Master dog trainer Graeme Hall, AKA The Dogfather, is back on Australian soil for the second season of Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly Australia on 10 and 10 Play.
Armed with his mantra of – “Any Dog, Any Age, Any Problem” – Hall told Mediaweek that the success of the show is down to the fact that “we all love to see everybody else’s mischievous dogs.”
“It makes us feel better,” he said.
“There’s also an element of trying to figure out what’s going on in the dogs as well.
“We all like to guess about what a dog might have been thinking, and I do my best to give viewers the answer to that.”
Graeme Hall
Hall is returning down under to meet with Australia’s most quirky, puzzling and challenging canines. Australia boasts six million dogs, and Hall is determined to offer practical solutions to desperate dog owners grappling with canine antics.
Are Australian dogs more difficult than other dogs Hall has helped before? He says dogs are “pretty much the same anywhere you go in the world”.
“However, Australia does have a few breeds that we don’t see so much over in England,” he said.
“If you think about the breeds that Australia was built with, the country was built on working dogs.
“Australian cattle dogs tend to be very quick-witted and very intelligent, and that’s great, but it’s also bad. They learn the good things really quickly and they learn the bad things really quickly. Other than that, most dogs are very similar no matter where you go in the world.”
Season two will see more episodes than the first season and feature a wide array of peculiar cases including a family of Chihuahuas causing chaos, a hoover-hungry Dachshund, a bad-mannered barking machine Old English Sheepdog and a Kelpie suffering a case of cyclophobia.
Hall said it’s his mantra (Any Dog, Any Age, Any Problem) that drives him, and says he will “take anything on” and “give it my best.”
“There are days when I’m thinking, ‘Why did I promise to take anything on?’, he said.
“However, sometimes you challenge yourself, and you surprise yourself with what you can do. There are days when I look at dogs that have been sent to get help and I think, ‘How on earth am I going to resolve this?’ but, where there’s a will, there’s a way, and we usually get there.
“It’s never easy making Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly, it’s always a journey.”
Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly is produced by Avalon Factual for Network 10.
Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly Australia premieres Tuesday, 23 July At 7.30 pm On 10 And 10 Play.