Pound Puppies (2010)

Pound Puppies is a Canadian/American animated series that premiered on Hub Network (as a Hub Original Series) on October 10, 2010, in the United States. Pound Puppies also aired on YTV in Canada and on Boomerang in the UK, Ireland and Australia. The series is produced by Hasbro Studios. It was the second series, after the 1986 series, to adapt Pound Puppies into a cartoon format. It is a kid-friendly cartoon, and is designed to appeal to children and their families. It has also featured very well-known voice actors, such as Betty White.

Pound Puppies was originally a property of Tonka, but after Hasbro's acquisition of the company, it is now managed by the latter.

For the first 7 episodes, 9 Story Entertainment did the animation production, but DHX Media/Vancouver took over production starting with episode 8. It bears some resemblance in plot style and music to the '60s TV series Hogan's Heroes and to films like Stalag 17 and The Great Escape.

On July 9, 2012, it was announced that Pound Puppies was one of four original series from The Hub that won the CINE Golden Eagle Award for high quality production and storytelling. 65 episodes were produced.

In August 2012, it was announced that the season 1 episode "I Never Barked for My Father" was honored with the HUMANITAS Prize for excellence in writing for children's television animation.

The Pound Puppies is a group of dogs who spend most of their time at Shelter 17. Together with a group of squirrels recruited by Strudel, an incredibly smart Dachshund, they operate a secret and highly sophisticated underground facility beneath the pound, aimed at finding new owners for puppies or even grown up dogs that come to their pound. They rely on their motto, "A pup for every person, and a person for every pup". Although the facility is filled with advanced equipment (mainly built by Strudel and the squirrels) and is often shown bustling with activity, it consistently manages to avoid detection by the pound's clueless human staff. Several episodes have shown that there are multiple Pound Puppies units worldwide. There is also a similar organization, the "Kennel Kittens", which is a group of cats at the Happy Valley shelter that try to find forever homes for the kittens and cats that come their way. The Kennel Kittens have appeared in several episodes, and often mess up the Pound Puppies' missions. The Pound Puppies also have an unofficial side branch, the "Super Secret Pup Club".

A recurring plot often involves the Pound Puppies helping dogs find loving homes and coming across various challenges as they do so. Once a dog is successfully matched with a new owner, the Pound Puppies give him/her a dog tag shaped like a dog house as a parting gift, along with the quote, "Once a pound puppy, always a pound puppy."

Cast

Image	Character	USA-Can	Ven	Bra	Ger	Fra	Ita	Pol	Hun	Fin	Nor	Den	Rom	Russ	Spa	Por	Isr
	Lucky	Eric McCormack		Dado Monteiro	Thomas Schmuckert		Federico Zanandrea	Jan AleksandrowiczKrasko			Christoffer Staib						Eran Mor
	Cookie	Yvette Nicole Brown		Melissa Garcia	Heike Schroetter		Dania Cericola	Anna Sroka			Lena Meieran						Mona Mor
	Strudel	Alanna Ubach	Jackeline Junguito	Flora Paulita	Anke Reitzenstein		Simona Biasetti	Dominika Sell			Cathrine BangNorum						Talya Barkay
	Niblet	John DiMaggio	Luis Carreño	Tatá Guarnieri	Tom Deininger		Luca Bottale	Grzegorz Falkowski			ChristianGreger Strøm						Eli Lulai
	Squirt	Michael Rapaport	Eduardo Wasveiler	Fábio Lucindo	Lutz Schnell		Matteo Zanotti	Krzysztof Szczerbiński			Gaute Boris Skjegstad						YotamSechayk
																	Amit Yosovich
	Olaf	M. Emmet Walsh			Jürgen Kluckert		Riccardo Rovatti	Paweł Szczesny			Magnus Nielsen						Guy Rushiniak
	Lenard McLeish	René Auberjonois	Xavier Coronel		Bernd Vollbrecht		Mario Scarabelli	Sławomir Pacek			Trond Brænne						Muli Shulman
	Agatha McLeish	Betty White			Joseline Gassen		Caterina Rochira	Barbara Zielińska									Anat Salonim
	Mayor	Dabney Coleman	JorgeLuis García		Bodo Wolf		Cesare Rasini	Grzegorz Wons			Magnus Nielsen
		JohnLarroquette

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