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Most people judge the Malinois by the calm one they see off-leash in their neighborhood. The real ones are strong, forward and confident, and they end up in the behavior section of the shelter. Many don’t make it out.

The Shelter Series continues with Jim Bradley. Jim pulls high-drive Malinois and shepherds from South Florida’s shelters, rehabs them in his backyard, and has placed shelter dogs with police K9 units. Andrew and co-host Ana talk with Jim about why getting a Malinois to do something is easy and stopping one is the real work. They also cover why every shelter Malinois Jim takes in starts on a prong collar, and what shelter staff should see in a dog that’s spinning in its kennel.

Guest: Jim Bradley rehabilitates and rehomes high-drive Malinois and shepherds from South Florida shelters and works to place shelter dogs in police K9 programs.

Follow Jim: @jim.bradley.921

Contact links for high drive dogs:

https://searchdogfoundation.org/

https://sectork9.org/

https://www.hurricanecreekk9.com/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081317181295

https://www.madrescueinc.org/

https://www.malinoisrescue.org/

https://k9protectors.com/

https://www.alphapackk9s.com/

https://www.facebook.com/throwawaydogs

https://www.midwestworkingdogrescue.org/

https://www.renegaderexk9ranch.com/

https://linktr.ee/Deltaforceanimalmission

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The Shelter Series continues with Gina, founder of Korean K9 Rescue. While visiting family in South Korea, Gina found a “shelter” that was just cages in an open field, and a few hundred feet down the road, a dog meat farm holding 200 dogs. She brought a few dogs back to New York. Today her rescue runs a 20,000-square-foot rehabilitation center outside Seoul and has placed more than 3,700 dogs in the tri-state area.

Andrew and co-host Ana talk with Gina about Jindos, the “pit bulls of Korea,” why she requires every adopter to work with a dog trainer, and how play transformed her center.

In this episode:

• Why Jindos fill Korea’s shelters, and what’s behavior versus breed
• What it really costs to bring one dog 7,000 miles
• The mandatory-trainer rule, and the Jindo Journey Fund that helps adopters pay for it
• How play changed everything at the rescue center
• Mongoon: the shut-down dog who was “never going to see the light of day” Remy: why the dog everyone thought was broken was actually overmedicated
• The constraint of time: why two-week board and trains fail dogs
• Korea’s upcoming ban on the dog meat trade
• Adoption since COVID, vet costs, and keeping dogs in homes
• Starting positive, then building on it: Gina’s approach to training rescue dogs

Shane Hudson has volunteered at his local municipal shelter in Michigan for six years. It started with his own dog, Weller, a friendly 90-pound pit bull mix who became so reactive that Shane couldn’t take him anywhere. He’d been told never to correct a dog. He learned to reward everything and had no way to stop anything, until one afternoon in a friend’s backyard changed how he saw training.

In this episode of the Doggie Stoic Shelter Series, Andrew and co-host Ana talk with Shane about:

• Baby Ruth, the “unadoptable” dog who now loves crowds
• What really leads to a “bite case” label
• Whether any dog is truly unfixable
• Force-free vs. old-school compulsion: which does more harm?
• Puppies on SSRIs, and why Shane weans dogs off medication before training
• A live debate on telling a 4-month-old puppy “no”
• Why free clients fail, and how trainers can make training affordable

Follow Shane on Instagram at @useddogenthusiast.