The Dog Rescuers

In Manchester, the RSPCA are carrying out a joint operation with the police and trading standards officers to raid a farm that they suspect has been breeding dogs illegally.

Keith Hogben revisits a farm in Wales where both farmer and dogs are living in shocking conditions. He has warned the owner before to clean up or give up the dogs, but amid the rubble, Keith discovers that the farmer now has a new litter of pups.

RSPCA inspector Sara Hughes visits a house where a skinny ridgeback is home alone with apparently nothing to eat. As dogs are entirely reliant on their owners for food, water and shelter, Sara is concerned about the condition of the dog.

In Manchester, an owner absconds, leaving some 20 feral dogs locked inside the house as a dogfight breaks out. On a sunny day in Bristol, a small dog locked in a car is in danger of roasting alive.

In this episode, Keith and Gemma visit a pair of dogs who are being kept in atrocious conditions, Scott investigates a dog locked in a tiny conservatory on a hot summer's day.

When Kate and Becky join up with the police to save some dogs from an owner who has been banned from keeping animals, they make a shocking discovery. In Birmingham, Herchy Boal discovers a skinny Dalmatian in desperate need of veterinary treatment.