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Thankyou all. Our episode was recorded early 2006 so 4 and a half years ago now, but I know it has been repeated a lot.
I agree about there being something special about staffies. He had the best personality ever.

You may or may not remember the third dog in Red and Jasper's episode - Oscar the staffy cross. He was the best behaved of the trio so didn't get much TV coverage. Unfortunately just a week before his 14th birthday he was taken to the vet's and didn't return. He was a medium sized dog with a huge pe...

We appeared on the show (the episode was Red and Jasper), and although I don't come on all the time, I do try and get on once in a while.

Thank you for all your advice. I think it is a case of the fight/flight reflex, as he just didn't have anywhere to run and as I said we already knew he didn't like cyclists and this one just seemed to appear - well i was behind but I didn't see him until it was too late. I'm not sure I fully underst...

Hiya!
It was my dogs that Victoria used the bubble machine on.......
What I some times do is put the bubble machine on the "wrong" side of the fence so that they blow through, but the dogs can't actually get to the machine.
Hth, Claire.

It may be that it's anal glands need emptying. Some dogs empty them themselves by doing the dragging thing or the vet can also do it. (You will know if the dog is succesful as it leaves a nasty oily smell, but you can't always see it.) I also think this may (again I'm not sure), be caused by certain...

Chris and I were devestated after we had told some of our closest friends that we intended to call our baby Ellie if it was a girl (I was about 7 months pregnant). Then a few weeks later they rang us to tell us they had just found a breeder with a puppy they wanted and had named her Ellie. Obviously...

We recently had a very scary near miss. We were all out for a family walk, Chris and the dogs in front and me and the kids walking behind. We came to an area of the pavement where there were cars parked closely by and the next minute there was a cyclist on the pavement, going in the opposite directi...

I agree with katowaggytail. And I'm pretty sure that the dog actually mauled the child (completley unprovoked) At the end of the day this is a real life TV show and sometimes decisions have to be made that aren't nice, and don't make for the comedy viewing that we more often see, but are neccessary....

emmabeth,
our thoughts are with you at this sad time x

I don't think I'm going to be very helpful here, but when I was struggling I actually contacted the production company and after several telephone conversations, they sent someone over to do a kind of audition tape, then they got in touch to say we were sucessful, and we met Victoria a few weeks lat...

He looks gorgeous. I hope someone will be able to re-home him soon. I don't personally know of anyone that may be able to take him but will certainly tell as many people as I can in the hope it reaches someone that can.

I think its tiger that is lucky too as you were prepared to put in the training, and that goes a long way. Unfortunately the extent of our training pre-Victoria, was once a week - if that, with our local trainer and we didn't take them out for walks very often. The majority of our issues were down t...

Hello everyone! I have posted a few times on here now so I thought I ought to introduce myself properly!! You may have met us already as we were on IMOTD a couple of years ago after being lucky enough to recieve a visit from Victoria. So.... I have 2 Labs, Red and Jasper, who are (not perfect by any...

We found one of our Labs becoming quite protective of me before hearing about this and didn't think anything of it - just assumed bad habits were re-surfacing. It was only after I had been diagnosed with cancer, had it treated/removed, and I went out for a family walk with him that we noticed the ag...