The Big Bark – Season 2: Episode 1 (The Big Bark #018)

It’s a brand new season of The Big Bark – the podcast for all you canine lovers. Here at The Big Bark we’re barking mad about your beautiful fur babies. For our new season, we’re changing things up a bit and taking a more educational and knowledge based approach for the show. While we will still meet with dog owners and their dogs, the show will focus on the work that canine professionals do and the new format offers a virtual Q&A session with our guest co-hosts, all of whom are renowned in their relative fields.

Episode 1 of this new season features none other than Canine behaviour and training consultant Samantha Rawson who has 27 years experience in her field and known across Ireland for the incredible behavioural work she does with dogs.

There can’t be all work/teaching and no play though so in this episode, we announce the winner of our halloween fancy dress competition and Bruno & Milly also test and review some awesome treats from Norsh pet foods and Naturo, Irish businesses that are owned by Mackle pet foods in Tyrone.

Finally we announce some big plans for the coming season including details of our Festive episodes and our Christmas Cracker business showcase.

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This is The Big Bark, the show for dog lovers that brings you the latest news from the canine world. Each episode we meet with different pet professionals from across the canine industry from pet shop owners to groomers behaviour specialists and vets. We also chat with dog owners to find out more about the bonds that make a dog mans best friend.

I’m your host Darragh Bourke and I’m joined today as always by my canine cohosts Bruno & Milly my wonderful companions who are never too far away and will be sure to offer their own big bark during the show.

Part 4 of our special Nose of Tralee 2020 series.

Over the last few weeks, we have met numerous participants in The petsitters Ireland Nose of Tralee 2020. The Nose of Tralee is a wonderful competition with some amazing sponsors such as Tesco Ireland, Petsitters Ireland and David McCauley Photography. Out of thousands of entrants, only one dog can be crowned the Nose of Tralee.

Today we have some pawesome fun and we meet 4 more Noses,
We meet with the Kerry Nose Scamp the Pug
We meet with the Kildare Nose Hudson the Bernese Rottweiler.
We meet with the Offaly Nose Teddy the Tibetan Maltese and
We meet with the Cavan Nose Winston.

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Episode 14 of the Big Bark

We’re back for another episode of The Big bark This episode was recorded Live on Facebook & Twitter.

In this weeks special series of episodes, we’re meeting some of the PAWSOME Participants in this years Nose of Tralee a competition in its 7th year run by Petsitters Ireland and sponsored by Tesco Ireland.

Each doggy that we meet is aiming to do their county proud and win the coveted title of Nose of Tralee. These are truly my favourite episodes to do.

Today we’re chatting with the Roscommon Nose Meeko and her human Ashlea who loves her blue ball and fish treats wrapped in chicken and her best feature is her cute nose. Meeko did some tricks for us Live and won our hearts Her owner Lydnsey joined us Live to tell us all about Meeko and why she should get your vote. If Meeko has your vote, click here – https://wshe.es/Z89bL2Rs

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Episode 12 of the Big Bark is part 2 of a special series on Dog thefts in Ireland
We have a brand new panel of guests this week.
Joining us on the panel are Samantha rawson from The canine college dog training school who will be chatting about what dog owners need to do to keep their dogs safe.
We’re joined on the panel also by Dr. Sharon Alston, who is working closely with TD James Browne on the who is bringing forth a proposal to introduce an offence called theft of the companion animal

We’re chatting about the sharp increase in dog thefts across Ireland over the last few months, and we’ll be taking a look at the need for legislation reform to enforce stricter penalties on the criminals who are responsible for these dog thefts in recent months.

We’ll also be taking a look at the legislation in other countries and take a look in particular at the Animal protection index which rates different countries based on their own legislation and finally we’re going to be taking a look at some of the dogs who have gone missing over the last few months suspected of being stolen.

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The Big Bark Series 1 Episode 10: Life under lockdown and supporting irish businesses during covid19

Welcome back to another episode of The Big Bark.

As the COVID-19 Pandemic and associated lockdown continues throughout Ireland, we speak to some awesome dog owners and business owners to find out how they’re coping with life during these crazy times.

First up, we’re joined by Edwyn from Hot Doggos Official – a new company based in County Laois, manufacturing dog collars from upcycled bicycle tubes.

We’re also chatting with Martina from Harry’s Dog Bakery to discuss the wide range of treats she has on offer.

Returning to the show also this week is Emma – owner of Limerick Nose 2019 Polo and curator of the Happiness Wags its tail page on Instagram.

We’ll be chatting with all of our guests about what they’re getting up to during lockdown, we discuss the need to support animal welfare charities now more than ever, including getting a look at the doggos available for rehoming from Limerick Animal Welfare.

We give a big bark birthday shoutout to the doggos who’ve had their birthday in the last few weeks and we have an awesome giveaway from both Harrys Dog Bakery and Hot Doogs.

Joining me in the hot seat as always are my delighful companions Bruno – my handsome black bloodrador and Milly our awesome pretty golden labrador princess.

To view the video of the Livestream, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me5bVJW6vzg or our facebook page.

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