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Watch this: Animal Rescue Live: The Supervet special, August 7-11, Channel 4, 8pm

Animal Rescue Live: The Supervet Special team Noel Fitzpatrick, Kate Quilton and Steve Jones, with friends
Animal Rescue Live: The Supervet Special team Noel Fitzpatrick, Kate Quilton and Steve Jones, with friends Animal Rescue Live: The Supervet Special team Noel Fitzpatrick, Kate Quilton and Steve Jones, with friends

THIS five day live team-up between Professor Noel 'Supervet' Fitzpatrick and presenters Steve Jones and Kate Quilton finds them attempting to re-home every abandoned pet at the Newcastle Dog & Cat Shelter in England as well as finding suitable 'forever homes' for animals at other shelters around Britain and the north.

"We are trying to bring hope to a creature that has been abandoned, without hope, and bring hope into the lives of human beings in a family that, until that animal is among them, don’t realise how much hope that animal can bring them," explains Noel, whose innovative endeavours to help sick and injured pets on The Supervet make for reliably emotional viewing.

He continues: "I’m very upset with the way the world is at the moment, constantly generating bad news. I wanted to inspire families, particularly children, that love being represented by the love between an animal and a human, could in fact put a very nice bandage around the ills of the world.

"For me, the premise of the show is about how I can bring love in the shape of a bundle of joy of an animal into a family."

The shows will also feature special guests throughout the week, including Dom Jolly and Leona Lewis.

Those currently considering adding a pet to their family should definitely tune in to see if they can spot a likely candidate for adoption.