For the Love of Dogs Episode Rating Graph

Most of the spaniels at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home are full of energy, but Paul meets one who was found tied up and has lost all hope. The presenter needs to help rebuild his trust in humans. Plus, he meets a feisty shorkie with a Spanish chip and a worryingly large lump. There's also a very special visitor to Battersea - comedian Harry Hill.

Paul meets more dogs struggling to find a home, including a golden retriever with an incontinence problem and a boisterous border collie with a bad hip - who needs Paul's help in the hydrotherapy centre. He also calls in on a tiny pregnant mongrel, and spends time with an OAP Patterdale who just needs a bit of company in her twilight years.

Paul meets a nine-month-old terrier called Roo who is far too young to have puppies, but was found roaming the streets, heavily pregnant.

The staff and dogs are going on an outing to visit the Chelsea Pensioners.

Paul O'Grady helps dog behaviourist Brian with a dog who is afraid of men.

This week a tiny and heavily pregnant Chihuahua-cross arrives, and Paul visits Crufts.

Paul's got his work cut out when he meets a gorgeous old Chihuahua with no end of ailments.

Paul and the team are baffled by a mystery illness which is making a young lurcher pup gravely ill.

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

Paul O'Grady helps a beautiful German shepherd puppy that was rejected by her mother at birth, and meets a frisky jack russell who is learning to use all four of his paws.

Paul is asked to help bottle feed a pair of week-old kittens whose mother had abandoned them, and also helps to socialise a gang of dogs who arrive from a puppy farm where they were used for breeding.

Paul O'Grady is back for a third series as he heads back to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. In this episode, he uses his powers of persuasion to get a portly Jack Russell fit.

In the last episode of the series, Paul meets a Pyrenean mountain dog who has a problem with her bladder and an overweight Westie who needs to get in shape.

Paul O'Grady visits more Battersea Dogs and Cats Home residents. He meets an abandoned dalmatian cross who gives birth to eleven puppies, and helps a sharpei cross get into shape.

Paul O'Grady spends seven weeks helping out at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.

Paul goes rogue when asked to help bottle-feed a pair of week-old kittens found on a building site.

Heart-warming series about life at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. Paul meets some beautiful dogs struggling to find a home and a gorgeous Pekingese needing surgery.

Heart-warming series about life at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. An emergency arrives at the home, and Motherland stars Anna Maxwell Martin and Diane Morgan drop by.

Paul falls in love with an unusually friendly Akita called Samson, as the vet team try to work out what is wrong with his injured nose. He also helps a former racing greyhound get ready for life in a domestic home.

Paul O'Grady meets some special dogs who need to go to unconventional homes, including a dog with star potential and a pointer cross who may have been shot at in the past.

Paul O'Grady meets a 10-week-old collie who's been rejected by their mother. He also has his work cut out when a family of nine whippets arrive on site.

Paul O'Grady helps to train a pomeranian puppy called Stormy and meets a French bulldog called Spudnik who desperately needs surgery to open his airways.

Paul O' Grady and the team at Battersea Dog and Cats Home try to figure out the best course of action for a hyperactive Staffie and meet a Dog de Bordeaux found tied up in a park.

Paul O'Grady attempts to nurse back to health the most badly injured dog he has ever seen - a saluki. He also tries to find a home for an OAP, dentally challenged Shih Tzu.

Paul O'Grady is back at Battersea for more canine chaos. He meets Sophie who has had her ears and tails illegally docked, and a yorkie found wandering the streets.

Paul O'Grady has his work cut out at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home when he helps to train an overexcited beagle who might just be the world's worst sniffer dog.

In episode one, Paul meets two Maltese Terrier puppies who staff suspect may have come from a puppy farm in Romania, having been sold to a family in the UK for an eye-watering £4000. They were brought into Battersea after the family struggled to cope with looking after them. Paul also meets a three-month-old Spaniel-cross who was taken to the Brands Hatch branch of Battersea by his owners. He is covered head-to-toe in mites and staff believe he might also be the result of puppy farming.

The comedian follows the work of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home in London, meeting staff involved in treating, training and rehoming animals. This time, Paul meets an energetic Staffie cross who needs help calming down in kennels, falls in love with a rare West African dog called an Azawakh, and coaxes an overbred bulldog to come out of its shell.

Paul meets Visu, an eight-year-old Shih Tzu whose owner was too ill to look after him. In spite of Paul's best efforts, Visu will not eat, sleep or mix with other dogs.

The final episode in this series features Bailey the ugly shih-tzu, and Krystal the American bulldog gets a walk-on part in Coronation Street.

The comedian follows the work of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home in London, meeting staff involved in treating, training and rehoming animals. This time, Paul meets a pair of shih tzus from a puppy farm that need to learn all about domestic life, and an American bulldog struggling to cope without its owner. Later, he is introduced to a stray that has been living at Battersea for two years.

This time, Paul meets a Shar Pei cross that needs surgery to correct its sight problems, before coming across a lonely Bichon Frise cross suffering from severe separation anxiety and a destructive Mastiff with an unusual palette.

Paul meets a scary-looking Spanish Mastiff who's struggling to send the right signals, a stressed Staffie with a tennis ball addiction, and a pair of timid chihuahuas.

Alison Hammond carries on the legacy left by the much-loved Paul O'Grady as she heads to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home to help the animals in their care

Alison this time meets a lurcher who was found tied up in a cemetery, a stressed-out French bulldog who is struggling to breathe, and a very matted bichon frise.

Alison helps a pug with all sorts of different ailments, meets a German Shepherd who is scared of her own shadow, and helps to train a litter of lurcher pups.

Today, Paul O'Grady plays midwife to Jolie as the staff eagerly await the birth of her seven adorable puppies.

The staff try to save the sight of a Tibetan terrier, Paul takes three puppies to visit some sick kids, and Tyler the mongrel is up for adoption.

Paul falls in love with a great dane puppy who has developed elbow dysplasia and meets a caucasian shepherd who is struggling to find a home due to her unusual appearance.

Paul catches up with the Jack Russell-Staffordshire bull terrier pups he met earlier in the series and tries to help former racing greyhound Willow overcome his fear of stairs.

Paul O'Grady meets more of the residents of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. Duke the dalmatian is the Houdini of Battersea, and he amazes Paul with his greatest trick!

Paul meets a pair of geriatric labradors who cannot bear to be apart for even a second, a staffy who hates being left alone and a tiny puppy with an anti-social behaviour problem.

Paul O'Grady meets an unusual-looking staffy cross who does not seem to be able to catch the eye of a new owner and an English bulldog who needs airway surgery.

The comedian finds himself captivated when he meets a mystical, bald, rare breed of cat, and later shows a cockapoo in distress how to relax with the help of essential oils. He also helps a Bichon cope in a world of darkness.

Paul helps an excitable dog to calm down long enough for his leg break to heal, and he matches two lonely rescue dogs, but the path of true love doesn't run smooth.

Paul O'Grady helps a poodle overcome separation anxiety, meets a plummer terrier with extreme guarding issues and falls for a bulldog with a bad case of cherry eye.

Paul meets a chihuahua-pug cross that has been returned to Battersea for a second time after her owner passed away. He is also introduced to a lovable bulldog called Donald with a long list of ailments that need medical attention, and helps two neglected stray boxers that need to learn to be dogs again

Paul meets a six-year-old stray pug called Mildred with a long list of ailments, including a terrible case of sarcoptic mites, and a 10-month-old golden retriever called Patrick that has had a double hip replacement and is desperate to play again. Later, he meets 11 rare blue whippet puppies about to embark on their new lives.

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

Alison meets two of Battersea's longest residents, helps a three-month-old whippet with some swimming lessons, and befriends a shy Maltese with trust issues.

Alison meets a gorgeous husky who has a mysterious problem, helps to calm down an overexcited spaniel, and falls head over heels for five bichon frise puppies.

Paul meets a vegetarian Nepalese mountain dog named Happi, and Rumble, a little greyhound whose tail is damaged from over-wagging.