BBC 3 follows on from Dog Borstal with yet more dog-related viewing!
You Need a Dog follows Samira Akerbousse as she tries to improve her life by taking in Bob, a Cocker Spaniel who works as a therapy dog.
Bob lived with Samira, and her daughter, for three weeks, during which time she hoped he would help [...]

A pug called Buck has been saved by donations from pug lovers around the world.
After running into traffic near his home, Buck suffered three broken legs and landed his owners, Colleen and Jim Bighley, with a $3,000 bill.
Colleen told her friends on the Minneapolis and St Paul’s Pug Meetup Group that she was unable to [...]

Rob Alleyne, author of The Trouble-Free Dog and trainer on Dog Borstal, tells us about his approach to dog training and his experience of working on the BBC 3 show.
How did you become a professional dog trainer?
I used to attend a dog training class with my own dog 20+ years ago. Then the woman who [...]

The USA and Australia really do seem to have the best when it comes to dogs. Here in the UK, we seem a touch behind; let’s see if we can change that!
In the past, we’ve bemoaned the lack of dog-friendly venues for British dog owners. The excellent DoggiePubs is filled with details of dog-friendly pubs [...]

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Daniel George, and his partner dog Yogi, were voted winners of the 2006 Friends for Life competition, at Crufts on Sunday.
Yogi has been helping twelve year old Daniel, who has Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy, for the past eighteen months. Thanks to training by the charity Dogs for the Disabled, Yogi has given Daniel a new lease [...]

Dog Borstal – Mondays, 9pm, BBC 3 – sees three delinquent dogs, and their owners, endure a week of intense correctional training.
Making the most of its disused air base location – high wire fences, military-style tents for the owners and cages for the mutts – the show gives the owners a short, sharp shock.
The first [...]

“Every step I make, I make a new friend” just about sums up the wonder of dogs.
It’s been a while since London – the Alsatian protagonist of 70s/80s Canadian children’s tv show The Littlest Hobo – has been on UK tv screens. If you love the show’s theme tune, Maybe Tomorrow, you’re in luck thanks [...]

Managed to train your dog to stay still for more than five minutes? Think he/she could captivate a crowd of opera buffs?
Edinburgh Playhouse is looking for a canine thespian to tread the boards in a production of La Boh