Madcap Radio

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You know us from Puppy Culture, When Pigs Fly and Madcap University. Now Jane and Mark have launched a radio station to bring you podcasts on the intersection of dogs, life and the science of doing anything well and being happy doing it.

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Puppy Culture Potluck: Ep1 - Is the “Wallflower” Puppy The One for You?

In a brand new Madcap Radio podcast series, Jane grabs a question from the Puppy Culture discussion group that sparked interested and talks about it on air. In this first episode, the person asking the question finds herself torn… she’s very attached to a particular puppy in a litter, but also feels like that puppy does not interact a lot with the rest of the litter. This person has previous experience with a puppy that was somewhat retiring within her litter, and that puppy grew up to be react...

Nov 28, 2023•24 min•Ep. 8

Episode 3: An Egg Yolk a Day Keeps Mastitis Away

Dietary Choline for Lactating Dams In this episode, Jane is joined by Magda Chiarella to review dietary supplements and food sources that can help prevent mastitis in lactating dams. Although sunflower lecithin is often recommended, sunflower lecithin has some potentially serious side effects and there are many far superior dietary sources of the active ingredient in sunflower lecithin, which is choline – phosphatidylcholine, to be exact. Visit our website, madcapradio.com for further reading an...

May 11, 2023•28 min•Ep. 7

Episode 2: Dogs Eating Poop

One Species Evolutionary Meat is another Species Evolutionary Poison So, your dog eats poop. Is it deviant? Or an elegant evolutionary solution? In this podcast, Jane and Mark look at the research and talk about the possible functions of poop-eating, what works and does not work to stop it, and why. We won’t say you’ll come away happy that your dog eats poop, but for sure you’ll see it in a different light. Visit our website, madcapradio.com for further reading and studies referenced in this epi...

Dec 06, 2022•32 min•Ep. 5

Episode 1: Being Wrong In Three Acts - Introduction

Why It Hurts So Bad to Be Wrong Why is it so threatening to realize that you might have been wrong about something? Turns out there's an evolutionary basis for this. Plot spoiler: that evolutionary strategy was awesome in the stone ages, but maybe not so much now.

Jul 21, 2022•10 min•Ep. 4

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