They got me some cymbals and I told them we would do a little test. He took a nap and while he waited I asked where their music room was. He had been trained for recall so I decided to take a break and let him sleep. Charlie walked away and I started calling him, but he wasn’t listening. I checked on Charlie and realized something was wrong. I went to the Playboy Mansion and they told me the dog wasn’t listening to a word they said. Hef’s assistants called me and told me that her King Charles Spaniel, Charlie, wouldn’t be coming when they called. I also trained Hugh Hefner’s dogs at the Playboy Mansion. I worked with Wacha for about five years, every time I was in New York. The first time I met Andy Cohen was when I appeared on Watch what’s happening live.Īndy then spoke to me and said he just adopted a great dog and wanted to make sure he got the best training possible. It was only after I left that I realized who he was! I did the same with Ellen Degeneres, Rod Stewart and Don Cheadle, the list is really long.Įvery time I train someone’s dog, I make sure they get 100% of my focus. Next thing I know, I’m leaving and he arranges for me to start training his dog the following week. I had been talking with James Caan for an hour and a half about martial arts, which interests us both. Oddly enough, I don’t often recognize the famous people whose dogs I train. My first celebrity client was James Caan. When I realized the huge problem we have here in the United States, I decided to leave the wildlife industry and started working only with dogs. This number has dropped considerably, but it is still close to 700,000 per year. At that time, there were about 2 million dogs a year that were euthanized because they couldn’t be rehomed. Eventually, all the dogs they worked with were rescue dogs. I convinced my boss and the first rescue dog was successfully trained, then the next dog. I lived next to a shelter and started saying we should use more shelter dogs. One of the companies I worked for primarily used breeding dogs. I spent about 10 years training all kinds of animals for film and television, including the tiger in The hangover. My whole family was animal trainers, so I was born into that environment, and when I was 19, I moved to California and started training animals. In fact, I only focused on training dogs a bit later in my career.
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