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Pawplexity Pawdcast

Annika Tringali

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.Pawplexity is a podcast for dog owners who have ever had the sense there is more going on in this bond than meets the eye. Every two weeks, my co-hosts Bruce and Ben join me in conversation about life with our dogs — Makenzie, Bowie, and Judge — across New Jersey, Southampton, and Taormina.We talk about attachment, about absence and reunion, about the

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00:37:47

E11: Why everyone has an opinion about your dog

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/09/23

Bruce watched a fully grown Rottweiler growl once at four-month-old Judge and had to trust it was the right thing happening. Ben has stopped trying to change how his dad handles two much bigger dogs off-leash near a blind corner, even after one of them nearly took his dad's finger off. Makenzie can't always talk herself down out of a tense moment with another dog, no matter how many off-leash owners insist she'll figure it out on her own.None of them are describing bad advice. They're describing the

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00:42:46

E10: Two dogs and what really changes

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/09/09

Bruce got Max, a Chihuahua, as a birthday gift he hadn't asked for; he says now he'd never have chosen the breed himself, and that his vet is more wary of Chihuahuas than German Shepherds because of what she calls the little dog complex. Ben watched Bowie walk into a household with three bigger dogs and decide, within days, that he was in charge, taking whatever he wanted from dogs three times his size and never once being challenged for it. Makenzie has talked me out of a sibling more times than

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00:09:54

T1: The dog you pictured and the one that arrived

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/09/02

This is the Pawplexity Treat for episode 1: The Dog You Pictured and the One That Arrived. Written and read by Annika.Bruce wanted anything but a Pomeranian. He came home with one anyway, after Tatiana touched the glass and the puppy inside woke up licking her fingertip. Ben bought a crate too large for Bowie, heard what he describes as a human-like scream on the first night, and ended up with his head inside it until Bowie fell asleep.The Treat moves through what those first weeks actually asked of

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00:44:37

E9: The walk and the leash

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/06/17

About the walk and the leashBowie slipped his collar at the Sailmakers front desk, choked himself getting free, and reached the treat jar anyway. Judge once nearly pulled Bruce into a moving bus and had to be caught by a dive at Mudchute after thirty minutes of ignoring his favourite treat, chicken. Makenzie tries to climb into parked cars in Canary Wharf, certain any open car is going to get her the beach.Three dogs, three cities, and in all three the leash is doing more than keeping them close.In

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00:41:54

E8: When you have to correct your dog

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/06/03

Judge is stopped dead by a fart noise. Bowie begins his tiptoe across the room before anyone has said anything. Makenzie sits down on the pavement and refuses to move until she is asked rather than told. Correcting your dog looks very different depending on the dog, and none of it works quite the way you expect.In this episode, Annika, Bruce, and Ben sit with the moment of correction itself: not training methods or what is right or wrong, but the moment as it actually happens, what the dog does in

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00:39:32

E7: Socialisation and the world our dogs grew up in

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/05/20

Judge grew up before the pandemic, in a house with a backyard in the United States, introduced to other dogs at parks and through a friend's Rottweiler named Trigger who showed him early where he stood. Bowie grew up during lockdown in Canada, going to the park every single day because the park was the only place anyone could go. Makenzie landed in London in September, afraid of the wind. Max is seven months old and already barking at everything outside, already learning from Judge that barking is

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00:43:36

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

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/05/06

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

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00:42:31

E5: When your dog doesn't eat

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/04/26

*New episode out every other Wednesday*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

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00:41:06

E4: Leaving your dog alone

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/04/08

*New episode every other Wednesday at 2:00pm CET*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

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00:45:02

E3: We are going to the vet

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/03/25

*New episode every other Wednesday at 2:00pm CET*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

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00:47:52

E2: The instructions we leave for our pet sitters

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/03/11

*New episode every other Wednesday at 2:00pm CET*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.In this episode, we talk about care, control, daycare, cultural expectations, and what our instructions reveal

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00:48:16

E1: Our truth about puppyhood

Pawplexity Pawdcast ·

2026/02/25

*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 didn’t expect was how unsettling puppyhood could feel, especially when everyone else described our dogs as “easy.”In this episode, we talk about the parts that didn’t match the picture: evening unraveling, mistaking quiet for calm, confusing predictability with safety, and the pressure to get everything right.Puppies don’t arrive as blank pages. And sometimes what

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