I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello hello.

How are you doing?

So I want to share a quick story with you today that really highlights how everything is contextual and sometimes the reason why people don't see the thing that we see or experience the thing that we do is that they don't know them in the context that we do or they're not

experiencing them in the context that we are. So picture this. It's about six

weeks ago and my husband M arranged for Chester our carpool to spend a couple of mornings

a week with this dog walker who basically gets the dogs to work in a pack and it

helps them to build up their confidence and she gradually starts to work with them

on behavioral issues. Now you may remember if you are a long

time listener that back in episode two I talked about how Chester had taught us a

lot about neediness because Cockapoos are known as being a needy read and

I'm very careful about using that term because I do think that as humans we refer to things as being neediness that really are not but

actually in the case of of Chester he can be very attention seeking he can be

very dramatic he can be quite

OTT but he also clearly has a level of anxiety in there and that comes from him

having been adopted by us at seven months from a close friend of ours and having gone through, you know, a big change.

But over this last year, some of his antics have got a bit much, which, to be honest with you,

you would have thought that given that we've been in lockdown, and so he has had us

way more than he's ever had. He's basically with all four of us for the best part of a year pretty much all the time.

You would think that if anything it would have dialed down some of his antics, but he's actually got worse in some respects. It's more to do with when we take him out.

So like just going crazy at buses and motorcycles and lorries. he if you see this dog sometimes when you hear

him barking you'd think he was some sort of savage dog but honestly as

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