Hollywood Dog Trainer Carl Spitz

Terry, a Cairn Terrier trained and owned by Hollywood dog trainer, Carl Spitz, was in the 1934 Shirley Temple movie "Bright Eyes” some 5 years before she appeared in The Wizard of Oz. Terry was trained to respond to silent hand signals.

Carl Spitz was a German immigrant and student of Germany’s Colonel Konrad Most who was one of the first professional dog trainers who pioneered many of the dog training techniques used to this day.

Carl Spitz opened his own Hollywood Dog Training School in 1927. He later helped set up America's WWII War-Dog Program.



Carl Spitz trained “Buck” to star in the 1935 adaptation of Jack London’s Call of the Wild with Clark Gable and Loretta Young.