Daisy and Zuri

How did you choose Zuri?

I have always been a dog lover and grew up with Cocker Spaniels. After sky-diving for charity I spotted a white fluffy dog in the airport car park. Not knowing the breed, I decided to Google ‘big white fluffy dogs’ and discovered Samoyeds and fell in love!

Why did you want to take part?

I wanted to understand why Zuri often doesn’t listen to me. I’m not sure if it’s the breed or my training techniques! I also wanted to discipline Zuri and improve her obedience -I just needed to find a way to work with her so she will do what I ask her to do. Zuri is a very stubborn dog and I wanted to learn the best way to communicate with her and to get the best out of our relationship.

What was your favourite exercise/challenge?

I think my favourite was the parkour as Zuri really enjoyed it.

What did you get out of the contest?

I learnt to work with Zuri and understand her better, she still has her moments but she certainly improved a lot since we’ve been on the programme. Another bonus is that I met lots of lovely people (and their dogs).

Do you have any funny stories from filming?

There were loads, it was so much fun. I think the best moment has to be when Zuri ran off when I let her off lead on the first day, she refused to come back and when she eventually did, she was covered with poo... How embarrassing...