The Dog Who Asked for More: Turning Dog Training Frustration Into a Deeper Relationship With Your Dog
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Some dogs change your life while they’re here. Others keep changing it long after they’re gone.
If your dog changed more than your daily routine, this is for you.
The Dog Who Asked for More® is for anyone whose dog changed their life in ways they’re still figuring out. The one doing midnight research on dog food and behavior and dog anxiety and still not sure they’re getting it right. The one living with a reactive dog or anxious dog and quietly carrying the mental math that comes with it. The parking lot calculations, the exits, the anticipation before the walk even starts. The one whose dog became part of every decision, every routine, every version of what comes next. The one whose dog is the most consistent relationship in a life that kept changing. The one in the slow goodbye with a senior dog, watching every good day and doing the math. The one who can’t fully explain to people outside this world what their dog actually means to them.
I’m Em, a dog mom, former vet tech, dog trainer, and canine nutritionist. I share my story with Fitz, a reactive rescue dog and former service dog training washout who became the reason I built all of this, and Toby, a 15-year-old senior dog who shows up in almost every conversation about love and loyalty and what it means to love something you know you’re going to lose.
This isn’t a podcast about fixing you or fixing your dog. It covers the full reality of life with dogs. Dog behavior, dog body language, dog reactivity, dog anxiety, enrichment, dog nutrition, grief, healing with dogs, and the mental health reality of loving an animal who asks more of you than you expected. Not because you need to be fixed. Because you deserve to feel less alone in it.
If you’re carrying compassion fatigue, burnout, guilt, or just the specific exhaustion of loving a dog who needs more than most, you found the right place.
Solo episodes, guest conversations, and real stories. Three new episodes every week.
Named Sniffspot’s #1 Dog Training Podcast 2026. Ranked in the top 3% globally.
Start anywhere. Keep listening. Your dog people are in here
🎥 Full video episodes available on YouTube at: youtube.com/@thedogwhoaskedformore
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