Does your pet love you? It may sound like a pointless question, but this week the pet variety program "Pochi-Tama" (TV Tokyo; Fri., 7 p.m.) will offer a test that pet owners can take to determine the degree of affection that their dogs and cats feel toward them.
Baseball-player-turned-comedian Punch Sato will be on hand with his dog Wendy to take part in the test. For example, Wendy's capacity for jealousy will be gauged. Sato will express affection to a different dog to see whether or not Wendy attacks the interloper. The program will also try to measure a pet's degree of friendliness and loyalty, which may sound like splitting hairs -- or fur, as it were.
Also on the show, the horny, dumb-as-dirt golden labrador Masao, whose journey throughout Japan has been a regular feature of the show for several years, will finally arrive in Okinawa. Watch out for snakes!