Henry the Beagle-Basset Hound becomes latest Blue Peter dog 🐾 🐶
A Beagle-Basset Hound cross called Henry is the newest dog to join the Blue Peter team.
Henry is the 10th dog to appear on Blue Peter and follows a long line of resident pets, including nine cats, five tortoises and two parrots.It later emerged the mongrel was actually a stand-in, drafted on to the show after the original dog chosen died after just one appearance.ShepBorder Collie Shep joined the show in 1971 and was one of its best-known pets.
The pair were so inseparable that Noakes was allowed to keep Shep as a pet when he left Blue Peter in 1978.More recently, another popular Border Collie on the show was Meg, who made her first appearance in 2001.When the pair left the series in 2006, Meg went on to appear with Matt on other shows including Crufts and Countryfile.The first feline to join the show was Jason, a Seal Point Siamese, who made his first appeared as a three-week-old kitten in 1964.
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