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Zainab Bukhari

Zainab Bukhari

Zaynab Bukhari is the founder of Dogs on Track, a dog training and scent detection business in Oldham, Greater Manchester, and an ABTC-registered Animal Training Instructor.

Sep 8, 2026

55:38
I know this is a massive question, but I really feel like it's really in... inspiring and you're infusing to talk to so so i think you could do some some wonderful things so have you got any eyes on that sort of stuff
55:51
i think so i think like i was talking about with the whole assistance dog thing i think i want that's something i want to build up with my community so much i think there's such a value and and like we just need to give the confidence to the people and in my in my community specifically they're just not confident enough in dogs and and people and and we do struggle with um people of different abilities and we do really struggle to accept that they can do well in life and in my community so i think that having a dog can just show you that look what they can do look how much you can experience these people can have full lives um and they think i'm just crazy when i say that a dog can change your life they don't understand it um that is something and then i think in our side of things our just the dog training industry, just to be like, I actually don't know how it would ever happen because I feel like we're doing it constantly, but just to be, to stop looking at things like a face.
56:48
Like if you just, just because I, just because my cultural background is a certain way, it doesn't mean literally anything.
56:54
It has no value to like, for what, for as a job, for to affect anything in a negative way.
57:01
Like there's no, just because, you know, you may know someone who doesn't like dogs, who has a hijab, and I'm a dog trainer, that doesn't make sense, why would I be on the same path if I've worked with dogs my whole life, so I think just the, it sounds so broad, but like, just stop looking at people and assuming they're going to be a certain thing, I know that's like, the most broadest thing but that is so big even as a dog trainer there's so many dog trainers who have read it on on like when I'm on different group chats and I think they forget I'm in there and they say things about different communities and and like oh it's just horrible and you're like oh look at what they do they let dogs roam free or um you know um for my community you know they just you know heard so many horrible facebook groups i'll just bring a dog and it'll get rid of all of us and there's all those just silly
59:19
Because some of the things you said there were... absolutely shocking and i'm sorry that anyone has to has to hear those things and it's just yeah it's just you seem to take everything in your stride and you have such a like positive enthusiastic attitude to everything but like
59:34
i'm trying so hard i think i've been so positive for so long like with college and uni and then then all my like different companies i've worked for or studied with like so positive so positive oh you know what like at some point I'm just like oh my god what do I do now like how do you it's great and then I think a lot of people are doing better and they're trying and I can see that some places are these the like some of the organizations are doing a bit better and stuff I think it's just wider like the organizations to do better but if if I get like I can have a like a qualification but if the job still won't take me I'm nearly a fully qualified behaviourist and it won't change the fact that I'm certain companies just don't want me because the way I look, it's not going to change that.
60:22
I've noticed.

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