It’s Me Or The Dog UK, Wednesday, 9pm, Really.ĭelilah Hamlin plants a kiss on beau Eyal Booker. Yet I still get success with big dogs with big issues because I approach it in a different way.’ ‘People have said, “You’re too soft,” because I don’t wrestle dogs to the ground and I’m not constantly telling them off. ‘It caused a stir at first because I was very different from 80s TV dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse,’ says Victoria.
It’s Me Or The Dog was a big hit when it launched in 2005, and it’s aired in more than 50 countries.
Realising she had a gift for training dogs, she then built her sideline into a full-time business and pitched the idea for a related TV show after she saw parenting series Supernanny and realised that what Jo Frost was doing with children and their behavioural difficulties was similar to her own work with dogs and their owners. It was also about teaching Christine to be unpredictable, to change direction so the dog has to keep its attention on you.’īorn and raised in Wimbledon, Victoria was an actor who started doing dog-walking to raise extra cash. Then I taught Max to understand that his owner was at the other end of the lead. ‘So I switched his choke chain lead for a harness that leads the dog by the chest instead, which limits the pulling. Victoria taught Max, a 14st St Bernard, to understand that his owner Christine (pictured right) is at the other end of his harness
