K9 Detection Collaborative
by Stacy Barnett, Robin Greubel
Do You Know How to Ask Your Dog a Question?
About this podcast
Candid conversations about the reality of training, deploying, or competing with a canine partner. Each episode is a cross pollination from the professional and sport canine camps, exploring how we all want the same thing: A great relationship with our dog.With humor, and a big dose of theory, we talk practical training advice and includes interviews with top trainers and scientists. We keep it fun, honest, and rated PG 13ish.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 176 episodes
- Do You Know How to Ask Your Dog a Question? · 52 min · Episode 175“What am I doing that’s setting my dog up where I feel like I need to reward for effort?” Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, explore what it means to “ask your dog a…
- “That’s Not a Marker”: Cleaning Up Your Communication · 46 min · Episode 174“There are 100 ways to train a dog. And you’ve got to train the dog that’s in front of you.” Our hosts, Robin Grubel and Stacy Barnett, unpack the role of markers in…
- All Clear, Go/No Go, And Blanks: Rethinking Detection Dog Protocols with Paul Bunker · 57 min · Episode 173“Ultimately, it is an art. There is an artistic side to dog training.” Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, are back with Paul Bunker of Chiron K9 to discuss the finer…
- Liberal Spaniels, Conservative Pointers: Matching Dog Type to Detection Job With Paul Bunker · 59 min · Episode 172“Don't trust your dog. Trust your training.” Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, sit down with Paul Bunker of Chiron K9. His path from an English farm to British military…
- Water Leak Detection Dogs with Lolita Shaffer (pt 2) · 45 min · Episode 171What to listen for: "The future of leak detection isn't one technology replacing another. It's collaborating with this whole process and working together to save our water." In…
- Water Leak Detection Dogs with Lolita Shaffer (pt 1) · 43 min · Episode 170What to listen for: “The certification isn't about proving that the dog can find a leak. It's about giving utilities confidence that the professional team can perform…
- Intentional Handling and Hide Setting Workshop Hot Wash with Bob Deeds · 49 min · Episode 169What to listen for: “You can still support your dog, but you do not have to step in and solve [the problem].” Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, sit down with returning…
- Bark Alerts: Handle With Care · 47 min · Episode 168What to listen for: “Barking should be under stimulus control. It only happens when I cue it – or when the dog finds target odor – and nothing else.” Our hosts, Robin Greubel and…
- Fluid Flow, Odor, And Dogs with Dr. Lindsay Waldrop (pt. 2) · 53 min · Episode 167What to listen for: “We are very good at selectively breeding, obviously to drive change in the shape, but not necessarily to drive performance.” Robin and Stacy continue their…
- Talking Odor Movement and Crab Sniffing with Dr. Lindsay Waldrop (pt. 1) · 1 h 7 min · Episode 166What to listen for: “We're such dumb visual monkeys. We can't process information any other way except for visuals; whereas the dogs have their brain structured around scent.”…
- The Toxicity Tax: Social Media, Public Shaming & the K9 Community · 49 min · Episode 165What 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."…
- K9 First Aid and the Heat Exertion Curve with Joy Brenner from K9 Medic (pt 2) · 46 min · Episode 164What to listen for: “Everything I knew about my dog that I thought was true a week ago is no longer true. I have to reset my baseline and go, ‘Who are you today?’” Our hosts…
- K9 First Aid and the Heat Exertion Curve with Joy Brenner from K9 Medic (pt 1) · 41 min · Episode 163What to listen for: “At the end of the day, taking care of our dogs is everyone’s job.” Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, talk with Joy Brenner of K9 Medic about…
- Dealing with Dog Training Beer Goggles · 48 min · Episode 162What to listen for: 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…
- Chickens are the Great Equalizer: Chicken Workshop Hotwash with Bob Deeds · 46 min · Episode 161What to listen for: Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, welcome Bob Deeds back to debrief the first-ever chicken workshop hosted at Robin's farm. Bob, drawing on the…
- Using Engagement, Relationship, and Arousal to Combat Distractions · 43 min · Episode 160What to listen for: "Unless you have a dog who is engaged with you, you can't build that relationship. And you can't get through distractions. It's impossible.” Today, our hosts…
- Beyond the Buzzword: Deconstructing Opt-In/Opt-Out in Training · 47 min · Episode 159What to listen for: Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, break down why "opting out" has become a buzzword that may obscure more than it reveals. While the term sounds…
- Dr. Jenny Essler: Goby Fish and Spotted Lantern Fly Detection (Pt. 2) · 49 min · Episode 158What to listen for: In the second half of the conversation with Dr. Jennifer Essler, our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, discuss her current research and future goals…
- Dr. Jenny Essler: Talking Monkeys, Dogs, and Wolves and Their Understanding of Inequity (Pt. 1) · 53 min · Episode 157What to listen for: Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, sit down with canine cognition researcher Dr. Jennifer Essler. She unpacks her journey from coding Capuchin monkey…
- What Sport and Professional Detection Teams Can Learn from Each Other with Bob Deeds · 48 min · Episode 156What to listen for: “Trust your dog, but trust your training first.” Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, welcome back veteran USAR handler Bob Deeds to talk about the…







