So just talk through what you mean by a life sentence and what made you, because you suggested

this topic and I thought, brilliant, absolutely brilliant for you guys to listen to.

So my experience is that lots of people with reactive or dogs that are anxious or struggling

within the environment with people, with other dogs, whatever it is,

feel that this is never going to be any different.

This is my punishment for making some mistakes in this dog's early life or whatever. Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast.

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their world. Hello, welcome, welcome. Linda, we're talking life sentences. What? That's serious.

I've had two of those. You've had two. And what crime did you commit?

Oh, my.

I never did anything.

So we're talking live sentences. And when Linda and I were originally discussing whether to do this or not, actually, when you said life sentence, I said, you know what, we should talk this through.

Because people, it really does feel like that, doesn't it, at times? It really feels like you've got a live sentence and you don't even know why you've got it and why you've had it and you can feel a little bit, I suppose, upset about that whole scenario, like, why me rather than try me? More like, actually, I don't want to be in this.

I don't even know what I did to deserve this.

That's it.

That's it's what did I do to deserve it?

What mistakes did I make to cause this to happen?

All of those sort of self-blaming things.

And we're talking obviously a difficult dog.

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