I "watched" this episode with my eyes tightly shut most of the time. The 'cat' scene in particular had me raging and feeling physically sick in equal measures. I guess most of us take 'reading' dogs for granted and the fact that we tend to 'react' instinctively when we can see a situation developing before our eyes. The fact that the man just stood there and didn't have a clue what to do was probably not that unusual. The fact that he didn't have the instinct to yell "NO" at them was deeply worrying. Let's hope that he is not as slow to read his own dog and react when the dog is 'watching' his baby.

i really thought that cat was going to die. made me feel physically sick. particulary having seen his own untrained large dog being allowed to get in his very young babies face.  I fear for the baby.

I feared the worst for the cat! Can't believe how 'uninterested' he seemed and then clearly didn't want to take the cat off her for fear of having to take charge!
Being terrified of cows myself, I sat holding my breath when she got the bike stuck in with them. I think Matt had more patience with them than I would have done.

Glad to see the turn around with their own dogs back home though.

I was amazed at his patience especially over that poor cat and her screaming really grated on me. Surely it's not necessary to travel all that way to learn common sense (but then it wouldn't be a program I guess).

> I was amazed at his patience

Especially when his good dog was being trampled by the bovine.

He was amazingly perceptive over the girls issues.

I've seen all four episodes of this and this seemed the most dangerous. I thought that cat was going to die and can't understand why he picked it up after it had escaped onto roof.

However I think asking those guys to do all they did after a week..control dogs and from a quad bike was the hardest one so far. As for his 'good dog being trampled' well to be honest that's his fault..no way would I have put my dogs into jeapody with two inexperienced folk, way to much at stake imo.

All the other episodes seemed to have the participants backs covered, this one never. Was good to watch though..mostly and I loved the way the Border Collie seemed to want to get in the car at the end.

I love the whole premise of this series "If your dog is out of control it's YOUR FAULT!"     if that's all they manage to get across to JP they'll have done a good job.

This episode made me very uncomfortable though, the cat - I thought it was going to be torn to pieces, the dog being trampled...  :(   Felt that there was no chance I'd ever allow my dogs to be used like that.   Was lovely at the end though when the border collie clearly wanted to go with.  Good that there's follow up and show how taking responsibility has changed the way their own dogs behave :-D

The cat incident was truly awful.
However the cattle droving should not elicit so much surprise. These dogs are as hard as nails and used to dealing with cranky cows day in day out. If a working dog like that turned and fled it would be little use as a cattle dog. OK it did not get out of the way quickly enough but it will have been in that position innumerable times. The drive in those working dogs was amazing.
Sheep welfare was also mentioned. To get through clipping a flock like that in as short a time as possible is the priority and although it looked a bit rough, the system was amazingly efficient, sheep dumped into a cradle next to the waiting clipper, fleece off, turned over and away. In England we rarely clip in-lamb ewes but on the other side of the world they have to be done in the correct season to avoid all sorts of much worse welfare issues.
Regards Louise

> I love the whole premise of this series "If your dog is out of control it's YOUR FAULT!" if that's all they manage to get across to JP they'll have done a good job

They havn't really explained why it's the owners fault though, they just say they need to take charge. There's no mention of ways an owner can take charge such as getting to a training class. Like with that Mark boy, it said he had tried to train his dog and briefly showed him yelling sit to no effect before saying "he's tried everything, it hasn't worked". To me this sort of editing just perpetuates the idea that dogs can speak english and people who train dogs have a magic secret/gift.

Saying all that I'm still really enjoying watching the programmes :)

Haven't watched them all yet, just watched the start of the one which said 'meanwhile in Middlesbrough' whilst showing a shot of the Angel of the North which gave me a laugh, bit like saying... over to Glasgow and showing a shot of Edinburgh ..... or over to Kent and showing a shot of the houses of parliament....

I'm refusing to watch.  What a stupid program!  I really hope they don't make a second series.  I love It's me or the dog but that works because the owners know they have a problem, can say what it is and the VS gives them the tools to fix it and re-train.  That's what we need not a bunch of half-wits that shouldn't have a dog in the first place getting sent to Africa to work with dogs that are allready trained.
Nonsense but that's BBC3 for you!