The Big Bark Dog Podcast #27 Canine Cough, Hay Fever & other Summer health Hazards with Dr. Tim Kirby of Petbond.ie

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The Big Bark dog podcast comes to you weekly from Limerick Ireland. With Host Darragh Bourke & canine co-hosts, the big bark talks about everything happening in the canine world.
We’re back this week in our renovated studio recording on our brand new Zoom Podtrak P4. Once again we have a brand new episode of The Big Bark dog podcast and joining us to chat about Summer health hazards is great friend of the show Dr. Tim Kirby from petbond.ie
In this episode Tim chats about the rise in Canine Cough (formerly known as kennel cough) and the symptoms to watch out for.

Tim also chats about the top health hazards to be aware of, such as allergies, hay fever, ticks, and even algae in our river systems, all of which can be detrimental to a dogs health.

In this episode Bruno & Milly model some wonderful Big Bark Bandanas which were produced by Sarah of pretty lil pup here in Limerick. The quality of these personalised bandanas is incredible and we look forward to add these to our merchandise range as we move forward.

Be sure to check out this very informative episode, you won’t want to miss it.

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The Big Bark #26 Its all Fun & Games – the importance of mental stimulation – with Maeve Humpreys of Dogscouts.ie

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The Big Bark Dog Podcast #26 Its all Fun & Games – the importance of mental stimulation – with Maeve Humpreys of Dogscouts.ie

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The Big Bark dog podcast comes to you weekly from Limerick Ireland. With Host Darragh Bourke & canine co-hosts, the big bark talks about everything happening in the canine world. We’re back this week with Maeve from Dogscouts.ie, a professional dog training business in the mid west, focused on games based training.

Maeve is a strong believer in games based training and the benefits it offers for a dogs mental stimulation. Maeve conducts 1-1 sessions in a dogs home and trains the owner to play the games with their dog in order to build that strong bond and relationship between owner and dog.

Maeve also chats briefly regarding agility training and dog sports, something becoming ever so popular in Ireland over recent years.

Be sure to check out this wonderful episode you won’t want to miss it.

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The Big Bark Dog podcast #25 Trailing & Tailing at Bark Park with Jamie Sugrue

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The Big Bark dog podcast comes to you weekly from Limerick Ireland. With Host Darragh Bourke & canine co-hosts, the big bark talks about everything happening in the canine world. We’re back this week with Jamie from Trails & Tails, a dog walking service that runs a fantastic dog park on the outskirts of Limerick City.

Throughout the show, Jamie and I chat about the stereotype around restricted breeds as well as the importance of socialisation. We chat about whats happened throughout the pandemic and specifically dog theft and the unprecedented demand for dogs. Jamie also chats about his nutrition brand Jurassic Bark in addition to the plans for the future.

I met lots of doggies and become property of lil Peter who was determined to keep me safe from every other dog.

Warning: Contains language that may be offensive to some listeners.

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The Big Bark returns on May 1st.

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After a longer than planned hiatus, The Big Bark will be making its triumphant return to your favourite podcast platforms on 1st of May 2021. I took a number of months away from podcasting for a couple of reasons. Firstly, with all the lockdown stuff still going on, it gets fairly difficult to come up with new content. Secondly, a thousand other commitments such as Work, Family, College, Doggies, playing with doggies, walking doggies and much more stuff just happened to take me away from the microphone.

I took some time to change my branding up a bit and to sort out the dreadful audio from older episodes. That pile of utter crap intro that I had from the earlier episodes, well, I’m currently updating all of those old audio files to ensure they use my lovely jingle instead.

So lets look at what else is changing. First of all, we’ll be doing less of the live shows this time around because the quality of the audio from it is simply awful at times so we’ll be focusing on getting our show out on the biggest podcast platforms instead. Speaking of audio quality, we have some cool new podcasting gear is arriving in the coming weeks (see below). Yes I have only just gone off and got myself a Zoom Podtrak P4. If you don’t know what a P4 does, its a nice useful mobile podcasting solution that I can take pretty much anywhere once the lockdown eventually ends. It will create beautiful audio and let me even add in my jingle on one of the little sound pads so that I can do everything on one little console and not worry about editing afterwards then.

Zoom Podtrak P4 Podcast Studio Mixer/Recorder/USB Interface + ZDM-1 Microphone & Headphone Bundle

 

So next up, our guests. We have a number of new guests lined up here for the upcoming episodes. Who have we got? Well lets see….

  • Carrie Hoade – Dog Trainer with MADRA
  • Nick Rijniers – CEO of Birch & Bark
  • Maeve Humphreys Dog trainer with dogscouts.ie
  • Paula of Bremeny School for Dog Training:
  • Jamie Sugrue – Tails and Trails

 

Yes a good few dog trainers there, and we have a reason for that we are going to be having a number of dog training focused episodes moving forward. Don’t worry though, we’ll still be chatting with other doggy professionals and welcoming back some of our regular guests such as:

  • Dr Tim Kirby of petbond.ie
  • Dog Trainer Samantha Rawson
  • Ciaran Sheehan of Muttmitts
  • We’ll be chatting to Dr. John Garrihy of Treaty vets later this season
  • and we’ll be welcoming back Dr. Pete Wedderburn (Aka Pete the Vet) of Petfixclub.com
  • Along with many many more.

Of course, we’ll still be doing all the things that make this show so awesome, giving away prizes, chatting with dog owners about their dogs and we’ll be bringing back things like dog of the week, Big Bark birthday shoutout. Eventually when some normality returns, we’ll be heading off to some of the best dog venues in Ireland such as Dog parks, dog friendly cafes and we’ll actually get out and about to get to dog shows and other dog related events. We’ll be paying a visit to animal shelters across Ireland and be chatting with plenty of dog business owners along the way.

The Big Bark #23 festive cheer and a happy new year

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The Big Bark 2020 finale:
Ho Ho Ho Santa Claus is coming to town. It’s Christmas time, there’s lots of mistletoe and wine going around and here at The Big Bark We’re getting into the festive spirit. On this weeks show we’re talking about all things Christmas. We have some fantastic special guests today including none other than Santa Claus himself.
Pete “The Vet” Wedderburn joins us on the show to tell us all about his amazing new site Petfixclub.com, an innovative all in one online solution to find out everything you need to know about your pet. With over 30 years of Pete Wedderburns articles, podcasts and advice from his bestselling book all in one place, this really is a fantastic resource for all things pet related.

Dr. Tim Kirby also comes back to the show along with Samantha Rawson. With Tim, Samantha and Pete, we look back at what has been a strange year in 2020 and look forward to 2021. Carrie Hoade from Madra also joins to tell us all about what has gone on in Madra this year.
We complete our final raffle and announce the total funds raised for Limerick Animal Welfare, MADRA, Dogs Aid & SARDA.

Happy Christmas to all of our listeners

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The Big Bark #22 All I Woof for Christmas Woof Woof toy show special

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All I Woof for Christmas is here.
A 3 hour event from The Big Bark. A chance to hear from the best pet businesses from across Ireland. Featuring product demonstrations, raffles and Live music from Richard Gilpin & Stopshop
Over €1510 was raised for animal charities through this event.

Watch the full show on our facebook page https://facebook.com/thebigbarkpodcast

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