The Functional Breeding Podcast
Hosted by Jess Sedivy Gunderson · The Functional Dog Collaborative
4.8from 121 ratings
- 79
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 121
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About The Functional Breeding Podcast
The Functional Breeding Podcast is about how to breed dogs for function and for health, behavioral and physical. It is brought to you by the Functional Dog Collaborative, a non-profit organization founded to support the ethical breeding of healthy, behaviorally sound dogs. The FDC’s goals include providing educational, social, and technical resources to breeders of both purebred and mixed breed dogs, helping us all learn more about how to breed good companions who are fit for sports or work. You can find out more at functionalbreeding.org or at the Functional Breeding facebook group, which is a friendly and inclusive community.
- Publisher
- The Functional Dog Collaborative
- Category
- leisure · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 79 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
REPLAY: Dr. Danika Bannasch on CDDY
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Breeder Spotlight: Ezri Silverberg Apsara Windsprites and Lurchers
11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Breeder Spotlight: Tara Doherty and Figment Vulpine Spitz
Inside a recent episode
REPLAY: Dr. Danika Bannasch on CDDY
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But when we went back and looked at his papers, I'm like, why doesn't he say which Spaniels? But he was actually correct because all Spaniels have chondrodystrophy, so it was fine that he just said Spaniels. And then later on, Braun did work in the Beagle and showed that the Beagle was also a chondrodystrophy. So those breeds that I named are the ones that are considered chondrodystrophic, meaning that they have short legs, but not necessarily super short, depending on which dog you're talking about. And they have these disc problems. If we fast forward to the early 2000s, when Elaine Ostrander's group identified a major cause for dwarfism in dogs, they used the term chondrodysplasia. chondrodysplasia versus chondrodystrophy. […]
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- Danika Bannasch
- Ezri Silverberg
- Tara Doherty
- Laura Sharkey
- Mary Peaslee
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 71 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 50 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100
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- Quality
- 24
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 95
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