Me and My dog - Programme BBC2 tonight...

This looks worth a watch: Me and My dog: The Ultimate Contest

Airing tonight on BBC2 @ 8pm

"Sees eight humans and their eight dogs compete to prove who has the best bond. It's a ridiculously charming four-part show with stupid challenges and lovely dogs who, despite everything, are prone to stopping for a poo in the middle of a competition."

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-04-05/meet-the-cast-of-me-and-my-dog-the-ultimate-contest

 

Nope, sorry, can't watch on principle:

"Samoyeds are a raindeer-herding breed"

"Raindeer"? Really?

 

She called the Labrador thick..

I doubt the Labrador is the problem

 

Haha! Just read it...admittedly glossed over that one..once I got to "My little princess" I switched off...

 

Gosh......might give it a miss then, since you guys are doing such a hard sell

 

Feel I must now, my interest is piqued
But oh yeah...raindeer...

 

I thought it looked pants in the preview and some of the activities looked a bit risky but was going to watch it on principal as oh made me watch Masterchef but it look like it my get too irritating . Hearing someone call a lab thick well that's just silly

 

Thanks for heads up. Judgements shouldn't be made until we see the programme for ourselves

 

Well, who watched it?! I was intrigued by the idea - mostly because I wondered how they planned to measure "bond". I only caught the last 20 minutes or so but the challenges were a bit ridiculous - the task in a waterfall seemed dangerous for the dogs and I'm not surprised at all that one of them was injured, and then the bike-racing challenge was just stupid, pitting a little norfolk terrier against much bigger dogs without any time handicap. And obviously a dog's prior training is going to affect how they respond to these challenges so any test of "bond" or communication needs to take that into account - are the dogs being asked to do something that they've previously been trained not to (i.e. running ahead). I'll probably keep watching it, because even a bad programme with dogs is better than most other programmes, but it was a disappointing start for me.

 

I watched part of it -- to be truthful I struggle with the presenter. Might watch it on Iplayer.

 

I watched the first 15 minutes, then turned off. It was rubbish. Really.

 

I watched it, well sort of - all the excitement of dogs on the telly threw Ripple into a frenzy - barking, jumping up, trying to play bites games with me .
I wasn't very impressed with the program, thought the water part looked quite dangerous.

 

I enjoyed some of it...when the brought on the behaviourist to talk about the science of right/left pawed dogs, and body language. Tbh, I was a bit shocked by the water event,practically rapids at the end! Thought swimming across a lake or large pond with stations would have been far easier and safer. The owners left a lot to be desired, a woman who basically called her lovely labrador thick...I thought what a bright dog to be able to filter out her awful screechy voice! A man who clearly felt he had to the "master" and the dog a "dog". Err....he agreed he had a far bit to learn about communication.

 

Yes, I think it was probably the dreadful woman who called her dog thick that turned me off...!!!

 

Yes, I agree about the behaviourist, I did see that bit,

 

I didn't bother I saw them going up the rapids in a preview and thought nope thats too dangerous I wouldn't put my guys through that to get on telly

 

I thought it quite interesting! I am sure a lot of 'pre training' went on behind the scenes. They were ridiculous tests and some dangerous. However, the group seemed to have bonded and the dogs seemed happy, I am sure they will have learned a lot. I thought the signally with the eyes was crazy, yes you can get a dog to look you in the eye, but unless you make a subtle body movement, the dog has no idea! I could be wrong of course