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Send In the Dogs

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ7450155 ↗
Source-derived summary

Send In the Dogs is a British documentary television series about the work of the Metropolitan Police, Greater Manchester Police, West Yorkshire and British Transport Police's police dogs. The first series of four episodes aired on ITV from 15 July to 5 August 2008. The show was renewed the following year, and a second series of eight episodes aired on ITV from 21 July to 8 September 2009.

Send In The Dogs currently airs on Sky channels Sky One, Sky Witness, Sky Crime and Pick.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Send In the Dogs” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Send, Dogs and television.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Send, Dogs and television providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Send In the Dogs”, the useful work is to connect “television series” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7450155. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2009.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Send In the Dogs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.