Podcast Episode 23: Dog Myths
In this episode, we discuss eleven dog myths that keep persisting despite them being false. This includes dog myths around veterinary procedures, food, training, play, emotions, intelligence, and more.
- Myth: Don’t take your dog out for walks before its shots are complete.
- Myth: Feeding raw food is dangerous.
- Myth: Letting your dog win during tug-of-war will make it more aggressive.
- Myth: Don’t let your dog walk ahead.
- Myth: Transition to different dog food slowly.
- Myth: Old dogs can’t learn new tricks
- Myth: Dogs should walk on your left side
- Myth: Dogs don’t have emotions/don’t feel pain the same way people do.
- Myth: When a dog bites people, that’s just its personality.
- Myth: Dogs are dumb.
- Myth: Spaying/neutering your dog prevents cancer.
References for Dog Myths
- For Myth 2: Digesting Bones, Gastric Acidity, Salmonella in Dogs and Raw Feeding Veterinary Society
- For Myth 3: Play-Based Dog Training
- For Myth 4: Don’t Walk Your Dog! Ever!
- For Myth 6: Can Old Dogs Learn New Tricks? and Origin of the Saying
- For Myth 7: A Brief History of the Dog Collar
- For Myth 8: TED Talk: How Dogs Love Us
- For Myth 10: 60 Minutes: The Smartest Dog in the World and Chaser’s YouTube Videos
- For Myth 11: My Thoughts on Spaying and Neutering
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