Hello and welcome to this the Talking Dogs podcast.

I'm Graham Hall and I've been working with dogs and their human parents too for over 10 years now.

You might know me as the dog father.

Perhaps you've caught me on television's dogs behaving very badly.

Now once that TV show airs, I'm always flooded with a request for advice

on how to deal with various dog behavioural issues, so that's why I'm doing this podcast.

This is the place where I can answer all of your questions directly,

as well as telling a few stories

of my own if you'll indulge me.

Last week's episode we talked about the puppy stage of a dog's life and if you're at that

stage then nuisance nipping is probably something that

you've come up against Ian's in Surrey and he's reaching the end of his tether. Hi Graham this is Ian from

Camberley in Surrey we have an 11 week old Labrador puppy called Mabel who is settling in well and is

just beautiful she's picking up commands very quickly and already getting into a good

bedtime routine. But we do have an issue with those razor sharp teeth. Despite giving her loads

of toys both soft and chewable, when she's overexcited, she does nip and bite, as she would

have done with her siblings, I guess. But this obviously hurts, and although

we say no and try to distract her with other toys that we think would be more fun, she thinks

otherwise. Is this just a phase she will grow out of, or should we try another technique

to nip it in the bud? Thanks. Yeah, okay, and I'll do the joke. Thank you very much. It's my podcast.

But before I tell you what's going on with Mabel, I want to hear from Alice in Spalding, too,

because she's got a similar problem, but she's been trying some very different techniques.

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