Hello, I'm Graham Hall and this is Talking Dogs. I always feel as though I want to say that with an American accent.

This is Talking Dogs. It's the podcast where I use my almost decade

and a half of experience as a dog trainer to answer the burning questions that you have about

your dogs worrying, frustrating or even slightly funny behaviour. Now I'm often called the dog father.

I'm on TV's dogs behaving very badly. I've written a couple of books and I work with owners and their dogs one-to-one too. However bizarre you think your dog's issue is, I'll bet you a pretty penny I've seen it before. And if I haven't, well, that's okay. I'm always up for a challenge.

Today I want to talk about dogs and their toys.

For those that are motivated by them, toys can be a brilliant reward during training.

And play is also really important for dogs too.

Now, I'll come to the latter in a bit, but first, let's think about toys in the context of training. Corey sent me a voice note. All right game just a quick

one so basically my problem is I've got a nine-month female Rockweiler and she's not toy motivated

at all so like when I'm teaching out and things like that it's quite hard to do with food because obviously she just eats it

straight away anything we try and do with the toys she's not bothered i've got a flirt pole and try

and make it more live and fun for her which she'll chase twice and then look at me going i ain't doing

that no more and then if i throw a ball or anything distance distance, she looks at it, looks back at me and goes, yep, you can chase that.

So how do I get around this problem?

Because it's proving difficult.

Well, I'm chuckling for a couple of reasons.

One is the nature of rock violence.

And the second is your accent, Corey, I think you're not from a million miles away from where I come from,

I'm sure you must be from Yorkshire. It's that, I ain't doing that no more. That's classic,

I could just imagine a Rotweiler with the Yorkshire accent. And the reason for that is that

both Yorkshiremen and Rotweilers are famously a bit stubborn, really. You can always tell

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