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In The Dog House
Best Life Magazine - September 2007
America's top canine coach shows you how to raise a happy healthy pooch
When Los Angeles firefighters finally tired of sprinting after their firetruck-chasing dalmatian adolescent, Wilshire, they called Cesar Millan. Dogs charging humans, dogs biting postal workers, dogs scared of cat - Millan sees it all on his highly addictive TV show, Dog Whisperer, a weekly showcase for his uncanny ability to transform terrifyingly bad dogs into amazingly good ones. The Californian attributes his intuitive connection with animals to being raised in a pack mentality (he grew up in Culiacan, Mexico, with four siblings and several dogs), and he's also able to "retrain" most humans to communicate better with their canines. Millan helped the firefighters by teaching them to set a boundary for Wilshire by physically blocking the dog whenever he tried to leave the garage. "It was amazing," said a stunned fireman, as Wilshire was miraculously cured from darting after trucks in just one afternoon. Millan arrived solo in the United States 16 years ago, but his pack has since grown to 23, which also includes his wife and their two kids. Here's what he says it takes to teach all dogs new tricks:
"When you read dog-food labels, you realize why canines develop so much cancer. This is all-natural, human-grade pet food that's free of growth hormones, steroids, ethoxyquin [a toxic preservative], and wheat gluten, which means it wasn't part of the recent pet-food recall."
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