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. Rescue dogs and not just any rescue dog, big rescue dogs,

you've come with big history. Alice, tell us about it.

Hello, thank you for having me. And this is my absolutely passionate subject.

So I am the proud and happy owner of Bonnie, who is a sort of 40-odd kilo,

German Shepherd, Canicorso, mega mastiff mutt mix.

And yeah, we got her as a two-year-old dog from a local rescue centre.

And we were made aware that she had been quite a serious incident,

which had led to her being removed from her previous owner and brought into rescue, which was that due to some mismanagement with the

previous owner that had actually been a very serious dog fight incident, which sadly resulted

in the death of the other dog.

So Bonnie was taken into rescue with this sort of stain on her record.

And that didn't put us off because we knew that actually that was down to the management or rather the mismanagement of those dogs and that sadly that

had been an entirely avoidable situation and that she definitely deserved another chance

I think perhaps we were slightly naive about the extent of what a learning curve she was going to be

for us but but she's in a much much

better place now she's much happier healthier much more um calmer um sort of a much more kind of

sociably acceptable dog now than she was when we got her and certainly than she was before.

So yeah, I'm hugely passionate about rescue dogs and here to absolutely answer questions and help

anybody else who might be thinking about taking on a rescue dog or might be struggling with the

rescue dog they've just taken on and

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