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| Howie Mandel, Cesar Milan, Howie's wife, and psycho Chihuahua, Lola. |
The first episode of season seven of The Dog Whisperer starts tonight (Friday) at 8 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel.
The show features “Deal or No Deal” host Howie Mandel, who has obsessive compulsive disorder and cannot stand to be touched.
Nonetheless, Mandel is married to a woman with lots of little vicious lap dogs, and she does not even try to control them. Yow! How do you spell dysfunction?
The most interesting part of the show, however, is not the Howie Mandel segment, but the the English Bulldog story that precedes it. Two things to watch if you tune in:
- LISTEN to how breath-restricted this poor brachycephalic animal is. Every moment of its life, it is struggling for breath. This is not an obvious behavior issue, but a clear visual case statement of the wreckage and violence that the American and British Kennel Clubs have done to pedigree dogs.
- WATCH how Millan turns the prey-predator tables on this bulldog. As someone who hunts with prey-driven dogs, and who has seen what happens when a really aggressive fox, raccoon or groundhog turns from prey to predator, I was much amused. Cesar Millan clearly knows quite a lot, and in this episode, it shows in a very, very funny way.
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