Watching this an hour behind due to Masterchef so no spoilers but this is one of the best random things on TV in 2017. Science, daftness and Betty!
Me and My Dog: The Ultimate Challenge
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Missed it this week but thoroughly enjoyed Betty jumping off the paddle board repeatedly last time!
She loves the water. Got penalised in the slalom gate thing by sprinting off for the water and coincidentally going through the gate.
Aw, RIP Monty! A sad note to end the show on.
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Watching it while on holiday with the missus and having lost our dog last year...we both agree ours would have looked at us like we were f***ing stupid and avoided all the obstacles
Used to have a collie called Sam and tried doing agility with him. He loved the complicated things like the A frame, see-saw etc., and did them no bother but he point blank refused to go over the little hurdles. Spent more time excitedly jumping over them myself trying to encourage him while the dog just sat and looked at me as if I was insane
Aw no man. I've not seen this weeks show, what's happened to poor Monty? I know he had an injury but never imagined it was life threatening.
Sorry! Post show and not to do with the injury. He was diagnosed with cancer and died between filming and broadcast.
What a shame, him and Mitch were my favourites. Did they ever say what breed Monty was, they appeared to miss him out on week 1.
Labradoodle. There's a short interview with Jake here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5QtXKKnGFzZP7RrtPgpYwB/jake-and-monty
Cheers for that, will watch when the Mrs isn't sat next to me, it's too late in the evening to tell her what's happened to Monty.
I thought the final was a little bit disappointing. Basically, a rehash of things they'd done so far, which were primarily about physical fitness rather than any of the other dog related things they tested. I still regard Betty as one of 2017's television icons. Blew any chance they had in the run via an impromptu dump in the woods!
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He who spoilt it doilt it, or something. Aye. there's an irony there... to be fair, Monty passing away didn't really affect the outcome of the program.
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