Interview With Dog Parent Coach and Author Angie Winters

About this episode

Angie Winters discusses her approach to dog parenting and the limitations of traditional training methods.

For dog parenting coach Angie Winters, who has worked with and rehabilitated over 1,000 dogs, the answer is clear: Training does not work for family dogs. In her new book Don’t Train Your Dog: A Pet Parenting Guide to Teaching Good Behavior, Calming Fear, and Raising Happy Dogs, Winters—whose record for fixing dogs who were deemed unfixable by experts is unparalleled—explains that training simply cannot teach dogs the skills needed for modern family life. Moreover, it causes most of...

People in this episode

Host: Dawn Mimnaugh

Guest: Angie Winters

Topics covered

• dog training
• pet parenting
• family dogs
• dog behavior
• rehabilitation
• fear management

Keywords

• dog parenting
• training
• family dogs
• behavior
• rehabilitation
• fear
• happy dogs

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Don’t Train Your Dog: A Pet Parenting Guide to Teaching Good Behavior, Calming Fear, and Raising Happy Dogs

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