It was OK when there was just the one crazy, untrained dog in the park, but now it’s chaos.” I’d seen Emma Lewis-Galic and her two shaggy pointers on my usual dog-walking turf, but we had never stopped to chat, until now. Very quickly, the subject turned to dog rage at the surge in young dogs, bought in lockdown and now coming into their most difficult “teenage” periods.

“Lockdown puppy owners,” she fumed, “expect their dogs to be like Timmy from the Famous Five without putting in any training at all. Their unruly pups and adolescent dogs are like that sweaty, drunk bloke in the pub who won’t leave you alone. Their relentless onslaught will annoy all but the most tolerant adult dog.”

The Telegraph London