Well hello there! This is Talking Dogs!

Lovely to have you with me! I'm Graham Hall and for 10 years or so I've been helping humans with their disobedient dogs.

I also go by The Dogfather and

you can often find me on Channel 5's dogs behaving very badly. I know that it can be incredibly

frustrating and often disheartening when you feel your dog's got a problem that you just don't

know how to solve. So I'm here to give you some advice, put your leave and maybe even make

you laugh in the process.

Last week I went through the basics of getting your dog out on a walk, collars, harnesses, leads and the like. Now this week I want to concentrate on the experience of the walk itself.

The first and most important thing to remember is you're not taking your dog for a walk.

Oh no. The dog is coming with us on a nice walk. In other words, it's not his walk or her walk, it's your walk and at the goodness of your heart, you're taking your little loyal subjects with you.

You decide where to go, which direction, what speed, where to stop to go to the toilet.

That'll be the dog, mainly, not you.

Now, most people's walk, of course, isn't really like that, if we're honest.

Most walks involve a dog stopping umpteen times to go,

oy, you, human, stop.

I want to go to the toilet, it's a lamp post. We go, yeah, go on,

then you're a dog, I suppose. So they do it, and then it's like, okay, you may proceed.

Next lamp post, stop, okay, okay, right, right, you may proceed, stop, you may proceed, stop,

you may proceed, who's in charge? So you should really decide when it's break time and the

thing is there are places we don't want our dogs to go to the toilet so it

makes sense to me that you walk I I basically I create two kinds of walking so

we're either on duty in other words I'm walking you're with me you've got a job

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