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'''''Animal Cops Detroit''''' is a [[television]] [[reality show]] on [[Animal Planet]]. It takes place in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], home of the [[Michigan Humane Society]], and focuses on the exploits of five [[animal cruelty]] field agents and the staff physicians and animal evaluators at the MHS. The series is one of [[Animal Planet]]'s top-rated shows and is part of the rotating "Animal Planet Heroes" lineup that includes [[Animal Precinct]], [[Animal Cops Houston]], [[Miami Animal Police]], and [[Animal Cops San Francisco]]. |
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==Show history== |
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The show debuted in [[2002]] and followed the cases investigated by a quartet of MHS cruelty investigators, [[Mark Ramos]] and [[Debby MacDonald]] (on the city's west side) and [[Shawn Hairston]] and [[Keven Jones]] (on the city's east side). Jones left the MHS during the show's first season and was replaced by former rescue driver [[Mike Jones Jr.]], who became Hairston's partner. Another rescue driver, [[David McLeod]], joined the team in 2004 as an investigator. |
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MHS Dispatcher [[Max Sharpe]] sometimes fills in for agents on rescue calls or goes out into the field when especially large teams are needed. |
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The hospital staff includes doctors [[Sherine Cece]] and [[Patricia Madsen]], as well as evaluator [[Jan Ramos]] and several other technicians and evaluators. |
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Actor [[John Lurie]] narrated most of the early episodes. He has since been replaced by actor/writer [[Robert Leigh]] beginning in 2004. |
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===Controversy=== |
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Due to an extraordinarily large number of pit bull fights originating in and around the Detroit area, the MHS has a policy of [[humane euthanasia]] for any pit bulls they confiscate or find abandoned. Also, due to limited resources, dogs with severe behavior problems (most notably [[food aggression]]) and cats who have turned irretrievably [[feral]] are almost always slated for euthanasia because of either insuitability for adoption or potential liability in adopting the animal out to the general public. This leads to a significant number of cases featured on ''Animal Cops Detroit'' ending in the animal being humanely euthanized, which has caused consternation among the show's viewers and critics. In a [[2005]] special featuring some of the Animal Cops' "most memorable cases", several of the agents dealt with this issue head-on, noting that no one likes having to put an animal down, particularly animals that the agents and the MHS staff had worked so hard to save. The case of the [[Great Dane]] Atlas, a dog with a severe imbedded collar neck wound, was featured in this particular episode; Atlas, a dog who seemed to bear even the horrible wound on his neck from a heavy tow chain with good-natured grace, turned vicious and "scary" (according to Debby MacDonald) during his behavior evaluation when he attacked the fake hand evaluator Jan Ramos inserted into his food bowl with such force that he tore the plastic covering on the appendage. "People tell me, 'I could have taken care of him,'" MacDonald noted, "but...are you ''always'' going to be there?" |
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==See also== |
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* ''[[Animal Precinct]]'' |
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* ''[[Animal Cops San Francisco]]'' |
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* ''[[Miami Animal Police]]'' |
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==External links== |
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* [http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/animalcops/animalcops.html AnimalPlanet.com official site] |
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* [http://www.michiganhumane.org Michigan Humane Society official site] |
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* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381732/ IMDB entry] |
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* [http://www.tv.com/animal-cops-detroit/show/29892/summary.html tv.com entry] |
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[[Category:Reality television series]] |
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[[Category:Animal Planet shows|Animal Cops Detroit ]] |
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