Podcasts

Episode 30 – Romancing the Dog

This podcast offers irrefutable proof that I get very grumpy when something unexpected regarding the human-companion animal relationship assaults me over the airwaves early in the morning. The result this time is a semi-rant on the long-term detrimental effect the media can have on our our dogs’ behavior. Let the listener beware 🙂

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Beastly Business – Chapter 24

Nick Cooper sends StClair back to square one until a flash of insight that catapults Matty into the sink puts her back on track again.  At last she knows who killed her client.

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Episode 29 – Fixed vs. Flexible Animal Communication

  I received a voice recorder for my birthday and this podcast represents my first attempt to master the new improved technology. All is not perfect but this shouldn’t be any problem since none of my podcasts have ever been perfect. Below is a recent picture of my flexibly communicating dogs, from left to right, Frica, BeeBee , and Ollie. Because I took the picture and know these dogs, I can tell you what their body language communicates. Frica is wearing her “I would  rather die than be caught looking at you when that flash goes off” expression. BeeBee

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Beastly Business – Chapter 23

StClair began investigating her canine suspects with the idea that this would reveal the guilty party.  Now it seems like she’s found the culprit, except for one unexpected detail…

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Episode 28 – Whittington’s Good-By

I recorded this the day after Whit died, but chose not to post it for several weeks and even considered not publishing it at all. And yet the events were so Whit, it seemed to me that they comprised a final tribute to yet another amazing animal.

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Beastly Business – Chapter 22

StClair and McCarthy play “True Confessions.” Or rather StClair pretty much tells all while McCarthy, as usual, holds something back.

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Episode 27 – Down With Socialization

Down with socialization? Have I lost my friggin’ mind? Well, that’s always a possibility. But I do think it’s time to rethink this concept because there’s so much confusion surrounding it.

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Beastly Business – Chapter 21

Nothing quite like a night-time swim in a thunderstorm to get the blood flowing. Finally make it back to shore…and then things really go downhill.

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Episode 26 – Faith, Placebos, and Healing

Have you ever experienced what appeared to be several quite unrelated events, only to later realized that they all were linked by a greater theme? That’s what led to this podcast. I was involved in discussions with colleagues about two quite different projects as well as those with clients about their animals with equally different problems. Superficially none of these appeared to have anything in common. But as I thought about them as a group as well as individually, I realized that human beliefs about faith, placebos, and healing played an integral role in them all. Amazingly, the dogs

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Beastly Business – Chapter 20

StClair makes another foray into breaking and entering, only to discover that some things are worse than being pursued by someone with a gun.

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