Pete Wicks: For Dogs' Sake

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Pete Wicks: For Dogs' Sake
Description:

With exclusive access to the UK's leading dog welfare charity, Dogs Trust, this series will see Pete meet the four-legged friends that call it home. From the moment the dogs are rescued, Pete will play an instrumental role in their rehabilitation process, right up until the point the dogs are safely rehomed.

Network: U&W

Country: United Kingdom

Cast

Pete Wicks

as Pete Wicks

Episodes

Pete and the team face one of their biggest challenges as they help four poodle-crosses rescued from a house crammed full of 250 dogs - a case that created headlines across the world.

Pete supports dogs with behavioural and medical challenges, including a Pocket Bully facing surgery and an eight-month-old lurcher who struggles with impulse control.

Pete helps a nervous group of Spitz settle into Dogs Trust, and meets a Maltese cross with a suspicious lump and is with him on his medical journey every step of the way.

Pete Wicks helps care for a vulnerable litter of puppies, and supports a terrified Jack Russell cross with an incredibly traumatic past as he learns to trust again.

Pete meets Staffy Boxer Cross Crumble, who's been at the centre in Basildon for over three years, stuck without a foster or permanent home in sight.

Pete helps rehabilitate a group of ex-racing greyhounds who have never experienced life beyond the racetrack.

Pete meets Keira, a dog on the brink of starvation, and gentle old Jack Russell Paige, whose owner had to make the heartbreaking decision to give her up after 15 years.

Pete meets Chow Chow Nugget who has a longer stay than planned, three-legged Tetley, and some Belgium Malinois puppies training to be service dogs.

Pete helps rescue six Chihuahuas from the home of a hoarder and witnesses the emotional handover of a pregnant pug and her sister.

Pete meets Flower, the first dog ever to take a dislike to him . He also helps Heidi and Marvin, both facing serious medical challenges.

Pete helps a withdrawn pregnant Malinois regain strength so she can care for her 11 lively pups, and falls for Winter, a Staffie who is covered in scars.

Pete meets some newborn pups fighting to survive, and helps teach Hugo, a Cane Corso rescued from quarantine at Dover, how to be a dog.

Pete meets Lurcher Terri, who's terrified of the world and must learn to trust again, and helps settle a family of chihuahuas given up by their heartbroken owner.

Strictly Come Dancing and TOWIE star Pete Wicks immerses himself in the heart-warming and emotional world of dog care at Basildon's Dogs Trust rehoming centre. Pete returns to Dogs Trust, facing a suitcase of abandoned pups on day one and falling hard for Theo, a gentle Italian Mastiff with a serious heart condition.

It's Pete's first day at Dogs Trust, and he meets a pug facing a worrying surgery and pregnant dog who was seized at the border.

Pete meets a litter of puppies known as the Potato Pups, who were found abandoned in a crisp box, and helps the staff fight to keep them alive.

Pete meets a puppy who needs urgent treatment for a badly broken leg and a young Doberman who has spent most of her life in quarantine kennels.

Pete travels to Northern Ireland to pick up three stray dogs and bring them back to Essex. He also meets a Shar Pei who is in constant pain and may need surgery.