What to listen for: "If you are not doing search and rescue for the right reasons, you need to look in the mirror. Because it is not about you, and it's not about your dog." Today, our hosts, Stacy Barnett and Robin Greubel, have set the dogs aside (mostly!) to talk about something that affects every handler who has ever posted a training video, shown up to a webinar, or scrolled too far down a comment thread. They're calling it the “toxicity tax,” and they've come to argue i

What to listen for: "The bigger the gap between the image in our head and reality, the more we're going to struggle." Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, chat about a peculiar kind of self-deception. The kind that costs years of training, thousands of dollars, and sometimes the well-being of both dog and handler. They call it beer goggles: the tendency to see the dog we want rather than the dog standing in front of us. Robin talks about Flash, her Lab who simply doesn

What to listen for: “Are we setting up hides in a way that our dog is becoming better and we're finding holes, or are we setting up hides...

What to listen for: Today, Robin and Crystal sit down with Tazzie Winkler. Born in Norway, raised in England, and now based in Virginia,...

What to listen for: Today, Robin and Crystal sit down with Melissa Stagnaro, Vice President of American Rettungshunde Sport Association....

Today, Stacy, Robin, and Crystal continue their conversation on motivation. While they believe that it takes more than knowledge to...

Today, Stacy, Robin, and Crystal reflect on their top takeaways from attending a three-day cadaver dog seminar held at the Muscatatuck...