It has been on BBC3 as well, that's where I first saw it a few years ago. Has evidently been sold to other channels as well now though, probably has been for a while.

If you look at my post with the link, you'll see their doing another series of what I suspect is DB. If it's not, it sounds like something very like it. Have a look and see what you think.

Can you believe she actually buys the dog a bucket of candy floss for treats??

Yep-what a waste!

My favourite one was the mother and daughter from Ipswich with 2 Yorkshire terriers. They became Mic Martin disciples and even started dressing like him! They were so funny but their dogs certainly improved and they were very pleased with the result and they were older dogs too.

Yep-what a waste!

My favourite one was the mother and daughter from Ipswich with 2 Yorkshire terriers. They became Mic Martin disciples and even started dressing like him! They were so funny but their dogs certainly improved and they were very pleased with the result and they were older dogs too.

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I used to like the way Mick made the owners do press ups etc to re-inforce the need for hard work..I don't agree with a lot of their training techniques but in the opening one training guy says he's never met an owner he can't train, most of the owners on that programme are not really IMO doggy people and have no clue about the breed of dog they have!! Think they deliberatley choose these types of owners to make 'good TV'!!!
I was shocked in the one on today about the woman feeding her cocker spaniel on candy floss it was double it's body weight and she brought some to camp for a treat Mick told her in no uncertain terms that if it continued her dog would die he possibly could've been more tactful but better said than for the poor pooch to continue putting weight on.

Maybe the owner could've done with a cup of water in her face !!!!

Yes, I suppose they deserve to be punished and made to do thse exercises!

Re. the candy floss - that's just insane. Dogs don't stand much of a chance.

Sometimes they need to just be told though, instead of namby pambied - it's the only way to make some of them realise!

No they came away because they have been trained a good recal, they are not comming away to get a treat - they didnt know they are getting anything - and very few dogs would find a tiny bit of kibble enough to want to come away from a frantic barking fit at the intruders outside the fence

You have to have trained the alternative behaviour really well so it is an automatic response before you ask them to do it at a really stimulating time

then if something nice happens when they do the new behaviour they begin to associate doing the behavior when they would normaly have barked as something nice, automatic and reinforcing

Its something alot of people mistake, training with rewards isnt a case of bribing a dog to do something, the reward is nice and so makes the dog more likely do do the thing again, and actually begins to enjoy doing the behaviour as much as getting the treat