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Producing a television series that focuses on the complex relationship between humans and canines is a natural progression in the dog-loving life of Bianca Kapteyn. Her journey has taken her from the dogs of New York jazz legends to the canine-friendly streets of Toronto.

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The Canadian-born Kapteyn grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where fate delivered Judy, her first adopted dog, sealed in a box and abandoned in a trashcan. This rescue effort was followed by another. She found her second adoptee, Lassie, in Coney Island, cowering in an alley between an amusement arcade and a subway entrance. And when the late, legendary jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus took ill, Bianca’s step-father, renowned jazz tenor sax player, Duke University emeritus Dr.Paul H. Jeffrey adopted Brunhelda, Mingus’s German Sheppard.

A former fashion buyer, publicist, freelance marketer and is the co-creator of of Toronto's Woofstock: A Festival for Dogs. Her television credits include PET FASHION Television, where she is the producer/ director of  39 episodes with more than two hundred and seventy seven story segments  to date – and CBC’s Steven and Chris  show, where she was a consultant on pets. A mother of two boys, she’s also the ” human” of Otis, a European Wheaten Terrier.

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