Found It, Fetched It - Gundog Training for Family Life

215. Hot Weather Dog Training: What to Do When It Is Too Hot to Walk

Half past nine at night and it is still too warm to take them out. The ground is baked solid, the tarmac has been a hot plate all day, and every group you are in is telli

214. How to Get Your Gundog Back on Track After a Summer That Stopped Everything

Every plan you had for your dogs this summer is probably still sitting where you left it, underneath thirty degrees of heat nobody could train through. That is not a lost

213. Ticks, Lyme Disease & What Your Dog Needs You to Know

This episode of Found It, Fetched It features pharmacist and Lyme Resource Centre trustee Arlene Braley and vet Ian Wright (chair of ESCCAP) discussing tick prevention an

212. When Is Your Dog Ready for a Charity Working Test?

Abbie Reed of Riverlily Working Dogs joins Jo to break down what a charity working test actually involves, from the admin behind the scenes to what your dog needs to be a

211. When Your Dog Is “Too Difficult” for Training

Jo and Claire Denyer tackle one of the most common worries handlers carry quietly: the belief that a dog needs to behave better before it is ready to see a trainer. They

210. Ten Years In: The Award, The Mud, and What We'd Tell Ourselves Now

Ten years ago, the LWDG was bringing in about two hundred pounds a month and felt more like a nice idea than a business. This week marks ten years of the LWDG and ten yea

209. Why Your Recall Broke (And It Started in the Garden)

You trained it and you were proud of it. Then one day, in front of people, your dog looked straight at you and carried on sniffing. Recall going wrong feels personal, lik

208. What is Predation Substitution Training (And When It Actually Works)

If you've ever thought that giving your dog a flirt pole or a tug toy would stop them chasing squirrels, this one's going to shift something. Predation substitution train

207. Fear Periods in Puppies and Adolescence

Fear periods are a normal part of puppy and adolescent development, but most handlers go into them underprepared. They know the phrase but not the timing, the signs, or t

206. 10 Lessons From 10 Years of LWDG

10 years. Thousands of conversations. One truth: you're not alone in all of this. Jo walks through the 10 lessons from a decade of watching what actually works with worki

205. Knowing Your Dogs Limits

Knowing when to stop isn't giving up. It's one of the most important skills you can build as a handler, and this week Claire and I are getting into exactly that. There's

204. The Van, the GunDog, and All of Europe

What if your dog didn’t have to stay home? What if the van, the open road, and your best mate could all go together — across the UK, across Europe, all the way to Croatia

203. The Walk You've Been Avoiding Is Actually Your Best Training Session

Does your heart sink every time a bird flushes, a squirrel darts across the path, or a dog bolts past on the beach? You're not alone. And you're definitely not ruining yo

202. When Ideology Gets in the Way of Training the Dog in Front of You

Dog training advice is louder, more divided, and more confusing than ever. In this episode of Found It, Fetched It, Jo and Claire tackle one of the biggest problems faci

201. What Changes When You Finally Speak Gundog - Supercar On A Shoestring Series

If training feels hard work rather than teamwork, this episode is for you. In this final live of the week, Joanne pulls together everything we’ve explored and explains w

200. Why Direction Comes Before Calm in High Drive Dogs - Supercar On A Shoestring Series

Why Direction Comes Before Calm in High-Drive Dogs In this Monday Morning Mindset episode, Jo explores a truth that changes everything for owners of high-drive dogs: 👉

199. From Passenger to Driver - Supercar On A Shoestring Series

If you’ve ever felt like your dog is making all the decisions while you’re just trying to keep up… this episode will land. In this live, Joanne explains one of the bigge

198. Why More Exercise Is Making Things Worse - Supercar On A Shoestring Series

We’re often told that if a dog is full-on, intense, or hard to live with, the answer is simple: exercise them more. In this episode, I unpack why that well-meaning advic

197. If your gundog switches on faster than you can think, this is why - Supercar On A Shoestring Series

Have you ever had that moment where everything feels calm… Then suddenly your dog is gone? One second you’re walking together. The next, your gundog has clocked someth

196. Why Capable Handlers Still Feel Stuck Training Their Gundog

In this episode, Jo talks about something that quietly affects so many women training gundogs. Not failure. Not lack of effort. But that frustrating sense of being capabl