Ahead of the Class w/ Vanessa Woods

Vanessa Woods is the Director of Duke University’s Puppy Kindergarten program, which studies what qualities are important in becoming a great service dog. The program is funded by the National Institute of Health and works with puppies from Canine Companions , the largest service dog provider in the United States. While this is primarily intended to learn what makes the best service dogs, it has also been informative about all dogs. Her husband, Brian Hare, is the Founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center , the first academic program dedicated to studying dogs in the country. Together they co-wrote a new book, called Puppy Kindergarten , where they take the valuable lessons learned from their years of research studying service dogs as the ideal model for how dogs live with us in today's culture. They share tips, activity ideas, and more insights on for all dog parents raising puppies.Their goal is to help everyone develop a happier and healthier relationship with their dogs from a young age, which carries on throughout the rest of their lives. For more information about the episode, guest, and featured links:

You can listen to Ahead of the Class w/ Vanessa Woods online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Ahead of the Class w/ Vanessa Woods is an episode from Dog Save The People by As It Should Be Productions.

This episode is 18:31 long.

This episode was published on Oct 22, 2024.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Dog Save The People when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.