfilling the Dog as a Priority

• The distinction between “flattening a dog with fatigue” and actually fulfilling them — exercise is important, but…