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Abuse will not be part of their past. McMillan can tell which dogs have been abused in the first 30 seconds he spends with them. "And I can tell you how they were abused in the first few minutes," he said. Those dogs are a passion for McMillan off-camera, but they will not appear on "Lucky Dog."
''The viewers that watch this show are not going to want to see a dog that's been in a fight. This is a family show," he explained. "Lucky Dog" is targeted to teens 13 to 16 years old, but McMillan is guessing a lot of moms will be watching. "Lucky Dog" airs on Saturday morning (check local listings for time), followed by another Litton show called "Dr. Chris Pet Vet," which follows Australian veterinarian Chris Brown as he treats a wide variety of animals. The two shows premiered Saturday. Along with four other Litton shows, they replace Saturday morning cartoons, abandoned by CBS because of increased competition. The new shows also fulfill the network's requirement for educational television. McMillan, who used to have a show on Animal Planet called "Night," in which he studied the nocturnal behavior of animals in the wild, won't choose dogs that can't get along with children, he said. "But if you have a shadow of a doubt that your dog will bite a kid or if a dog has in the past bitten a kid, I would say that is a dog that should not be around kids. I think that's the responsible way to look at it," he said.
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