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Talking Dogs with Graeme Hall

Episode 40 – Raising a puppy, with Frank Skinner

Talking Dogs with Graeme Hall

Avalon Factual

Leisure

4.8854 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Frank Skinner has a new cavapoo called Poppy. He and Graeme Hall chat through the realities of raising a puppy, as it’s turned out to be a little more difficult than Frank had expected. He explains what he found particularly challenging about toilet training, and impresses Graeme with the way he’s socialised Poppy. Plus, they debate whether getting some help by way of a dog walker or daycare is a good idea. Do you have a question for The Dogfather? Send Graeme a voice note and a video of your pesky pooch to [email protected].

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to this, the final episode in this series of Talking Dogs.

0:16.0

I've saved a really, really good one until last, I promise.

0:19.0

I'm Graham Hall, by the way. I'm a dog trainer

0:21.3

with well over a decade's worth of experience and in fact I've worked with so many different breeds

0:25.5

they even call me the dog father. I might have trained your dog with you in a one-to-one in your

0:30.2

garden or more likely you've probably seen me on tell these dogs behaving very badly. Well I'm right

0:35.1

here on this podcast too, giving even more advice than telling the odd story.

0:42.2

Well today's all about puppies, really little puppies. Cute, right? Well, yeah, but maybe not. Perhaps

0:49.0

you're swept up by the idea of an adorable little bottle of fluff in your house, available to

0:53.5

give you a cuddle at a moment's notice but you quickly realize that while you might get

0:58.6

some of those cuddles you were hoping for it's actually incredibly hard work

1:02.1

raising a dog now somebody who knows all about lies and lows have been a new

1:06.4

puppy parent is comedian Frank Skinner hi Frank, I'm already worried that you've said

1:12.4

Poppy Parent, but we'll go with it. I went to the vets the other day and the vet said to me,

1:20.2

are you your puppy's daddy, aren't you? And I said, yeah, he's his mom's outside having a poo

1:26.6

on the pavement.

1:28.6

I can't quite live with the mommy and daddy thing, but it's all right.

1:33.2

I know people like that kind of thing.

1:34.8

As you can see already, my reticent about completely buying into the dogs or little puppies,

1:42.3

that sort of world.

1:43.8

It's not your style. Anyway, it's all good yeah no so you

1:47.0

were quite a reticent dog owner they maybe are a reticent dog owner is that right um yeah it happened

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