Pawplexity Pawdcast

Annika Tringali
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Pawplexity is a podcast about how living with dogs and cats keeps rewriting how we live and what we think we know. I started this podcast because life with my dog is rarely just practical. It’s funny, chaotic, grounding, and often unexpectedly emotional. Loving a dog can stretch you and soften you. It can confront parts of you that have nothing to do with training and everything to do with relationship. Bruce and Ben join me in conversation as we talk about life with Makenzie, Bowie, Judge, and our wider pet family. We talk about attachment. About absence and reunion. Or more simply: the small daily negotiations that shape a shared life with a pet. This isn’t a how-to podcast. It’s a space for conversation — one that acknowledges both the joy and the stress in what our pets teach us, and what they reveal about us. If you’ve ever had the sense that this bond is more layered than it first appears, you're in the right place. Pawplexity continues on our website www.pawplexity.dog, where more of the research and longer reflections have space. Subscribe to join the conversation.

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  1. E6: The dog you actually live with - beyond the breed

    4 H FA

    E6: The dog you actually live with - beyond the breed

    Judge is a Pomeranian. Bruce wanted a Rottweiler. Ben wanted a Husky and ended up with a Pomsky, which is close enough that he considers the matter settled. Annika never wanted a dog at all, then read everything there was to read about Shibas, decided they were genuinely not a good fit for a first-time owner, and got one anyway. In this episode, Annika, Bruce, and Ben sit with a question that kept surfacing once the recording started: who is the dog you actually live with? Not the breed description. Not the label on the tin. Not stubborn, or difficult, or easy, or typical. The specific animal who shows up in your kitchen in the morning, who has opinions about which treats are acceptable, who has developed a strategy for getting what they want from you that has nothing to do with any breed profile you have ever read. The conversation moves through what each of them originally thought they were getting, how that picture changed, and what replaced it. Bruce talks about Judge's relationship with larger dogs and with his own digestion. Ben talks about Bowie's particular gift for winding up other dogs without ever crossing a line. Annika talks about Makenzie at eleven months, making a beeline at the dog park for the biggest and most intimidating dogs available, and about the Great Dane no other dog would go near. There is a moment in the middle of the conversation where all three of them describe their dogs in terms of who those dogs are rather than what breed they belong to. The descriptions do not sound like any breed standard. They sound like people talking about someone they know well. The question underneath all of it: when we say "that's just how that breed is," what are we actually doing? And what do we miss when we stop there? This is not advice about how to read your dog. It is a conversation about what you find when you look past the breed and at the animal in front of you. Find us on Instagram @pawplexitypodcast, on our webpage at www.pawplexity.dog, or wherever you listen.

    44 min
  2. E5: When your dog doesn't eat

    26 APR

    E5: When your dog doesn't eat

    We’re comfortable calling dogs individuals, until appetite hesitates. When a dog doesn’t eat, appetite suddenly becomes more than appetite. It becomes a signal. A measure of wellbeing and sometimes even a quiet measure of us. In this episode, we look at why eating isn’t consistent across dogs, how stress and context can shape hunger, and why “picky” is often the fastest explanation available. We talk about appetite as temperament, about presence at the bowl, and about how quickly feeding turns into something charged. Because food is one of the few places where care feels visible. When appetite pauses, that visibility fades and uncertainty moves in.  An untouched bowl can shift the weight of an otherwise ordinary moment.

    43 min
  3. E4: Leaving your dog alone

    8 APR

    E4: Leaving your dog alone

    Leaving your dog alone is often treated as something simple: a life skill they have to learn, a routine part of everyday care. And yet, the moment of closing the door rarely feels simple. In this episode, we talk about the seconds before departure, the quiet shift in the room, and what lingers once you are gone. The anticipation before departure. The guilt and projection that can follow once you are out. The behaviour we monitor, interpret, and sometimes misunderstand when we come back. We reflect on attachment, training, routine, and the difference between visible quiet and genuine coping. What looks settled is not always the same as what is felt.

    41 min
  4. E3: We are going to the vet

    25 MAR

    E3: We are going to the vet

    We do not usually think we need to prepare for a vet visit. It is part of responsible care. Routine. Expected. What often catches us off guard is everything that sits around it. In this episode, we talk about what does not fit into the word “routine”: the hesitation before the door, the shift in behaviour in the waiting room, the moment on the exam table when your dog is no longer participating but enduring. Because a clinic is not just a medical space. It is an environment shaped by memory, handling, and loss of control. Over time, dogs learn these spaces. Restraint, repetition, and predictability begin to shape how they respond.  This is not a critique of veterinary care. It is a conversation about what these moments ask of our dogs — and of us.

    45 min
  5. E2: The instructions we leave for our pet sitters

    11 MAR

    E2: The instructions we leave for our pet sitters

    This one is about the lists: the notes we leave for our pet sitters, the carefully written routines, the extra paragraph we add just before we close the document. What starts as logistics often becomes something else: a way of managing the discomfort of leaving. A quiet attempt to transfer not just instructions, but the relationship itself. Care, control, daycare, and cultural expectations begin to sit underneath what looks like a simple handover. This isn’t advice about finding the perfect sitter. It’s a conversation about what leaving exposes — in our dogs, and in ourselves. Attachment, cortisol, and emotional expression sit quietly in the background, shaping why these notes often grow beyond practicality and what writing them does for us.

    48 min
  6. E1: Our truth about puppyhood

    25 FEB

    E1: Our truth about puppyhood

    *New episode every other Wednesday at 2:00pm CET* We thought we were ready. We had the books, the schedules, and the structure. What we did not expect was how destabilising puppyhood could feel, especially when everything on the surface looked easy. In this episode, we talk about the parts that did not match that picture: sleep deprivation, evening unraveling, mistaking quiet for calm, and the pressure to get things right from the beginning. Because puppies do not arrive as blank pages. They arrive with temperament, sensitivity, and their own way of meeting the world. This is not advice. It is a conversation about what puppyhood revealed — about our dogs, and about us.

    48 min
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Pawplexity is a podcast about how living with dogs and cats keeps rewriting how we live and what we think we know. I started this podcast because life with my dog is rarely just practical. It’s funny, chaotic, grounding, and often unexpectedly emotional. Loving a dog can stretch you and soften you. It can confront parts of you that have nothing to do with training and everything to do with relationship. Bruce and Ben join me in conversation as we talk about life with Makenzie, Bowie, Judge, and our wider pet family. We talk about attachment. About absence and reunion. Or more simply: the small daily negotiations that shape a shared life with a pet. This isn’t a how-to podcast. It’s a space for conversation — one that acknowledges both the joy and the stress in what our pets teach us, and what they reveal about us. If you’ve ever had the sense that this bond is more layered than it first appears, you're in the right place. Pawplexity continues on our website www.pawplexity.dog, where more of the research and longer reflections have space. Subscribe to join the conversation.

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  • Creatore
    Annika Tringali
  • Anni di attività
    2K
  • Puntate
    6
  • Classificazione
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    © 2026 Annika Tringali