Hello and welcome to this Talking Dogs. I'm Graham Hall, although there's a chance you might know me better as the dog father.

I've been working with dogs for more than 10 years and for the last few of, I've been helping disheartened dog owners on TV's dogs behaving very badly.

I'm very determined to make sure all dogs and people live together in perfect harmony,

which is why I'm giving you even more advice, as well as telling the odd dog tale from my career on this podcast.

Well, they do say never work with children or animals.

Now, obviously, I ignored that second part.

In fact, I've got a slightly different one, which is never work with children or creatives.

But actually, I often end up working with children too, they're an important part of families and the families that are helped. So in a bit,

I'm going to have a think about the best ways to get kids involved with training a dog. But first,

I've had a really good question from Chris. Hi, Graham. My name is Chris. And me and my wife have an 18-month-old Red Fox Labrador Retriever, who is from a working stock background.

Later this year, me and my wife will be bringing home our first child.

We were hoping that you may be able to provide some advice as to how it would be best to prepare Millie

for the arrival of a new child in the house. She's generally a very calm dog, particularly in the

house, but given her working background and her age at 18 months old, she can be quite excitable. Any advice you could provide us would be

very much welcomed. Thanks, Graham. Great. Thanks for your query, Chris. That's Brill.

Sounds like you're from Welsh Wales. I've been in Wales a lot recently working. So a Red

Fox Labrador called Millie. For people who don't know, the Red Fox ones are quite rare really, and as the name suggests,

they're the sort of colour of a fox, quite often a little bit more edgy than some Labradors.

You know, your typical sort of yellow Labradors very easy going and all that kind of thing.

Chocolate ones are along to themselves.

And the Red Fox ones are a bit

more on the go, a bit more excitable usually. So she's quite a chilled one, which is great news.

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