Many people want and need dogs to do certain jobs for them and indeed part of the reason dogs have evolved so successfully with us is that they have been incredibly useful. They are good hunting partners, they protect our homes and crops and now dogs are doing even more incredible work by detecting human and animal disease and helping conserve our planet – the subject of my new television show that is currently in production. Research has also shown that a dog’s attachment to a human is like a child’s to a parent. In fact dogs behave similarly to…

