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Walk this way

ARE you walking your dog correctly? This may not be the most obvious of questions for dog owners up and down the country to be fretting over, but according to award-winning trainer Ben Randall of Beggarbush Gundogs, it should be. In his opinion, the answer for the majority of owners is a resounding ‘no’—and could be the major contributing factor to an array of their dog’s behavioural hiccups.

‘Time and time again, I see issues with recall,’ Mr Randall laments, highlighting that he’s talking about pets, rather than gundogs. ‘I see up to 50 dogs a day and a high percentage of them have this issue—but why is it so common? When they’re out on daily walks, owners let their

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