The celebrity dog handler that helped Mounties in B.C.'s Okanagan nab an out-of-control dog said he'd love to help police again.

"We worked so well together it was phenomenal," Brad Pattison, star of the Slice TV reality show At the End of My Leash, told ctvbc.ca.

"If people were watching this it would have been like they were watching the last few seconds of the Super Bowl. It was that exciting."

Two RCMP officers noticed the young German shepherd darting in and out of traffic in downtown Kelowna Tuesday night while heading on a coffee break.

"The animal was very, very scared and very much in harms way," Const. Steve Holmes said.

The pair started maneuvering their vehicles to corral the dog, when Pattison arrived to help.

The Kelowna resident, a dog trainer for more than 15 years, was with his nephew and own two dogs when he got a call from a friend who asked for his help.

"This dog was behind a gas station and my friend had him trapped but he escaped," he said.

"It was absolutely ridiculous - this dog just kept slipping through the tracks."

Pattison says things got really interesting after about half an hour of playing a cat and mouse game through downtown parking lots.

"It really turned into a Disney movie at this point," he joked.

"We finally had the dog on a quiet street when this guy comes out of absolutely nowhere. He comes in like Superman and scares the dog and then it just bolts."

The dog trainer and his friend finally made the grab that brought the chase to an end around half an hour later.

"Brad worked his magic," Const. Holmes said. "It was a team effort that saved the day."

Pattison said the rescue was difficult because the young pup, scared and intimidated, had gone into flight mode.

"It doesn't matter if you try to lure it with treats or water, you have to bring it to a total stop, where you grab it and submit it, and that's what we did."

The purebred Shepherd suffered some minor abrasions, but is expected to recover. She is now in the hands of Kelowna Dog Control.

Going to the dogs?

Holmes is excited at the possibility the B.C.-based celebrity dog handler, who led a K9 rescue team during Hurricane Katrina, could act as an animal advisor for the Mounties.

"We're actually hoping that he would come on board and advise on animal matters from time to time," he said.

"To have this kind of resource in our own backyard and not use it would be a shame."

Pattison agrees.

"I'd love to help," he said.

"There's so much to be learned and so many situations like this that come down to off-the-cuff learning. If the RCMP opened that door I'd walk right through."