Originally titled “Canine Conversations”, this podcast has since branded to “K9 Conservationists” as Journey Dog Training’s founder Kayla Fratt has focused increasingly more on canine conservation work.
This podcast features over 170 episodes covering all kinds of areas of canine expertise including: detection dogs, ecology, conservation, dog behavior, training, and more!
Welcome to the K9 Conservationists podcast, where we’re positively obsessed with conservation detection dogs! Join us every week as we discuss detection dogs, ecology, conservation, dog behavior, training, and much more.
K9 Conservationists is hosted by Kayla Fratt, CDBC and co-founder of K9 Conservationists. Along with her two co-founders, she trains dogs to detect data. Support the work we do at patreon.com/k9conservationists.
How does breakfast affect a detection dog's performance? In this episode, Kayla takes a deep, deep, deep dive into the 2026 paper, ”The breakfast effect revisited: Dogs’ scent detection performance before and after a meal.”
Kayla breaks down the research team's key findings, and why understanding the math behind the data matters just as much as the results themselves.
Read the original paper here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0023969026000883
Host: Kayla Fratt
Editor: Sara Fangton
Sci-comm intern: Evelyn Combs
Guest logistics: Brooke Schoeder
Website: Meg du Bray
Patreon: Madison David
