Hello, it's great to have you here for today's Talking Dogs episode. I'm Graham Hall. You might know me better as the dog father. I've been working with dogs known as alike for over a decade now.

And more recently, I've been on TV's dogs behaving very badly, helping families there too.

While now, I'm adding yet another string to my bow with this podcast.

Now, this is the place where I can listen to your problems, the things that you're struggling

with your dogs, so that I can help with a bit of advice as well as tell you

the odd funny story on similar situations that I've found myself in over the years.

Now today I'd like to talk to you about toilet training. It's a crucial stage of training

that we all have to go through at some point. Now I got the hang of it years ago,

but it's not always quite so easy for little puppies to understand. Sometimes we accidentally

confuse them. A little later, I'll share with you why I think the time of year can have a big

effect on how quickly your puppy learns.

But for now, let's go through some of the basics. It's not every day I get to talk about we and poo and I'm glad of having breakfast

but I'm going to call it number one's we and number two poo from here on

because I don't want to be saying it every time now the theory

behind toilet training really is pretty simple couldn't be simpler right there's places you want

to go and places you definitely don't want them to go so we've got to mark those places as good

and in effect bad it's a question of how you do it of course. Really you want to be

starting this in a purely positive way. So they're out in the garden and give them plenty

of opportunity, go outside, hang around with them, let them do whatever they want to do, play

and all the rest of it. But don't rev them up too much because then they'll forget to do

what they're meant to be doing.

When they calm down, a bit like humans when you think about it, is when you go,

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