How to prune very overgrown dog rose

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I have completely neglected the rose in my garden. It is well over head height incredibly leggy and just not looking great

I've been watching videos on how to prune on YouTube, but they all say to cut away the brown wood making sure to leave some green, but all my green wood seems to be high up, so if I was to do a hard prune their would be no green left, would this kill it?

I really don't want to kill it because the few flowers it does have are beautiful

My dog roses have come back from being cut down to a stump before. They just resprouted from the base.

Since it is a shrub rose, don't bother too much with the online info.

I'd do it in stages. This year, cut the whole lot back by half, removing any dead or obviously diseased branches as well. Give it plenty of rose feed this year. That should encourage it to develop some new branches, hopefully from lower down. Next year, cut the oldest third of branches down to about a foot, and do the remaining old branches over the subsequent two years. It is called renovation pruning.

Thank you, will have a go tomorrow