Who is better - Jules & Matisse or Ashleigh & Pudsey?
scratchy23
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Both won the show, but which wowed you more?
Jules & Matisse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCkPZBdLjg
Ashleigh & Pudsey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IaWHhHAMJk
Pudsey, in my opinion, is streets ahead of Matisse. So much more fast paced and entertaining, and didn't rely on any gimmicks. Matisse is certainly very clever, but the act for me is missing something, it just didn't excite me that much. And the three legged dog at the end was such a gimmick, there purely to get some sympathy votes.
Jules & Matisse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCkPZBdLjg
Ashleigh & Pudsey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IaWHhHAMJk
Pudsey, in my opinion, is streets ahead of Matisse. So much more fast paced and entertaining, and didn't rely on any gimmicks. Matisse is certainly very clever, but the act for me is missing something, it just didn't excite me that much. And the three legged dog at the end was such a gimmick, there purely to get some sympathy votes.
Which is the better act? 72 votes
Ashleigh & Pudsey
48%
35 votes
Jules & Matisse
51%
37 votes
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Neither did Jules & Matisse, unless you believe the TV show Lassie also 'cheated' the public.
Whatever happened to them ? I remember the girl being very shy so its amazing she was able to do what she did.
The story telling makes for a better act IMO - and I think Matisse needs fewer cues from the trainer.
Pudsey was nothing special, far, far, far, far better dog acts on Crufts doing similar to Pudsey.
Simon saw Pudsey as a money making machine. He should have watched Crufts.
Re the current claims of a con from Jules re rope walking dog.
The runner-up magic man Jamie Raven was a total con from start to finish, and that lemon made out to be completely whole and untouched by the magic man..HUH! what a con.
Is Raven a con surname?
You better demand that the British public stop voting for dog acts then. SIMPLE.
On second thoughts, we are a democracy in this country.
Dogs have only won BGT twice. More singers have won than dogs.
I love dogs, but dogs should not win nation-wide talent searches. Period.
Not that I like how the current act is being unfairly savaged by the press and Internet trolls. They don't deserve that. But that's not to say they should have won the show.
Jules is an animal trainer, not just of dogs but other animals as well, they are not her pets but just commodities to make her money, I don't know where they are kept, but I wouldn't be surprised if not in a kennel in a pen.
It's great when humans and dogs live together, of course, but WE are the primary ones who benefit from that.
Dogs are pack animals. They enjoy being around humans because they see us as members of their pack.
But they ALSO see other dogs as pack members. So if a dog is kept in facilities with other dogs, it's not inherently cruel to them. They're being supplied with what they most need--a pack--even if it's fellow dogs and not us substitute dogs named humans. That kind of living only becomes cruel to a dog if they aren't given enough space, aren't well looked after in terms of hygiene and shelter, etc., or if any training that accompanies this living circumstance is cruel (which might be equally true for a sole dog who lives in a human house with a human if they're mis-trained).