Pet Star

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Pet Star
Genre	Documentary/Sports
Creator(s)	n/a
Starring	Mario López
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	approx. 1:00 (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	Animal Planet
Original run	2002 – 2005
Links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Pet Star is a show of Animal Planet hosted by Mario Lopez.

It concerns trained pets who do special acts and tricks with their owners during the show. The tricks are graded by 3 judges on a scale of 1 to 10.

In the end, the 3 pets with the highest score come out and the audience votes on who is the episode's Pet Star. Then, at the end of the year, the winners compete to be the year's ULTIMATE PET STAR. The winner of a regular show gets $2,500, while the winner of the finals gets $25,000.

There were many celebrity judges, including Gena Lee Nolin, Will Estes, Lindsay Wagner, Matt Gallant and Mackenzie Phillips.

Pet Star is based on the show Star Search. It is shown in the United Kingdom on Challenge.

The winner of Pet Star's first season was Skidboot, a male blue heeler mixed breed from Quinlan, Texas. His owner is David Hartwig.

The winner of Pet Star's second season was a troupe of 9 dogs owned by circus performer Johnny Peers of Sarasota, Florida.

The winner of Pet Star's third season was Spencer LaCoco, a male Rhodesian Ridgeback mixed breed from Lexington, Kentucky. His owner is John Flowers. Spencer won a place in the finals through the wild card show.

Videos of the winners and other contestants are available at http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/petstar/petstar.html