Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and

communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. From NBN Zero to Hero, I want to introduce you to the wonderful

Alice and her Super Dog Bonnie. Alice, I know this has been a tough journey. You started at zero.

You're now my hero when it comes to naughty but nice dogs advocating for them. And really

transformation. Tell us a little bit about Bonnie where it started and how difficult it was

in those early days. Yeah, we had quite a steep learning curve. I think it's fair to say

with Bonnie, especially early on. We adopted her when she was two. She had been put into the

rescue centre under the, frankly, mismanagement of her previous owner, there had actually been a dog fight

incident, which had sadly resulted in the death of the other dog. So I think Bonnie was quite

lucky to actually even get the chance to go into rescue at that point. And, you know, I'm glad she

did because, you know, I think that it was a horrible situation that could have

been avoided. And so it was, you know, nice for Chris and I to be able to give her that second

chance that we felt she deserved. But she certainly came with a lot of struggles. So, yes,

you know, she struggled with separation and, you know, that's a work in progress

and it's a much better picture now than it was. But I think primarily her reactivity is the

thing that we've sort of, that was the most sort of shocking to us and the most sort of,

sort of disheartening initially to think, craiky, like, this is

actually a lot worse than, you know, the rescue centre we're aware of. And we've got a really

steep hill to climb. That's kind of how it felt. I know you described her as a grizzly bear,

like literally can imagine this grizzly bear cross donkey at times. Now she is big. She's a black brindle. She can look quite fierce. She's a mastiff mutts. She's a crossbred mastiff breed. And she's a lot of dog on a lead, I think it's fair to say. She's a lot of dog for you because you're probably about the same weight, like both similar sort of 50, 60, those like weights. And she's got a lot

of poor past learning and poor past history, like where you say, actually, it was to the extreme

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