For the Love of Dogs - Season 12

This week Paul falls head over heels with a gorgeous Newfoundland who needs major life changing surgery on her back legs. He meets a lab cross who's totally obsessed with water and keeps flooding her kennel, and helps a terrified bichon frise, who was found wandering around a forest, become less scared of the world.

This week at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, Paul O'Grady helps babysit a group of gorgeous spaniel puppies and tries to resist taking one home with him. He meets a doberman pup with bowed legs who needs to get her biting under control before she can start her physio regime, and he throws a party for a feisty old stray who missed his 100th birthday.

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is absolutely full of spaniels. Most of them are full of energy, but Paul meets one who was found tied up and has lost all hope. Paul needs to help rebuild his trust in humans. He meets a feisty shorkie with a Spanish chip and a worryingly large lump and a yappy patterdale who needs to learn some manners if he'll ever find a home. There's also a very special visitor to Battesea… comedian Harry Hill.

A lurcher arrives at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home with a terrible injury in need of urgent surgery. Plus, Motherland stars Anna Maxwell Martin and Diane Morgan help Paul with a cavalier King Charles spaniel, and calm down an over excited Frenchie pup.

Paul and the team are left baffled by a mystery illness which is making a young lurcher pup desperately ill. He also meets a gorgeous Staffie who is too scared to leave her kennel. Paul uses every trick up his sleeve to try and coax her out into the big wide world. And he meets a tiny old Yorkie, with awful breath, who needs a bit of a makeover.

Paul meets some beautiful dogs who are all still struggling to find a home - two of the dogs have already been returned to Battersea once, and they just don't seem cut out for normal homes as they're so boisterous. Paul tries his best to help them find working homes, but will they make the cut?

Paul has his work cut out this time at Battersea as he meets an elderly Chihuahua with no end of ailments. He also helps a dangerously overweight beagle-basset hound cross lose some serious weight and tries to bring a nervous Labrador cross out of his shell over at Old Windsor.

The presenter goes rogue when he's asked to help bottle-feed a pair of week-old kittens who were found abandoned on a building site - and he discovers that not everything is as they seem with these two bundles of fur. Paul and Battersea Head Vet Shaun also visit one of the few homeless shelters in the country to accept dogs.