Hello, I'm Graham Hall and this is Talking Dogs. I've been training dogs with all kinds of temperaments, nervous, aggressive, stubborn, cheeky for over a decade, and that's earned me the name the dog father.

As well as working with owners one-to-one

and being on TV's dogs behaving very badly,

I made this podcast as a way to share even more of my knowledge and advice

because I won't rest until every dog and every owner is happy and confident.

Stick around because in a little bit we'll hear from someone who's concerned the family Labrador has suddenly become scared, well, of her in particular.

But first, I want to catch it with a lovely man I met recently for the tele-show.

Now, you might recognise Ray. He had a bit of a difficult relationship with one of his dogs

for a while. Ray, you got me in because your relationship with your Welsh Terrier Henry

was reaching breaking point and it was affecting your marriage too. So Ray, what was going on?

Why did you decide you needed some help?

Well, I decided, well I didn't actually. My wife did because at the end of the day, Tammy's at work and I'm at home because I'm retired with this dog.

And he wouldn't let me leave the room to do simple thing like go upstairs to have a shower.

And he tried to kill me. As you know, from your visit here, we got the little gate

out of the back garden and he wouldn't let me go out to get to the car park. And it got so

stressful that I said to my wife, I said, I can't do this anymore. I said, I'm going to get rid of

Henry. I said, I just can't do it. And Tammy said, well, if Henry goes, I go. And it was really getting stressful.

So just out of the blue, Tammy comes home from work and says, I've contacted dogs behaving badly and they've got back to me.

It is an interesting thing, I think, that dogs can get us like that.

And I remember when I was chatting to you, you said, you got to a point, anyway, where you called Tammy at work, I think,

one day and said, that's it, I've had enough, this dog's got to go. And I think for you,

the problem was that you were, it was a pressure cooker, wouldn't it? You were there all the time

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