Well, hello, this is Talking Dogs. It's lovely to have you here. My name's Graham Hall,

although I go by the Dogfather too, because I've spent well over a decade helping people train their dogs.

You might have caught me on Telly's dogs behaving very badly and well I'm afraid you can't get

away from me now because here I am sharing all my wisdom on this podcast.

I get how incredibly frustrating and often heartbreaking it can be when you feel you've got

a dog problem that you don't understand or you don't know how to solve.

So I'm here to give you some advice, to put you at ease, and who knows, maybe even make you laugh in the process.

Something I hear a lot is my dog's such an angel, the sweet calmest little thing until and that until is often

until she starts guarding something a cushion the remote control it doesn't really matter

what it is i'll come back to that but the point is is once the dog's got it in in her mouth

and she's around the item they immediately switch from angel to devil.

Erin's been in touch because she knows this all too well.

Hi Graham, we have a two-year-old cockapoo, Jude, usually a really lovely dog, really friendly

nature, very calm around all the family members. However,

occasionally she does like to guard items around the house. These are really random items and

they can be located anywhere in the house. When she's decided she's guarding it, she does

become very, very vicious. It's like a red mist comes over her and there's

no getting that item off of her. She can sit on it for quite a few hours. So you can imagine it's

quite a struggle sometimes. And we have two children in the house who are under 10. So we do worry

that if she does want to attack when she's got

something that something could happen to them all other times she is as nice as pie but when she's

guarding she becomes really really vicious she bars her teeth she snarls and occasionally she does

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