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The Dog Whisperer

By Marshall Fine

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Friday, July 25, 9PM, National Geographic

The loud mouth - Kathy Griffin - meets the whisperer - Cesar Millan, who tries to tame Kathy and her misbehaving dogs. Griffin won the reality-show Emmy instead of Millan (remember her jokes about Jesus?) - but she offers her statuette to the remarkable dog trainer if he can get her hyperactive hounds on to a treadmill.

Never bet against Cesar: In the same episode, he helps a San Francisco couple who are held hostage by their growling mutt and comes to the aid of a woman (whose specialty is communicating with animals), who can't understand why her two Dobermans are such terrors. But it's the encounter with Griffin that's the most fun. There are even dueling camera crews - so you can expect to see parts of this encounter turn up on Griffin's "My Life on the D-List" as well.
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