paul o'grady, For the love of dogs

[Charlie007]

Mum said that a lady who runs a large rescue centre near us said that the tv show rings round rescue centres in order to choose dogs for the show, meaning not all the dogs come from battersy, is this true?? The lady who told mum said she had had a call from the show asking for certain dogs??!!

 

[Sandstone1]

I'd be very surprised if this is true. Although battersea does have more than one site.

 

[splashgirl45]

if you look on the battersea site there are plentry of dogs to choose from in the various sites so i cant imagine they would ring round .

 

[Charlie007]

I can't imagine why they would ring round, but lady at the reduce says they phoned her.

 

[CorvusCorax]

It's television/light entertainment, they need to have a story/something to work with. If there's the same type of dog week in, week out, there wouldn't be a show.
At the end of a programme about a zoo I watched recently, there was a disclaimer at the end of the credits saying that the penguins had been given names and characters by the producers for the purposes of the show. In real life they were probably known as numbers or by physical characteristics. So it's not beyond the realms of possibility and I don't see any real harm done if it raises the profile of rescue dogs.

 

[Charlie007]

No no harm done, I love the programme, just didn't realise they possibly did this.