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First premiering in November of 2020, The Pack, an adventure series taking dogs and their humans across the world to take part in a variety of team challenges, will not be returning for a second season.
The video footage shared in The Wrap’s coverage shows dogs dangling from a harness attached to their human owners while rappelling down a waterfall.
PETA senior vice president Lisa Lange told PEOPLE, “Dogs rely on us for everything, including their protection, and anyone who cares about them can breathe a sigh of relief now that The Pack won’t be dangling any more dogs over waterfalls.”
Part of the show’s format featured asides from the team of experts on training and safety protocols that took place ahead of each challenge. Regarding safety, executive producer Jay Bienstock told Variety, “The dog safety team had ‘absolute power.’ If dog safety said, ‘Stop this,’ we would stop.”
Mark LeBlanc and his border collie partner Ace won season 1 on The Pack, and the $500,000 prize and $250,000 donation to the charity of their choice that came with the title. LeBlanc presented the donation to Best Friends Animal Society in December 2020, saying he’s passionate about the organization’s mission and wants to see the euthanization of shelter animals come to an end.
“I feel pretty strongly that in 2020, society as a whole is better than killing animals that are just ‘in the way,’” LeBlanc says. “Every day, animals are put down in shelters because they just don’t have anywhere to be. It just breaks my heart and I think we’re better than that.”
