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Good boy. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:03 | |
Nearly half of Britain owns a pet. | 0:00:03 | 0:00:05 | |
Nice one, mate. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:06 | |
It's the council and the police. Can you open the door, please? | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
But man and beast don't always live together in harmony. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
I have reason to believe it is your dog | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
and you've had it for a fair few years and not two weeks. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
When things go wrong, animal wardens are there to protect our pets... | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
..and keep their owners in check. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
I'm not having my dog taken off me! | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
I love you too. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
But for some of us, our animals are more than just pets. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
I wouldn't know what to do without him. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
They can change and even save lives. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
I owe my life to these horses. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
This is Animal Saints And Sinners. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
Coming up, welfare officers need the help of the police | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
when they try to seize what's reported to be | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
a banned breed of dog. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
Listen to me. Just calm down one second. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
An ex-soldier finds peace in the company of wild horses. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
I was the calmest I've been for the last 15 years. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
A dog warden in Kirklees has to deal with an aggressive, chained dog | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
that might be a pit bull. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
We've had some concerns about the dog being tied up | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
in the garden all the time. People are frightened of the dog. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
Newham in East London is one of the capital's poorest | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
and most populated boroughs. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
It's obvious that somebody's home, so can you open the door, please? | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
Animal welfare manager Tina Delaney and colleague Sue Heathcote | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
are on a mission to improve the lives of pets in their borough. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
Come on. It's all right. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
First one is a pit bull. He's not completely... | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
Tina and Sue's first call will need police back-up, | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
so a briefing is being held for the team. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
PC Pickering runs through the facts of the case. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
Gentleman's rung up telling them that he's lost his pit bull. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
Then he's rung back again to tell them | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
that he's now found his pit bull. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
Tina needs to know for certain that the dog is a pit bull - | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
a banned breed in the UK. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
As it's on private property, they need a warrant to seize it | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
and have it assessed. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
As it's an unknown dog to us, the warrant gives us power | 0:02:14 | 0:02:19 | |
to search for any articles relating to dangerous dogs - i.e., documents. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
If there's any drugs there to give to the dog | 0:02:23 | 0:02:28 | |
for post-fighting, or steroids for it fighting. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
Bear in mind we have got power of entry into this place, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
but with dogs being unpredictable | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
and there being an emotional attachment to these things, | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
it'll be a very softly, slowly approach. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
We don't want to aggravate any situation | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
where the dog could be agitated. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:46 | |
Tina will be dealing with all dog sides of things, | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
we'll be dealing with all the human element. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
That's all we're going to be dealing with. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
Any other questions? | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
Right, in five minutes out the front. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
We get to know the police officers that we work with, | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
because we work with two or three different teams | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
and we get to know the teams. We know each other quite well. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
It's quite good cos you know that when you go into a premises, | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
they can trust us with knowing that we'll make sure nothing happens | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
with any of the dogs, and we know that that's the same with the people. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
Cos, you know, we go into all sorts of houses. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
We go into houses where people have drug addictions | 0:03:22 | 0:03:26 | |
and there's, you know, needles and stuff like that. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
The last thing you want is somebody coming out | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
and stabbing you with one of the needles. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
They're there to make sure that we're protected, | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
and we're there to make sure that nothing happens with the dogs. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
It works quite well. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:41 | |
As this could potentially be a volatile situation | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
and a warrant has also been issued, the police attend as well. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
KNOCK AT DOOR | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
With no response from the front, the team covers all exits, | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
and one of the officers has spotted the dog in the back garden. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
Hello, darling. Hello. Are you frightened or are you cold? | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
The dog's owner has finally opened the front door and lets the team in. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:14 | |
The dog and anything related to your dog, | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
such as dog towels, dog leads, dog paperwork. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
-Are you the...? -Are you the owner? -I reported my dog lost before. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
Tina and Sue head straight to the garden to get a look at the dog. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
Hello. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
Hello. Are you all right, darling? Hello. There you go. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
Oh, it's people. It's people. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
There you go. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:39 | |
Tina's immediate impression is that the dog | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
is one of the banned breeds, and it's against the law to own one. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
The maximum penalty for having a banned dog is a £5,000 fine | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
and possibly six months in prison. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
Dog belongs to you, does it? | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
You're making him anxious. Look at that. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
OK, you're making him anxious, because he's been absolutely fine. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
Listen to me... Just calm down one second. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
How can anyone give you any random information, | 0:05:01 | 0:05:03 | |
-I just come in and knock on someone's door. -OK. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
As the dog is beginning to show signs of agitation, | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
Tina decides to remove him | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
so he can be properly assessed to determine if he is a pit bull. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
Come on, then. Come on, come on. Good boy. There you go. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:20 | |
Good lad. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
Tina briefly returns to the house to explain to the owner | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
that she has the right to take the dog, who's called Tyson, | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
and that he has to be assessed. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:34 | |
Yep, we've seized what we believe to be a prohibited dog. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
Obviously it needs to be examined, | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
but I'd be very surprised if it's not a pit bull type. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
He's obviously very upset that his dog's been seized | 0:05:44 | 0:05:49 | |
and doesn't believe that it is a pit bull. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
I think it's definitely going to be a pit. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
He's a nice dog. He's not very old, but he's a nice dog. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
Tyson is taken to the kennels at a secret location | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
where he is scanned to see if he has a microchip. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
There you go, good boy. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:16 | |
He'll be left to settle in for 24 hours. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
Considering he doesn't know me, | 0:06:20 | 0:06:21 | |
he's handled really well and he's behaving really well. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
He's got a little bit of a bald patch. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
We'll just have a look at that tomorrow | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
when he's calmed down a little bit. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:30 | |
Good boy. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:33 | |
Tina believes that Tyson is a pit bull, | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
but he will be assessed by an independent specialist | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
to confirm this. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
It's a big responsibility to own a pit bull. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:47 | |
Some people don't want that responsibility | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
and some people are quite happy to have that, | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
or will have that responsibility because they love their dog | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
and they want it returned. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:56 | |
As long as that dog doesn't pose a danger to the public | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
and it's neutered, microchipped, third-party insurance, | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
registered with DEFRA, and on a muzzle and lead | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
for the rest of its life in public places,, | 0:07:06 | 0:07:08 | |
then that dog can be returned to its owner. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
But, again, the people have to comply with the restrictions. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
If Tyson is found to be a pit bull, | 0:07:14 | 0:07:15 | |
his owner would have to agree to the strict conditions. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
Otherwise, Tyson will be destroyed | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
because it's not possible to re-home banned dogs. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
Good boy. TYSON BARKS | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
We'll find out later what the future holds for Tyson. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
Near Dundee, one dog has made a transformation | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
to the way one elderly couple live. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
Our dog is a champion. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
He works absolutely wonderfully well. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
He's saved me, I can tell you. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
Moira and Alex White have been married for 55 years | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
and have three children and eight grandchildren. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
I first met Alex at the dancing. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:12 | |
It was a fortnight before my 16th birthday. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
My friend and I, we were planning to emigrate to Canada. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:21 | |
But because I met Alexander, it didn't happen. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
We got engaged in 1956 and married on Midsummer's Day 1958. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:30 | |
Moira was a stay-at-home mum raising their three daughters, | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
while Alex worked in telecommunications. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
We had our own lives and our own things to do. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
Alex always was involved in football, but what we always made sure of - | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
we always had Sundays together with the children. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:52 | |
Alex retired over 20 years ago, | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
and he and Moira enjoy travelling around the world, | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
spending at least two months at their holiday home in Malta. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
Then around seven years ago, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
Moira started to notice a difference in her husband. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
His personality began to change. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
If we were in company, he would fly off the handle | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
and just do things that weren't him. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:19 | |
I used to say to the kids, "There's something wrong with Dad, | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
"but I can't put my finger on it." | 0:09:22 | 0:09:25 | |
Soon after, doctors confirmed that Alex had dementia. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:29 | |
When Alex was first diagnosed, we were... | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
..just absolutely gobsmacked. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
'We knew it would be a slow process. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
'But he would be really aggressive and really difficult to manage. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:48 | |
'I think part and parcel of that was the fact that he wasn't | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
'so far gone down the road that he didn't understand.' | 0:09:52 | 0:09:57 | |
He knew what he had and he knew there would be no cure. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
Dementia is caused by diseases of the brain, lots of different ones. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:08 | |
but basically it's caused by the loss of nerve cells. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
Symptoms may move on from small memory problems and they may evolve | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
as well as long-term memory, the can have language difficulties, | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
problems with numbers, or perhaps problems with planning, | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
whereas before they've managed to plan a full day, | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
perhaps they can't quite manage that any more. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
Often it is quite difficult for family members. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
Carers do have to make quite big adjustments to live with dementia. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:34 | |
It can also be almost a bigger adjustment for them. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
Have another biscuit, Alex. How many have you had? | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
Don't know. Two? Three? Two? | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
Wait a minute. One, two, three, four, five. You've only had one. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
You can have another one then. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
'We didn't initially think of how it would change our lives | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
'because we were still Alex and Moira. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
'We were still together and he wasn't all that bad.' | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
But later on, you could see Alex wasn't able to... | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
For instance, he used to help me 50% help in the house. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:14 | |
He didn't know what end of the Hoover worked, | 0:11:14 | 0:11:18 | |
'and he would get annoyed | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
'because he would be looking at this piece of equipment, | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
'and he knew that he used it nearly every day of his life before, | 0:11:24 | 0:11:29 | |
'but he just couldn't figure out where the plug went.' | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
Moira and Alex coped as best they could for five years, | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
but very quickly the disease took hold. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
I remember our minister said to me one day, "How is Alex doing?" | 0:11:40 | 0:11:45 | |
I said, "Well, you know that bit in the wedding service | 0:11:45 | 0:11:50 | |
"'To love and cherish, till death do us part'? | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
"It's getting hard." | 0:11:53 | 0:11:54 | |
In 2012, a pilot scheme training dogs | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
to help people with dementia was set up. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
BARKING | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
Dogs love routine. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:07 | |
They like being fed at the same time of day, | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
they like going out for their runs at the same time of day. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
It's also shown that people with dementia like their routines | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
as well, and benefit from having consistent routines. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
'Dogs also could help with reminders for different things, | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
'with alarm clocks, with fetching medication,' | 0:12:26 | 0:12:31 | |
which would take the onus a little bit away | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
from the partner or the other half. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
Moira and Alex heard about the project | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
through their local dementia support group. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:42 | |
'I don't want my husband to go into a home and sit in a circle' | 0:12:42 | 0:12:47 | |
just doing nothing. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
I want him to still be active. I want him to still be fit. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:54 | |
That's why we applied to have the dog. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:57 | |
That dog has made the biggest difference. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
In 2013, they were matched with a black Labrador, | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
also named Alex, who Moira calls Alex Four-Paws. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
His impact on the family was immediate. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
Alex Four-Paws is a saviour. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
'He's so calm. He's so laid back. I call him the horizontal champion.' | 0:13:17 | 0:13:23 | |
Look at you, you lazy lump. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:25 | |
Alex was originally in training to be a guide dog. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:31 | |
Unfortunately, Alex didn't make it as a guide dog | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
because he didn't have enough confidence to fulfil that role | 0:13:33 | 0:13:38 | |
in guiding someone. So I looked at Alex for this Dementia Dog project. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:43 | |
He loved to retrieve and loved to pick things up, | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
so when I was assessing him | 0:13:46 | 0:13:48 | |
and realised that he enjoyed that sort of thing, | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
I thought he would be quite a good dog | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
to perform the Dementia Dog tasks. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
ALARM SOUNDS | 0:13:55 | 0:13:57 | |
He does medicines in the morning and in the evening for Alex. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:04 | |
Then he does the lunchtime task where the alarm goes off. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
ALARM SOUNDS | 0:14:16 | 0:14:17 | |
Off he goes and nudges Alex, gets him to follow him. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
Follows him into the kitchen, | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
and Alex reads the note and hopefully follows through on the note. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:32 | |
And the dog has turned out to be not just for Alex's benefit. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
The feelings before I got the dog were... | 0:14:37 | 0:14:39 | |
.."I can't go on. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
"I can't do this every day" I used to waken up in the morning and say, | 0:14:45 | 0:14:49 | |
"Oh, not another day like this." | 0:14:49 | 0:14:50 | |
Now I don't do that. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:54 | |
Alex, sit. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:56 | |
Now their days follow a pattern, | 0:14:57 | 0:14:59 | |
which always involves taking Alex Four-Paws out for regular walks. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:03 | |
Good boy. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
I think the dog has made a huge benefit, | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
not just to Alex but to Moira as well. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
I think that's what we're finding through this project - | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
that the dog's giving as much benefits to the carer | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
as much as the person with dementia | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
because it's given them a focus, | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
it's given them a break from everyday life. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
I feel it's brought them a lot closer together. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
There is less tension in their relationship, I feel. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:33 | |
I've seen a big difference in Alex. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
He has really mellowed since the dog has been in there. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
Come on, then, hon. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:41 | |
You OK? | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
'I can't tell you the difference there has been | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
'since that dog came into our life. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
'Alex is much calmer.' | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
Less aggressive, less irritable. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:54 | |
'And I am a lot happier' | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
and a lot more energetic, I have to say. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
Come on, baby. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:01 | |
See what I've got. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:04 | |
'We all go to bed at the same time, the three of us. We work as a team. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:10 | |
'We take him everywhere with us.' | 0:16:10 | 0:16:12 | |
Only place we haven't taken him to is the cinema, | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
and we got a baby-sitter for him when we went there. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
Once you get into a good routine, it's a lot easier all round. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:24 | |
As far as I'm concerned, it's been very helpful. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
He's stopped your wife from shouting at you. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
No, the good thing is that you worked | 0:16:29 | 0:16:32 | |
in a vet's place for long enough. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:33 | |
Oh, but that was when I was 16, for goodness' sake. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
When you were a young lady. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
-Now you're not so young as you used to be. -Ah-ah, watch it. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
I don't think there'll be a... | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
a cure for Alzheimer's in Alex's lifetime or mine, | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
but it's going to happen one of these days. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
It'll be better for everybody else. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
But as far as Alex Four-Paws is concerned, | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
the hope is as my husband gets worse, which is inevitable, | 0:16:59 | 0:17:05 | |
Alex will be able to do more for him | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
because he's part of the family now. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
We're Team Alex, that's what we are. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
-We're just going into the car park. -We're going home now. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
Ah, yeah. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:19 | |
In Kirklees, West Yorkshire, | 0:17:25 | 0:17:26 | |
Tina Shaw is one of the council's dog wardens. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
We aren't giving bags out today. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
It's simply if you haven't picked up, it's a fixed penalty. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
Tina and the other four wardens patrol the area | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
looking for strays and people who let their pets foul pavements. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
If I could just ask you to put your dog on a lead when you're walking? | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
Right, what sort of dog is it? | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
They deal with reports about nuisance dogs, animal welfare, | 0:17:50 | 0:17:54 | |
and help the police prosecute owners of banned breeds. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
A dog like this will be very difficult to re-home. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
Today Tina's responding to a number of calls | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
about an aggressive and very noisy dog | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
that's said to be kept tied up outside a house in Huddersfield. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
Hello, dog. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:21 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:18:25 | 0:18:26 | |
Some of the dogs we come across can be very aggressive. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
Any dog that we meet, potentially, will attack because we're entering | 0:18:28 | 0:18:32 | |
the property - they guard the property, often they're frightened. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:37 | |
Yeah, we've got to be really careful. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
Today Tina's taking no chances. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:18:42 | 0:18:43 | |
There's no answer, | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
but she gets close enough to take a proper look at the dog. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
DOG BARKS Come on, then. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
There were also concerns that the dog may be one of the banned breeds. | 0:18:56 | 0:19:00 | |
We did suspect that this might be a pit bull type dog, | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
but having a better look at him now, I think he's more American bulldog. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
If Tina is right in her identification of the dog's breed, | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
it doesn't stop her worrying about its aggression or its welfare. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:17 | |
We do need to make things better for that dog. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:21 | |
The longer it's left there tied up under the trampoline, | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
the more aggressive it's going to get, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
because it's got absolutely nothing to do. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
It's just going to get more aggressive and protect the property. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:30 | |
So we need to get in there and try | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
and sort it out before we have a disaster. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:35 | |
Find out later what happens | 0:19:35 | 0:19:36 | |
when Tina returns to talk to the owner of the dog. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
In Scotland, animal welfare is the concern of a charity - | 0:19:44 | 0:19:47 | |
the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:51 | |
Hello, it's the Scottish SPCA, could you come to the door, please? | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
The charity investigates over 20,000 reports | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
of animal cruelty a year, | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
and are one of the first responders to calls throughout Scotland | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
for any animal welfare issues. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
I had a complaint about the dogs. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:09 | |
They have the power to seize animals | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
if they're being neglected or abused. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
Oh, you're great. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:18 | |
Senior Inspector Billy Linton | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
has been with the charity for eight years | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
and covers a large area around Glasgow. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:24 | |
I was born in Glasgow. There's no better people than Glasgow people. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
The people that I encounter most of the time look after their pets. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
But animal abuse is there. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
The SSPCA are there to address that. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
We've had a complaint relating to your dog. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
'This job can be confrontational.' | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
If you turn up at somebody's door | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
because somebody else has accused them of beating their dog, | 0:20:54 | 0:20:58 | |
not feeding their cat, you suddenly become very unpopular, | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
but you have to have a body in place who are authorised to investigate | 0:21:01 | 0:21:07 | |
and ensure the welfare of an animal, | 0:21:07 | 0:21:09 | |
because the animals can't speak for themselves. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
Billy helps many pet owners, | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
giving advice about how to look after their animals correctly. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:21 | |
Today he's responding to a call about the welfare of a husky dog | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
that's kept on a lead in the front garden of a house near Paisley. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:30 | |
And it's tied up outside. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
Billy needs to assess the dog for signs of neglect. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
Hiya. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:41 | |
You've got a cheeky face. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:42 | |
-Good morning, it's the Scottish SPCA, Inspector Linton. -Right. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
Somebody's phoned in saying your dog's thin. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
Do you think he looks too thin? | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
I don't think he looks too thin, I think he looks OK. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
-He eats like so much. -Yeah. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
But they're saying it's tied up with cable. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
Yeah, he gets tied there cos he jumps the fence. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
It's not the best thing in the world | 0:22:02 | 0:22:03 | |
because if he does jump the fence with that | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
he's going to end up in quite a bit of a state. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
Dog faeces needs to be lifted, right? Things like that. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
You're going to cause a problem with pathogens with him | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
if he's going to be stepping on it and then cleaning himself later. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
That kind of thing. Do you have access to a back garden? | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
Yeah, yeah, but it's in a real mess now, that's why he's... | 0:22:18 | 0:22:22 | |
Billy is concerned that the dog is in the full sun | 0:22:22 | 0:22:24 | |
in the front garden and wants to take a look at the back. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:29 | |
You've got a good-sized garden. It's not bad. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:31 | |
-When you said the garden was bad, it's not bad. -It's this. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:33 | |
He's certainly not going to get over the barrier fence. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
If he gets out here, he's not going to escape or anything. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
I know he's out there and he's out in the sun, | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
but being tethered like that is not the best idea, | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
cos he's not got any water out there either. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
-Right. -You know what I mean? -Yeah. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
It's nice right now, but who knows what going to happen in half an hour? | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
-Right. -Huskies are built for really cold, sharp frost weather. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
They're not really great for wet weather that's windy with it. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
Their coats are not really designed too good for that. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
When he's indoors, Austin the dog is kept in a cage which is adequate. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
But as he's mostly kept outside, | 0:23:03 | 0:23:06 | |
and his owner prefers him to stay in the front garden, | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
Billy has plenty of advice to give Austin's owner. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
Clear the front garden of any injurious material. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
Give them a good brush-out. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
Bring your bins a bit further this way | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
so he's not got access to them. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
Make sure he has water at all times when he's out there, | 0:23:21 | 0:23:23 | |
and if he's out for any length of time he really should have shelter. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
Any animal should be able to express normal behaviour, | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
and he's only able to take a few steps in any direction | 0:23:29 | 0:23:32 | |
so he should be able to move properly. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
-Has he been neutered yet? -What? | 0:23:34 | 0:23:35 | |
Has he been neutered yet? | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
-What's that? -Castrated. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
-He's not had his testicles removed? -No. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:42 | |
You know, it stops any... | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
..possible risk of any cancers | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
and it's a healthy aspect. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:49 | |
A lot of people don't like to neuter their dogs | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
because they think they'll put weight on. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
They shouldn't put weight on, | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
so long as they're not getting fed too much and get exercise regularly. OK? | 0:23:55 | 0:23:59 | |
Billy is satisfied with the general welfare of the dog | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
and feels the owner has taken on board all the points he's made. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:07 | |
You can tell she genuinely cares for the dog. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
The dog was OK, it was happy, | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
it was very friendly, it was lively, | 0:24:12 | 0:24:14 | |
just needed that bit more thought put into the way it was being kept. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:18 | |
DOG WHIMPERS | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
If I'm in the area, I would certainly leave it at least a fortnight, | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
certainly if the weather improves | 0:24:24 | 0:24:26 | |
and it gets really hot, and I think that | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
she might not have complied with what was asked for, I would | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
have a wee look and just make sure everything was OK. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
If it was any worse, or still in the same situation, | 0:24:34 | 0:24:38 | |
and they'd obviously not taken the advice, | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
then the welfare notice may be required. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
Having a pet to care for | 0:24:47 | 0:24:48 | |
is thought to be good for our health, | 0:24:48 | 0:24:50 | |
but there are some animals who help people | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
who are suffering in surprising ways. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
If anybody suggested to me | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
that a horse would be the route to getting my life back on track | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
after trauma, | 0:25:01 | 0:25:02 | |
then I would have laughed in their faces. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
43-year-old Hugh Forsyth joined the Army | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
when he was 16 years old. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
Army life is fantastic. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
You get to see the world. You experience a bit of danger, | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
which is good when you're younger, | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
and it's a tight-knit community within the military, | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
and it's almost like having a second family. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
His speciality in the Royal Engineers | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
was one of the most high-risk in his unit. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
Bomb disposal. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
You didn't know when you'd be called out. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
You didn't know what you'd face when you did have a call-out. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:36 | |
And the dangers Hugh faced were very real at times. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:40 | |
My first major trauma was when I was 18 | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
and my first tour in Northern Ireland. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
I was with my team on a patrol | 0:25:45 | 0:25:49 | |
to protect the finish line | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
of a charity fun run. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
Six soldiers were on that run | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
and when they'd finished the run they got into their vehicle | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
and the vehicle blew up in front of us. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
Pretty harrowing, yeah. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
When he was 26, Hugh was threatened at gunpoint | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
while helping clear land mines in Bosnia. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:12 | |
Then, after a spinal injury, he was discharged from the Army on medical grounds. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:17 | |
It was like the whole world had been taken out from under my feet. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
It felt like I was orphaned. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:26 | |
Everything that I knew about life as an adult | 0:26:26 | 0:26:31 | |
was completely the opposite to civilian life. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
So when you leave the military and have to | 0:26:34 | 0:26:37 | |
make your way in the civilian world, | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
it is just as frightening as walking up to any bomb. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
When I came home and got my first job | 0:26:45 | 0:26:48 | |
in civvy street, in telecommunications, | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
I just got on with it and I thought that I was coping. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
But actually I wasn't coping. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:57 | |
I was having flashbacks. | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
And I was terrified | 0:26:59 | 0:27:01 | |
of going onto buses and trains and dealing with the public. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:05 | |
I was also very, very scared of | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
dustbins and backpacks and people looking at me a certain way. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:13 | |
It really narrows your lifestyle down to | 0:27:13 | 0:27:17 | |
literally nothing. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
At the time Hugh was married with two young children. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:24 | |
My marriage was beginning to fail. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:26 | |
I was having arguments at work. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:29 | |
I couldn't form relationships with the people around me. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
I didn't have that team network | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
that I felt with the guys I'd served with. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
Things disintegrated. Within 18 months I'd had a nervous breakdown. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
I was divorced, and life was just totally, totally black. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:47 | |
Hugh spent the next decade trying to keep a lid | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
on his anxieties. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
I did turn to drink. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
I wasn't me, but there was nothing I could do about it, either. | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
You know what you're doing is wrong. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
But the pain is so bad that you just | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
will do anything for that pain to go away. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:09 | |
At mu utter lowest point I just wanted to actually end my life. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:14 | |
So I attempted to commit suicide. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
At that point your brain isn't functioning | 0:28:16 | 0:28:20 | |
in the way it would normally function. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:23 | |
So ending your life seems to be | 0:28:23 | 0:28:27 | |
a good step, actually, at that point. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
I know it's quite strange and quite shocking to say that, | 0:28:30 | 0:28:33 | |
but that, compared to what you're dealing with, | 0:28:33 | 0:28:36 | |
is a really good option at the time, | 0:28:36 | 0:28:39 | |
and it's really scary that is an option. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:41 | |
But thankfully I didn't succeed. | 0:28:41 | 0:28:44 | |
Hugh was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder | 0:28:46 | 0:28:49 | |
and spent six years in cognitive behavioural therapy. | 0:28:49 | 0:28:53 | |
But his experiences in the Army kept resurfacing. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:59 | |
Hugh had almost lost hope, | 0:28:59 | 0:29:01 | |
until a friend suggested equine-assisted therapy | 0:29:01 | 0:29:05 | |
and a programme called Dare to Live. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:07 | |
I was recommended to come here | 0:29:07 | 0:29:10 | |
as part of an alternative therapy, fully expecting | 0:29:10 | 0:29:13 | |
just to come down and stroke horses and that would be the end of it. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:16 | |
Well, actually what I did attend was a three-day | 0:29:16 | 0:29:19 | |
psychological retraining programme. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:22 | |
What we're going to explore today | 0:29:22 | 0:29:24 | |
is the idea that we have different boundaries | 0:29:24 | 0:29:27 | |
for different reasons. | 0:29:27 | 0:29:29 | |
I would say they're survival instinct boundaries. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:32 | |
The Dare to Live programme is a transition programme, | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
specifically designed for servicemen | 0:29:35 | 0:29:37 | |
as they come out of what might be termed a very institutional | 0:29:37 | 0:29:40 | |
way of life into civilian life. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:43 | |
The horses at the centre aren't stabled or ridden. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:47 | |
Instead, they live an almost wild existence. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:50 | |
They live in the woods, they use each other for shelter, | 0:29:50 | 0:29:54 | |
which is the more natural way horses are out in the wild. | 0:29:54 | 0:29:59 | |
What you're getting is a much more realistic | 0:29:59 | 0:30:02 | |
behaviour from the horses here. | 0:30:02 | 0:30:05 | |
The theory behind the work here is that, as horses are highly sensitive | 0:30:05 | 0:30:09 | |
to humans' intentions and feelings, | 0:30:09 | 0:30:11 | |
they're naturally able to help people understand | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
how their actions or behaviours appear to others. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:18 | |
I arrived on day one, | 0:30:18 | 0:30:20 | |
Coley came forward out of the herd of six horses that are here | 0:30:20 | 0:30:25 | |
and stood by the fence and literally put his | 0:30:25 | 0:30:27 | |
head out to me as soon as I got out of the car. | 0:30:27 | 0:30:30 | |
And there was an instant connection. | 0:30:30 | 0:30:33 | |
It was like a bolt of lightning. For some reason, | 0:30:33 | 0:30:35 | |
the anxiety dropped away. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:37 | |
Nice, warm feeling throughout my body. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:40 | |
I was the calmest I'd been for the last 15 years. | 0:30:40 | 0:30:43 | |
It was life-changing. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:46 | |
Hugh is a prime example of somebody who came | 0:30:46 | 0:30:49 | |
very crushed, thought he had no hope of ever working again, | 0:30:49 | 0:30:54 | |
was starting to settle for | 0:30:54 | 0:30:57 | |
a fairly limited way of living. | 0:30:57 | 0:31:01 | |
And certainly had a lot of stress in his life. | 0:31:01 | 0:31:05 | |
I wasn't living very much of a life, to be honest, | 0:31:05 | 0:31:08 | |
and now I've got a job back, | 0:31:08 | 0:31:10 | |
my children are much more at ease around me. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:12 | |
And another great reward from this is that now | 0:31:12 | 0:31:15 | |
I've progressed on to become a facilitator. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:18 | |
I'm now watching other veterans and their families | 0:31:18 | 0:31:21 | |
benefit from this fantastic programme. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:24 | |
And it warms my heart to give them their lives back as well. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:29 | |
If you try and take a nice, big, deep breath... | 0:31:29 | 0:31:32 | |
HE BREATHES OUT | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
Today he's with Army veteran Ben Meade, | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
who was in a plane that was shot down in Afghanistan. | 0:31:38 | 0:31:41 | |
I'll give you around ten minutes. | 0:31:41 | 0:31:43 | |
Sleep was a big problem. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
Eating was very hit-and-miss. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
But, really, it was the stress levels that were very high. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:54 | |
And then realising, waking up one morning, that you've got nothing, | 0:31:54 | 0:31:57 | |
from having everything to nothing, | 0:31:57 | 0:31:59 | |
you put it into perspective and think, "It's time to get help." | 0:31:59 | 0:32:02 | |
Working with the horses, what it helps us do | 0:32:02 | 0:32:05 | |
is really understand, "What is it I'm doing | 0:32:05 | 0:32:10 | |
"and what effect does that have on the other?" | 0:32:10 | 0:32:14 | |
What we're looking for is every ear movement, every eye movement, | 0:32:14 | 0:32:17 | |
the position of the mouth, the position of the horse's body, | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
they all mean something | 0:32:20 | 0:32:23 | |
in horse language. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:25 | |
What we get from that is a visual representation | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
of what is resonating from the client. | 0:32:28 | 0:32:30 | |
When she turned to face me, she was quite relaxed. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:36 | |
And she offered a lot there. | 0:32:36 | 0:32:38 | |
She did, she offered a lot. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:39 | |
I went to her but she got a little bit tense again. | 0:32:39 | 0:32:42 | |
So what we'll try again is if you approach | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
with even more noticing than you have done before. | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
Then every time you notice any change, | 0:32:49 | 0:32:52 | |
just take that step back and sigh. | 0:32:52 | 0:32:56 | |
And see if you can take more time. | 0:32:56 | 0:32:59 | |
Something like this does make you find your inner peace. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:02 | |
I know from being ill in hospital | 0:33:02 | 0:33:05 | |
you can do relaxation therapy, | 0:33:05 | 0:33:06 | |
but coming here, working with animals, | 0:33:06 | 0:33:09 | |
it really does make you find your true self. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:12 | |
So what do you think you could use from this experience, | 0:33:12 | 0:33:15 | |
this session today? | 0:33:15 | 0:33:17 | |
Understanding each other's boundaries, | 0:33:17 | 0:33:20 | |
and don't encroach on somebody's space. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:23 | |
You don't have to be overbearing on someone. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:30 | |
And understanding their needs. | 0:33:30 | 0:33:32 | |
Brilliant. Good work. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
Over the last four years, the horses here have helped | 0:33:39 | 0:33:42 | |
around 350 people. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:45 | |
Because of the traumas I've experienced in the military, | 0:33:50 | 0:33:53 | |
I will more than likely always have | 0:33:53 | 0:33:55 | |
post-dramatic stress disorder to some extent. | 0:33:55 | 0:33:58 | |
However, because of the work I've done here with the horses, | 0:33:58 | 0:34:02 | |
the post-traumatic stress will not control my life any more. | 0:34:02 | 0:34:05 | |
I'm in more control of it. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:07 | |
Just being in a field with the horse, | 0:34:11 | 0:34:13 | |
for more than five minutes, | 0:34:13 | 0:34:16 | |
it's like the world doesn't exist out there | 0:34:16 | 0:34:18 | |
and it's just you and him, | 0:34:18 | 0:34:20 | |
which is fantastic and it helps me | 0:34:20 | 0:34:22 | |
be in the moment, not worried about the future, | 0:34:22 | 0:34:25 | |
not worried about what happened in the past. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:27 | |
And that is the way I want to live my life. | 0:34:27 | 0:34:30 | |
Like other boroughs across the country, | 0:34:39 | 0:34:42 | |
Newham receives its fair share of hoax calls from timewasters | 0:34:42 | 0:34:45 | |
and those trying to get someone else into trouble. | 0:34:45 | 0:34:47 | |
But they all have to be followed up, | 0:34:47 | 0:34:49 | |
just in case. | 0:34:49 | 0:34:52 | |
Today, Tina Delaney and Sue Heathcote | 0:34:52 | 0:34:54 | |
are responding to a report about some dogs | 0:34:54 | 0:34:56 | |
that are dangerously out of control. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:58 | |
-Do you have any dogs on the premises? -No, I've got cats. | 0:35:01 | 0:35:04 | |
Come in, and you're more than welcome to see my gaff. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:07 | |
Tina and Sue immediately realise the information | 0:35:07 | 0:35:09 | |
they've been given is from one of those | 0:35:09 | 0:35:12 | |
nuisance calls. | 0:35:12 | 0:35:14 | |
-How many cats do you have? -Three. | 0:35:14 | 0:35:16 | |
-Are they neutered? -Yes. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:18 | |
Oh, brilliant. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:19 | |
But the tenant is keen to show Tina and Sue | 0:35:19 | 0:35:22 | |
that she's a responsible pet owner. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:25 | |
Here, look, come...that's what they've got left over from last time I got paid. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:31 | |
There's their biscuits. | 0:35:31 | 0:35:35 | |
If you want to find fault with me, find it. | 0:35:35 | 0:35:39 | |
But the only fault you'll find with me is I have | 0:35:39 | 0:35:41 | |
a hangover and I ain't fed 'em this morning. | 0:35:41 | 0:35:45 | |
-Sorry. -No, that's fine. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:47 | |
Tina and Sue try to reassure her that they're not | 0:35:47 | 0:35:50 | |
concerned with the welfare of her cats. | 0:35:50 | 0:35:52 | |
There's three bowls there. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:55 | |
That's fine. | 0:35:55 | 0:35:56 | |
The only thing I would suggest is that maybe | 0:35:56 | 0:36:00 | |
you have two litter trays. | 0:36:00 | 0:36:02 | |
That's the only thing I'd suggest. | 0:36:02 | 0:36:04 | |
That's only cos the litter has built up. | 0:36:04 | 0:36:05 | |
Tina explains that there have been no complaints about the cats. | 0:36:05 | 0:36:09 | |
She's keen to move on to their next call. | 0:36:09 | 0:36:12 | |
But the cats' owner has other ideas. | 0:36:12 | 0:36:15 | |
There's their blanket, look. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:20 | |
No, I'm absolutely fine with the cats. Where are they anyway? | 0:36:20 | 0:36:23 | |
-They're hiding from you. -All right, OK! I'd hide from me as well. | 0:36:23 | 0:36:27 | |
All right, then. You can go back to bed now. | 0:36:27 | 0:36:30 | |
I'm going to feed the cats before I go back to bed. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:33 | |
OK. | 0:36:33 | 0:36:35 | |
I'm not concerned that there's any dangerous dogs on the premises. | 0:36:35 | 0:36:39 | |
-And, like she said, she wouldn't have dogs there because she's got three cats. -No, makes sense. | 0:36:39 | 0:36:45 | |
Each call-out they receive is different, | 0:36:47 | 0:36:49 | |
so Tina and Sue never quite now what's coming next. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:53 | |
You have some really unusual things, | 0:36:53 | 0:36:55 | |
cos you go into people's homes and you never know what to expect. | 0:36:55 | 0:37:00 | |
We've had goats running along the road and stuff like that. | 0:37:00 | 0:37:03 | |
I suppose that's unusual for a London borough. | 0:37:03 | 0:37:05 | |
We had a pig along the A13. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
We were trying to catch him and people stopped in a car, | 0:37:08 | 0:37:11 | |
shouting things like, "Are you trying to catch the bacon?" | 0:37:11 | 0:37:16 | |
What do you think's the most unusual thing? | 0:37:16 | 0:37:18 | |
I think it was the alleged porcupine somebody had in their garden. | 0:37:18 | 0:37:22 | |
We never found it, so I don't think it really existed. | 0:37:22 | 0:37:24 | |
But it was interesting for a while. You ought to go left here. | 0:37:24 | 0:37:28 | |
We've had snakes in people's toilets and all sorts of things. | 0:37:28 | 0:37:31 | |
I suppose once you've been doing a job for a long time, | 0:37:31 | 0:37:34 | |
I think it's very hard to define what's unusual, | 0:37:34 | 0:37:38 | |
cos you get used to things being different. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:41 | |
It's only when you start talking to somebody else | 0:37:41 | 0:37:43 | |
that you realise that's not | 0:37:43 | 0:37:46 | |
everyday occurrence, really. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:48 | |
Over in Kirklees, Tina Shore's returning to a house | 0:37:56 | 0:37:59 | |
in Huddersfield where there have been a number of calls | 0:37:59 | 0:38:02 | |
about an aggressive, noisy dog tied up in a yard. | 0:38:02 | 0:38:04 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:38:04 | 0:38:05 | |
There had been suspicions that it was a banned breed, | 0:38:08 | 0:38:11 | |
but Tina wasn't convinced. | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
It's an American Bulldog. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:16 | |
As you can see, it's not the most ideal environment | 0:38:16 | 0:38:19 | |
to keep a large dog on the end of a chain | 0:38:19 | 0:38:21 | |
in such a residential area. | 0:38:21 | 0:38:23 | |
The dog itself is in good condition, | 0:38:23 | 0:38:26 | |
and they've given it some bedding, but it has no | 0:38:26 | 0:38:28 | |
real exercise area. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
So what I need to speak to them about is how often it's exercised, | 0:38:30 | 0:38:35 | |
who takes it out, whose dog it is, | 0:38:35 | 0:38:37 | |
and so on, and just have a general chat with them, really. | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
Good boy, good boy. | 0:38:40 | 0:38:41 | |
Good boy. | 0:38:41 | 0:38:43 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:38:43 | 0:38:44 | |
Hello?! | 0:38:50 | 0:38:51 | |
Hiya. The reason we've come, really, | 0:38:54 | 0:38:57 | |
is because we've had some concerns | 0:38:57 | 0:38:59 | |
about the dog being tied up in the garden all the time, and people | 0:38:59 | 0:39:02 | |
are frightened of the dog. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:04 | |
We've come across dogs that are tied up to chains. | 0:39:04 | 0:39:06 | |
These dogs need exercise. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:08 | |
If they don't get that they become aggressive, they get bored | 0:39:08 | 0:39:10 | |
and they bark. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:12 | |
It's really not good for anybody to have it tied up all the time. | 0:39:12 | 0:39:15 | |
The residents explain that the owner | 0:39:15 | 0:39:17 | |
of the dog isn't in. | 0:39:17 | 0:39:19 | |
But what I wanted to ask you to do is, really, | 0:39:19 | 0:39:21 | |
if you can just make sure your dog's always got water, | 0:39:21 | 0:39:25 | |
if you can just make sure you keep the area clean for us, yeah? | 0:39:25 | 0:39:28 | |
But people in the area are a little bit frightened of the dog. | 0:39:28 | 0:39:31 | |
Because when you're not in the house, | 0:39:31 | 0:39:35 | |
she's here on her own, isn't she? | 0:39:35 | 0:39:36 | |
That can be dangerous cos anybody could just walk into your garden, | 0:39:36 | 0:39:39 | |
so it's a little bit dangerous as well. | 0:39:39 | 0:39:42 | |
Dealing with families and pets is very emotive. | 0:39:42 | 0:39:44 | |
The animals may not be kept in good conditions, | 0:39:44 | 0:39:47 | |
but they love them, and it's just getting people to try and think differently | 0:39:47 | 0:39:50 | |
about how they're keeping them, | 0:39:50 | 0:39:53 | |
and looking for a better way forward. | 0:39:53 | 0:39:56 | |
If I leave my card do you think your brother will give me a ring? | 0:39:56 | 0:39:59 | |
-Erm...yes. -OK. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:00 | |
We're not just all out to sort of | 0:40:00 | 0:40:03 | |
tell people off all the time, | 0:40:03 | 0:40:05 | |
we're trying to help people as well with the dogs. | 0:40:05 | 0:40:07 | |
OK, thank you for your time, then. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:09 | |
-See you later. -Bye. -Bye. | 0:40:09 | 0:40:12 | |
Tina will pass on her advice | 0:40:12 | 0:40:14 | |
once she finally gets to speak to the dog's owner | 0:40:14 | 0:40:16 | |
and will continue to monitor the dog's welfare. | 0:40:16 | 0:40:19 | |
Earlier in Newham, Tina Delaney | 0:40:22 | 0:40:24 | |
responded to a call which required police back-up. | 0:40:24 | 0:40:28 | |
A pit-bull type dog, called Tyson, | 0:40:28 | 0:40:30 | |
had escaped from his owner's garden. | 0:40:30 | 0:40:32 | |
And a warrant was issued to seize him. | 0:40:32 | 0:40:36 | |
Hello. | 0:40:36 | 0:40:39 | |
Pit-bulls are a banned breed in the UK, | 0:40:39 | 0:40:41 | |
and any that are allowed to be kept as pets | 0:40:41 | 0:40:44 | |
must never escape from a garden | 0:40:44 | 0:40:45 | |
and must wear a muzzle at all times in public. | 0:40:45 | 0:40:49 | |
Good boy, he's a good boy. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:52 | |
Tina took Tyson away to find out exactly what breed he is. | 0:40:53 | 0:40:59 | |
Both Tina and an independent assessor agree | 0:41:00 | 0:41:05 | |
that Tyson IS a pit-bull. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:07 | |
Tyson's a really nice boy, as you can see. | 0:41:07 | 0:41:09 | |
He's lovely. | 0:41:09 | 0:41:11 | |
He's actually been well trained, he's quite a nice dog. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:14 | |
The only thing that concerns me is that he may go home | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
and escape again. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:20 | |
This is such a common occurrence of dogs escaping | 0:41:20 | 0:41:23 | |
through gardens, and one of the things we always say to people is to make sure | 0:41:23 | 0:41:27 | |
that you regularly check your garden | 0:41:27 | 0:41:29 | |
that your dog's not escaping and it can't get out of there, | 0:41:29 | 0:41:32 | |
especially when there's been storms or high winds. | 0:41:32 | 0:41:34 | |
You should always check your garden, regardless of the breed of dog you have, | 0:41:34 | 0:41:38 | |
because dogs do readily escape out of gardens, | 0:41:38 | 0:41:41 | |
especially with fences that are made out of wood. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:44 | |
As Tyson is a good-natured dog, and his owner has agreed to comply | 0:41:44 | 0:41:48 | |
with all the strict conditions of the Dangerous Dogs Act, | 0:41:48 | 0:41:50 | |
Tyson will be returned to his owner. | 0:41:50 | 0:41:54 | |
We have explained to the owner that this is his second chance. | 0:41:54 | 0:41:58 | |
If he doesn't make sure that Tyson never escapes, | 0:41:58 | 0:42:01 | |
and he escapes again, | 0:42:01 | 0:42:04 | |
then the dog will be seized and there's a very strong likelihood | 0:42:04 | 0:42:07 | |
that he will be prosecuted. | 0:42:07 | 0:42:10 | |
And, ultimately, usually | 0:42:10 | 0:42:12 | |
that dog pays that cost with its life. | 0:42:12 | 0:42:15 | |
And that's something we don't want to happen. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:18 | |
It's a happy ending for Tyson | 0:42:18 | 0:42:20 | |
and a good day's work for Tina. | 0:42:20 | 0:42:23 | |
I love my job because it varies. | 0:42:23 | 0:42:26 | |
It can be very, very heartbreaking | 0:42:26 | 0:42:28 | |
but at the same time it can be very, very rewarding. | 0:42:28 | 0:42:33 | |
I absolutely love working with animals and always have done, | 0:42:33 | 0:42:36 | |
so that's one of the reasons I love my job. | 0:42:36 | 0:42:39 | |
The owner of the American Bulldog has been spoken to | 0:42:39 | 0:42:43 | |
and has taken on board Tina Shore's comments. | 0:42:43 | 0:42:46 | |
The Husky dog, Austin, is still with his owner, | 0:42:46 | 0:42:49 | |
and the SSPCA are happy he's now being well looked after. | 0:42:49 | 0:42:55 | |
Tyson, the pit-bull, has now been reunited with his owner. | 0:42:55 | 0:43:00 |