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“You don’t buy a Ferrari if you require a vehicle to tow a trailer full of stakes”

If I had a pound for every time a client says, “I wish my dog would behave like that”, I’d buy my father a new pair of Purdeys. Though it is lovely to hear people admire my dogs’ behaviour, I also find it frustrating. There is a good reason why my dogs behave in a certain way; what the majority of dog owners do not realise is that I spend practically every day with my dogs — not just walking them but training them too. In fact, they are rarely ‘walked’, whereas most dogs in this country are taken out a couple of times a day simply to run around.

The level my dogs have reached hasn’t been achieved by going to training once a week then walking them for the

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