For the Love of Dogs Episode Rating Graph
Sep 2012 - present
Sep 2012 - present
7.2
Browse episode ratings trends for For the Love of Dogs. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of For the Love of Dogs's 100 episodes.
S11 Ep3
10.0
27th Apr 2023
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.
S9 Ep6
10.0
12th May 2021
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.
S8 Ep4
10.0
13th Nov 2019
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.
S1 Ep4
10.0
24th Sep 2012
The staff and dogs are going on an outing to visit the Chelsea Pensioners.
S1 Ep3
10.0
17th Sep 2012
Paul O'Grady helps dog behaviourist Brian with a dog who is afraid of men.
S1 Ep2
10.0
10th Sep 2012
This week a tiny and heavily pregnant Chihuahua-cross arrives, and Paul visits Crufts.
S11 Ep7
9.0
21st Sep 2023
Paul's got his work cut out when he meets a gorgeous old Chihuahua with no end of ailments.
S11 Ep5
9.0
7th Sep 2023
Paul and the team are baffled by a mystery illness which is making a young lurcher pup gravely ill.
S11 Ep2
9.0
20th Apr 2023
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.
S6 Ep2
8.8
26th Oct 2017
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.
S8 Ep3
8.7
6th Nov 2019
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.
S3 Ep1
8.7
4th Sep 2014
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.
S8 Ep8
8.5
18th Dec 2019
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.
S6 Ep1
8.5
19th Oct 2017
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.
S1 Ep1
8.1
3rd Sep 2012
Paul O'Grady spends seven weeks helping out at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.
S11 Ep8
8.0
28th Sep 2023
Paul goes rogue when asked to help bottle-feed a pair of week-old kittens found on a building site.
S11 Ep6
8.0
16th Sep 2023
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.
S11 Ep4
8.0
4th May 2023
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.
S8 Ep5
8.0
20th Nov 2019
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.
S8 Ep2
8.0
30th Oct 2019
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.
S7 Ep7
8.0
12th Dec 2018
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.
S7 Ep6
8.0
5th Dec 2018
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.
S7 Ep5
8.0
28th Nov 2018
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.
S7 Ep2
8.0
7th Nov 2018
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.
S9 Ep1
2.0
7th Apr 2021
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.
S9 Ep2
2.0
14th Apr 2021
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.
S2 Ep5
5.5
13th Jun 2013
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.
S3 Ep11
5.8
20th Nov 2014
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.
S9 Ep5
6.0
5th May 2021
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.
S10 Ep5
6.0
26th Jan 2022
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.
S10 Ep6
6.0
2nd Feb 2022
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.
S3 Ep6
6.3
16th Oct 2014
Today, Paul O'Grady plays midwife to Jolie as the staff eagerly await the birth of her seven adorable puppies.
S3 Ep5
6.5
2nd Oct 2014
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.
S4 Ep4
6.7
5th Nov 2015
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.
S2 Ep6
7.0
20th Jun 2013
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.
S3 Ep9
7.0
6th Nov 2014
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!
S6 Ep4
7.0
9th Nov 2017
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.
S6 Ep7
7.0
7th Dec 2017
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.
S10 Ep1
7.0
29th Dec 2021
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.
S10 Ep3
7.0
12th Jan 2022
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.
S10 Ep4
7.0
19th Jan 2022
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.
S10 Ep7
7.0
9th Feb 2022
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
S10 Ep8
7.0
16th Feb 2022
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.
S11 Ep1
7.0
13th Apr 2023
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.
S5 Ep4
7.1
22nd Sep 2016
Paul meets a vegetarian Nepalese mountain dog named Happi, and Rumble, a little greyhound whose tail is damaged from over-wagging.
S3 Ep8
7.1
30th Oct 2014
Paul falls in love with Tulip the puppy, but will this Battersea story have a happy ending or will Paul be left heartbroken? Can Scooby pass his exams to become a lifesaver?
S4 Ep7
7.3
26th Nov 2015
Paul meets a pair of cavalier king charles spaniels, an emaciated mongrel called Hector and Baloo, a beautiful alaskan malamute with a case of the blues.
S4 Ep6
7.3
19th Nov 2015
Paul meets a pair of cavalier king charles spaniels, an emaciated mongrel called Hector and Baloo, a beautiful alaskan malamute with a case of the blues.
S1 Ep1
8.1
3rd Sep 2012
Paul O'Grady spends seven weeks helping out at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.
S1 Ep2
10.0
10th Sep 2012
This week a tiny and heavily pregnant Chihuahua-cross arrives, and Paul visits Crufts.
S1 Ep3
10.0
17th Sep 2012
Paul O'Grady helps dog behaviourist Brian with a dog who is afraid of men.
S1 Ep4
10.0
24th Sep 2012
The staff and dogs are going on an outing to visit the Chelsea Pensioners.
S1 Ep5
1st Oct 2012
The staff and dogs are going on an outing to visit the Chelsea Pensioners.
S1 Ep6
8th Oct 2012
Paul has mixed emotions as a couple arrive to adopt his favourite dog Carmine.
S1 Ep7
15th Oct 2012
After seven weeks Paul O'Grady's stint at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home comes to an end.
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The first episode of For the Love of Dogs aired on September 03, 2012.
The last episode of For the Love of Dogs aired on May 21, 2024.
There are 100 episodes of For the Love of Dogs.
There are 12 seasons of For the Love of Dogs.
Yes.
For the Love of Dogs is set to return for future episodes.