Lost Dogs Home, Australia Don't Blame the Dog

Our 15,000-year-old partnership with man's best friend

is breaking down.

THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE

Britain has more badly behaved dogs than ever before...

No! Go away, go!

..and dog bites have tripled in the last seven years.

Chica, come here.

But don't blame the dogs...

..because experts agree their owners are to blame.

I let him get away with most things. Just because he's so cute.

-Chica, hey!

-HORN HONKS

In this series,

12 out-of-control dog owners...

He does not listen to a word that I say. It's just a nightmare.

..who have reached breaking point...

Emotionally, it just totally and utterly drains

every bit of life out of you.

..are leaving their dogs behind...

-I didn't even know stuff like that existed.

-Wow.

..to fly across the globe to meet the toughest dog professionals.

You are going to be the pack leader. You are going to be the dog's boss.

-Easy...

-They'll live and work alongside dogs...

It stinks in here.

-..that herd...

-To me!

-..race...

Don't ever, EVER let that go!

Those are MY dogs.

-..act...

-Hold it.

..and track.

-Oh!

-Good boy!

Have they got what it takes to master these dogs...

The most terrifying thing I've done in my life.

-Look, look out, look out.

-SHE SCREAMS

..and their own lives?

Because it's not just their dogs that need to change.

# Yeah, I'm the best thing ever... #

Meet part-time rapper and dog breeder Mishak Foster

from Wembley in London, and his Staffy cross, Trouble.

My first dog, three years old.

He's my favourite, innit?

Good boy.

21-year-old Mishak's bred and sold dozens of puppies from Trouble...

I do sell dogs. It's easy to get business

when you're walking with the pups, you know?

-..and he'll sell them to anyone.

-You got Facebook?

-Yeah.

-Add me on Facebook.

He's the daddy of, like, 50 puppies.

Know what I'm saying, innit? Money maker.

He doesn't believe that dogs should be neutered.

Those lazy people that turn round and say,

"It'd be easier to control the dog if you cut the balls of it."

The dog hates you, know what I'm saying?

Hates you. You cut his balls off.

-Cross the road.

-And Mishak doesn't think his dogs need to be on a lead.

I can walk him off the lead already.

Ah! Ah! Ah! Oi, oi!

The pigeon's in the road, grab him!

His attitude has had tragic consequences.

Local dog warden Angela Moruzzi has had to pick up the pieces.

His four-month-old mongrel

escaped from his garden - which wasn't secured -

and was involved in a road traffic accident

where it got killed by a bus.

He was inconsolable, it was... It was heartbreaking.

Because of his lack of responsibility,

his actions caused the death of his dog.

Certain people say, "Oh, it's only a dog, it's only a dog."

It's not only a dog. It's more than that.

Like, it's more than that. It's a companion, you know? It's a friend.

But there's no doubting Mishak's devotion to his dogs.

They're like little family as well. Yes?

My dogs mean everything to me, really.

Mishak inherited his love of dogs from his mum.

He tragically witnessed her death at just nine years old.

When his mum died, it was, um...

It was a terrible time for him.

You can see it when he has the dogs and he interacts,

and I can see how much it's...

How much... Yeah, he misses his mother.

I was a mummy's boy. I was with her 24/7, inseparable.

Inseparable.

But I have to get on with it, innit?

But Angela thinks Mishak's not a responsible dog owner.

He needs to limit the amount of dogs he owns,

he needs to microchip all his dogs,

he needs to make sure that when they're out in public

they're on a lead and, most important,

they need to be neutered so that he can't breed.

The time has come that Mishak needs to take responsibility for his actions.

But Mishak's adamant that his way is the best way.

If I was put in a position where a dog trainer told me to do something

I'd tell them, "This is the way I do it,

"cos, even though you might be top dog, yeah?

"You could still learn something from me, you know."

Good boy, get down, what's that?

Meet Amy Bennett.

A glamour model from Berkshire, and her unruly Jack Russell, Mylo.

He doesn't like the postman.

The postman literally, kind of, puts the post in and runs away.

The problem is Amy's too soft on Mylo

and has given up trying to control him.

Mylo, here.

Come here.

Mylo!

It's more effort than it's worth to, kind of,

try and get him out of the habit now.

Give it up. Mylo!

An attitude that could end in disaster.

CAR APPROACHES Oi, Oi.

Come on. Oi. Oi!

-Mylo, come on.

-Amy bought Mylo on a whim from a breeder

without her boyfriend Ryan's agreement.

It was, like, a really last minute thing.

I woke up one day, was at work, got bored,

looked on the internet, found this puppy,

fell in love with the picture and then we had a dog in the evening.

The dog is playing havoc with their love life.

Separating us from having a little snog, or something like that,

you know, he's a very jealous dog.

Mylo, let go.

Let go.

Mylo's arrival has also driven a wedge

between Amy and her mum Lesley,

who is committed to helping rescue dogs.

She wasn't best pleased that Mylo came from a breeder.

Good boy. Happy?

'She rushed into it, gung ho.'

I was disappointed and I wish she'd just taken a few deep breaths

and thought it through a little bit more.

And as Mylo's behaviour has got worse,

so has Amy's relationship with her mum.

When he started getting a little bit bigger and more hyperactive

she, kind of, stopped talking to me, really.

Mylo is a naughty dog and he doesn't really listen.

He doesn't know when enough's enough.

It's obviously very hard because she won't let me and Mylo stay there.

Good boy.

Like Mishak, a death has affected Amy's relationship with dogs,

but this time it was the trauma of losing her childhood dog, Suzie.

She lived till she was 17, and I was 17 when she passed away

so she'd literally been there all my life.

It was like having, like, a little sister.

She used to put the little Jack Russell, Suzie,

into the buggy and push her round the garden.

Yeah, the day that she passed away

was probably the worst day of my life.

It was horrible. Ooh!

Amy's reached crisis point.

Because she's too soft on Mylo,

he's out of control and it's putting him in danger.

I think it has come to the point where something has to be done

because I'm always going to have a poor relationship with my mum

if it stays the same.

There are many schools of thought about how best to control dogs,

but experts agree the majority of problems are caused by the owner,

not the dog, and it's the owner that needs fixing first.

So Mishak and Amy will be leaving their dogs at home

and jetting off to the other side of the globe.

They'll spend a week with some of the world's top experts

in dog care and behaviour. If they fix themselves,

-will they fix their canine crisis at home?

-In a suitcase, yay!

Meet Aussie Sue Conroy,

dog expert and boss of Melbourne's Lost Dogs Home,

and the woman to teach the Brits a lesson.

We're the biggest shelter in the southern hemisphere,

we see about 20,000 animals per year

and I believe that's twice the size of the Battersea Dogs Home.

It's very exciting.

Hello.

Sue and her team try to find happy new homes for unwanted dogs.

Oh, good luck, good luck.

But the home is bursting at the seams with dogs bought on a whim

and as a result of irresponsible breeding to create dangerous dogs,

and that makes Sue angry.

We castrate a lot of dogs in here, sometimes you think,

"Well, maybe we should be doing the owners, not the dog."

There's so many to deal with every day. There are going to be some tough points

in the week that it's going to be really challenging for them emotionally.

The Brits will have to muck in, even getting involved

in the heartbreaking task of putting dogs to sleep.

The buck stops here, and it's brave people that work here

that have to make these decisions every day.

Sue's serious about the level of commitment

she expects from the Brits.

It's really important that my life's work

isn't ruined by a couple of emotional Brits who can't cope.

Yay, you come with me, baby!

You come with me.

But if Amy and Mishak can't take responsibility for their own dogs,

how will they be able to look after 190?

Off we go.

Mishak and Amy don't know it, but Sue's going to try the impossible.

She wants the Brits to turn two stray dogs into perfect pooches

and find them new homes. The Brits have less than a week

to successfully train the dogs to behave,

or the future of the dogs is uncertain.

I guess if we don't see enough progress,

they may be put to sleep because we can't adopt them out.

-Mishak.

-Mishak. My name's Amy, nice to meet you. You all right?

Mishak and Amy have arrived in mid-winter Melbourne.

This looks like Harlem.

You look scared.

I just don't know what to expect, at all.

-Lost Dogs' Home!

-Lost Dogs' Home!

-SHE SQUEALS

-Hello.

-Aw...

-Welcome.

-Hi.

-Hello.

Hi. My name is Sue, I'm the general manager of operations

here at the home - for nearly 25 years,

so there's not a lot of things that I haven't seen

as far as dogs and their owners.

So, one of our core activities here is to take in lost dogs.

We're going to try and team you up with a couple of dogs

that, at this point in time, we're going to struggle

to find them new homes. They've been abandoned, they're out of control and we're going to team you up

with our head trainer so you can work with those dogs

and hopefully, by the end of your stay,

we can find them lifetime homes.

By training up strays and finding them new owners,

the Brits will also build skills for their own dogs at home.

But first, Sue needs to know what they're made of.

Some buckets, some shovels,

cos the important part of the morning is cleaning. Same for you.

-Thank you.

-It's not glamorous, it's not going to be a holiday.

Let's get going, come on. And we're on the clock, guys.

There's a good reason Sue's putting them straight to work.

We've got an hour and 20 minutes,

there's about 40 pens for them to clean.

I hope they're pretty quick at getting changed.

Having someone boss me about like that, like, "Chop, chop."

It's like, I've only just got here.

I do this on the reg at my house, innit?

I have eight dogs, so it's a lot of work.

But this isn't the kind of work model Amy is used to.

I don't do pooper scoops at home,

we just let it, fertilise in the garden.

Oi, down. It stinks in here. Really bad.

-Careful.

-Amy's inexperience at controlling dogs is showing through.

Oh, shit!

How'd he get out? Come here.

The Brits are wasting time -

the shelter is due to open in just 30 minutes.

No, we haven't just done two, have we?

Oh, God, it's not a good start this morning. We're so late.

It's going to be a long week.

I don't even think I'll last that long.

The next job won't help Amy's mood.

190 dogs need a lot of food and it doesn't smell so good.

See when you fart under the cover

and you don't want to lift the cover?

Yeah, ten times worse than that.

And the smells just get worse.

The home has to wash 500 urine and faeces soaked blankets every day.

Oh, my God, the smell of piss is in my jumper.

-How's it going?

-All right, still.

-OK, yeah.

-As long as I'm not dealing with cats, I don't mind.

-HE LAUGHS

How about getting your dogs used to cats?

I've tried and it doesn't work.

Imagine this - my dog walks off the lead everywhere I go.

-He could see a pigeon...

-Why, why?

-..he won't go for it.

-Why?

-Cos it's a good dog, good dog.

-Oh, no.

Two hours into their stay here

and there's one thing Mishak and Amy really object to.

-Sue.

-Sue.

Boy, she seems very bossy, doesn't she?

"Hurry up, hurry," I'm like, "It's my first time here."

-I know.

-I don't know the procedure.

Sue's going to get a smack in the face.

Amy looks like she's tired

and a little bit overwhelmed by all of this,

she's being outshone by our friend.

Mishak is going to be a challenge to turn him around.

He's got a really good work ethic that I can see so far

and he genuinely loves his dogs,

but he has really rigid ideas about what you can and can't teach dogs.

And those ideas are about to be put to the test.

Sue's arranged for the Brits to work with Nicole Beasley,

the home's dog behaviour expert and trainer.

-I'm Mishak.

-Hi, Mishak.

-But you can call me Shaks for short.

OK, good!

Mishak and Amy must take these two unruly and abandoned puppies

and in only a week turn them around.

For Amy, there's Coco.

Wow, you're excitable. Extremely excitable.

And Mishak's got King.

My friend. Stop it. Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi.

They may look cute, but they were abandoned

-because of their disobedient behaviour.

-Ay.

At the moment, these dogs are unadoptable. They're out of control.

All right, no biting. No. No.

So there's a lot riding on what the Brits are do with these dogs.

Now, it's vital that we get lots of training in,

in an attempt to make sure that if they're chosen in a week's time

that they're in a home for good.

Without the training, these pups could well be

being put to sleep in a few weeks' time

if we can't turn their behaviours around and make them successful.

No. Sh. No.

And just like with Mylo at home, Amy's got no control.

-Ah! Ow!

-Has she got you?

Ah, she got my finger, the whole thing.

Oi, no. No.

Ow, she caught me.

No.

It may be a painful learning curve.

The first lesson from Nicole is basic dog control

and should stop the dogs jumping up at people,

something Amy knows only too well with Mylo back home.

I'm going to get you to walk up to her, Amy.

-Yeah?

-And if she jumps on you, straightaway don't say no,

don't give her any attention, just turn your back.

Good.

The moment she doesn't jump we'll mark it with "yes".

Yes.

Oi, sit. Down, boy. What's wrong with you?

Mishak's using his own method of training.

I'm going to teach you how to teach him to sit

-without pushing on his hips.

-OK.

Just because you don't want to do that to a young developing big dog.

Let's teach them to sit.

Going to lure her head up, come on, puppy dog,

so her backside goes down, sit, yes.

Treat above your head and then you'll sit.

This just makes sense.

Sit.

-Yes.

-Good... Yes.

-Good.

It's a good start by the Brits, but Sue and Nicole

can see Amy is struggling to cope.

If she didn't have somebody there pushing, she'd have said,

"No, can't be done, too hard."

It's almost like she wants to be here, but she doesn't.

I don't think she realises the seriousness of...

it's not a game, because you can't give up on the dogs.

If Amy's not here to get the maximum amount

out of the week here, then it's...

Especially, you know, where she's with someone like Mishak,

who's embracing every single moment,

and we're hoping that that would rub off.

He's one of the best students I've ever had.

He has even started off saying "Oh, I might incorporate

"your training method into my training method," which was cute.

Despite the workload, Mishak is starting to enjoy his time here

and there seems to be one reason in particular.

King's a G, yeah? That dog -

he was a madman when he came out of his pen,

half an hour time with someone, he calmed right down.

Yeah, like, if this was the UK, I'd take him home myself.

The Brits will be staying at the home to be on hand for work,

and as they bed down for the night, it's all getting too much for Amy.

Yeah, I'm missing home.

It's just... I don't want to be sleeping here at all.

Why should I? What have I done wrong? Why do I have to sleep here?

All right, stress-head?

You all right?

Well, I'm on the next mattress if you want to talk.

It's 8am and Amy's mood hasn't improved overnight.

I don't work eight, nine hours,

so, it's just, like, a shock to the system.

I actually do feel like I'm being punished for something

and I don't know what it is.

I hate it.

-Good to go and start?

-Yeah.

-Let's go, all right.

Back down to the alley, right?

I think she's still finding it really tough.

She needs to, sort of, have her hand held more than Mishak, so...

I think she's maybe lacking in a bit of confidence.

I don't know that she's ready to chuck the towel in,

but you know she's needing to, sort of, be guided quite a lot.

How am I feeling doing poo duty? Shit, funnily enough.

During her stay at the shelter, Amy and Sue take time out

to look at what exactly brought her here. They're going to watch footage

of her at home with Mylo.

-Hey.

-Hello. How are you?

-I'm good.

-I'm dying to find out about you. And why you're here.

-Really?

Yes!

We haven't had a lot of one-on-one time either, so we're just like...

Don't you think, like, from meeting me, you know why I'm here?

-No.

-No.

-No?

-No.

-You're so hard to read.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-OK.

Hmm, this is going to be interesting.

'Mylo. Mylo.'

-So this is a walk?

-That's a road.

Mylo! Mylo, wait. Mylo.

The first problem Sue can see is how little control Amy has over Mylo.

So, no lead? Oh, there's your lead -

you're wearing the lead, what's going on there?

Cos I'm out in the middle of nowhere

and he should learn that he's got to stop at the road,

I shouldn't have to have him on a lead for him to understand that.

Wow, you're lucky you've still got him even now, aren't you?

The dog's going to get out on the road and kill itself.

I shudder, when I see him dashing out like that on a road.

Mm, we don't really have him near main roads, I avoid them on purpose.

-Yeah. Let me tell you that it only takes one road.

-You've neglected his training.

Sue's worried that Mylo won't get fixed

because of the second big problem she can see with Amy.

My concern is to turn those behaviours around is a big job,

and I think that you're the sort of person that,

as soon as the wheels fall off and it gets a bit difficult,

"Nah, it's going to be too hard, it's going to be too hard

"to make sure that he's on that lead."

And there's a reason Amy finds it so hard to discipline her dog,

it goes back to when she lost her childhood dog, Suzie.

They loved each other so much, so that's why it was nice

she was with her when she was actually put to sleep finally.

And the day that she passed away was probably the worst day of my life.

Yeah, it was horrible. Ooh.

-Your family dog was put to sleep?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, and that's obviously a dog you grew up with, was it?

-Yeah.

-That would have been really hard.

-Yeah.

It wasn't nice, she was like yelping

and then all her body was twitching and stuff.

OK.

Mylo's training is the way to make him have a happy life.

I see it as you can sit there and wallow in sadness

or you can actually pick up and go,

"Come on, let's get a plan together for Mylo."

I don't think it's a great time to talk about it.

-No, about Mylo?

-Yeah.

Why?

-Cos it's just too much today.

-Oh, goodness.

You're a grown woman, you can do it.

We can either make a plan or you can...

..give up.

Yep.

And it seems Amy's made her choice.

Right, I've had such a shit day today,

I just feel like I can't be bothered any more.

We need to make a plan.

She's got to buy into it 100%.

I don't know that she's going to do that.

Even if it is me saying, "Right, I've failed..."

..I kinda want to get out of here.

Mishak's having a better day.

Yo.

He's cleaning in the stray area where newly abandoned dogs are kept.

Oh, you're a big fatty, innit?

Overweight, no-one's looking after you.

That's a red-nosed pit bull, that one.

What's wrong with you?

You're pretty, what are you crying for?

It's starting to make him wonder

just where all these dogs are coming from.

They shouldn't be here, you know what I mean?

Like, how can people not know that their dog's missing?

They do know. Some of those people in there...

-They just can't be bothered?

-Yeah, they can't be bothered

or they're causing them headaches,

-they're causing headaches in the neighbourhood.

-Yeah.

Or they've tried to bite them.

-They're going to get put down, aren't they?

-Yeah.

And you might not want to hear this,

but part of the problem is the people who bred them.

At home, Mishak is responsible

for putting more than 50 puppies on the streets.

It's easy to get business

when you're walking with the pups, you know? You got Facebook?

-Yeah.

-Add me on Facebook.

And you'd hate to think of one of your dogs

going through this, wouldn't you?

-I'd better get me out of here.

-Go. Go.

Going to have a break?

As a breeder, this is the sort of stuff you've got to think about.

I know, I know, I know.

As upset as Mishak feels, he's not seeing the breeding as the problem.

It makes me angry. Owners, you get me?

Can't handle them or they're getting them for the wrong reason

and they're ending up here

and then when they can't be re-homed,

dog has to get killed, d'you get me?

Another one coming in now.

-Are there more dogs in there?

-Yes.

-How many?

-Six.

They just keep coming.

Amy's still feeling defeated,

but Nicole's not going to let her give up on Mylo.

-Come on, cheeky, hello.

-Hi.

After seeing the DVD, Nicole wants to make a training plan

for Amy to take home for her dog.

I saw a lot of barking.

Yeah, when someone arrives he does that, yeah.

OK, the danger I see is that

-he'll take it to the next step one day and bite someone.

-Mm.

When he barks, you're going to stay nice and relaxed and say,

"It's OK," cos you're not worried. He's not likely to stop initially.

You're just going to walk over, grab him by the collar,

-march him away from what he's barking at.

-Yeah.

And you have to keep doing it until Mylo works out

that when you say things are OK, it's OK.

You're dealing with the situation, you need to figure out

what the alternative to what you don't like is.

Let's reward that.

Sit, sit.

Both Mishak and Amy will need to be firing on all cylinders -

adoption day is looming.

-Good boy.

-Good boy.

Of the 10,000 dogs a year that come into the home,

Sue's team re-home 50 a week but dogs need serious training

if they're not going to end up on the street again.

Good boy.

Mishak is worried about what will happen if King is not adopted.

He's starting to fall in love with him.

He's cris, innit, King?

He needs to be with people.

Mishak is being a superstar.

-I'm so proud of him.

-Good boy.

I wish I could grab his brain, though,

and just put some wisdom in there so he could see

the problem that he's creating with over-breeding these animals.

Good girl.

But Amy's soft touch is getting in the way of Coco's progress.

-No.

-Amy's first tendency is just to give up on her dog.

I worry about her own dog.

I think if she hasn't got someone riding her the whole time

that she's just going to give up with any dog.

With an animal, you can't just give up.

It has been an emotional day for Mishak and it's getting to him.

Today when I shed two tears for them dogs, there, you get me?

I was sitting there like, "Raargh."

It's like dogs is the only thing man will shed a tear for still,

cos everything else I bottle up inside, you get me?

Never really been happy, searching for happiness but man don't find it.

From when I lost my mum, that's my happiness out the window.

Like, a lot of people don't realise what it is to lose a parent, you get me?

She was my best friend as well, that's the thing,

she was my actual best friend, you get me?

Mishak's mum suffered from depression before she died,

Mishak was just nine years old.

She just started flipping on me.

I had to get my dad, called him, he came home.

She died, you get me? Like, killed herself.

You'll never find another mother's love, innit? Never.

I don't know, I just miss her still.

But I don't know how to frustrate it, I don't know what to do, like.

It's 8am.

Sue is keen for Amy to meet shelter manager, Jodie.

After seeing Amy's DVD, Sue wants to help her approach

the emotional barriers holding her back.

Jodie's counselled the staff at the home for the last ten years

and she's going to help Amy confront the issues

around the death of her childhood dog, Suzie.

I'm going to show you a dog today that is a little confronting.

Now, we need to be quick.

So tell me what you're thinking when you first see this little guy.

She's obviously had a really bad... Is that a flea problem?

Mm-hm. He's got some neurological concerns,

he's quite disorientated.

If he was my beloved pet at home,

-I wouldn't let him continue his discomforting journey.

-Yeah.

Yeah? I think we need to respect that for him.

-He's really old.

-Yes.

-He's been with us for the duration of time

giving his owners the opportunity to claim him and no-one's come forward.

-Right.

-But today is his day that we feel we need to take

-some responsibility and some action for him.

-Mm.

So we need to put him to sleep today.

-OK.

-And I would really like you to be there for him.

No. I can't.

Tell me a bit about it.

It is completely natural and normal to get upset.

SOBBING: I just couldn't do it.

We need to look at him, we can't take this from our own perspective,

we can't be selfish about this, I think someone else already has been.

His owners have left him here.

I just don't know if I can do it.

What makes you think you can't?

-Just...memories of when I had to get my dog put down.

-Yep.

But I think what we really need to think about

is this big picture stuff.

We need to take our selfishness out of that a little bit

and I personally need to know

that I do the right thing by these guys here.

Oh, I don't know if I can do it!

SHE WEEPS

And I think what's really important for him

-is that we stop this pain and stop this distress.

-Yes.

And we will try and make it as comforting as we can for him

and that's why I think we need to be there.

We need to hold him, we need to make sure

that someone's with him for this,

someone's been with him for however long and now he's on his own.

-OK.

-This is about...

-OK, let's do it.

All right. Now do you want to carry him?

We take that very seriously.

Every little animal that we have to put to sleep is a decision that's...

..doesn't come easy, but sadly it's something that we have to do here

seven days a week and it's not something that animal lovers

like doing anywhere, any time, it's just a responsibility that we have.

Knowing that his heart condition is untreatable,

Amy's decided to be there for his final journey.

And what's going to make me sleep tonight

is to know that he's not suffering any more.

After a final examination, vet Alan reassures Amy

that sadly nothing more can be done for this very old dog,

and the kindest thing is to end his suffering.

They go to sleep really quickly, as if they were having a surgery.

-Good lad. Good lad.

-Good boy.

And we just support him so that he goes down, don't let him fall.

And I'll just have a listen, just to make sure.

-Really peaceful. He's not aware of it at all.

-Yeah.

He didn't feel it, right?

SHE SOBS LOUDLY

The staff here have to learn to face their emotions

and it's something Amy could learn from.

You're going to probably have some highs and lows today,

it's not going to go away in your mind,

you're going to think about it for a while, yeah?

And that's completely normal, that's completely normal

to go into the toilet and have a cry for five minutes.

But it's important that you don't shut it away

and I think that's what might have happened with your dog.

I think it was so confronting and so emotionally upsetting for you

and you've shut that door.

I don't think you've dealt with a lot of it.

Get down. Oi, Coco.

Mishak's going through a different kind of torment.

No. No.

Oh. Stop it!

I'm not doing nothing but cleaning shit, you get me?

Which I think takes the fucking piss.

But not even working with King has improved his mood.

Now I'm really starting to get pissed off.

DOG BARKS

Shut up.

Sue's trying to get to the bottom of it.

-Hey.

-Yeah?

-Knock, knock.

-I'm just looking for...

-What's going on? What's wrong?

Nothing, nothing, I'm just...

-Are you a bit over it all today?

-Mm.

-You want to talk to me about it?

No, not really, I don't talk to people about nothing,

that's how I am, I'm an enclosed person, I've always been like that.

Oh, wow, that's not how you strike me.

No, I'm an enclosed person, trust me.

I don't know what's going on with him,

I think he's had a hell of a ride so far this week.

It's shaking some of his fundamental beliefs

and so his foundations are shifting a lot underneath,

so today it's really catching up with him, I think.

I'm dying to see what is revealed in the DVD on him, yeah.

Watching Mishak at home

might make uncomfortable viewing for Sue and Jodie.

-Come in.

-Hello. How you doing?

Are you all right? I apologise, but I did wake up real grumpy.

-We all have our days.

-Sorry, though, yeah?

-That's OK.

-Here we go.

-Going to press the button.

-You got Facebook?

-Yeah.

-Add me on Facebook.

It's easy to get business when you're walking with the pups,

d'you know what I'm saying?

With the home putting to sleep up to 2,000 dogs a year,

this is hard to swallow.

Breeding? You know, you're walking down the street...?

How do you walk down the street and bump into people

-and go, "Oh, you can buy one?"

-If I know you want, you get me?

You don't know those people.

I say take my number, if you want a puppy let me know,

and then I'll come and find out more about you,

know what I'm saying? Before I hand over a pup, I'll find out everything.

There's enough dogs in the world,

there's enough dogs in the world when, all your local shelters

will be killing just as many dogs as we have to every day,

so I very much respect the fact that you've got

this wonderful relationship with your dog,

but, to me, it should stop there, you and the dog, and that's it.

We would much prefer you to be part of the solution than part of the problem.

But there's a more urgent issue Jodie can see

with Mishak's dog, Trouble.

It scares me to know that he walks the streets and isn't on a lead.

It scares me that we might talk to you in 12 months' time

and he is impounded or he's been hit by a car, or he's bitten someone.

If he was going to go, he would have gone. But that's why, you see

when he saw the pushchair, he ignored it, kept going.

But that lady was... She thought her baby was going to be...

Yeah, that's cool, he sniffs it and keeps moving,

he'll never jump up, he's never jumped up,

Trouble's been by my side cos he knows.

That is so risky. That is so risky.

What if there was an incident? What if it's a cat?

There's a cat - bang. Is it worth the risk?

Would you risk his life?

I wouldn't risk his life, but put it this way -

when I'm out with my dog, I know.

You think you've got everything under control,

but you can't control everything in your world,

there's going to be a time that,

I mean, simply that you cannot control, and then he's gone.

But how do you know there's going to be a time?

Well, you just run the risk of that all the time and we see...

There's a chance, there's a chance.

We see people like you who think, "It's not going to happen to me,"

and they... I have to sit with them when their dog's dead.

What I do with my dog, Trouble, will never change,

that's what I'm saying.

With nothing getting through,

the only option is to show Mishak some hard truths.

I don't want to talk through it, you listen to me, OK?

Cos you talk a lot and we listen to you a lot, now can you listen to me?

-Yeah, that's fine.

-Couple of things I need to show you.

-Yeah.

-OK.

I'm showing you this because it's important to me

that you see this, all right? Just wait there.

Hit by a car. Not on a lead, OK?

Hit by a car, not on a lead.

Hit by a car, not on a lead.

Oh...

No way.

Can you get the message?

-Mm.

-Not on a lead.

Yeah?

The shelter receives about 15 dogs a month that are hit by cars.

Most do not survive and are stored temporarily here.

I honestly... I'm probably, yeah, like the rest of these owners.

Like, I don't think my dog will run out,

you know what I'm saying? Because of his nature.

Like, I wouldn't advise someone else to walk their dog off the lead,

-d'you know what I'm saying?

-You've got to do it yourself, too.

-Mm.

-Sue doesn't seem to be getting through.

So she's got one last thing

to convince him about the tragic consequences of breeding.

Now, stay focused, OK? You stay with me.

This is home to some of the most dangerous dogs in Australia.

Stay with me.

AGGRESSIVE BARKING

This is a purpose-built maximum security area.

-DOG BARKS LOUDLY

-Jesus.

-He scare you? Did he scare you?

-It's... It's a bit of a daunting...

His owner, his owner is crying that he's in here

and he says it won't hurt a fly.

Is that going to be the next dog that's walking down the street

off a lead, cos his owner thinks he's fine?

These dogs are here because they have done something

that's a danger to the community.

They have attacked and/or killed other animals.

They have bitten people.

One of them, its owner is going to court on the charge of murder.

Human?

You think you've got it under control?

So did each and every one of these owners,

and you're churning them out and that's why I get upset

because you're part of the problem, as I see it,

not part of the solution.

I don't understand how people can do that, you get me?

Like, not with their dogs, that's disgusting.

You know what I'd rather hear you say?

"I'm not going to breed any more." And I know you're not going to go there.

-I know, I wish I could but...

-Well, but... Consider it.

I... That will stay in the back of my mind,

don't get it twisted, like,

it makes me even wonder even more now, yo, who am I going to give...

You know what I'm saying? I'm going to put even more of a look

on who and where and how often I'm checking on them, you get me?

Like, if it means I have to check on them every week now

I will do so, if it means I have to give...

Sue's thrown everything at Mishak, but even though he's upset,

it's clear he's still trying to justify his breeding.

They have to go over that before they get the pup then, yeah.

But other than that, I don't want to deal with it.

I can't listen to you talking about breeding pups any more,

-because I can't, OK?

-That hurts you, I can see it in your face.

-It does!

-I can see it in your face, I can see it.

-Cos that's going to upset me.

I know, no worries. I can see it's upsetting you. I can see it.

-Argh, you frustrate me.

-All right.

God, get it through your head.

-OK, I'm going to have to go and sit down.

-Yeah, I can feel that, I can see that.

-Yeah, I'm going to have a break.

-Yeah?

I hope he gets something out of that

because it's a big part of what we do here.

I was... I just needed him to see all of that.

I can see she wanted to cry, you get me?

She was upset. Makes me realise she's got a good heart, you get me?

She's trying to make a difference to my life, you get me?

At home, it makes me see that there's a lot more

that I don't see on the road, a lot of dogs that are just there, impounded.

Yeah, I feel sorry for the shit she has to deal with, you get me?

Cos it's dread.

Amy's back training.

Nicole wants to show her that persistence can really pay.

We'll work it out, Mr Wally. He's crazy, yeah!

She's going to have Amy train the most disobedient dog in the home.

If Amy can succeed with Wally without giving up...

Good.

..she can train any dog.

Let's go.

You look like you've given up on him already.

And right on cue...

To be honest, I don't even want to try.

At home with Mylo, she has exactly the same attitude.

Come here, Mylo, here. Give it up.

She's failed there, too.

Mylo. Oi.

But Nicole's not going to let Amy quit this time.

You're going to walk forward, every time he pulls

you just stop, walk backwards

and walk forwards again when the lead's nice and loose.

Up, up. 'He just doesn't even listen.'

Come on.

Come on. No.

Come on.

-Right. Come on, then.

-OK, so just hold the lead by the handle.

-Come on.

-Good boy, tell him how good he is.

Good boy, good boy, good boy, well done!

Amy's perseverance is finally paying off.

Good boy, yeah, well done, see? Well done!

I told you you'd feel great when he got it.

And there's no holding Amy back.

Come on, then. Good boy. Good boy.

I just thought, "Oh, I can't actually do this,"

and then gave it 10 minutes and he did, so it's nice to know

that if you persevere for a little while, it works.

Come on, oi!

Crazy dog!

When she did succeed, you could see the pure joy on her face

so I'm hoping that she will keep that feeling in her heart

about how good it is when you finally succeed

and that these animals really need us to not give up.

Changing Amy's perspective has given Nicole an idea for Mishak.

He has the potential to be a great dog trainer,

just be nice to redirect his passion.

Nothing's got through to Mishak

so now they want to try a different approach.

-Hello.

-Shift his focus from breeding to a new career.

-You all right?

-How's it going?

-I'm good, I'm good, how are you?

Yeah, good, good.

Sue's given special permission to offer Mishak an opportunity.

-Do you want to run a class tomorrow with real people?

-What, tomorrow?

-Tomorrow.

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-OK.

-I'll do that.

-OK. It's basic manners.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, and it's a real class.

-Oh, right, thank you, thank you.

-OK.

Yeah. 'This is what I needed, a positive break, you get me?

'Someone to tell me, "Yo, you can do so much with your life."'

Thank you, Sue. Thank you.

-You have a good night's sleep.

-Thank you.

I'm going to be here early in the morning.

-Yeah. Thanks.

-You're welcome.

See you bright and early. Bright and bushy-tailed, I'll be.

No, I haven't see him bushy-tailed in the morning yet.

It's 7.30am and the last day at the home for the Brits.

Today's the biggest adoption day of the week

and Amy's already up and about

getting in a last training session with Coco

to give her the best chance of finding a home today.

Yay!

This is so important that she gets it right,

because if we adopt her out and she's biting,

she's probably going to come back Sunday morning.

Sit, good.

And Mishak's going to be teaching.

I'm a bit nervous, but I should do it.

I never get nervous, but, yo, today is a different thing altogether.

-Hello.

-Hello.

Sue and Nicole want Mishak to see he has a talent with dogs

that goes beyond breeding.

All right, first exercise we're going to do

is the attention exercise.

-Um...

-But it's not a great start.

-Sorry.

-Stand in the middle and yell.

OK. Right.

So, we're treating... We're teaching, now,

good human polite greeting... Polite human greeting, sorry.

He's nervous but he's going to get it by the end of the class.

I think we'll see the real Shaks come out of himself.

Walk round to each dog

and if the dog jumps, walk away, just walk away.

If it doesn't jump and it sits looking, treat.

But once Mishak settles his nerves...

Good girl.

..he's off and flying.

-Right, here we go.

-Yeah, that's exactly it.

Hand here. She's concentrating on you.

Make sure you're the first one out of the door.

It goes where you go, you don't go where it goes.

It's not as bad as I thought, you know what I'm saying?

-HE LAUGHS

-Excellent! Come on.

Things are going well, the students are asking Mishak questions

and for the first time he is giving the correct advice -

not his own brand of doggy behaviour.

Yo, this feels good, an accomplishment,

a proper accomplishment. Good girl.

Sue's feeling it, too.

Part of what we do here at the home is rehabilitate

and I guess we're looking at Mishak

as somebody who can be rehabilitated.

He's been a challenge to work with, but at the same time a delight

and his dogs are going to benefit from it, so it's great.

Trust me, it made me feel good about myself, man.

-Thank you, thank you.

-Thank you.

-If it wasn't for you...

-Ah, well, thank you.

-..I wouldn't be doing this.

This looks like it could be a career choice for me.

That has made my...year.

This is the moment they've been training for this week.

New owners arrive to look round.

King!

In a few hours, Mishak and Amy will be leaving for the UK,

so they need to find homes for the dogs.

-Ay.

-So is that for sale yet?

Yeah, I'm just putting him through rehab now, and he's ready anyway.

And it isn't long before there's interest in Coco.

Good girl.

Hi, so this is Coco.

-Why did you show an interest for her?

-Oh, I just love Labradors.

Amy's taking her role as Coco's guardian seriously.

Obviously, she's going to need a lot of training

because I've put in a lot of hard work this week

so if she goes to a home where someone isn't willing to do that

then she'll just go back to how she was,

-so overall she's an amazing dog. Amazing.

-That's good.

Amy is amazing.

What a transformation. She's confident,

she's taking charge of that dog,

she's sussing this bloke out to make sure he's listening.

-Pick her up and then just get her by the collar.

-Yep.

-And wait till she's completely calm...

-Oh, OK.

-..till you put her back on the floor.

-Yep.

-So...

Just a few days ago I was telling her to grow up,

to act like a grown woman.

Well, she has. She really has. I'm almost in tears

with how much I've seen Amy growing in just a few days.

I'm glad that she's going to be going to a lovely home. There you go.

And training Coco has opened Amy's eyes to a new way of thinking.

If I ever get another dog,

I'd definitely go to a rescue home now.

It just makes such a difference

and you feel that I've given this dog a new life

which is what every dog deserves, really.

Today's been a success, with 40 dogs adopted out to new homes.

But as the gates shut, there's a dog that's been left behind.

Nobody wanted to adopt King

and now Mishak will have to say goodbye to his buddy.

It's like permanently saying goodbye to a family, you know?

You don't want to do it. I don't want to do it...

..but I have to.

I'm going to miss you, mate. Are you going to miss me, hmm?

Promise. I'll come.

I'm not going to see King again.

I feel like he's one of my own

and I'm leaving him.

It's more than just King that Mishak's leaving behind.

-Hey?

-Yeah.

What's going on?

King, man.

-Ah, I'm going to miss you.

-I'm going to miss you, too.

You're a challenge. You're... You're a challenge.

You've done my head in this week. Hey?

-Thank you.

-You've taught me a lot, too.

You taught me invaluable lessons, man, thank you.

You're like the mummy I've not... I never had.

In Berkshire, Amy's finally shown Mylo who's in charge.

Everyone's happier.

Since I've been back he's so much better, it's just amazing.

Wait.

'I think I've been more calm, so he seems to be more calmer.'

That's better. That's all right.

And Amy's taken on board Nicole's training techniques

and can now walk Mylo safely.

Nicely, that's a good boy.

Go on then.

There's no chasing Mylo around any more.

Come on, Mylo. Come on. Good boy!

Good boy, well done! Well done.

He always comes back, a bit like a completely different dog,

completely different Amy as well.

And that Amy is grateful for her time at the Lost Dogs' Home.

I just look at him and think, "Yeah, it was all worth it,"

because I want him to have, like, a happy life so...

But there's one more thing Amy needs to address.

Going to my mum's for the first time in a long time.

Of course I would like her to be proud of me

cos, you know, everyone wants their parents

to be proud of them, don't they?

Much better, so far.

I feel fine about him coming here, I'm sitting here, I'm relaxing.

-I think you've done brilliantly.

-I want you to be proud of me.

I'm very proud of you,

to have gone all the way to Australia I admired you for that,

never mind everything else that went on when you were there.

Yeah. Obviously before I went to Australia, I'd be like,

"Oh," straightaway every time I thought about Suzie,

but now, like, when I think about it,

like, I'm so proud that I did that for that dog.

From my point of view I have to say to you that...

Aw, I'm going to get upset now, sorry.

-SHE SNIFFS

-I don't know what I would have done without you that day,

-I'll never forget that.

-I know.

-It's fantastic.

You're a good girl, you've done very well and I'm really proud of you.

Thank you.

Come on, come here.

In Wembley, it seems like some of Sue's words

have sunk in with Mishak.

Sue was always telling man that, "Yo, put your dog on a lead,

"it's going to get hit by something,"

or, it's out of respect that I walk him on the lead,

respect for Sue and Nicole, innit?

And that respect didn't come easy to Mishak.

Sue, in the beginning, I couldn't even handle her, innit?

I ain't had a woman in my life to be bossing me around

and tell me off and tell me where I'm going wrong, innit?

Changed my life, like, them two women there,

they changed my perspective on certain things.

And that includes breeding.

Like, he hasn't bred anyway. Since I got back,

he hasn't bred, like, and I'm keeping it like that for a while.

-You all right?

-How are you?

And this will be good news for local dog warden, Angela Moruzzi.

-Hi. So, how was your trip?

-It was good, you know?

I actually learned about, like, you see like your day-to-day...

-Job.

-I was going to ask you, yeah?

-Yeah?

-If I bring my pups down, yeah?

-Right.

-Can I get 'em chipped?

-Yeah, we'll microchip the dogs for you.

-Thank you.

And there's a surprise for Mishak.

In a bid to keep him on the right path,

Sue's sent him dog training books.

Yeah, Sue's a G.

Oh, she knows I don't like cats.

"Dear Mishak, how are you going?

"You've been in my thoughts and I hope you've recovered

"from your stay with us. You're a remarkable young man

"and I feel you will succeed in anything that you work for.

"Your energy and love for dogs are a credit to you.

"Remember - the right attitude's very important.

"Lots of love, Shaks, Sue." Yeah...

Yeah. I'm going to be all right.

I'm going to definitely be all right.

Give me cuddles, come on.

And two weeks later, King found a happy new home, too.

Next time, two clueless British dog owners...

No.

..are in Canada, working with special ops.

-Knock it off.

-Hang on.

Can they train these dogs of war?

Or will they crumble under fire?

That was the scariest thing I've ever done in my life.

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