Animal Brandon Online: A Field Behaviorist and a Synologist

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Brandon McMillan is a field behaviorist, and thus a synologist. He grew up in the circus; his parents were both wild animal trainers. So he never read a book on animals my entire life. In 1848 W.N. Hutchinson published a book called "Dog breaking," which was known for its catchphrase: command, jerk, praise. And I unearthed this 1946 YouTube time capsule called training you to train your dog.

Your best friend is a hairy beast and that's something to celebrate. This episode is a little different in tone and let's just say GOOD LUCK NOT CRYING, SUCKERS. Alie sits down with "Lucky Dog" host Brandon McMillan, who cares more about saving shelter mutts than he does about the 3 Daytime Emmys he's won for doing it. Learn about his Hollywood drama-worthy backstory that led to being one of the world's most celebrated dog trainers, plus how to calm anxious pups, breeders vs. shelter rescues, and how and why dogs help our brains and save our lives. Dogs 4 president 2020.

Brandon's website

Follow Brandon on Instagram and Twitter

Brandon's non-profit to provide service dogs to veterans is called ARGUS. I said Angus; how embarrassing.

More episode sources & links

Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month

OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes!

Follow @Ologies on Twitter and Instagram

Follow @AlieWard on Twitter and Instagram

Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris

Theme song by Nick Thorburn