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We got our puppy from Dogs Trust, Harefield & saw your film crew there. Can't wait to see the series & if our puppy made it to the big screen! The staff there are great, hope this series will bring them the recognition they deserve.

Do you read the posts?

Can you please answer my question about my Poodles and Crested dogs being used in the programme.

As a professional canine behaviour consultant, I will be watching the programme with interest, especially when it comes to giving out behavioural advice.

If I believe the advice is incorrect or even worse, dangerous, I will post here.

It is my unfortunate experience that some general rescue organisations frequently get the behavioural management, rehoming and advice to the public of specific breeds dangerously wrong but I am hoping that this will be rectified when I watch the programme.

I'm looking forward to it!

~Jaq~

I sincerly hope you enjoy the programmes and my behavioural advice is up to you standards dogpsyche.

I will keep my eye on your comments of my work.

Happy watching

I'm not an expert but my actual, recent experience of Dog's Trust was that they were very careful in what advice they gave and in particular matching people up with a suitable dog.  They took a lot of trouble to understand your experience of dogs in general and breeds in particular and then advised whether the dogs you were interested in were suitable for you and your circumstances.

Perhaps people should watch the programme and bear in mind footage does get edited so they don't always get all the background or context before pronouncing judgement. I have nothing but praise for the Dogs Trust and Carmel's advice at Harefield has been spot on.  

Stephen Tompkinson is the narrator...excellent!

Just started watchin it and my dog can do nothing else but bark at the screen. It's so annoying!

What is annoying - the programme or your dog barking at it?

  Hi there, I find the dog rescue programme very interesting, and my dog actually sits and watches it with me, no barking just interested, I am sure he would love me to adopt but I can only manage him, he is big.....

My two dogs are a handful but I would never be without them as they are members of the family. Children in fact. They sleeping the same room as us on their beds, they go on holiday with us and sit by us at all times. Rocky the youngest is a small German Shepherd who can be quite naughty, he understands all of the words but sometimes chooses not to obey. Luckily he knows when I mean him to obey and does instantly.  Neisha my eldest is a retired Guide dog who worked for many years with our Blind friend. She is 13 and a half and is a Yellow Labrador. She tells Rocky of when he is being naughty. When we were on holiday Rocky went along the beach and did not pay attention to where I or Neisha was, he was busy sniffing at the Pebbles and the seaweed and wandered off I called him and he came back. When he got back Neisha was really angry with him, She just went WOOOOF right in his face, As if to say," You do not run off and leave Mummy and me!" She has just to give him  a look sometimes and he will cower a bit. He is quite a Whimpy Walter at times when other dogs come up to him depending on the breeds he will cower behind Neisha, He does not like small breeds but will face a larger dog though. We sometimes call Rocky "Sky Rocket" as he runs so fast. They are both so funny you have to laugh at them.

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I have always had dogs and three years ago my husband and I decided to rescue another dog as our last one died several years earlier when she was 18years old.  We contacted the RSPCA and offered to take Barney, he is a labrador/Retriever and when we got him he was, they said about 10 years old.  We were told he had epilepsy.  When we took him to our own vet at home, they said he didnt have epilepsy he was blind and that the excessive salivating was due to stress and the fact that he was blind and in a confined space all the time..

This salivating extends to licking the walls, doors, radiators and furniture when we go out.  We have tried restricting his movement around the house, but that was worse, if a door was shut he destroyed it and the carpet under it.  We had medication, but that knocked him out and gave him no quality of life at all. We tried spraying where he licked with something from the vets. Someone said vic on where he licks we tried it all.

Our vet suggested we have a dog behaviour person to visit us at a cost of £100 she told us to put him in a crate and leave him for a while so he knows where his place is.  We explained our fear of that method but because we wanted to help Barney get over his anxiety we eventually agreed to try this method after everything else she had suggested failed.  Guess what - it failed.  It was as I predicted to her that he would be totally freaked out being shut in a cage which he couldnt see only feel bars and have no freedom to move, despite it being the largest crate we could buy.  Poor Barney had bowel movements all over the place, including the walls. Never again would I use one.

We have also tried a dog whisperer and that was also a waste of money.

We have written to all sorts of people asking for advice but no one can give us anything.  We now deal with him the best way we can, wipe our doors, radiators and walls when we get home.  At the age of 13 his will still occasionaly chew the kitchen cupboard doors, so we cover them over with sheets. We leave all the doors open and hope that he doesnt go to the toilet.  If he has a spate of doing so we put plastic down on our carpets.

It is a mamouth task to go shopping and thats before we reach the shops.

We love Barney and although he is old we are still very glad we had him.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can help stop him getting what is now separation anxiety please.