Amazon's The Pack seems to care more about its dogs than the design of its challenges

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The Lindsey Vonn-hosted Amazing Race-like reality show featuring dogs places more emphasis on the pets than the challenges, says Andy Dehnart. "What’s truly frustrating, though, is that in the first two challenges, the actual outcomes don’t appear to matter. The two packs are perfectly and coincidentally tied and all arrive at the run to the finish line at the exact same time. It’s insultingly sketchy," he says, adding: "I imagine much of this is just the challenge of safely producing a competition with dogs, including the simple parts like getting them to and from a location. The Amazing Race constantly equalizes its teams for logistical purposes—it’s much more expensive to produce a show when your crews and teams are on different flights or in different countries—but at least it does that at the start of a leg, not in the middle." ALSO: How The Pack was designed with the safety of the dogs in mind.