Ok I admit that I have never actually watched "The Dog Whisper" BUT I am seriously obsessed with this guy! First i read an article that Malcolm Gladwell wrote last week in the New Yorker. I'd say that was by far the smartest, most interesting one I have read about the Dog Whisperer. So anyways he's this dude who basically tames dogs, and he's from Mexico, and was illegal and paid a coyote to bring him across the border. Actually I think it's interesting how because he's famous and well liked the media
always mentions that he was illegal but then doesn't talk about it after that. Anyways he argues that in America people treat their dogs as humans and let them be the leaders of their "packs" and in Mexico dogs are dogs and that's why he is so good at taming wild beasts because he is not scared or the dogs. The show and what he does is not what interests me. It's this idea that malcolm gladwell mentions about presence and how certain people have a presence that is not defined by being a loud leader but rather sometimes by being able to convince people without using words that they should follow you. He speaks the truth. So anyways i read the article this weekend then i turned on oprah yesterday and he was on it! THEN i look at NYtimes and again he is on it. This is very strange i think. But anyways i thought he sounded totally bizarre when people wrote about him. I mean he has a dog psychology center in south central LA with a pool and beach chairs and the dogs lounge and basically go to "doggy rehab" and then he takes them on hikes in the mountains and puts the little dogs in backpacks that the big dogs wear. So strange. But then I saw him on Oprah and he was this loving jovial guy who just smiled and laughed all the time and tamed Oprah's wild cocker spanial. And he was liek "oprah what a gift!!!" I kind of just love when people say "what a gift!" because it's just so cheesy.
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