What The Bark - The RightPaw Podcast
Oct 15, 2026 · 56 min · 16 segments
Ever thought of turning your years of experience into a legacy? Well, Pauline Gill from Tapua Labradors has done exactly that! This week, she returns to the podcast, to talk about her new memoir and…
Pauline GillGuest
George SofronidisHost
Nathan OlivieriHost
Like, you know, the first half of the book, I would say, is really that sort of personal memoir about your life.
And you talk about, as you say, your journey with dyslexia and some of the struggles with parents.
standard? I think because we are working with people who have physical and psychological needs for an assistance role, you can't separate the two well.
And I know for myself that my... need to address my loneliness and isolation when i was an adolescent because of all the dramas that family were going on with meant i could walk down the street and would know i didn't own a dog but people's i literally steal someone else's dog can i take your dog for a walk yeah sure and then other dogs would jump the fence and join me and i didn't realize um until later that I have an affinity with animals.
There was no intention of making it into a training career because that just was never an option in those days.
I have an affinity with animals and horses and cattle and all the rest of it as well.
Taking that and bringing it to then getting into the game of obedience and showing and whatever.
Kind of lost that instinct for a while because I was busy controlling what I thought I should be controlling in anal behaviour.
And then coming back into the sister stuff, I had to get back into that feel of, here's this animal that I've chosen to breed and create to go for a job to work with humans who are very demanding and very needy and very controlling.
And how do I prepare that pup for a job that can save a person's life, you know, uh, and have, I've got dogs that have literally kept people alive.
And in researching, I've found that if I start reading right, put them in the hands of the people who need them with the trainers who can support them, the outcomes are far, far better because the washout rate is actually quite high.
It's a really, it's a really good point that, you know, behind every assist dog, there is a, there's a person and that person has a story and it makes sense why, you know, you know, you wanted to have that story as well.
Like, you know, the first half of the book, I would say, is really that sort of personal memoir about your life.
And you talk about, as you say, your journey with dyslexia and some of the struggles with parents.
standard? I think because we are working with people who have physical and psychological needs for an assistance role, you can't separate the two well.
And I know for myself that my... need to address my loneliness and isolation when i was an adolescent because of all the dramas that family were going on with meant i could walk down the street and would know i didn't own a dog but people's i literally steal someone else's dog can i take your dog for a walk yeah sure and then other dogs would jump the fence and join me and i didn't realize um until later that I have an affinity with animals.
There was no intention of making it into a training career because that just was never an option in those days.
I have an affinity with animals and horses and cattle and all the rest of it as well.
Taking that and bringing it to then getting into the game of obedience and showing and whatever.
Kind of lost that instinct for a while because I was busy controlling what I thought I should be controlling in anal behaviour.
And then coming back into the sister stuff, I had to get back into that feel of, here's this animal that I've chosen to breed and create to go for a job to work with humans who are very demanding and very needy and very controlling.
And how do I prepare that pup for a job that can save a person's life, you know, uh, and have, I've got dogs that have literally kept people alive.
And in researching, I've found that if I start reading right, put them in the hands of the people who need them with the trainers who can support them, the outcomes are far, far better because the washout rate is actually quite high.
It's a really, it's a really good point that, you know, behind every assist dog, there is a, there's a person and that person has a story and it makes sense why, you know, you know, you wanted to have that story as well.
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