Episodes

Episode 145:⁣ Top Dog with ⁣Chris Willingham⁣ - ⁣Your Working Dog Radio hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, sit down with retired Master Sergeant with 20 years in the Marine Corps, and President of the United States War Dogs Association,

Your Working Dog Radio hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, sit down with US Marine Vietnam Veteran, and co-founder of The United States War Dogs Association, Inc., Ron Aiello. ⁣ - ⁣ - Aiello had the honor of serving with the First Marine Scout ...

Your Working Dog Radio hosts, Eric @vanessk9 and Ted @Ted_summers, sit down with USAF Master Sergeant Rudy Parsons. ⁣ ⁣ Parsons has over a decade experience as a USAF Pararescueman, and seven years with the Kentucky Air National Guard. Parsons has five deployments, and three humanitarian (CivilSAR) deployments. With all of this experience, Parsons started his own SAR K9 Program based on Pararescue mission in Haiti after earthquake in 2010. USAF Special Operators jumped into Haiti to open up a ...

Your hosts, Eric and Ted, sit down with Rick Hogg, the owner of War HOGG Tactical, Inc. and 29 year US Army Special Operation Combat Veteran, including being a Special Operations K9 handler, and the infamous K9 Duco’s handler. We would like to have a moment of silence for retired Special Operations Forces K9 Duco, who passed away earlier last month Hogg has over a dozen combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and given recent political/foreign events, your hosts delve into Hogg’s opinions ...

Your hosts, Eric and Ted, sit down with Dustin Winn, Canine Trainer & Instructor, and go through Winn’s remarkable career.⁣ - ⁣ - Winn began his career in 1999 as a United States Marine Corps Working Dog Handler when he graduated from the 341st Train...

Your hosts, Eric and Ted, sit down with Sinead Imbaro to discuss two of her biggest passions: fitness training, and dog training. Imbaro has worked as a K-9 police and military trainer for more than two decades. After moving from Canada to Florida, Imbaro became a personal trainer and manager at a gym. For the last seven years, a big part of her fitness inspiration has come from training her Malinois, Magnus. Magnus is trained in narcotics, and SAR, and the pair even competed on America’s Top D...

Your WDR Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, ⁣sit down with Travis Bobo - CONTINUED - ⁣ - Part 2 of the gents and Bobo’s interview. Your hosts delve into Bobo’s second and third dogs, as well as his other deployments.

Your WDR Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, ⁣sit down with Travis Bobo. - The gents chat about Bobo’s entry into the military, and his 8 years prior to the selection process into SF. They chat about the boxing match,

Your WDR Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, ⁣sat down with Leblanc (a returning guest) to talk all things American Tactical K9 Association(‘s upcoming!) Conference @american_tactical_k9_assn. This thing is going to be H U G E and will have Polic...

Your WDR Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 and Ted @ted_summers, sit down with the boys of Trident K9 Consulting, Marty Mahon and Chris Devan. The gents chat about keeping current on case law, dog selection (and the pitfalls of donated dogs), and more!⁣ ⁣ Mahon is a police sergeant with the South San Francisco Police Department. He has been a canine handler for 18 years and is currently the head trainer of the canine unit, which consists of 7 dual-purpose canine teams. Mahon and his canine are assigned to...

Joshua’s story might be every kid’s dream: he was kicked out of high school, joined the U.S. Army, became a Ranger. Then went to Selection and became a Green Beret where he handled a MPC named Timo for two deployments. Joshua then tried out for the new Army eSports team. Out of 16,000 applicants, they took 16 for the team, and he was one of them. Joshua went from real life sniper, to professional video game sniper (yeah, think Halo, CoD, Rainbow Six Siege, Fortnite, League of Legends, live-strea...

Catch up with the latest your Working Dog Radio hosts, Eric @vanessk9 and Ted @ted_summers, have been up to! Eric chats about his recent COVID19 experience and its after effects. Ted recaps his experience at Blueline K9 Conference, and the pair chat about the dogs currently in the pipeline in their kennels and various training problem solving techniques⁣!⁣ ⁣ Thank you to our partners:⁣ @KineticDogFood⁣ kineticdogfood.com⁣ 513-615-6904⁣ ⁣ @nck9llc ⁣ nck9.us⁣ 919-438-0141⁣ ⁣ @americanal...

Ted sits down with Kyoko Johnson, lead K9 instructor and trainer, and Michelle Reynolds, PHD and lead science advisor, to talk about their awesome conservation programs in Hawaii. Ted does this episode SOLO as Eric is recovering from COVID (get better) - but this take on working dogs (and rats?!) is one you won’t want to miss!⁣ ⁣ Conservation Dogs of Hawaiʻi (CDH) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. CDH facilitates the research and use of ecological detection dogs in the Hawaiian archipela...

What was getting your first K9 like? The good, the bad, and the ugly; we get into it with this episode! - Your WDR Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, sit down with a former Army Tactical Explosive Detection Dog (TEDD) handler,

Are good quality K9s becoming more difficult to find? - Your WDR Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, are honored to sit down with Air Force veteran and current K9 handler in New Canaan, Connecticut, David Rivera of Black Rock Canines,

Your WDR Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, are honored to sit down with Matt and Joe, Founders of the Blueline K9 Conference!⁣ - ⁣ - With decades of Law Enforcement and K9 handler experience between them,

Your WDR Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, are honored to sit down with Matt and Joe, Founders of the Blueline K9 Conference!⁣ - ⁣ - With decades of Law Enforcement and K9 handler experience between them,

Your Working Dog Radio Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, are honored to sit down with combat veteran, Kelly Roby, who served over ten years in US Army Special Operations, as both a Ranger and a SMU operator,

Your Working Dog Radio Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers, sit down with the “King” of Retrievers: Freddy King! This man definitely knows the subtleties of conditioning, ecollars, and pairing the two skill sets together!

Your Working Dog Radio Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers sit down with Mike Jones at Primal Canine ⁣ - ⁣ - Starting in an animal shelter in San Jose at the young age of 13, MIke has been involved with dogs or all shapes, sizes,

Your Working Dog Radio Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers sit down with Jake Lawrence at Rilyn K9.⁣ ⁣ Jake grew up working and breeding hogs and cattle, with the help of generations’ of German Shepherds. He got into IPO,

Your Working Dog Radio Hosts, Eric @vanessk9 & Ted @ted_summers sit down with Lt. Joe Kenda, a twenty-three-year veteran of the Colorado Springs Police Department. Lt. Kenda spent twenty-one years chasing killers as a homicide detective and commander o...

Your Working Dog Radio Hosts sit down with Ben Richards in the third episode of our Australian specials! ⁣ ⁣ Ben Richards is former Australian military, and former patrol dog handler (tune in to see what his dominant strength is: dog handling or firearms skills!) Richards also set up the TAC dog programme with the Northern Unit of the SWAT Special Emergency Response Team. Boasting Silver and Gold NePoPo certificates, he employed what he learned from the NePoPo system in the tactical K9 realm. ⁣ ...

⁣ Your Working Dog Radio Hosts sit down with Pat Stuart and Glenn Cooke, in our second episode of our Australian specials! ⁣ ⁣ Pat Stuart (of Operant Canine) spent over a decade in Army Special Forces, and found himself immersed in the dog world. Mentored by Michael and Bart Bellon, Pat is a certified NePoPo instructor, a certified decoy, and the PSA Assistant Regional Director for Australia. ⁣ ⁣ Glenn has been training dogs for over two decades, and is on the board of directors for the Internat...