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. Big dogs on lead. Alice, I know that your dog's big enough to

pull you over. What breed are you walking and how is this even possible?

So yes, Bonnie is my 40-odk kilo megamut, mastiff mixed. So, yeah, she's more than capable of

pulling me over and has in the past. And so walking on lead has been a team effort. And I'm happy to

say that we are now in a space where we can go out together walking nicely as a team. But there's

there's been a lot of games between now and where we started. And when you think about this one, I know that I've seen a very big dog on lead.

I saw a dog to Bordeaux at Crufts tow its owner over.

And its owner was probably in there, I'd know, 90 kilos.

And this dog probably in its 60, 70 kilos and towed this man over.

I mean towed. When it put brute force in, it was on a

flat collar, it towed. And a lot of people would say games are not going to work for a big

breed and they're certainly not going to work for getting a dog to walk nicely on a lead when

they're that bigger breed or they're that type of dog. What would you say? Exactly the opposite.

Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Go, girl.

You go.

So I can completely understand that there would be that assumption that actually a big dog needs firm handling, you know, needs asserting who's boss and all the rest of it. And I can understand why

that would be a very human assumption to make. And that was never going to work for me because

I barely outweigh Bonnie. Muscle was never going to be a part of our relationship or, you know, sort of me being

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