What Pet Dogs Can Do for Conservation with Melissa McCue-McGrath

Podcast: Positively Dog Training - The Official Victoria Stilwell Podcast · Victoria Stilwell

Opublikowano: 2025-06-24

What do pet dogs, invasive insects, and a ragtag group of behavior cases have in common? In this wildly inspiring and often hilarious episode, Victoria talks with longtime VSA faculty advisor Melissa McCue-McGrath about her groundbreaking work in a national study training pet dogs to detect spotted lanternfly eggs—an invasive species threatening agriculture across the U.S. From snowy deliveries of fly eggs in a Pokémon lunchbox to solving odor puzzles during heatwaves and blizzards, Melissa shares the extraordinary journey her students and their reactive, anxious, or aging dogs took to prove that even...