''I went down to five towns and issued a challenge for people to bring their problem dogs to be trained in less than 6 minutes. ''The Woodhouse Road Show'' has been a huge success on BBC in England, and the star hopes it will be coming to America soon. ''In 30 years,'' she says, '' I've never found a healthy dog I couldn't train in 6 minutes.'' She was allowed a maximum of 6 minutes per dog and managed to train 16 dogs in 35 minutes. Miss Woodhouse tells about an obedience clinic in Canada where people brought their dogs to be trained. In a plane recently, the captain knew I was on board and said 'Crew, sittt' over the intercom, and everybody had a good laugh.'' Miss Woodhouse is pleased that she is known as ''the walkies lady'' wherever she goes. If you are laughing and joking, the dogs may have no idea what you are laughing at, but they seem to get the idea and join in.'' It picks up its owners emotions so easily. But if the owner is happy, curiously enough, the dog is happy. Especially the extreme of buying wedding gowns for dogs, as they do there. ''The stars are very used to picking up instructions from directors in films, so they are terribly good at picking up what I told them to do.''ĭid she find too much pampering of dogs in Beverly Hills? They seem to get the message by telepathy.''ĭid she find that Hollywood stars make good dog trainers? ''Anyway,'' she continues, ''it doesn't matter what you say, it is what you are thinking that matters. '''Walkies' is fun,'' she says, ''and fun is what having a dog is all about.'' And she prefers to use the work ''walkies'' instead of ''heel,'' which she finds an offensively harsh word. ''The hard 'T' is what the dogs seem to understand,'' she explains. But she was already telling me that she taught the Japanese to say ''Sittt'' and ''Waittt'' and ''Walkies.'' ''I was the first person to take obedience training to Japan, they told me.'' I didn't dare ask her how the Japanese managed to control their dogs before she arrived. She taught dog training (or owner training, as she would have it) in the US, Australia, South Africa, Canada, and Japan. She is talking to me from her home in Rickmansworth, Herefordshire, England, where she has just returned from nine months of worldwide travel. Meantime there are records and videocassettes available of her training courses. Miss Woodhouse plans to return to the United States in August to do a new dog-training series for American TV. ''There are no bad dogs, only inexperienced owners,'' she tells me in a transatlantic phone conversation about her new special, Barbara Woodhouse Goes to Beverly Hills (PBS, Wednesday, check local listings for premiere and repeats on other days). (Can also be streamed on Amazon Prime).''It may not be your dog that needs training, it may be you.'' That's what Barbara Woodhouse, Britain's gift to the world's dog owners, says. With plenty of positive reinforcement, British dog trainer Victoria Stillwell helps to restore order in homes where pets are creating havoc. “It’s Me or the Dog” (Discovery+): It’s the “Supernanny” for canines. The show follows him and his Michigan-based team as they tend to a wide variety of animals, including livestock. Jan Pol, who has practiced veterinary medicine since the 1970s. Pol (Nat Geo Wild): At the center of this long-running reality series is Dr. Along the way, she seeks to dismiss the perception that pit bulls are the pariahs of the pet world.ģ. “Pit Bulls and Parolees” (Animal Planet): With the help of former inmates, Tia Torres - founder and owner of the Villalobos Rescue Center in New Orleans - rescues and rehabilitates abandoned pit bulls and other dogs. You might want to keep a box of tissues handy.Ģ. “Dogs” (Netflix): This six-part, emotionally powerful documentary series features stories from around the globe about the remarkable bonds that develop between people and their pet pooches. Here are five of our favorites (and one more on the way):ġ. “Canine Intervention,” a new unscripted series debuting this week on Netflix and starring Oakland dog trainer Jas Leverette, isn’t the only TV show pegged to pooches and other adorable pets.
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