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It is it is me and it is Anna and it is the barking hour and we are celebrating 10 years of all dogs matter a London canine charity that well deserves every bit of attention because they actually do good deeds and they really do help other charities and they help local authorities and they help people who take on a dog and then think I can't deal with it they will act instead of react this is from Chrissie who says Jo I remember when I refer started all dogs master She's an amazing lady I've done a few home checks for her for all dogs matter still going strong and I was still working with dogs love listening to you from Chrissy lovely This is from. Annie we adopted our dog Millie from a dog's matter 5 years ago we fostered her 1st there was no chance we were going to keep her and that's Jenny I always talk about Michelle Collins you know who we all went to that matter event and Michelle Regan said to Michelle do you want to come back I've got people coming back today and Michelle went and then takes me going I've left Peter Egan's with a dog. I mean because he's you know he's part of that whole deal isn't he absolutely and well I mean we helped launch the old dogs matter I mean that's the thing because the barking our back in the moon as we used to be called when we launched a.t.m. 10 years ago with Peter sat here. As a brand new charity on the block that was going to stand out really in its independence and forward thinking and being the charity that would take the dogs the difficult Yeah and I think that's what really touched my heart about it all because you know not all dogs reason some dogs are big and some dogs do slope. And they're happy to take on the motley crew Absolutely they are right this is a question from Sara on a text please can you ask what are the general rules about dogs in hospitals not i.c.u. My mother is missing Poppy her dog and we're not sure how the dog will react when mom gets home having not seen mom for so long so dogs in hospital Well you do to be registered with an organization for example pets this therapy so maybe contact them and I'm sure you'll talk will will pass it's actually quite easy to become a pet says Sarah p. Talk they just have to walk nicely on a lead sit on command and on c.b. Sociable. And talk to them about this is being you know one of situation and you know both owner and dog a feeling the stress and strains of being separated from one another and both would really be aided by being reunited for a short while and to bridge the gap before your mother comes home so that. What I would bring pets to therapy today I didn't realize it was that simple I say that since they wouldn't have done any. But that you know you do have to can't just go into a hospital with a dog unfortunately I know but if you can prove that your mother will benefit and the dog is responsible. It is. So well documented now in the press that dogs are puting benefits particularly to their own in raising in a happy home and in the brain lowering their stress levels making them small more 3 things that basically can and Aids recovery so why not Sean who listens to as she was in London. But now listening in Berlin listens every day online says there is a big dog culture in Berlin and after you talking about dogs so much you have won me over so we thought we'd get a dog my wife works from home plus I can take the dog to work so all companies in Berlin allow you to take dogs in all company companies I love thing that's amazing I live in I mean I've always wanted to go to have you being my brother describes it as paradise you should never live in paradise says it some way to go because you know it's there but you can't live there it's just too brilliant my yoga teacher that I loved enormously tune in tonight she she was she's in the in now so if I went to the anniversary of coming down many documentaries about. I would love to go well now I know the. Workplace is welcome dogs I love that yeah she says she says I think it's all good be really good for my physical health my mental health and also my German skills dog walkers are always really chatty The problem is we have to go away maybe once a season for a long weekend what do you think should we get one if so which breed we have never had a dog before that from Sean listening in Berlin cautious who is a very good cook you know what sort of dogs I get I. Now if you haven't had it open to something not too large if you're going to be traveling you're living in a metropolis but when Amazing Zuby in and out of taxis on and off trains on the grounds and it's kind of thing so potentially a small dog I would say might be best Cavalier King Charles Spaniel as they make excellent 1st time dogs. Become temperament you know that they're very happy they are pitiable you know that's the other thing perhaps not to choose a French bulldog who might be small but they are quite stop and they're quite opinionated and they can have health problems so just spend time with with an amazing dog breed both research do your research talk to people maybe go to some dog training classes locally find out where they are do all your research find out where your local vet is maybe pop in there and sit in the foyer and talk to some people and make it make make your room your urine decisions. You want to show you don't do you want to be bothered by regular grooming that can up the cost of owning a dog you know all these things I think about the size and it already looks maybe being allowed to take a dog into a work place would certainly swing it from a I would say definitely get one John said that you have to train your dogs should get a pit bull one we we were asked about dogs allowed in hospitals this is someone who's listening to us from a hospital in fact she is an experience a patient experience manager from Queen Victoria Hospital and h.s. Trust says Joe and I know all hospitals will have a policy about animals in hospital most in brackets do allow them only she didn't know that that's really changed so I would suggest that you'll call or speak to the matron of the wards that her mother is own because there might be room for negotiation Oh my goodness I am it's amazing that is really since we've been doing this show that is. Real News and yeah I mean I wasn't aware of that I always thought I had to come through you know dogs visiting you have to go through a proper charitable organization that have vetted the dogs and it's not a newbie any any issues but it looks like they will do it on case to case thank you so much Nicole for that. This is London if I could talk to anyone about London cause of a lot of contenders but I think I'd sell on Charles Dickens it would have to be frank pick what inspired his are comic vision for the London Underground if I could talk to anyone about it and it would absolutely have to be the quene the queen and it would be fascinating to speak to her about being a London against being one of this amazing city's citizens she landed Charles Dickens in Leicester Square in in 29 to let love to know what he thinks of London now this is London I'd love to have that conversation b.b.c. Radio. Was. He. In. Breaks a new hot every day. He'd turn. Them down was. There and when. He did try them oh oh he just scoundrel. He's around. 6 cats. He's trying. Night hand yes he has now got it pretty bad. You can never. Laugh he'll still. Give you plenty of trouble. I guess he's just as I don't count. But I wish that he was just about Jesus traveled. Off. And there's an artist that. Is here. And I wish that I could travel where. We said I could travel he is very. Weary said I could travel is why rare. About the Poles the poses because we're just looking at this extraordinary selection of photographs right let me introduce my next guest Rianne a lever to give and think it's grief. No it's really an app cliff it it's a very well if you want to. Upgrade Griffith good faith the Welsh name and I'm just a lovely. Girl I love you for. I'm very much a Welsh girl at heart you know a lot more than that as you said to me if you go to caution because you are as small as I am and I know. Because I don't actually go out because she and I. Tend to think and you'll chin may not be on the desk or you might bring a cushion in tomorrow it's a good idea yes right so I'm leaving it at that is a reportage and portrayed a photographer and house drawing photography features in a new book called on dogs she stumbled on her talent by accident when a dog stood in for a human in a photo shoot this book is a book of essays written by various people it's fantastic I love every bit of it but 1st of all Rianne tell us what you meant by you got a dog to stand in for human How did that work then oh in my day job I'm a human photographer and I was on a shoot and the lady I was photographing wasn't quite ready so I said to talk to the stand and she said yes go ahead so I start the dog down the dog looks to me and it was easy and I later that day when I went home and I was educating and I looked at the picture of the dog and I thought wow that looks amazing and after that every time I went on a shoot if there was a dog there so it can just talk for a minute just to see if I could actually photograph it wasn't a fluke and do you have a dog I do yes my dogs 16 knowing she's deaf you know I know my dad very hard the focus of when they yes because they feel so right. After they don't engage with you know they don't you don't get that really engaged. Because I just ask having a deaf dog does she like follow you. Follow you everywhere because my dog was never a lap dog but because she doesn't know where I am I mean I live in a studio a fact I'm never very small but when I'm in my mum's house she just follows she wants to know where I am only time will she tries to but I think she's losing insight as well through looking into everything is well what breed is that oh wow so the book and I you got a copy of it here yeah collection of essays I love it I love it I mean you've got everyone in here that's written from the heart about the canine including one of my favorites actually which is Lord Byron and the epitaph to boatswain his amazing need. Just proves that you know this dog thing it's not new you know Lord Byron wrote this in the mid sixty's in hundreds so it emphasizes how dogs have touched our hearts and led the way and being man's best friend for literally 30000 years and these essays are punctuated with your photographs which just so beautiful all of us thought that they were sketches Yeah I know. A lot of people think that yeah I mean so how how well. Probably that will give that away but how these photographs Well then know this there's no special techniques for them other than I photograph them just the same as I would a human so I flashed them with a flashlight so the fur gets high push off and so I guess it looks like every single bit of fur is drawn it was that was Natasha you know. That is it doesn't like what I've noticed and we've done we've talked in this way about how to take photographs of course I just love them so much but it's about the artist I think they're looking into the lead yes that isn't natural for dogs they you know that school can be really annoying when you're lining up your dog for a short they just won't look to. On the lens so have you got something like Peanut . Definitely no no treats I very very rarely use treats because the minute you show a treat to the dog the dog gets too excited and they start opening them out and if you look at all my pictures the hands are all closed but the minute you should we treat the kind of open them and I know. Very early on when we started we did loads of television shoots and things and she said to me when she took the pictures that dog's to halt because it's mouth because they pan yeah so to be photographing a dog on the lights and none of them got their mouths open is no mean feat to know I mean feet tall No I mean. No I'm loving these you really to capture their essence because I believe you know see the when all is the windows of the soul so to get their expression looking face on and there's that lovely consistency of your shots on your Instagram page that is lovely it's so clean and I'm sure you know they're thrilled Can you post one of those I am so Tracey Ullman who I know and it's great she says she wrote the forward to the yes which is and I hope this won't offend anyone is allowed in typical Tracey Ullman manner because she had I think. It was the dog she had when she gave birth 8. Not whilst it was attached she points out that she'd saved the umbilical and put it in her baby book you know mind went to answer the phone came back and heard the dog sorry everybody crunching on something and realize her dog has eaten this wonderful memento of her daughter it's similar to you remember Brian Sewell yeah I'm home and he had got the 1st edition of the spine with Holly but you know so she wrote she wrote really affectionately about her dogs and the forward and what dogs mean to her yet that dog actually was a phrase that is well. You know how did you get that at the time you started this project I was out. Everybody got a dog have you got a dog can I you know can I practice on your dog and pee was so good you know I'd have so many people coming to my place in London like so I was constantly photographing them and a friend of friends that old you want my friend Tracy comes along and I said no no Sandra long and Tracy didn't doubt what I was a little bit taken aback because you know I grew up watching you know you raise the element she was she was so good we had such a brilliant pose action the so so punctuate saying obviously the pictures all the pictures of punctuate ing essays How did you choose these because you've got someone here I have people say who would you really love to interview more than anyone else I put in so many bids for him he actually has a house in Sussex very near to a place I know very well and are standing and yet to get him is impossible and this is the wonderful David Sedaris So he's written I mean he writes beautifully Anyway how did you find this I haven't even read this essay where did you find it and did you meet him well no but I've been working quite closely with Notting Hill editions and what I did with them was when they approached makes that scene Tracy's picture of Oscar and they said they loved it and would I be interested in being part of the book so I sent them quite a big selection of different dogs and they actually chose which image would go which I say Ok oh my goodness so because you've got Miranda hot in here right you know I think we've jobs dog shows with Miranda didn't we do. Something. It was one of the Discover dogs actually that we judge in swaths and she was there and then of course the obviously all of a twist Dickins. Bull's-Eye and which Anna has that Braid I have a bull's eye she has a miniature bull's eye and I often think you know did bull's eye give bull terriers bad press do you think you know I think that because at the end of the day. In all of the twists gets his nemesis actually and his last bite is on Fagan and poor old bulls eye then you know he doesn't she Dari. It's quite sad really but yes he turns on his own. I don't know or don't think Dickens are not that all of Dickens novels but I don't know if he wrote any of the dogs or does any other dogs in his small I told him Christmas Carol is there. But then you've got someone else who's passed away you are loved a hill and why dogs are still a man's best friend is his essay which I'm going to say for myself because he wrote like an angel I loved writing are you familiar with that one and I. Don't think. He would have written it probably for the Sunday Times I'm not sure but he had. Paulson's Jack Russell Terrier puppy and his editor took him at his word and the dog was duly delivered to his London home and he's written about him so that's at the back of the book as well. Do you do commissions and noises do you know photograph people's dogs you know of a face or that's a really personal is always a good question you know I hope they know it in the last year I've developed a Greetings called range from my dogs because so many people ask me Can I give them a picture can I give them a picture so I just develop these greetings called range and that just keeps everybody happy and you know they're also available in shops as well moments but I do lots of people approach me on my Instagram to photograph they dogs which I do for those ones I charge a fee but for people I meet in the street on the cheap friends family I don't charge for those so there's a lot of there's no full of free work that goes on as well so just to sum up these are called Graph portraits and they are if you want to find them you go on the website w.w.w. Dot graph portraits dot com You'll find those and we've been given a box sets of these grades and I know their love I suppose you'll just keep adding to one year you know if this 20 there and I this last 6 months I've developed another 10 and the book is called dogs and unfollowed gee this is I think such a classy book I know you can see it is the perfect Christmas present. To somebody who has got everything. That I think would be a lovely addition on anybody's shelves absolutely the pictures old boy Rianna bought the contributors contributors or Shakespeare Alice Walker James the Miranda Hall will self j.m. Barrie and Nana it will be Nana. Jack London a gale Brigitte Bardot Oh ma I know I know I'm in this book. When I came into the studio to draw I planned the route and everything I know I know we did a really. Listen thank you so much for coming in people can find the book all in bookshops and online yes and don't book shots in multiple don't book shops and or not he don't last. And out of on a cell in the can not yet on the phone is actually yet we're just going to I'm going to hand you this because this is just you need to take some of the book that just being all strangely enough I walked past that all week on the builders were and I had a big me to scrape painting with a picture with me and I said to the builder What's this is it I was going to be a dog place and I said Write take a picture of me with my picture and give this to be owners brilliant and then I just met her now we'll hear her say as Mr or Mrs Moore We like to bring people together so nice to meet you and I will have my nose within the. Pages of this because there is so many of these writings that even and and I haven't read we we know nearly every canine essay that's ever been pretty I know I'm interested in reading for it you absolutely thank you so much for coming in Riana and the best place people can find you is online is that right probably on my Instagram graphical traits thank you right. As a cold hot dog but a Wild West was Cut. Off from Sarah on the patio listening in Limehouse Joe and Ana Unfortunately I had to miss the 1st hour of