Ten out of ten for the good people at the RSPCA Oldham for getting some much deserved publicity, particularly at this time of year, about dogs needing homes, by informing the media that one of their four legged residents can only understand Polish commands.

Polilsh Scenthounds... probably don't understand English either.

Being based in the North West of England this is probably not as unusual as we might all think, with Polish now being one of the most common languages that we receive interpreter requests for in the region – in fact it is in the top three along with Urdu and Arabic.

The most unusual language we book interpreters for, out of our 4000 interpreter requests per month, is Malay.

Who knows, there may just be a dog out there that only understands “Duduk” and “Tunggu” rather than sit and stay…