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By Claire Cartmill
Published 14th Feb 2024, 17:00 GMT
It’s often mentioned that some folks care extra about their pets than their pals or household.
Therefore if you’re pondering of taking the plunge and getting a canine for the primary time, including to your current assortment of animals, or changing a dearly departed pet, you’ve gotten a giant choice to make about your subsequent canine companion.
Not solely do you need to look its historical past, well being and behavior, new house owners wish to have some type of reference to the canine that they will be sharing their life with.
With all that in thoughts, it got here as no shock when, in September 2019, The Dog House first aired on Channel 4.
A courting present with a distinction, it featured discarded, disowned or uncared for dogs at Wood Green, The Animals Charity in rural Cambridgeshire, as they’re matched with potential new house owners.
Over the previous 4 sequence, now we have witnessed the highs and lows of being a part of the belief because the workers attempt to rehome a whole lot of canines every year.
Some dogs are strays whereas others want a brand new home as their unique house owners can not take care of them for one purpose or one other.
Helen Prestage has labored on the belief for greater than a decade and he or she defined the the heart-warming present’s rehoming course of to Express.co.uk.
“All dogs require an amount of work and I think it is important to consider your lifestyle and what you can offer a dog as much as what sort of dog you want,” she says.
“Part of that matching process we do is look at the dog’s needs as well as the people’s and we try and match them to each other.
“It’s a lifelong commitment, if you are getting a dog at two or three you could have that dog until it’s 14 or 15 years old.”
With so many dogs arriving at Wood Green every day, Helen says it’s laborious to not fall in love with a few of them and have a private favorite, However, she and her colleague do their finest to remain neutral {and professional}.
“The official statement is we don’t have favourites, we love all dogs,” she provides.
“But we do have favourites which we could take home if we could or dogs which are on our minds a bit more. I’m a bit of a sucker for a sighthound.”
The Dog House is again for its fifth season tonight following its Christmas particular by which we noticed equivalent twins Noah and Toby met spaniel cross puppy Jeff, and Darran fell in love with Patterdale cross Crackers.
In this night’s first programme, the unstoppable Tilburn ladies and their dad James meet Papaya, whereas doting Yvonne and Graham suppose their sausage canine Baxter wants a buddy and have their eyes on one other sausage known as Tinkerbell.
And lastly, Tom and Adele need a canine to get them out walking after a well being scare. Helen and the remainder of Woodgreen’s workers rise to the problem and ship not one however two.
But will the pooches be an ideal match for his or her new house owners and one another?
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