Soul Touched by Dogs

About Soul Touched by Dogs

Welcome to the Soul Touched by Dogs Podcast, the show for dog lovers who see dogs not as toys or tools, but as wise souls worth our respect and care. The 30-minute interviews with "Pawsome Humans", people who do great work for dogs and their people, you're listening to here on the podcast are one of the ways we celebrate the human-canine connection and advocate for holistic approaches to canine health and well-being.

Publisher

Anke Herrmann

Category

education · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Sept 2023

Latest episode

17 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

101 of 145 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Dogs for Mental Health: Why Your Dog Becomes Your Anchor with Daniel Popovic

   Host Daniel Popovic interviews guests about how dogs anchor mental health, offering insights into grief, trauma, and the profound human-animal bond.

2. 

   10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Adopting Ex-Racing Greyhounds: Athletes That Make Surprisingly Perfect Pets - Maritsa Inglessis

   Maritsa Inglessis shares how ex-racing greyhounds become surprisingly perfect, affectionate, and low-maintenance pets, debunking myths about their exercise needs and settling into home life.

3. 

   3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Therapy Dogs and Model Dogs: How Your Dog's Hidden Gifts Can Heal Others with Susan Hartzler

   Host [Host Name] interviews Susan Hartzler, an award-winning writer and therapy dog advocate, about building healing partnerships with dogs for therapy and modeling work.

Inside a recent episode

Dogs for Mental Health: Why Your Dog Becomes Your Anchor with Daniel Popovic

Published 17 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Right. And so you don't get to see the struggles that are going on for that are going on for other people. So most of the time you end up like with this idea that everybody's got this figure out and the isolation makes the issue worse. I find a lot of the time, the moment you realize like, oh, that's actually pretty common. But, you know, so whatever is going on here, it's not just me. I think there's a lot, there's a lot of power in there and a lot of relief and a lot of healing can start from that place that it's like you're not broken, your dog's not broken. You know, this is, this is actually quite common and there is, there is a way through it. […]

Who has been a guest on Soul Touched by Dogs

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Daniel Popovic
• Maritsa Inglessis
• Susan Hartzler
• Dominika Knossalla-Pado
• Caroline Griffith

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

9,860

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

98

Social presence

0

YouTube

74

Engagement

27