Has anyone else had an e-mail asking if you have a bitch due to have pups in February or March for a BBC TV Children's Programme?

Someone started a topic on a breed forum..personally I wouldnt go anywhere near it..thankfully my litter is too old anyhow!!

Same here, all in their new homes tomorrow hopefully weather depending :)

Ms Temeraire mentioned this in another thread, believe she'd seen it in Dogs Today. Sounded good with the exception that it was aimed at children and not adults.

I saw it on the Dogs Today FB site. The TV company wants to follow bitches through pregnancy, whelping and rearing.... fabulous opportunity for breeders to show how it should be done! I dread though, what they will end up with :(

From a dogs today angle i very much doubt we will be happy with the outcome. Children will be asking mummy and daddy to have babies from flossy because it looks so easy and they wont show dead decomposing puppies and breeders tears....:-(

> From a dogs today angle i very much doubt we will be happy with the outcome. Children will be asking mummy and daddy to have babies from flossy because it looks so easy and they wont show dead decomposing puppies and breeders tears....:-(

But that's my point - if they only film BYBs, it WILL look easy! :(
None of the temperature-taking, not-leaving-babies-alone, sleep-deprivation.... It'll be bitches self-whelping alone, pups sold at 6 weeks and probably no proper vetting of owners or mention of contracts! If no decent breeders apply, then what's left for them to film? 

agree they may gloss over some of the more unpleasant facts but they can at least record the urgent panic and need for a C-section if one occurs, follow the bitch & owner to the vets and report on the outcome including distressed owner (that would be the kind of drama they'd like!) and mention that some pups died or were stillborn etc. even if they can't actually show the dead ones (they didn't on Paul O'Grady at Battersea). Kids TV is not as fluffy as it used to be (you only have to watch Horrible Histories lol).

[And... DT has always supported ethical breeders that health test (despite having JH on the payroll).]

Depending very much on how it is edited, as to wether anyone gets the real picture or the wrong picture of breeding/whelping/rearing pups!!

As I understand it, it's a bona fide TV programme and a litter has now been found.