Hello there, welcome to talking dogs. Always a real pleasure to have you with me.

It's Graham Hall and it's been well over a decade now since I started working with owners to help them with their unruly dogs.

Now, as a result of my work, I'm often known as the dog father, and you might recognise my

voice from TV's dogs behaving very badly. Now I'm bringing even more experience, advice and

opinions to you on this podcast in the hope that if you started to run out of patience with

your pooch, you'll leave with some new ideas that you might not have considered before.

Now, today I'm going to try and cover a whole year of a dog's life in a single episode.

I've always been ambitious.

I want to take you through what to expect from

the moment you bring a new puppy home to how their behavior might change by the time they

reach the first birthday now having said just that I think we actually need to start before

you bring your puppy home because you need to consider just how much a dog would change your

life Dan sent me an email on that very topic so he said you bring your puppy home because you need to consider just how much a dog will change your life.

Dan sent me an email on that very topic.

So he said, Hi Graham, I've been wanting a dog for quite a while, but my wife really isn't keen on the idea.

I know she'd be absolutely fine if or when the dog came.

She admittedly says she'd love it if we had it,

but it's pretty much against committing to the idea whenever I suggest it. So, okay,

that's a bit confusing. So she would love it, but she wouldn't commit. Okay, I get it.

I feel quite strongly about getting a dog for exercise. Yep, good mental health, yep, and as a bit of a hobby.

Yeah, you kind of lost me at that point, a bit more than a hobby, Dan, I have to say, more like a lifestyle.

I was around dogs as a child, my partner wasn't, that's something I hear a lot.

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