Alan Titchmarsh has incorporated his love for dogs into his latest TV project.
Alan Titchmarsh loves dogs
The 74-year-old presenter celebrated the lifelong love he has had for canines in the lead-up to his new Channel 5 series ‘Underdog to Super Dog’ - which will see dogs without homes prove themselves to brave with training to undertake challenges like mountain rescues - as he reflected on their "matchless" companionship.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “Dogs have played such an important part in my life, both as a child in Yorkshire with a corgi/cairn and border terrier cross at my heels, to bringing up my family with three yellow Labradors. Their companionship and their resourcefulness are matchless.
“I am looking forward hugely to watching the development of the dogs in this series as they prove their worth when given the chance to shine.”
The ‘Love Your Garden’ host recently told UK lawmakers about the potential “catastrophic” impacts that rewilding could have, labelling it an “ill-considered trend” in certain situations like in domestic settings like gardens.
Alan told a House of Lords’ horticultural sector committee inquiry last month: ”Domestic gardens and well-planted parks offer an opportunity to all forms of wildlife – be they birds seeking nesting sites in hedges, berried plants that provide winter food, or shrubs that offer shelter to mammals.”
“Domestic gardens, with their greater plant diversity, offer sustenance and shelter to wildlife from March through November. Nine months of nourishment. A rewilded garden will offer nothing but straw and hay from August to March. A four-month flowering season is the norm.”
Alan called out the “misleading propaganda” that argued only indigenous growth added anything to the environment.
He said: “I find it worrying that misleading propaganda suggests only native plants are of any value to wildlife and the environment. This is at odds with my experience as the custodian of a two-acre wildflower meadow and garden.”
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