Hello and welcome to this Talking Dogs. I'm Graham Hall. Oh, 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 those

years I've been helping struggling dog owners on televisions, dogs behaving very badly.

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

which is why I'm giving even more advice as well as telling the odd dog tale from my career

on this podcast.

Is there such a thing as too friendly a dog? That's what we all want, right? A friendly, loving,

affectionate dog, of course. But if their version of being friendly is manically jumping all

over you and your family, excitedly

stamping on your face when you sat on the sofa and being too boisterous with a ball outside

to the point of making children cry, all because they think it's how you do fun playtime,

well, that's going to be a problem very quickly, especially if they're a large breed.

Now, there's someone who knows all too well how exhausting it can be,

having a friendly, excitable dog. And that's Leanne. Leanne, I came and met you and two-year-old boxer Woody

for the TV show Dogs behaving very badly. What was life like with Woody before I came to you?

Oh, it was pretty unbearable, really. I mean, we love him so much, but life was really hard. When I used to try and take him for a walk, I would be dragged out of the house. I couldn't even hardly lock the front door. He'd drag me up onto the street, up the steps onto the street, out into the middle of the road,

dashing just for the whole walk, he wouldn't stop or calm down the whole time.

When people come over, he didn't just jump up at them, he would be lunging at them and physically pushing people over. Small children,

old people, anybody that come into the house, he would be lunging at. And when men used to have

friends over, they couldn't go out the back to play because Woody would just be jumping at them,

taking the ball off them.

It was just constantly like that all the time.

Yeah, it was a big problem for your son Ben, wasn't it?

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