Saturday, February 13, 2010

Animal Planet "DOGS 101" -- Ideas Needed!

The television network Animal Planet is currently in production on and seeking stories for Season Three of their television series DOGS 101. DOGS 101 is the television encyclopedia of dog breeds. Each episode explores the history, purpose, temperament, amazing accomplishments, and curious facts about the most popular dog breeds in the world. A crucial theme of the series is the powerful love and intense emotional bond that forms between dogs and their humans.

They are looking for an uplifting and unique human-interest story to be featured on the upcoming season of DOGS 101 about the Basenji. The story they are looking for goes beyond the basic show dog, breeder, or general therapy dog stories, and focuses instead on the amazing feats, talents, strengths, or the special relationships between a Basenji and its owner. The biggest challenge of the show is finding stories that are VISUALLY stimulating. "Newspaper stories" are great but they want to show the dogs in action!

To find out more information about DOGS 101 and CATS 101, you can go to the Animal Planet website at:
• http://animal.discovery.com/tv/dogs-101/
• http://animal.discovery.com/tv/cats-101/

Any stories or ideas you would have for the upcoming "Basenji" edition of DOGS 101 would be greatly appreciated. The more ideas the merrier, as the show will be filming very soon! Anyone interested can contact BRAT Coordinator JR Key (jrinlogan@gmail.com) directly and he'll pass their info on to Animal Planet. The BRAT Board agrees this could be a great opportunity to educate about the breed (and maybe promote BRAT), but we need YOUR ideas and suggestions!

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