Hello and welcome back to this, the Talking Dogs podcast.

If you're new around here, it's lovely to have you, welcome aboard.

A little introduction in which case, I'm Graham Hall, but I also go by the dog father

and the chap in tweed and a cravat on telly's dogs behaving very badly. I've got thousands of

dogs' worth of experience and I'm dogged in my determination to make sure you live as content

a life with your dog as possible. Dogged, get it? Which is, well, it won't be full of dad jokes, I promise. That's why I'll take any opportunity to teach you what I've learned over the years. Now, that's what I do on this podcast, right? I'd share as much advice as I possibly can, and you'll soon learn that, well, yeah, there is the odd wise crack along the way.

Last week I talked through some situations where dogs can get a bit over-excited or a bit over-arousin and often the antidote to some of those behaviours is having a dog

who knows when it's time to settle down.

It's really, really important that dogs have lots of time when they know they'll be uninterrupted and they can have a bit of a rest.

I think there's a question that pops quite a bit which is, well, how long should dogs be sleeping?

And I always say this. A happy dog who's getting enough exercise will sleep

all night and sleep half the day as well they're not like humans so I think

it's worth remembering that because we tend to sort of rev them up because we

think they're bored that's really common when. When dogs calm down, often people say,

yeah, but I'm meant to be entertained them. I've read this book where, you know, I've got to enriches

life and I've got to do this and that. He's like, do you know what? He's quite happy, you know,

he's had a walk, he's had a little play. He was fed earlier and now he just wants to, well, have a snooze. And do you know what? That's fine. So, you know,

sleep all night, sleep after day. If they're getting enough exercise, well, that's probably a good

thing to remember. Particularly in the case of puppies, there's an awful lot going on in a puppy brain.

So they exercise a bit, they're building a body, the brains sort of processing things while

they're asleep. So, you know, they're sleep for quite long periods of time. Think of babies.

They sleep longer than adult humans, don't they? So on this subject, Rachel's got in touch with a

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