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Episode 17

Documentary

TV-Y

44

Dec 31, 2015

It’s that time of year again as Alan Davies returns for another Dog Rescuers Christmas special. As well as rescues and rehomes, this year we spend 48 hours with two RSPCA centres, following the work they do over the festive season.

Season 4, 16 episodes

Underweight, and heavily pregnant; Lilly the Staffy urgently needs Inspector Lyndsey Taylor's help. It’s a race against time to rescue Lilly and her pups. In December 2015, the floods hit Cumbria again.

Alan Davies returns for a brand-new series of The Dog Rescuers and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever. On this week’s show, German Shepherd puppies covered in their own mess and eating raw meat off a filthy floor.

Baxter is a Shih-Tzu that was discovered abandoned in an empty house on the outskirts of Manchester; thin and with extremely matted fur. Inspector Lyndsey Taylor comes to the rescue, but until all that fur is removed, nobody knows what lies beneath.

At an address in the Wirral, Inspector Anthony Joynes finds two collie crosses, Patch and Socks. Both dogs are in very poor condition and Anthony needs to get them out.

In Dagenham, a terrified Jack Russell called Phoebe is found abandoned in a travellers’ site full of rubbish. Surrounded by danger and left with a badly broken leg she must undergo a three-hour operation but will she ever be able to walk again?

In London, an underweight heavily pregnant dog has been brought into the Blue Cross Animal hospital by its owner.

In Thornton Heath, South London, Inspector Nick Wheelhouse is called out to see three adult mastiffs and nine puppies who are all drastically underweight

Inspector Anthony Joynes arranges a warrant to rescue four dogs from a dangerously overcrowded house.

In the heart of London, Inspector Callum Isitt teams up with the police to track down four dogs, including two St Bernard types that have allegedly been beaten by their owners.

In The Wirral, Inspector Anthony Joynes is called out to a shocking case where nine-year-old German Shepherd Reo has been left with an awful skin condition.

Chief Inspector Cathy Hyde is on a warrant to access a property in Leigh, suspected of being involved in puppy trafficking. Cathy discovers two Jack Russell types and two Yorkshire Terriers.

Inspector Herchy Boal teams up with the police to attend a property near Birmingham suspected of puppy farming. Tragically, for one puppy it was already too late, but she manages to rescue another 37 including 8 expectant mothers.

In Birkenhead, Inspector Anthony Joynes is accompanied by the police to attend an unlocked and empty property. Inside he finds Teddy, the terrified Terrier cross that has a flea infestation so bad that he's missing half his fur.

Lucy the Staffie cross has been kept inside a dark house for so long that it’s affected her eyes and she is extremely overweight.

At a house in Hull, Inspector Claire Little rescues two flea-infested Staffordshire Bull Terriers named Roxy and Madison that are missing half of their fur.

It’s that time of year again as Alan Davies returns for another Dog Rescuers Christmas special. As well as rescues and rehomes, this year we spend 48 hours with two RSPCA centres, following the work they do over the festive season.

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The Dog Rescuers

Documentary

TV-Y

4

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Alan Davies returns for what's set to be an even bigger and better third series of The Dog Rescuers.

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