Sep 3, 2026 · 24 min · 12 segments
Today we have a special guest in the Dog Pod HQ studio! Sarah from @TheHumanandTheHellHound is going to be hanging out with us for a couple of episodes to talk about her over 20 years of experience…
Max O'NeilHostSo, so with the, doing the, the, the foster stuff or, you know, so did you have like an agency yourself or a foster company or were you just helping fosters?
No.
So I've worked, I started at the SPCA in New Zealand, which was way, way, way back when.
And then I've worked for a few big rescues here and a few of the smaller ones too.
So, you know, taking dogs in that can't necessarily be in shelters or not really for the average hand.
So I worked with a lot of what we call red zone dogs that just cannot, they're a massive liability.
They don't really tend to foster those ones out anymore.
They kind of Yeah, which is a little bit sad because you see some pretty cool transformations with those types of dogs.
Similar to the things that we're going to be speaking about today.
Knowing everything that I know now, yeah, it's just crazy how much people don't know in that industry.
Everybody's got beautiful intentions.
And that's, I have a similar background in, obviously I haven't gone into it as you have, but that's kind of, that's where I came from.
Like I, we lost a dog and then we decided to foster and we started fostering a lot of dogs.
And you do realize how much, again, these people have the best intentions at heart and do wonderful things to save these dogs, but they truly don't seem to have a lot of education, respect to what the dogs need.
One of my biggest frustrations with the fosters I was working with was this whole, you know, the dogs are not to leave your property until all the vaccinations are done, anything like they stay in the back of the property and all this stuff.
And to me, you know, and I was getting dogs with such high drive, the dog I have, super high drives, you know, and at the time I didn't think I was going to keep her.
So I played by the rules and didn't take her out into the world and show her the world until we'd done the right thing.
So, so with the, doing the, the, the foster stuff or, you know, so did you have like an agency yourself or a foster company or were you just helping fosters?
No.
So I've worked, I started at the SPCA in New Zealand, which was way, way, way back when.
And then I've worked for a few big rescues here and a few of the smaller ones too.
So, you know, taking dogs in that can't necessarily be in shelters or not really for the average hand.
So I worked with a lot of what we call red zone dogs that just cannot, they're a massive liability.
They don't really tend to foster those ones out anymore.
They kind of Yeah, which is a little bit sad because you see some pretty cool transformations with those types of dogs.
Similar to the things that we're going to be speaking about today.
Knowing everything that I know now, yeah, it's just crazy how much people don't know in that industry.
Everybody's got beautiful intentions.
And that's, I have a similar background in, obviously I haven't gone into it as you have, but that's kind of, that's where I came from.
Like I, we lost a dog and then we decided to foster and we started fostering a lot of dogs.
And you do realize how much, again, these people have the best intentions at heart and do wonderful things to save these dogs, but they truly don't seem to have a lot of education, respect to what the dogs need.
One of my biggest frustrations with the fosters I was working with was this whole, you know, the dogs are not to leave your property until all the vaccinations are done, anything like they stay in the back of the property and all this stuff.
And to me, you know, and I was getting dogs with such high drive, the dog I have, super high drives, you know, and at the time I didn't think I was going to keep her.
So I played by the rules and didn't take her out into the world and show her the world until we'd done the right thing.
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