This is a good start. Hello and welcome to I believe
in dogs and prepare no already Jesus Christ.
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Hello and welcome to I Believe in Dog for the first episode.
My name is Simon. And I'm bon.
And we will be your host, making sure that you are prepared to
laugh, cry, invest socks and tissues and then realise your
dog is far more absorbent. And we're going to be talking
about pretty much everything dog related in that, right?
We are. We're.
Going to look at everything that makes you laugh, cry because
dogs seem to tick all those boxes.
Well, mine do anyway. I don't know about you know and
Bon, but you seem to be a bit more chilled.
You know, make me angry sometimes.
Bob's adorable. He's done anything wrong and
it's all lie. Bob is an official Angel.
I think maybe we should start by talking about our own dogs.
Really. I've got a well, she'll be 10
years old in May, a skew layer all the way from Greece.
It's a bit of a hodgepodge of everything.
And a seven month well. She'll be 8 month old German
Shepherd called Strudel. She doesn't look like a puppy
anymore Simon. It upsets me greatly.
She was a puppy for life. 3 seconds.
You sent me a photo when she came home and I was like, look
at that. And with three weeks I was like.
Where the F is the. P You said you got because
you've got a full grown dog already.
Yeah, well, she's about, she's about 25 kilos now.
Layer at her heaviest is about 19.
So she's got some growing to go just a bit.
She's. How about you tell us about so I
obviously Bob and Noah. I have lovely Noah who is also a
rescue like Leah. I had her from when she was 9
weeks old. He was born with unformed eyes.
So they will look at home with someone who had experience of
blind dogs but particularly chow chows.
They are as you are aware as a self.
They are a special breeze and do require someone who understands
the breed bit like me as a human being.
So never. And she will be 3 in June.
And then I have Bob that is an Angel in dog form.
He has just turned 2 years old. He's an absolute camera hawk,
umm, idiot and just the most gorgeous boy.
He could never do anything to upset me.
He's probably the most unchow chow I've ever met.
He is, and that disappoints. Actually, that is where he's
disappointed. As an introvert, I have because
they were an excuse to tell people, no, you can't pet my dog
and please don't talk to me. Do you well know?
Well, you at Bob's works with the pets as therapy, doesn't he?
Because at train. Stations and things.
Yeah, he does, and Noah does as well.
But for her, she feels like it's a nap with tummy rubs for an
hour or two. But he thinks it's just a queue
of people wanting to pet him, which it is.
So we should really start with like giving some background
about us as well, not just our pups.
So I am a canine behaviorist, more of a dog psychologist than
a dog trainer is probably about 37.
I'm only 30% myself, about 37 years in the making because my
parents used to breed and train German Shepherds back in the
day. So I've grown up with dogs.
Dogs have always been a part of my life.
I've done a few jobs in between, but I was always destined to
work with dogs in the end. And how about you, Bon?
You could do something really exciting.
Yeah, do what? Oh my, I've just realized that
we're not even in the same my age bracket.
Oh, now I'm going to go and cry. I mean, and people say you're
not 48. I do have to say I know it's not
because I look young. It's because I'm really
immature. So no one can actually guess how
old I am. We'll just put that out there.
That was my not sure yet. We'll figure that out.
Yeah. But yeah, you're not immature.
You're a sensible actually that's.
My wife, I'm sure she'll give way.
Yeah, I'll send her a message later.
Give me the she'll. Give a very unbiased opinion.
I've had the well behaved, I'm away from the wife, Simon.
What's he really like? Totally.
But yeah, so I. Think it's completely different.
She'll just say that'll be the response, I know it.
Pretty much one word answers. I have Oh my God, this pains me
to say it in this way, but I'm going to say it for comedic
effect. Half a century, could I have?
Could you do therapy for me though?
Experience of dogs grew up in Yeah, I grew up in farming, so
we always had dogs from the day I was born, right the way
through. I had a brief period after I
left home where I had five years without a dog and missed it
terribly. So the first thing I convinced
my ex-husband to do when we got married was get a dog.
And then that's continued ever since.
Had many different breeds, obviously, from working dogs to,
God forbid, Pomeranians. Very, very different to working
dog. Well, that's what everybody
says, but personality wise. I have a good laugh with
Pomeranian at like the dog events when I say people say to
me, oh, is that a Pomeranian when they're Bob?
But I'm just like, no, but yeah, so many, many.
It's a very big Pomeranian, a big dinner.
So, yeah, just lots of years. And I can't imagine life without
logging it. Yeah, I prefer them to humans.
Pretty much the consensus these days, isn't it?
The reason why I work with dogs is because I'd much rather work
with dogs. Than people I would like people
to teach their dogs how to use the bank card and communicate
with me. I don't mean this really because
obviously I do need the humans in order to.
I do know. But if you train your dog to
pay, you'll be my favorite human I've met.
I could try and work it into my programming with my clients
contactless. It's fine.
People put the chip and pin in like Harry Potter ones, don't
they? And like they do, yeah, I've
seen that before. They should do that with you.
In fact, I did meet a dog at the weekend, Lass, who they're with
Lucy and the trick stars because we I get to see them at the
bitches in. But she has taught her dog
Shakespeare how to hold the card in his mouth and then she
there's and he will tap it. And we did say we must film that
at another event because if a. Highly skilled dog trainer could
manage that. No one else has any sense.
No, exactly. Approach me Internet.
So I suppose we should also mention how me and you met.
Yes. I stumbled on your artwork on
Instagram. He did and Bond does.
I mean, this is probably going to sound very biased, but
probably some of the best dog artwork and merchandise and I've
ever seen in my life. And so I ended up following you
and we just got talking on Instagram, didn't we?
Really. We.
Did. Yeah, just yeah.
We found we have a very similar sense of humor quite quickly.
I think in in our. And and I I sort of approach, I
was like, I really want to get some like merchandise done of
Leia because I didn't have Strudel at time, Tony.
You didn't know. And you had the amazing idea to
pop some custom artwork on some converse not got.
Them yes, because we one of our big bonding moments to start
with was the love of Star Wars I.
Mean I'm. I've got a brand.
Recommendation. ABS I've got SpongeBob on.
I don't know what I was thinking trying to make myself you go
another way. I do it.
I have Chow Chows because they look like Ewoks and Wookies,
really in one. So we did.
Yeah, we did. Over a love of Star Wars,
because that is like my ultimate dog.
Star Wars and Deadpool, they're my three things.
If anybody hadn't realized I am a complete tomboy, if you ever
see me in a dress, you won't know it's me.
But yeah, we did. And so you were headed to
Goodworth with Jack and Sean. And so I said I'm going to make
shoes and. Yeah, so for those who don't
know, I'm on another podcast with comedians Jack D and Sean
Walsh. Fantastic podcast.
Go listen to it. But yeah, and it's sort of
fostered this friendship between me and you, which is great.
I love it. You've helped me laugh it when
he was going through her moments, which we eventually
discovered why she was sort of struggling in general.
But you were fantastic and helped me to support pop through
it as well because you're good at what you do so.
Yeah, I try, I try. But back to dogs.
Less Star Wars, more dogs. Yeah, there's Star Wars.
More dogs. There weren't any dogs in Star
Wars. No, there were elephants.
They had elephants in costumes, didn't they?
For the Panthers thing that some people ride on their outfits
cost in fact I don't think. They're you don't need to
explain what that is to me. For the listeners who might not
be as big a nerd as me. Speaker, why are you explaining
what a banther is? Today's listeners homework is to
go find out what a banther is. Yeah.
And then let us know if you're like one.
Yeah. Yes, that's one.
Thing We want pictures of people's dogs that look like
Star Wars characters. That would be incredible.
It's amazing. I am.
Yeah. I'm all up for that.
Yeah. So please listen if you do have
a picture of your dog looking like Star Wars characters or
purposely dressed up as scowl. Yeah, as well send.
Them in because we will it won't win you anything but we'll
appreciate. We'll put them into a post on
the Instagram. We'll do a whole host of dogs
impersonating Star Wars characters because.
We should have like a Star Wars Dog of the Month or something
like that. Particularly obviously this,
we're recording this today. It's launching on the 1st of May
and we all know what comes in May but with May be with you in
just a few days time followed by Revenge of the 5th.
You know what? Not ironically, those are marked
in my calendar Thursday. Everyone needs to remember.
I don't remember my my cousin, my best friend's birthday, but I
remember would stop. Cannot be forgotten.
They cannot be forgotten. So yeah, send them in.
Although today podcast day is is May the 1st, if you get as many
as you can in before May the 4th we will post.
Oh yeah, I think 3 days is enough, surely.
Plenty of time for all three of our listeners to the first
episode. It's just me one a day.
She's got, yeah, she's called Layer doesn't.
I'll be getting tea towels out, sticking around Bob making them
into an Ewok, and I have actually got a picture of Wilson
dressed as a Wookie. Do you know what?
That's a really nice segue into the next bit, because I was
going to ask you about Wilson. So I don't know if people out
there are followers of Bonn, but one of the many reasons Bonn is
so it. Well, I'll let you tell your
story. Why you're so in love with Chows
really is because of a very special dog named Wilson.
Very special. SO I fell in love with Chows
after meeting one in Romania, weirdly enough, but then also
stalking many on Instagram of whom will probably humans will
listen to the hiss and of a terrible dog stalker.
One in particular, a lovely chow by the name of Helmut The Who
had a love of classic cars and towards the end of the first
year of the pandemic, it was time to have a Chow Chow.
They I saw this puppy and I was like, look at him.
I mean, he was an ugly baby maybe, but it was still cute.
And at the time, my husband, no, it's not time.
It's not time. And in the March he said it's
just so it happened at that very part.
He hadn't got a home. He was still there.
So a 5 month old Wilson came home and it was love at first
sight. I mean, it's very hard to
explain just how different chow is to other dogs.
And I don't say because, oh, I'm a fan of chows as as a trainer,
you'll know behaviourally they're very, very different.
They they come home house trained like they're so cat
like. So they come home house trained.
They come out of their mums like little old men.
Like although they have puppy moments, they're also weirdly
very well behaved. Had this this at the time we had
six other dogs already, so he was one of seven in a big old
pack and we had three Pomeranians, Auntie Cocker,
spaniel and a Labradoodle and we added a Wilson into the mix.
I know it was quite an eclectic mix that mostly, mostly risk,
but yeah, it was, it was quite the mix.
So he came and it was just innocent love for me.
Like it's also very hard to explain that a relationship with
a Chow is quite different to any other dog because you actually
have to work like, it is almost like having a relationship with
a human. And I know I see it in articles
where vets have said they're the most stupid of all the dogs.
And I would argue they're actually probably one of the
most intelligent, not as intelligent as some of the
herding breeds or working breeds, but their level of
intelligent evidence a dog needs to be as stubborn and wilful as
a chat with and to wrap humans around their finger like poor
they don't have fingers like they do.
So yes, it was an instant bond. And then in the kind of year or
so that went to a massive life, my my, and ended up getting
divorced after 26 years and which was huge and for me
particularly difficult because I have known me.
So it was a shift from having had that to kind of starting
life over again. And post pandemic, having been
one of the people had to stay at home even more so because life
had become much more isolated. So we sort of got our stuff
together and I had to be very sensible about which dog came
with me. I did want to bring the
Labradoodle along with the spaniel.
Unfortunately passed away from count 5 in the February and that
was it was sad because him and Wilson were like Statler and
Waldorf. So it's kind of nice that I know
that they are probably like that again now.
Probably looking down right now going Jesus Christ she ever shut
up but so I kind of wanted to bring the Labradoodle but as you
as a dog trainer will know a Labradoodle charge him quickly
well matched on in terms of their activity level.
I do live with some randomly 1 lasers that mean that I'm not
always able to move you know as well.
Sometimes I can very well and other times, you know, I was in
the wheelchair for some time as well.
So Chow is kind of a good breed as well because they're not
overly reliant on my Cam. They will go for some miles as
Bob again, he's a very athletic Chow.
Back in the trend. Yeah, but Bob's a Bob.
Bob's not a chow Bob. It's just.
Bob. Bob's a Bob and Wilson his own
way. We'd go indoors, but at the time
I was still doing endurance stuff and actually he would do
like intervals with me. So he'd go for a bit of a run,
then we'd have a try. But yes, then that came with and
yeah, been through a really dark few years and it's the reason
that I stayed a lot at that time.
I remember spent a good friend who's a GP.
I don't know what to do. I think this might be it for me
because I've got no reason. And he said, what, you mean
you've got Wilson? And that kind of clicked in my
head. Oh, actually, I do have Wilson
then. Yeah, unfortunately in February
of 24, woke up 1 morning and he was really poorly.
It was 4:30 in the morning. I won't go into great details,
but it was clear that he was really very, he'd been healthy
his whole life, absolute knob head, but healthy.
And took him to the vets and it took a few weeks to actually
figure out what was going on. And it turned out that he had
kidney disease as a result of other stuff and he was at stage
2. And most dogs can live a few
years with stage 2 managed. And again, this is where chows
are very different because they won't do that.
They'll be like, I don't want that life.
And to be fair, I'd be, I'd be the same as a human.
I'd be the same if I was facing something like that.
I'd want quality of life over time.
And so I had 10 weeks with him and I made a conscious decision
to be present for him. And he'd never been afraid to
himself. So he was we used to go to like
chow meats and stuff and he would act like the little pig,
even though he was probably one of the younger ones there.
He would literally go around and check on all the house, say hi.
He was a very stoic, chilled lad, didn't meet never he didn't
like and he'd just go up, have a sniff, say hi and then trundle
along. And he was very for his of
lagging. It puddled.
But in the winter and autumn when it he everybody did with
him on those and I just sort of realized he was never to be
himself. So I needed to kind of show up
for him in that way. The choice that I and whatever
time and just living the life that he wanted, doing the things
that he loved to do, not worrying about the judgement of
others, which was something I'd always worried about.
I know we all but I really had worried what other people
thought of me. Clearly I don't care as anyone
who's made me all know. So yeah, we kind of I made him a
little bucket list. Initially I'd wanted to like
take him over to Finland for the snow and stuff.
And then we was this we were talking weeks and not months.
So that window but I strong armed snow zone into letting us
go in after hours, which they initially thought was a wind up
when I rang up and said, I know you'll never have had this last
before, but can I bring my dog in after hours because he's
going to die and he really likes snow.
It's his favorite thing. And they sort of rang back and
said we could give you some bags of snow.
And I was like, Yep, that's absolutely fine.
However many you can sell me, I'll take them and I'll go park
in Milton Keynes and I'll fling the snow on the floor and he can
roll around. They rang back a short while
later and said we've been talking about it, he can come.
So we. Yeah, it was incredible.
So in the daytime, we had a celebration of his life.
So 10 days previously, I'd put out on social media and said,
listen, his favorite thing, let's see how many we can get.
And it was quite an amazing day because people turned them all
over. One in particular is Bow and
Bear, the two chow chows from Derby Way, who I didn't know
they were going to be turning up.
I see a story. So we're on our way and it was
incredible. And there was a child.
There's a child called Hanson Boo Chow Chow, but she is a bit
of film star, film show docs. He was a panda.
He was a panda in it and he came along, but also we found out
that he's actually Will's cousin and they instantly bonded, but
we didn't know that till afterwards.
But there's a little video of them to act and for the time and
it's phenomenal. So we had all of that.
Then we drove down to mountains, popped him in with snow.
He had a roll around in the snow and in true chow fashion,
suddenly decided he was done and walked.
So it was just, I mean, we laughed, we cried because I knew
we were sort of few days and four days later he did pass away
in my arms. And I didn't know what to do
next because had been everything.
And it was quite scary because I'm not a human being who has
that massive support network or that kind of.
But I had Noah and I had to stay present for Noah.
She missed him massively, so she managed to convince other people
to tell me that we needed a Bob. So that's how we ended up with
Bob. But while Wilson was poorly
started painting dogs, I'd wanted to paint as a young It
would have been my career of choice, but the environment I
grew up in didn't support me to do that and say that by the by,
when you've grown up in the way that I did to have to be an
adult. And then life just happens and
busy doing the do. And so my uncle had said to me
at the Christmas that dog stuff is what you were born to do.
Like painting the dog shit is. It's amazing.
This is what you were born to do.
I shall be very set at you if you don't continue that.
And then he very rarely died a couple of weeks later, and now
I'm terrified he'll call me if I.
As morbid as it sounds, that's quite the motivation.
Trust me and he's talking to Border collie.
He had a lifelong love affair with border collies.
Very weirdly, at every show I'm at, there seems quite a lot of
border collies come to visit me. And I always think, is that him
just go and watch a new. So yeah.
So it kind of grew from there and I just decided to take the
left, learn from Wilson, which was I loved him additionally,
but actually I realized we were very alike.
I'm stubborn, I'm an introvert. I'm built like a piece of
articulated furniture. I'm very headstrong.
Not as hairy he was. I just like to put.
That I'll fill that role, I'll fill the.
Hair. Yeah, that's you.
Yeah, you do actually, actually say it.
You what? I would imagine Boss would have
thought if he was human either. I really can just throw that out
there. So like.
A truck and hairy. I like it.
I'll take it, I'll take it. And he just wasn't afraid to be
himself. And I realised that I loved
those things in him and I needed to learn to love that in me.
So that was what he taught me. And here we are.
And all the love that I can't give him anymore goes into that
I paint because. And you can, you can see, I know
I'm a bit biased because I've got the trainings with layer on
it, but you can just see it in everything.
You're not just pumping out merchandise.
Like you can see the care that's got into it.
And I like how because you were asking me all these questions
about layer before you even paint, even though you're going
to do some sort of Star Wars theme because it's called layer.
Like you're asking this question about what's a personality like
and things like that. And I think that's really missed
in that sort of like if you want to have a token for your dog, it
needs to be them that's coming through.
It's not just a cookie cutter going Oh yeah, this is a
retriever or this is a or whatever, like it's that
person's dog. It has to get asked at events
now, why have you got this breed and this breed?
And yes, I have lots of breeds I've painted and they're not on
my website. But it's because over time
realised I really enjoying painting your dog and I've
really not just your side. And I'd like to point out I've
enjoyed every dog. The royal you I mean as.
In the Royal you are three listeners.
I enjoy your dog and I realise, like I see the joy that it
brings to realise you can have your own dog on stuff.
Even though we see stuff with breeds on and if we've got a
specific breed, we want to have stuff with that on.
You can't beat it when it's your dog and when you see the
personality is so different in each and of them.
So when I'm talking to people, I say I just want their told us.
That's all I want because that's where all the personalities that
face and then I sit and I have that that time, you know,
looking at the photos, start getting to know them through the
people's stories and just and met the most awesome people he
can to get. I mean, I do it every event, but
there was a dog at the weekend that I know you'll never one of
and I doubt anyone else will. They're not 100% certain what
the second breed is. I'm pretty convinced it was a
head accent, but the head was a spaniel.
A Cocker spaniel, and I know. Interesting.
Me edible looking dog, incredible dog Connie and she
was so cute and but people like that are never going to their
dog on stuff and I just think we love our dogs so much that
actually like why we have them on everything Like why shouldn't
we celebrate that? I completely agree because like
I think I mentioned at the top of the show, like Lair is
literally a mix of everything. We got one of those, the other
genealogy like tests that you can do on and she's literally a
bit of everything. Yeah.
She's even got, you know, the show low with Mexican hairless
in there somewhere as well. Yeah.
But The funny thing is that Leigh, she looks like a collie
and she even. She does to.
Some degree like a collie. So I thought maybe she was like
a collie Springer cross because I've had friends who've had
Springer collie crosses before. I've been fantastic dogs and
everything about Leah was making me go, Oh yeah, she's a Springer
collie cross. No Springer, no Collie.
No collie but her like have told me that before, but her like
little mannerisms and everything are very like.
Apparently she's mostly sick. I'm going to butcher the
Princess and Segugio Italiano, which is like an Italian hunting
dog with big floppy. Ears which you can see.
And German Shepherd are A2 main breeds, believe it or not.
Yeah, she looks nothing like either.
That's why she came, isn't it? Because you have a lifetime of
German Shepherd. Yeah, I did.
I did. I did say this to my wife.
I was like, well, at least I've got a German Shepherd of some
flavor. But I think it's really, I
really like what you pointed out there about how like people have
individual dogs in my line of work and the amount of time to
get asked what's the most difficult breed to work with or
like, oh, but that breed is hard to work with.
Yeah, breed stand, standard behavior does kind of come into
it, but every dog's in a unique individual.
Like you're not going to have, you'll have two German Shepherds
that have very similar mannerisms and you know, the
shepherding, herding breeds and they've got that protectiveness.
But Strudel is an absolute goofball.
People walk across the road to come and say hello to her when
normally when you've got a big dog like a German Shepherd used
to people walking away from. Yeah, I think people forget to
look at the dog they've got in front of them rather than just
going, Oh yeah, I've got a Pomeranian or Oh yeah, I've got
a Great Dane, but it should be Millie or Teddy or whatever the
dogs were. Like, that is your dog.
And there's such a a product of what you are as well now that
you're saying how Wilson brought out elements of you.
But I think those elements of you were already there and you
just needed him to sort of push them to the.
Forecast a little bit and I think Noah and Bob have been
sent to make me interact with other people because I am
naturally an absolute habit who would never leave the house to
act with other humans ever because I don't mind humans at
all. But like, you know, and I think
some of that is I grew up in a map household and so I I value
kind of my my space, but those two are ridiculous and
ridiculously friendly before I have to interact with other
people. I'm mad about it because it is
pushing me to learn all these stories of these dot, you know,
Bob's willing people come into the to the standard events and
I'm like, come on, Robert, pack it in.
But it's but then I kind of feel like like don't know, like
obviously I'm an older human being, not quite vegetable age,
but not that ever. But like and I don't have and I
thought I wanted children when I was younger.
Now I'm really glad that my boobs don't resemble A spaniels.
Ears, as I often say, and all the rest of it will.
Snoopy's nose. Well, relevant.
It's fine. It's.
Still, I might do an episode where I just stick eyeballs on.
No, I won't have my tits out on the show.
It's fine, but. I have to do a Patreon.
It's not visual, but I have to be paid only.
Oh, we're recording the visuals for this.
We are. Recording.
Yeah, maybe not, although SpongeBob is almost well enough
placed. Yeah, it's quite low.
Not quite low. When people say show us your
tits to me, I have to live my skirt.
Element of when you have building people to know them as
individuals and they're very interested in that.
And I've always felt when you had dogs, people like, like your
dog, they're not that interested in them.
Whereas I'm seeing more and more that we are building that where
we are so interested in people's dogs.
We want to get to know them. We want to know their person.
I mean, I love as you know, a chow me and I now try and
include people in them so I can because I just love dogs, but
like getting to know those individual personalities and
understanding them as well. And just, it's just magic.
None of them are here for a long time, here for a good time and a
short time. And dogs are so present in the
here and now. And it's something that we as
humans should really lean into more.
Yeah. Do you know what this is
something I say a lot to my clients as well.
It's dogs aren't, they don't pre empt and pre plan.
They, they live in the moment that everything they do.
And that's why it's, you know, when the dog kicks off, it's
called being reactive because they're reacting to what's
happening. They're not, they're not going,
Oh yeah, I'm going to go around this corner and there's going to
be a problem up here. It's going, oh, there's a dog in
my face, what do I do about it? Or there's a person in my face.
And you're so right. Because they're not here for as
long as we are. It's very easy for humans to
sort of view dogs with a human lifespan, if that makes sense.
And we forget to and, you know, stop and smell the flowers every
now and then. Literally.
Dogs really do drag us into that point where you kind of go, oh,
yeah, life is a bit short. Like, this is my first time
round. You know, I'm going to make
mistakes. I'm going to be weird.
But this little thing next to me is going to be friends with me
regardless of what I do. So maybe I should be more like
them because they make me feel good.
And, and again, I see it when I've been working with clients
over weeks, months at a time. And I can see their
personalities changing as well as the dogs improving.
And it's because they get more confident.
They want to go out more with their dogs.
They want to do more things. And it's just a really nice, you
know, there's, we talk about these vicious cycles of things.
It's like a happy cycle of things.
The dog gets better, so they get better and they start opening
up. And it's just a really, really
nice way to see, you know, we've had dogs for 10,000 and there's
a reason they've been around for that long, because they do.
Yeah, there's a reason they've continued to put up with us.
Yeah, exactly. Let's face it, to join us.
Well, unless it's Noah, because she often tries to escape the
living of with me, but you know. Yeah, I'll just say to the all
three listers, Noah is the best escape artist for a blind dog
I've ever seen. And a child house as well.
Not an athletic breed. No, there's some of the like the
pictures that you sent me where she's got into things like how
she's she's compared, but the. Intelligence as well I had to
call drone to home a few months ago didn't I told you about this
she escaped from the garden that is already my I add Noah so
we've been around looked for every little bit you'd think you
would have to with a blind dog but apparently you do and she'd
still get out and two two 2 1/2 hours of no Noah so I'm ringing
drowned home in tear like just horrendous friends have given
over some friends drove from Hartfordshire.
We'll come and help you find. I don't worry walking up and
down go around because I live in a city so like really worried
because she's blind and if people trying to approach her
she's a chow so she will panic she will run.
Just at my wit's end. That little shit was sat in a
booth 10 meters from home. Joy sounds of me and said
friends looking for her and she only actually came out because I
had a friend after umpteenth time of walking up there and
said do you reckon if we get Bob out she'd come and the I said
the word Bob out she came. Problem is, I can believe every
single word of that. She's just I just.
Yeah, she's she's quite some. She's needs to be met to be
understood because she's like nothing else.
I've ever everybody when you say I have a blind dog and I say
don't say she doesn't need you to say that.
She's an actor. I watched her the other day in
the garden. I meant to send you the video of
this. Barb had run up to the garden to
escape her and she's half up. And you know how cats stop and
they do the little. She did that and then she held
vision and he was staring after. She's actually looking, looking
where he is. She's got eyes.
I don't think they were in and the vet swiveling to where he
was. She's stood there literally
focused on where he with ears, whatever magic eyes I think she
must have. And she's literally doing that
cat thing and she starts to slowly dip her bottom as if she
is going to sit down but she's not going right down.
And the minute he goes to make a move before he even moves she's
gone. She is insane and a menace.
She is a menace, but she's a gorgeous menace.
Although having said that, Bob's had his fair few moments that
very well, it's viral now, isn't it, that.
Him in the pot, he's an idiot. Absolutely.
He just defies the logic dog. I mean the attitude in that
video was hilarious because he clearly gave Bush.
It's what I thought that little sawn as he comes down, but he
was at it again last last weekend the week before did the
little stage. I walk for him and someone had
got him a little crown on an elastic and I thought I'll stick
it on for a laugh. But it'll be off in seconds
because as a dog trainer, you would know not many dogs are
going to let you stick in a laugh stick Two hours.
Still had it on his head right the whole walk, the whole walk
in his ground wasn't even fussed.
Just wondering and got my birthday crown on.
Here I go not. Right.
I think Bob is probably the least chow chow you can get and
probably has the fewest survival instincts.
Most normal ducks, any normal dog, maybe about 5 minutes.
OK, I'm done with this. And I'm done with yeah, two
hours, yeah, two hours with a crown on just.
He's almost human. So I often think with him he is
almost human in how he behaves just.
Yeah, we try. We're trying not to
anthropomorphize our dogs. Some dogs.
No, exactly. Yeah, they kind of just, they
just do it automatically for us. We don't.
Have to do just. Do right, I think that's a good
place to wrap up the first episode, I think.
Do you here. Thank you for telling us that
story about Wilson. There.
Well, no. We've talked a lot about me.
We need to hear more about your two next time as well.
Oh, I know. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, mine aren't to that rebellious.
I mean, 1 is, like I said, Lair is just about to turn 10 and
she's definitely slotting into that sort of like grumpy old
lady, sort of like role. Love that.
Yeah. She's she's very quiet.
To be honest, I forget she's there half the time because she
just wrote girls. The other one, on the other
hand, in almost 8 months or what should be 8 months by the time
this episode comes out. Yeah, she's like a, you know,
the Tasmanian devil, the old cartoon.
So you can see in her eyes that there's, yeah, she's she's a
playful girl. And The thing is with with
Shepherd, I don't know if there's any Shepherd owners
listening, but for the first few months, you know, to a year and
a half ish of their lives, you kind of need to be careful with
because obviously the growth plates and hip displays, you've
been a big thing for the breed and stuff like that.
Someone needs to tell Strudel that because she gives me a
heart attack every time she decides to throw herself full
speed off the sofa. We've got like AU shaped sofa
and the day that she first crossed the gap between the sort
of like 2 shades long bits of the sofa, you could see it in
her eyes and she's like I can do this, can do.
This. Yeah, just do it one more time.
And now it's everyday constantly.
Like literally just before we came onto this video call, she
was pinning my wife down by a collar bones to the sofa just to
lick her face just because she could.
And she dived from the other side of the sofa to go.
She does have like look in her eye, even when just look at the
cat. It's only got to be a second.
Something's going down. Like anyone who knows like sort
of stuff about dog body language, the whale, I've sort
of like looking out the corner of the eye.
Normally for a dog that means back off, give me a bit of space
or you being a bit much for Strudel.
It's kind of like where can I go next?
And she'll just just look at she'll you can see a scanning
around the room with her eyes and then in a flash he's gone,
but absolutely gone. We don't have to do anything.
We could just be sat watching TV.
It's quiet. She just gone because this brown
blur in the corner. I just love it when you put up
the photos and stuff, you just can see the personality.
They're just the goofing like the that proper because people
do view German shepherds. She's like scared but I've only
ever known big come across. She's not.
Terrified, but they are goofy. Dull.
Yeah. Oh God.
Fall into their personality. I'm secretly laughing here
because you can't see this. Well, I don't know if I can show
you we're doing so there's one cat there.
Can you see her? And then the other ones that
they never come on my desk. Both the cats are in here while
we're doing a dog. The like guys, you're talking
far too much about dogs we need to get.
I've got 2 cats as well and if I I'm in the spare room and the
minute recording this, if I open the spare and door, they'd be
all over the recording equipment.
They'd cancel things on the laptop.
They'd just be doing all sorts of mystery.
Oh, cats aren't. I didn't understand that.
No no, this one particular here cat is to not like action and
all the rest of it. I get annoyed with her because
she demands my attention and I don't want it.
They are. Who'd have them?
Who'd have cats? No.
Who would right? Right.
Yeah. I think that's a really nice
place to wrap up there. Thank you so much for your time,
Bob. It's been lovely speaking to
you. I think again, all three
listeners, your mission, if you choose to accept it, is send
U.S. star Wars dogs Absolutely. And we'll we'll host to some.
And also if you've got any voice notes, emails, what's our e-mail
address gone. You've got this one.
Yeah. Oh, hang on.
You sent it to me earlier and I've got to remember it.
Hang on. It's I believe.
Yeah, it's I believe in dog pod. I think it's Yeah, that was I
believe in dog pod. I believe in car cast@gmail.com
Cast, Yeah. So, yeah, so if you want to send
over your Star Wars pictures of your dogs, voice notes, funny
anecdotes about your dogs, even if it's hat what got you into
dogs as well, I think we spoke about that quite a lot today.
So it'd be quite an. Interesting to share.
How people got involved with dogs.
So if you send that to I believe in dog cast dot at gmail.com.
And if you're down South, I believe in dog cast at Gmail
dot. I I believe in dog cast at Gmail
dot. Oh, look at you with your
downside. My dad's from down South, no
one's from Manchester. That's.
Fantastic. A mixture of the two, but yeah,
I do. So yeah, so if you want to send
over your Star Wars Dogs voice notes, emails, stories about how
you've got into dogs in the 1st place, we'd love to read it out.
And we'll host any pictures and things that we see.
Any voice notes. Even if you've got dog training
questions for me, please bombard me with them.
I'm more than happy to answer a few on that on that.
And if you've got any picture requests for bum, any weird
unusual breeds that we've might be a bit of a challenge, throw
you under the bus with that one. But yeah.
Pictures you've drawn of dogs and I will.
Yes, I'd love that, even if you've got kids who've drawn
pictures. We want to see dogs.
We want to see all your dog artwork, hear your dog stories.
Please do send it into ibelievedogcast@gmail.com.
It's like like come on inside. That's 'cause you.
This guy. A bit of the e-mail address.
I believe in cast, you said. I believe dog cast.
I don't even know the name of my own show.
That's that's the. I believe in dog.
I bunch top of a sign, but they're written.
On Yeah, I need to. I will do that.
I will paint one that says here's the phone to the sign.
No, no, yes. And if people have future guests
they'd like to have on here, they should send in suggestions
too. Yes, please do tag people,
bombard them with messages, say get on this podcast is going to
be the best thing ever. Things are just.
Little. Yeah, excellent.
But anyway, I've been Simon Perry Moreno.
And I've been Bon Allen. Accidental Partridge.
Norfolk I love Partridge of pierced people on a spy.
My favorite quote in the whole world ever is frankly my dear.
I don't riverdance which is a part.
And on that, we'll see you next time.
I'm. Just leave this in.
You probably should Accidental Partridge at the end.
I'm terrible. Accidental Partridge.
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