Hello and a warm welcome to Talking Dogs. It's a real pleasure to have you with me.

I'm Graham Hall and for donkeys years I've been showing people how to train their charming but often

disobedient dogs. I'm known as the dog father and you might recognize my voice from TV's

dogs behaving very badly. This podcast is the place where I can give you even more advice

and tell the odd bizarre story from my time as a trainer in the hope that if you're running

out of ideas well

i might leave you with a new cunning plan i think all dog owners know what we mean when we say that

a dog's got the zoomies now you might have a different name for, but it's that time of day when the dog goes absolutely crazy,

darting around every corner of the house, jumping from sofa to floor to flower bed.

And today, I want to talk about some different situations in which a dog might be over excited or over aroused.

So, first up, here's a really common one

from Mandy. Hello, Graham. I have two border terriers, not related, both aged eight years old

and male and a female. For some time now when we get ready for a walk, they start whining and barking

as soon as they start to get ready. It's impossible to leave the house without the noise

level escalating and they only really calm down and stop once we're clear of the house. I've

tried slowing the process down but without much success. I wondered if you could give us any advice to help.

Thank you. Hello Mandy. It sounds as though from your accident, so you're from the northeast, and you've got a couple of border terriers, of course, they famously come from Northumberland and just into the Scottish borders. So that's kind of interesting, or it's just to me anyway. So it's a very, very common one, isn't it? Every time we go to get up to go for a walk, particularly to walk the dog,

they get over-excited. And I think a lot of people will recognise that. Sounds like yours are

sort of spilled over into literally every time you get up to go. You talk about slowing things down.

I think that's right. I think you're on the right track with that. But I'd be interested to know

what signals you're sending out while you're doing that right it's really easy to sort of

inadvertently reward dogs when they're getting a bit uppity all right so for example you

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