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Super Dogs With Extraordinary Jobs review: Meet the truly marvellous mutts with amazing natural superpowers, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Narrator Mel Giedroyc introduced us to a collection of clever mutts - rescue dogs, medical dogs, detector dogs, all of them with natural superpowers.

Laidback and gentle, he loves a tummy tickle, and is happy to lie on the vet’s table with an extraction needle in one vein (without any sedative) as long as he’s getting plenty of fuss. Jac the springer spaniel (pictured) sniffs out leaks in underground power lines in the Channel 5 show Super Dogs with Extraordinary Jobs This show was light on that kind of detail — we also weren’t told whether dogs have different blood types, like humans, or whether a manmade scanner might also pick up the tell- tale whiff of Parkinson’s and other conditions.

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