Puppy Culture Potluck Podcast

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Puppy Culture Potluck Series

You bring the topics, we bring the discussion.

No time to read our Puppy Culture Discussion group every day? No problem! Now you can get highlights of the discussion group in podcast format.

I’m going to be grabbing questions from the discussion group that sparked interesting discussion and talk about them on air.

Who knows, some guests may drop in as well…

Episode 50 - How Much Is That Puppy In the Window? Puppy Seeker Perceptions of Value

7/7/2026

This episode’s question is from a breeder who’s frustrated by puppy seekers who seem to be just shopping for the lowest price:

I'm a small breeder, one or two litters a year. I'm in a rural area so most of my puppies travel to their homes, but because of how I raise them I have people happy crossing the country for them. But for every person who sees the value, there's 30 that don't… I find myself spending way too much time justifying [my pricing]…If I'm going to continue, I need to find a better way of dealing with the pricing issues…

Episode 49 - Supplements For Raw Fed Dogs and Puppies: Less is More

6/9/2026

This episode is about when and if you should use vitamin and probiotic supplements for raw fed puppies and dogs.

One of my students asked me what supplements were necessary when weaning puppies onto raw. Another student in the same thread said she had read that raw diets are often deficient in vitamins D and E and asked if she should be supplementing those vitamins.

Episode 48 - Clicker and Treats, Together Forever. But You Can Leave Home Without them

5/28/2026

"I have a question that has come up from some of my puppy parents, and I am not sure how to answer. How do I phase treats out and use the clicker exclusively? I was thinking clicker every time, but treats sometimes until there are no treats, and at what age would you fully remove treats? Do treats ever get fully removed? Many of my parents reported that many of the pups are really food motivated, and I'm not sure that is my goal ... I would like them to be clicker motivated at some point."

Episode 47 - Introducing Your New Puppy to Your Adult Dog: Looking at the Bigger Picture

5/11/2026

This episode answers a question we get on almost a weekly basis:

How do I introduce my puppy to my adult dog?

Episode 46 - Why Puppies Pee In The House Even When They've Just Been Outside

4/28/2026

The question comes from the discussion group for our With Open Arms puppy owner course:

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Hello! Our 15-week-old puppy is presenting some potty training challenges…While he's reliably house-trained for bowel movements, he frequently urinates on rugs, likely because they resemble the puppy pads he's familiar with. More puzzling that even when we take him outside at the recommended intervals, he'll pass small amounts of urine and then refuse to empty his bladder fully, even after 10+ minutes. Inevitably, within 20 minutes of coming back inside, he'll urinate on a rug.

He's very able to stay in his kennel for a full 2 hour nap with no anxiety or accidents. So he certainly is physically capable of holding his bladder.

We are not sure what we are doing wrong or if this is just to be expected and to be patient. It does seem like he thinks that the rug is the place to pee. Let me know if you have any tips!

Episode 45 - New Study Finds That Kimchi Removes Microplastics From The Body: Should We Give it to Our Dogs?

4/14/2026

A new study was published this week, showing that a specific strain of probiotic found in kimchi is extremely good at binding up and carrying microplastics out of the body.

We and our dogs are surrounded by plastic, it’s inescapable, and the accumulation of nanoparticles of plastic in our bodies is also inescapable - and very bad for our and our dogs' health.

So the student question this episode is:

“Should we be giving our dogs kimchi?”

Episode 44 - From Raw to Kibble: Preparing Puppies for Kibble‑Feeding Homes

3/31/2026

This episode’s question comes from the discussion group for my new weaning and early puppy nutrition course,
“Weaning For Life: From Gut Biome to Behavior, A Whole Approach to Early Puppy Nourishment”.

“Some of my puppies go home on raw, others to healthy kibble with whole‑food toppers. Historically, I always include at least one kibble meal—often from toys or snuffle mats, sometimes mixed with whole foods. Is there a more refined or appropriate protocol?”

Episode 43 - Puppy Camp for Litters

3/17/2026

We got this question about breeders sending their puppies to “camp” before going to their new homes:

"[a friend] has a litter of puppies 8 weeks old and she is placing them out to her friends until they are 10 weeks old. They decided it would be good for socialization and to prevent separation anxiety for the puppies until they go to their permanent homes at 10 weeks. That doesn’t sound like a good idea to me. Anyone have experience with this?"

Episode 42 - Troubleshooting Free Stack Training

3/3/2026

This episode’s question is from one of our Killer Free Stack show training students, but my answer is equally applicable to anyone training a dog:

"Hi all, I have a 10-week-old Labrador puppy. I have the Killer Free Stacks video…when I try to get a moment of stillness to mark, she auto-sits. If I hold the food in front of her, she digs at it hard and will sit. Any tips for teaching a stack would be great!"

Episode 41 - Freestyling Mother's Pudding

2/17/2026

This episode is about using mother’s pudding for lactating dams:

I was just wondering what brand of cool and serve vanilla pudding mix you are all using for mother’s pudding…The last litter I had, the puppies got diarrhea on day 3 (nightmare) and we never got it fully resolved until they got onto food at 3 weeks... We ruled out EVERYTHING we could think of…the only thing we could come up with was the mother’s pudding…[this dam is about to have another litter and] I want to use it because they do so much better on it with the calories. Help!

Author

Jane Messineo Lindquist (Killion) is the director of "Puppy Culture the Powerful First Twelve Weeks That Can Shape Your Puppies' Future" as well as the author of "When Pigs Fly: Training Success With Impossible Dogs" and founder of Madcap University.

Jane has had Bull Terriers since 1982 and she and her husband, Mark Lindquist, breed Bull Terriers under the Madcap kennel name.

Her interests include dog shows, dog agility, gardening, and any cocktail that involves an infused simple syrup.

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