In conversation with
Interviews
Long-form Q&A with the people who breed, raise, train and handle working dogs. Unedited where it matters, and always in their own words.
Two decades of night shifts, callouts and one dog after another. We asked about the parts of the work that never make it into a report.
A trainer of twenty years on why the field’s obsession with drive gets the order of operations backwards — and what she looks for in a dog before anything else.
The decoy is the least understood job on the field. We asked what the work actually demands, and what bad handling looks like from the inside.