Hello and welcome to this, the Talking Dogs podcast. I'm the dog father. Well, my real name is Graham Hall, but the dog father seems to have stuck after almost 15 years as a dog

trainer. You might have caught me on television's dogs behaving very badly, or perhaps read

one of my books, or even had me round to work with you and your dog one to one. This podcast

is the place where I can offer you some detailed solutions to the issues that you're having

with your dog, as well as hearing from people I've worked with in the past about what worked with

their dog.

Later on I'll be catching up with the family I recently helped on the telly show dogs

behaving very badly. But first, Kelsey's been in touch about her 16-month-old

staffie. Now her email says, I'm unable to have visitors in my house due to him getting so

excited and biting. He gets so excited that he bites wrists and with a two-year-old in the house,

I need to try and resolve this now. Now we have a bone for him every time someone

comes round, but as soon as he finishes it, he attacks them. We put him in time out as we have a

baby gate, but he just doesn't listen. Now if we pull him by the collar, he attacks us,

or he hides under a table and goes for us if we go near him to get him out from under

it. I thought we might have got better over time but there's still no improvement and

I don't know what to do next. Right then Kelsey well you sent me a couple of

videos as well which are great. Now what I'm seeing in the video is yeah a pretty

full on dog who's sort of jumping non-stop and he's got his mouth open as he's doing it.

Now, as he's getting excited, you're getting excited, everybody's excited.

And I think that's a bit of a bit of a clue here for what's going on.

So the first thing is, I know you're talking about him attacking you.

He's not doing it in a nasty way.

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