BBC Essex Breakfast Show
On 14 October 2025 Alex joined Sonia Watson on the BBC Essex Breakfast Show to talk about choosing the right dog, and why a short course often is not enough. It is the same thing he sees with many family dogs who struggle later on.
"Some people are getting the dogs they want, not the dogs they need."
"People have this misconception that a few puppy sessions or six training classes are enough."
They also talked about Banzai. "But with hard work and patience, he became the world champion. It can be done."
Listen: BBC Essex Breakfast Show programme page. Alex has written up the advice in choosing the right dog for your family.
Yahoo News
On 15 October 2025 Yahoo News Canada published the SWNS story about Banzai under the headline "Movie star dog fired for biting crew crowned world's most obedient canine". Banzai worked on film sets as a young dog, but his career ended at about two and a half when he started biting people on set. Alex took him on, and in October 2025 they won the RSV World Championship in Korbach, Germany, with 293 points, the highest score by a British competitor at an RSV World Championship. Yahoo's Spanish-language US edition carried the story the following day.
Read it: Yahoo News Canada · Yahoo Noticias (Spanish) · the same SWNS story on a US news site
The Daily Gazette, Colchester
On 15 October 2025 the Daily Gazette, the local Essex paper, ran the story as "Hollywood film dog fired for biting crew now obedience champ". It was Alex's first world championship, and his third major dog sport competition after a national win in 2021.
"He wasn't originally my dog. He was a film dog, but they lost control of him. Everyone was expecting him to bite me, but we worked through it and the relationship just grew from there."
"I wasn't bothered if I won, the most important thing was for the dog to compete to his full potential."
Read it: Daily Gazette
More about Alex in the press
Your dog does not need to win anything. What the coverage shows is that a dog people had given up on could change, with time and patience, and that the same eye for detail goes into every family dog we train. Banzai's full story is in can an aggressive dog be rehabilitated? Read more about Alex, see what owners say, or compare our services and prices.