For the Love of Dogs

Alison Hammond carries on the legacy left by the much-loved Paul O'Grady by heading to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home to help the canines find new forever homes. A stray lurcher with a fractured leg captures Alison's heart and she meets an over-friendly golden retriever in desperate need of some social skills. Alison puts a pair of portly jack russells who need to shed a few pounds through boot camp.

An over excited spaniel puppy is put through his paces to see if he's cut out for life as a military working dog and Alison helps a shy lurcher build up her confidence. A cat gets some much needed TLC after suffering terrible injuries.

A pair of sighthounds learn how to stand on their own four feet and a shar pei with a painful eye condition is in serious need of a surgical facelift. Alison does some sound training with a litter of three-week-old jack russell puppies to prepare them for their new lives as pets.

Writer Katie Piper drops into Battersea to check out a litter of puppies abandoned with their mother and a homesick bichon frise gets a kennel makeover. Turkish kangal Minnie needs help conquering her fear of weighing scales.

Alison bonds with a giddy bulldog cross puppy who has no concept of personal space and an unhealthy obsession with her gloves. A lively frenchie needs to rest to repair a leg injury and a Bernese mountain dog tries to overcome her fear of just about everything.

Alison meets the most unlikely stray to be wandering the London streets in the form of a rare Romanian mioritic shepherd who has a fear of stairs and doorways. She also helps a tiny Bichon control its bark, and there is organised chaos when a van with seven Belgian shepherd cross puppies arrives from the RSPCA.