The Big Bark #05 – More than A Mans Best Friend – Dogs & our Mental health

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You’re listening to The Big Bark Episode 5: More than a Man’s best friend – How our dogs impact our mental healthIt’s World Mental Health day 2019. In this episode we focus on how our dogs positively impact and affect our mental health. We meet with Dr. Tim Kirby to chat about Petbond.ie – a new website helping people to source a happy and healthy pet from approved breeders or rescue centre options. Tim will be telling us all about petbond.ie and will be offering his experience as a vet of the affects dogs have on our mental health and also the affects that we as humans have on our dogs mental health. Our business feature focuses in on Purple woofs, a dog walking and pet sitting service in Tallaght, Dublin. We chat with Kelly who runs the business. Kelly’s story about dog walking and pet sitting and being a canine first responder is wonderful. We also get to hear her views on Animal welfare issues in the pet sitting and kennel industry.I am also joined once again by Ciaran from Mutt Mitts Ireland – Ciaran was such a great talker on Episode 4 that we decided sure why not bring him back again. Ciaran chats with me all about dogs impact our mental health and help boost our minds. We’re going to be chatting about the positive effects a dog can have on your mental health, how a dog can improve your socialization skills, how a dog can be a great companion for someone suffering with depression or loneliness, as well as the effects that losing a dog can have on your mental health. We also introduce a brand new Game called Who’s Barking and Ciaran will go up against my partner in Crime Jen who is the mammy of Bruno & Milly. For our adoption corner for this week, we travel to Co. Wicklow to check out the wonderful dogs available for rehoming from Ash Animal Rescue. All this and more on Episode 5 of The Big Bark.

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The Big Bark #04 – From NOSE to Tail and Beyond

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In Episode 4 of The Big Bark:

We chat to Ciaran from Mutt Mitts Ireland about one of the biggest issues facing us in the country when it comes to our dogs – irresponsible dog owners who fail to clean up after our dogs. We look at the changes that are needed to enforce the laws more effectively and as always we find out more about Ciaran’s dog pepperoni.

We chat to our Puppy Panel as always. This week we feature

Emma – owner of Polo a Boxer who was Limerick’s entrant in the Nose of Tralee competition who did a wonderful job representing Limerick this year.

Orlagh Owner of Baxter an 11 year old Collie X Lab. Orlagh is also the owner of Happy Pawws dog walking in Dublin.

We have all the latest news, introduce our dogs of the week, we play Guess that breed with our puppy panel, we give our Big Bark Birthday shoutout to a special birthday doggy and we have our adoption corner this week is in association with Madra in Galway. We also announce this weeks competition.

All this and more on The Big bark Episode 4.

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The Big Bark #03 – Those Bonds that make us whole

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Coming up in Episode 3:We’ve listened to your feedback, we have changed the format and we’re bringing you the new and improved Big Bark.This week, it’s all about the doggies – we meet 2 dog owners. Kelly & Michael.Kelly lives in Dublin with her Collie X Lab Marley, a beautiful dog who likes to keep Kelly active and has become a wonderful companion for her.Michael lives in London with Burly, a Pom who has met and cuddled with Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), hung out with Daenerys from Game of Thrones (Emilia Clarke) as well as other celebs like Lillie Collins.We introduce our adoption corner and our Guess the crossbreed game with our guests also.

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The Big Bark #02: Welfare, Dog Walkers and Waggy Tails

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You’re listening to The Big Bark Episode 2: Welfare, Dog Walkers and Waggy TailsIn this episode the focus shifts to Animal welfare. We visit the Limerick Animal Welfare open day, we take a walk through the sanctuary, meet with the crew (Marion, Geraldine and Chris) who do an excellent job running one of the best animal welfare sanctuaries in ireland and we get to meet so many of the dogs looking to be rehomed and meet many dogs who came back for the open day also.We chat with Mairead from Arra Vets in Tipperary town to get a vets perspective on Animal welfare issues in Ireland.Our business feature focuses in on Purple woofs, a dog walking and pet sitting service in Tallaght, Dublin. We chat with Kelly who runs the business. Kelly’s story about dog walking and pet sitting and being a canine first responder is wonderful. We also get to hear her views on Animal welfare issues in the pet sitting and kennel industry.All this and more on this weeks episode of The Big Bark.

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The Big Bark #01 – The Pilot

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Welcome to Episode 1 of The Big Bark.In this episode, we give you a brief introduction into the life of our Podcast host Darragh Bourke and the ambitions and drives to becoming a canine psychologist.Topic 1: Raw Fed Diets – Raw Treats and food.We meet with Tony from the Barking Baker at The Milk Market in Limerick to discuss the wonderful 100% natural treats and hear a bit about how this wonderful company came into being.We also chat with Sarah from Raw Dry, a Meat based treat company specialising in the production of Beef & Chicken jerky. The only ingredient in these wonderful treats is 100% meat. We hear about Sarah’s journey from Kitchen to large scale production and discuss her journey to the shelves of big retailers.Topic 2: The Review of the control of Dogs act – Restricted breeds and regulation changes.We discuss the ongoing public consultation relating to the review of the control of dogs act and how the various proposals within the document could shift the regulations surrounding how dogs in Ireland are controlled, sold and bred.Topic 3: The need for a dog park in a city of 100k people.Limerick city, a city of over 100,000 people does not have a public dog park. It’s time to shift this and we chat to Tony regarding the regulations that would be required to be put in place and whats needed to make this a realityIntro Song: Demonization. Music Copyright of XTakeRux – Obtained by permission of Free Music Archive

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