![]() When it comes to breeds celebrities like French Bulldogs are very popular. I took the cymbals to where she was sleeping and tried the same trick, but even softer. So they then wanted me to test if their other puppy, Lady, was deaf too. Charlie was fast asleep, so I took the cymbals and I softly struck them together. They pulled me out some cymbals and I told them we would do a little test. He took a nap and in the meantime, I asked where their music room was. He'd been trained for recall so I decided to have a pause and let him sleep. Charlie wandered off and I started calling him, but he wasn't listening. I checked Charlie and realized something was a little off. I went to the Playboy Mansion and they told me that the dog wasn't listening to a word they said. Hef's assistants called me up and said that his King Charles Spaniel, Charlie, was not 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 City.īrandon McMillan (right) and Andy Cohen. The first time I met Andy Cohen was when I appeared on Watch What Happens Live.Īndy talked with me afterwards and told me he had just adopted a great dog and wanted to make sure he received the best training possible. Whenever I train anyones dog I make sure it gets 100 percent of my focus. Only after I left did I realize who he was! I did the same thing with Ellen Degeneres, Rod Stewart and Don Cheadle, the list goes on really. Next thing I know, I'm leaving and he's arranging for me to start training his dog the following week. I'd been talking with James Caan for an hour and a half discussing martial arts, which we're both interested in. Funnily enough, I often don't 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 U.S, I decided to quit the wild animal industry and started working only with dogs. That number has gone down substantially, but it's still almost 700,000 per year. At that time, there were about 2 million dogs a year being euthanized because they weren't able to be re-homed. Eventually all the dogs they worked with were rescue dogs. ![]() I convinced my boss and the first rescue dog was successfully trained, and then the next dog. I lived next to a shelter and I started saying we should use more shelter dogs. One of the companies I worked for mainly used breeder dogs. ![]() I spent about 10 years training all sorts of animals for movies and TV, including the tiger in The Hangover. My entire family were animal trainers so I was born into that environment, and when I was 19 I moved to California and started training animals. I actually became solely focused on dog training a little later in my career. ![]()
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