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Puppy Culture Potluck: Ep4 - Puppies Who Wake Up Too Early

Today’s question comes from a viewer who has a puppy that wakes up at 5AM and screams her head off.  They’ve been ignoring the screaming but it’s not going away...what should she do?
This is a common problem that both puppy owners and breeders regularly write in about.  In this episode I cover:
Why puppies scream at seemingly odd hours of the morning
What you should do to stop “early risers” from screaming
How to effectively look at the total picture to see why your puppy is screaming and if it’s an “I want” or an “I need.”
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Puppy Culture Potluck: Ep3 - Is Puppy Culture for Rescue Litters?

Today’s question comes from a person who’s thinking about taking in rescue litters.
She’s thinking that a good early start could help rescue puppies, but she’s wondering if she’ll be able to use Puppy Culture. She’s worried that, because the dams are stressed, she might not be able to do some of the protocols.
What should she do? Are there any special considerations for doing Puppy Culture with a rescue litter?
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Puppy Culture Potluck: Ep2 - Raising Two Puppies Together: Is Littermate Syndrome a Real Thing?‌

Today’s question comes from a viewer who’s wondering how early puppies need to be separated from their littermates to avoid the dreaded “Littermate Syndrome.”
In this episode, I tackle that question and discuss key issues around “littermate syndrome.”‌
Is littermate syndrome a real thing?‌
Is it ever a good idea to keep two littermates?‌
If you do keep two littermates, how can you successfully raise them together?‌
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Puppy Culture Potluck: Ep1 - Is the “Wallflower” Puppy The One for You?

​In a brand new Madcap Radio podcast series, Jane grabs a question from the Puppy Culture discussion group that sparked interested and talks about it on air.
In this first episode, the person asking the question finds herself torn… she’s very attached to a particular puppy in a litter, but also feels like that puppy does not interact a lot with the rest of the litter.
This person has previous experience with a puppy that was somewhat retiring within her litter, and that puppy grew up to be reactive to other dogs. The person is hoping that this new puppy will be her next big performance prospect, but she’s worried about winding up with another reactive dog that she can’t run in dog sports.
What should she do?
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Episode 3: An Egg Yolk a Day Keeps Mastitis Away

Dietary Choline for Lactating Dams
In this episode, Jane is joined by Magda Chiarella to review dietary supplements and food sources that can help prevent mastitis in lactating dams.  Although sunflower lecithin is often recommended, sunflower lecithin has some potentially serious side effects and there are many far superior dietary sources of the active ingredient in sunflower lecithin, which is choline – phosphatidylcholine, to be exact.
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Episode 2: Dogs Eating Poop

One Species Evolutionary Meat is another Species Evolutionary Poison
So, your dog eats poop.  Is it deviant?  Or an elegant evolutionary solution?  
In this podcast, Jane and Mark look at the research and talk about the possible functions of poop-eating, what works and does not work to stop it, and why.  
We won’t say you’ll come away happy that your dog eats poop, but for sure you’ll see it in a different light.Visit our website, madcapradio.com for further reading and studies referenced in this episode.

Episode 1: Being Wrong In Three Acts - Introduction

Why It Hurts So Bad to Be Wrong
 
Why is it so threatening to realize that you might have been wrong about something?  Turns out there's an evolutionary basis for this. Plot spoiler: that evolutionary strategy was awesome in the stone ages, but maybe not so much now.
 

Episode 1: Being Wrong Act One - Low Birth Weight Puppies

Act One: Low Birthweight Puppies
How our "stories" can blind us to what's before our eyes and potentially keep us from learning something new.