Positively Dog Training - The Official Victoria Stilwell Podcast
Jun 23, 2026 · 52 min · 11 segments
Andrew Hale joins Victoria to explore supportive walking and practical strategies for understanding and managing dogs' behavior in challenging environments. They answer…
Andrew HaleGuest
Victoria StilwellHost
It's always great to chat and, um, uh, and also to be at the conference [clears throat] because it's a really wonderful, um, uh, space that you've created in that conference, and I think, uh, we, we get a lot of new people, of course.
We obviously get a lot of people who come year after year 'cause they just love that learning experience and all the fun that you inject into it.
But the, the important thing for me is, um, a lot of the challenges that we get, uh, asked to get involved with and are, are, are on the walk.
Um, uh, that kind of reactivity, uh, dogs struggling with the traffic, whatever it is.
And I think traditionally we have focused in on the task of doing that particular thing without thinking about the wider, um, pressures on us during the walk.
Are we checking in with them? Are we telling them, "Actually, we're gonna do this route today.
And also for us as the professional, making sure that we're trying to set things up to have the, the best experience in what can be a very unpredictable environment.
From the dog point of view, the talk was quite heavily focused on this notion of how we sensorily connect to the world and how that can be different, even different times of the day.
We looked at that a little bit with Goose's, uh, information about, um, uh, trying to identify the times of day when the dog might be the most responsive.
Let's do some stuff that might be a bit tricky." Whereas another time of day it might be very hard for them.
I think I said at the conference, my husband, there's no point me talking to him until five cups of coffee at about 10 o'clock in the morning.
It's always great to chat and, um, uh, and also to be at the conference [clears throat] because it's a really wonderful, um, uh, space that you've created in that conference, and I think, uh, we, we get a lot of new people, of course.
We obviously get a lot of people who come year after year 'cause they just love that learning experience and all the fun that you inject into it.
But the, the important thing for me is, um, a lot of the challenges that we get, uh, asked to get involved with and are, are, are on the walk.
Um, uh, that kind of reactivity, uh, dogs struggling with the traffic, whatever it is.
And I think traditionally we have focused in on the task of doing that particular thing without thinking about the wider, um, pressures on us during the walk.
Are we checking in with them? Are we telling them, "Actually, we're gonna do this route today.
And also for us as the professional, making sure that we're trying to set things up to have the, the best experience in what can be a very unpredictable environment.
From the dog point of view, the talk was quite heavily focused on this notion of how we sensorily connect to the world and how that can be different, even different times of the day.
We looked at that a little bit with Goose's, uh, information about, um, uh, trying to identify the times of day when the dog might be the most responsive.
Let's do some stuff that might be a bit tricky." Whereas another time of day it might be very hard for them.
I think I said at the conference, my husband, there's no point me talking to him until five cups of coffee at about 10 o'clock in the morning.
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