This isn't your typical dog training podcast. Maybe you've tried YouTube, five trainers, and sixteen new diets, and nothing seems to stick. Maybe you've gone quiet in a dog group because someone made you feel stupid for asking a question. Or maybe you've searched "relationship with my dog" at midnight because nothing else described what you were feeling. If any of that is true, this is for you.
The Dog Who Asked for More® started because one dog kept struggling with his energy and his behavior no matter how much training or play I threw at it, and I couldn't find a single person who could tell me why. So I became the person I was looking for. This show is for anyone whose dog changed their life in ways they're still figuring out. The one doing midnight research on dog food, behavior, and dog anxiety and still not sure they're getting it right. The one living with a reactive dog or anxious dog and quietly carrying the mental math that comes with it. The one whose dog became part of every decision, every routine, every version of what comes next. The one in the slow goodbye with a senior dog, watching every good day and doing the math of what comes next. The one who can't fully explain to people outside this world what their dog actually means to them.
I'm Em. Former vet tech, dog trainer, and canine nutritionist, but I didn't become any of that on purpose. Fitz washed out of service dog training, and his energy and behavior never added up the way training said they should. Figuring out why became the reason I rebuilt my whole life. Toby has been alongside all of it, 12 years in, still teaching me what it means to stay present for a goodbye I can already see coming.
This isn't a podcast about obedience, and it isn't about fixing you or fixing your dog. It's the full reality of life with dogs, covering both sides of it. The dog side: dog behavior, body language, reactivity, anxiety, enrichment, nutrition and more. And the human side: grief, healing, mental health, and what it actually costs and gives you to love an animal who asks more of you than you expected. Not because you need to be fixed. Because you deserve to feel less alone in it.
If you're carrying compassion fatigue, burnout, guilt, or just the specific exhaustion of loving a dog who needs more than most, or if you've ever been made to feel wrong for asking a question in a dog community, you found the right place.
Solo episodes, guest conversations, and real stories. Three new episodes every week.
Named Sniffspot's #1 Dog Training Podcast 2026. Ranked in the top 3% globally.
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