Omar Von Muller & Monkey | How THIS Abandoned Dog Became HOLLYWOOD'S Biggest Star | #156

This week,

I sit down with Omar Von Muller, one of the world's most accomplished Hollywood animal trainers, whose work has helped shape some of the most memorable animal performances ever seen on screen. From humble beginnings to training some of the most recognizable dogs in film and television, Omar shares the incredible journey that led him to the top of his industry.

We discuss how Omar discovered his passion for working with animals, the dedication it took to build his career, and the behind-the-scenes process of training dogs for major Hollywood productions. He shares stories from working on blockbuster films, the patience and trust required to train elite animal actors, and what separates an ordinary dog from a true Hollywood star.

We also dive into the story of Monkey, Omar's internet-famous dog who has captivated millions with his incredible intelligence, painting artwork with a brush, and performing jaw-dropping tricks that seem almost impossible. Omar explains how Monkey learned these unique skills, the bond they share, and why positive reinforcement has been the foundation of their success.

Whether you're an animal lover, a filmmaker, a dog owner, or someone inspired by stories of passion, perseverance, and extraordinary talent, this conversation offers a fascinating look inside the world of Hollywood's most famous canine stars and the man behind them.



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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Yo, yo, yo, it's your boy. It's Phil Wham Bam Benamino, baby. It's another Wambam Wednesday. You know the show about ordinary people who've done extraordinary things. And as always, we gotta ask. Please hit the subscribe button down below, real quick. Just hit it. It takes zero effort and it doesn't cost a thing. Because today we got guests. Well, we don't actually have a human guest today. This person's a super extraordinary that is here. We have trainer Omar in the house with his dog Monkey. What's up, Monkey? Don't worry. How are you, man? Good. Hi, Monkey. How are you, buddy? So Monkey's the famous dog. Yes, lay down. You know? So, first of all, I gotta ask, where'd you come up with the name of Monkey?

SPEAKER_01 0:55

We got Monkey. I got him like I like I was telling you before in Craigslist. We went and picked it up at the breeder and blah blah blah. Craigslist.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

So you literally just got him off of news. A $200 puppy, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

That's what he was. Okay. So when we picked him up, my wife wasn't too crazy about me bringing a Madelinois home because she had heard all kinds of stories about them, how crazy they are, they could be aggressive, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I had experience with Madelinois. I knew it was not true, but that's what she thought. Anyways, long story short, when we brought him home, I was telling my wife, no, he's an angel. So we're gonna name him Angel. Okay, just like messing around with her. And then when he when we got home, then he started going all over the place, jumping and going crazy. And then my little uh my daughter said, doesn't have an angel, he's a freaking monkey.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

So you got the monkey from jumping around.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

So that's how he got that's how he got the name monkey because he was just jumping around, and my daughter said he looked, he's more like a monkey than an angel.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

So yeah, well, really, I'm gonna tell the viewers real quick the special thing. Now, Omar Von Mueller, okay, is a dog trainer. Monkey here is an artist, okay? He's also a professional actor as well. He's been in many movies as well, but he literally paints, and we're gonna show you some footage of that down the road, but we're gonna talk a little bit about it because he painted me a portrait of Rocky, which is unbelievable. And the details in that, you know, is incredible. How did you start teaching this dog how to paint?

SPEAKER_01 2:22

Well, it's it's a process that it took quite a while. Uh, I had I taught him how to do a lot of foundation and how to hold a brush, how to hold different things on his mouth because we do a lot of studio work, and that's one of the most important behaviors that you get to teach your dog. Just to use their mouth. Hold here, hold there, touch here, touch there, kind of stuff. So, some years ago, I taught him how to hold a brush and and touch something, but he was not really painting, he was just touching. Before him, I had another dog named Jumpy that I had done a couple of paintings with him, and he knew how to write his name. So that was like a big deal back then. And uh, so I said, you know what, let's let's go all the way, let's really spend the time that we need to do into painting and and uh see how far he can go. Yeah, and started, never stopped. And I never in my wildest dream thought would have think that he was able to do what he's doing now. This is no way. That was like I was just trying to get some type of art down, you know, little colors here and there, but slowly but surely he started learning. He started learning the brush, the brush strokes, how strong, how light, thin brush, uh brush strokes, big ones, long ones, short ones, and left, go around, all that kind of stuff. And so he just blew my mind because how fast he was learning and uh and how he enjoyed it because he really enjoys to do the painting that we do.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

So that's uh that's how we started, and that's what we are today.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

That's crazy. So, you know, thinking about this, obviously, painting. You obviously are a painter, you know, you gotta have some very big high-level skills. Are you painting through Monkey or is Monkey really painting through you?

SPEAKER_01 4:04

Well, you know what? I know how to paint a little bit, believe it or not. It's not that I'm a big artist. I have never considered my artist, myself an artist. I know a lot of artists and in my family and and friends and stuff like that. And I it's awesome. But I had basic uh ideas and how to paint stuff. So I had ideas how to paint uh basic stuff, basic stuff. And uh so when I started with Monkey, I guess we learned together how to how to get better quality on paintings. That's that's pretty much it. We're learning together at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Yeah. Well, he's got an art studio gallery, I should say. Yeah. Um, you know, which is pretty incredible. And we'll post some of the photos and stuff on this, which is pretty, pretty amazing and stuff that's done it. Now, obviously, you had other dogs prior to him. And, you know, you had some famous dogs. You've been to Hollywood, you've had some some dogs in movies. Tell us a little bit about that and what it's like to get a dog in a movie.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Uh well, I've been around movies for a long time already, I'd say 20-something years. Uh, I started with a little Jack Russell that I had many years ago. His name was Andy, and he knew all kinds of tricks. And uh, we put him in a bunch of commercials. He did a couple of movies. The first movie that we ever did was Orange County. That was way back there. Now that was a long, long time ago. And uh from then on, we just exploded, you know, because I love to train tricks. I love that's that's my specialty to teach dogs to do a lot of different stuff.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

So what's your favorite trick that you can do? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

That's the I'm telling you, the list is so long on tricks that I would know. But I'll tell you something, probably what I like the most right now is the painting. Yeah, because it's something that that I like I said, I never expected a dog to be able to paint this this good. And uh, it's only getting better. Yeah, it's getting better and better, and that's what I tell everybody wait a couple of years, my friend. If you this he's only been painting for a year and a half, wait a couple of years and you're gonna see some crazy stuff.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Yeah. Now, how do you get him to be relaxed? I mean, what is there a certain time period? You only do it maybe 30 minutes, or I mean, do you do you put him on a clock, or do you just go until he's done?

SPEAKER_01 6:06

On the painting, we do very short sessions. I mean, especially in the beginning, because I mean, we want I want to teach the dog that this is fun, this is this is not like a job that he has to do and and just pain, pain, pain, pain like that, you know. So we just do in the beginning, it was just like five, ten minutes, play and then then do some play with the ball, give him lots of good treats and stuff like that. So once we start with that, once I got him rolling, he would just go and stay in front of the canvas, like, okay, let's do this, let's do this, you know. So the more he asked me, the more we painted. And uh, I try to keep the sessions uh about 10-15 minutes at a time. I don't like to stretch him too long because I don't want him to start getting tired or or stressed out or anything like that. This is okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

He gets tired or do you get tired?

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Well, my uh I don't get too tired. My back sometimes from bending down because I'm the one that has to go and put the brush and bring clean the brush and change a brush and all that. He's he's pretty much the the the badass that just okay, bring their brush, okay. And he does what he's supposed to do, and then he gets treats, you know.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

So right. It's so funny because nowadays, you know, with AI and everything else, sometimes people see the videos like, oh, that's AI, it's gotta be AI. Well, it's not, it's the real deal. And I was there to witness it, so I know, you know, uh flat out and stuff. But all your paintings you do, you video everything and you show all the processing.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Yes, we uh we videotape every painting that we do, every stroke. So I have tons and tons of files of videos where the dog starts a painting and finishes the painting. Of course, when I put it in the internet, I'm I have to make a video that was maybe three, four hours, put it into a minute and a half, so it goes like and it's gone, you know. So so people think that uh that is that I'm using uh wires, that I'm using this, that is AI, all that kind of stuff. So, but you know what? That's what I like.

SPEAKER_02 7:55

Right.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

I like to see the that's a great compliment. Exactly. Unbelievable, that cannot happen. Thank you. You know, it's like that's what I want. If they say it was all no big deal, like ah, then I'm moving to doing something else, you know.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

Right. It was funny because you know, my son even said that. He's like, that's gotta be, he's gotta have fishing wire, something's gotta be attached to his arm. How's that dog doing all that? I'm like, no, he they train the dog, his look at his hands, his hands is creating the movement and stuff with him. Yeah, but in the in the in the record retrospect, you have to have some artist skills yourself to be able to do that. Because the blending and the colors that he does is amazing.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Yeah, I mean, from day one since I was a little kid, I have a lot of common sense in how to do stuff. In other words, like if I see somebody painting something, it's like, why can't I do it? Yeah, what is so special about this guy painting a painting? No, I can do it too. That's right. So I figure out and and and practice and it is it's done. If I see somebody uh, I don't know anything much about mechanics, but if I see somebody, if somebody changing an engine of a car or something, it's like, why can't I do it?

SPEAKER_00 8:59

Right. If they can do it, why can't I?

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Exactly. 100%. Exactly. So if I want to change that engine, I will study how to change an engine and what tools do I need or whatever, and it's done because it's all common sense. It's just and having a drive to do things that the some people will stop and say, no, I don't want to do it because I can't. I I I that can't uh word out, I don't like to use it.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

Right. I don't I don't have that in my dictionary either, you know. So at the end of the day, I mean, come on, a dog if a dog can paint a picture of Rocky, you know, uh the way he did it, yeah, and I know it took a long time, but I also know it didn't take a long time for what he did. You know what I'm saying? Like it was so detailed and everything that a human, what are we to complain about? You know, that you can't do something. Absolutely you can do it.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

So yeah, even the skateboard, I mean, is like he's an amazing skateboarder.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

He skateboards? Oh, he skateboards.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Really? And and and jumpy, the one that I had before. Yeah, holy cow. We're talking about 12 feet uh bowls up and down, changing up in the air, coming down, high jumps, name it.

SPEAKER_00 10:04

When did you know he could skateboard? I mean, would you just see a skateboard and just hop on it one day?

SPEAKER_01 10:08

Or was like that's what I was telling you. It's about getting the idea, getting something in your mind, like, okay, let's do this and go for it. Because a lot of times when I do something, it's like I don't know that's gonna happen. Like when I started skating uh teaching the dogs to skateboard, it was like, whoa, jumped a little curve, and like awesome, you know, but then it was no more, then a bigger jump, and then it was a there were the bowls and the and the and the rivers and and and and why and going through without crashing, going through all kinds of obstacles, and then like what, you know, so it's like we learn at the same time, and and it's that's that's the cool thing about training that I like is the process, right? Is that like I put a my put my mind to do something, and then the process is what what I really enjoy the most. Once it's done, then I'm not so crazy about it and move into something else or something that's more difficult, or or you know.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

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SPEAKER_01 11:37

Yeah, he was a regular puppy, but I but uh since I've been doing this for a long time, I can't I can know how to guide him and teach him how to do the the right things.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

So I mean you taught him how to pee without peeing.

SPEAKER_01 11:49

He was lifting up his leg as a joke. Yeah, he learned how to pee in the toilet. You might want to put that video.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Yeah, well to throw that out there for sure. He pee in the toilet.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Yeah, he pee in the toilet, poop in the toilet, he knows how to pick up. I need to teach my dog that, man. So, no, I mean, he comes to the house just like any other dog, and from day one, it's training time. Training time means education. A training doesn't mean you're gonna mistreat the dog or force him to do all kinds of things or correct him or none of that stuff. It's about guiding the dog, it's about educating the dog about how do you want him in your life. You know, you the dog gets home, you teach him how to be in a crate, you teach him how to wait, how to go pee and party outside, blah, blah, blah. And uh comes the housebreaking, there comes the basic obedience, there comes uh tricks and uh and agility and play frisbee, play ball, play tug. There's so many things that we that we that we can do with our dogs. That's and that's that's the fun part, you know.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

The key is taking the time and doing it though.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

You have to do it. You know, you have to do it. I have I have trained people that were not dog trainers, older people too. I have trained people, I've trained, I trained people that never had a dog in their lives, and then always they decide to train the dog.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

And they put the time and they put the training and they learn. And if you see their dogs, they look like professionals.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

Their dogs look like better than a lot of professionals that you see out there. Why? Because they put the time, they believe that they could do it, and uh, and then they did it, you know. And the best part is that it's something that they're in, they have a good time doing, and the dog enjoys to be with the owner too. It's not about just teaching obedience, he'll sit down and stay calm, and not utilizing it in a real life situation, or uh teach him just to play frisbee or ball or whatever, and then just let the dog in the house being a dog, you know. This is more like family stuff. We they're they're family, they're with us all the time, and we spend a lot of quality time with them.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

Now, when you when you correct a dog, obviously as a puppy too, and stuff, how do you correct them? Like, do you use the the the stem machines, you know, the the the shot?

SPEAKER_01 13:54

You know what?

SPEAKER_00 13:55

I've how do you feel about it?

SPEAKER_01 13:57

When uh for example, I'm I'm not against shot collars, actually. We have used them many, many times for many occasions, but uh since I'm putting so much time into the dog, right? Then since they're puppies, even if it's just a little grind by the scrub and say, hey, like look on his face and say, hey, then the dog learns disrespect from you when when they do something wrong. So the main thing, the one of the main things that I teach him since they're very puppy is good boy and no, period. So if the dog does something wrong, all I have to say is the dog, oops, sorry, and a good boy, then it's a good boy, you know. So so you gotta keep that balance. So as the puppy grows up, there is that respect from you uh for you that the puppy already has. So you really don't have to go into major types of corrections or anything like that, unless he gets into a fight. Let's say he he decides to get into a fight and beat up my Jack Russell or something like that. Then I'm gonna kick his butt. He's gonna feel it. He's gonna feel that hey, you do not do this shit in my house. That is not acceptable. And and uh, and I'm not gonna be if he wanted to bite the Jack Russell, I'm not gonna separate him and put him over there and you go here. No, I'm gonna correct his ass and then I'm gonna put them together. Like, try it again. And they'll say, Fuck no, I messed up, sorry, and then you know, and that's the end. Maybe he'll try again, right? He'll try a couple times. Yeah, so that's why I'm telling you about this because he got his butt kicked a couple times by doing it. So yeah, that's that's what I can remember that he that he could correct it really good.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

So he knows you're in charge. Exactly. Um, you know, talk about the movies. So, how do you get a dog in a movie? You know, obviously he's got a lot of talents and does a lot of things. Like, is there a place where people can go? If somebody's got a dog at home and they feel like their dog is movie ready, you know, what do you have to do?

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Yeah, well, that's that's pretty tough. It's it's not tough to do it. It's just that you have to deal with the industry. Okay, the industry, the movie industry, all the you there are a lot of companies, animal companies, that they're pretty much the ones that are in charge of the dogs going to the movies. Why? Because a production company is not just gonna go and hire John John on the street because his dog does tricks. That's not gonna happen. Right. It has to have some type of resume and and they have to be proven that they can finish the movie and they're responsible and all that kind of stuff, blah, blah, blah, to get that contract. So uh the best way to do it is to work with these companies. Right. Okay, I was a I did many.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Sound like an agent. So I got an agent.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

Exactly. Well, but I was a freelance trainer. In other words, I I did not just stuck with one company. I worked with most of the companies in LA. We got along well. We, you know, I had my train dogs. If if somebody needs a dog to do a backflip, they're the ones that get in the calls because the production companies will call the big companies. They say, Hey, Omar, we need uh we need a dog to do a backflip or something like that. Do you have it? I say, Yeah, okay, went, boom, and it's get it and get it done. You know, right? And that was my specialty, uh, extreme tricks.

SPEAKER_00 16:53

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

So tricks that not a lot of people had out there.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

Uh-huh. So uh what's some of the craziest tricks that you've had your dogs do?

SPEAKER_01 17:01

Uh, there's tons of them, but sure. Some of the the main tricks, like I said, skateboarding. Skateboarding was huge. Yeah, skateboarding was huge because.

SPEAKER_00 17:09

You're pulling on a jet ski?

SPEAKER_01 17:10

Huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah, right with the colour. Jet ski, paddleboarding, all the stuff. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I got tons of videos. You can put them up. Crazy speed, not a like a little eh. Yeah. We're talking waves and uh and then crazy stuff.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

And same thing with the skateboard, it's always extreme stuff. The jumps.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

What about parachuting? You ever think about jumping on the plane with them or what? I thought about it, but I don't think they've done it. Yeah, that would go viral. I would love to see that.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

People have done it. People have done it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

But you know, there's a famous dog, uh Brody. I don't know if you know Brody from Tampa Bay. Yeah. So um Brody, I actually followed around for a while and stuff. I actually met him.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

Big Doodle, whatever he said.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

Yeah, yeah, his big doodle and stuff with Cliff as his uh as his owner and stuff. Great people. Um, but you know, that dog became real super famous. And you know, I met him in a hockey game when the Florida Panthers were there, uh, you know, fighting for the Stanley Cup at the time. But um interested in watching what a dog can do. But again, you know, you gotta have the right partner, you know you got the right person and stuff. And obviously, you're the right person because you've done so many extraordinary things with your dogs that most people wouldn't even attempt to probably do. But the reality is, you know, you told me this a little bit earlier, and I'm just gonna share this with the viewers that any dog has a capability of being great if you work with them.

SPEAKER_02 18:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

You know, because you've proven that. Like you took a dog. I mean, this wasn't a bred dog that had a great bloodline. Right. You bought it off Craigslist. You know what I'm saying? And you said you've taken some, you know, rescue dogs and you made them, you know, uh movie stars. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

So look at look at uh Oggie. I had Ogie, the Jack Russell from the movie The Artist. That's the first dog that ever got uh an Academy Award. That's the first dog that ever went up in the we went up in the red carpet and received the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, first dog to put his paws on the on the Chinese theater and in Hollywood. Uh and he was pretty much a rescue. I mean, he was he somebody had him and they were gonna send him to a to a dog pound because the dog was a crazy barker and blah blah blah. I picked him up and uh look where he ended up. One of the most famous dogs in the world.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Yeah. You know, being around dogs, animals, and actors, were there ever any actors that had issues with, you know, got a little nervous and scared about the dog or any instances that happened?

SPEAKER_01 19:23

It happens a lot. Um, I don't want to give too many names out, but yeah, it it it it does happen a lot. There's there are some actors that that very like I don't know, it's some some don't some of them they just don't like dogs. Some of them are just skittish of the dogs. Yeah for the main part, most most of them are really good. Yeah, most of them are really good. I've met tons of uh movie stars that and we sit down and talk about dogs and and they come and pet him and all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

So it's do they get paid? Who? The the dogs.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Well, I get paid.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

You get paid, really.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

Yes, yes, yes. Actually, there it's not a lot of money like people think. Yeah people think like, oh, your movies, you're loaded. No, that's not how it works. No, uh, dogs make uh uh something around $450 a day or something like that for the dog. And then the or the trainer gets uh we're Teamsters, so we're union, and we get paid so much an hour, minimum eight hours, transportation, all that kind of stuff. So when you get a good gig, it's like that's a pretty good, but it's not we don't make residuals.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

Right.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

So there's no residuals on the dogs.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

Once it's paid, it's done.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

And that's it. It sucks. It's really, really, really sucks. It's like, I mean, it's like, can you imagine a dog that goes out and does all the shit and makes a few thousand bucks? And that's it. Done. And then here comes a puppeteer that talks to the dog with a puppet. Hey, dog, whatever. And that that guy can show his hand is gonna get paid way more than than the trainer, the dog, and all of us, because he's gonna get residuals. So uh it's uh pretty unfair when it comes to to that.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

Sounds like it needs to be negotiated differently.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

It should, but you know what? What happens that is uh cutthroat, everybody's like afraid of doing it, and blah, blah, blah. So, I mean, I used to do pretty good because, like I said, I had the uh the specialty tricks. And I was very strict about that. Like, for example, somebody calls me for a backflip. Okay, like I said, a dog normally makes $450 a day. That's that's that's the rate. And somebody will say, Okay, I want a backflip, and I say, Okay, backflip is gonna cost you $5,000. And they jump back, it's like, what do you mean $5,000? It's gonna take two seconds to do it. And I said, Yeah, but it took me three years to train it.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

So, and they will pay it right away. Sure. Because they were not, they were not gonna be able to find another dog that did that backflip that well trained. There's a lot of people who know how to do it, their dogs do backflips, but they do it against them, or they brave the dog to they lure the dog to go around. But my dog was trained to do studio backflip. I could put him there, step back 10 feet away from him, and tell him to flip. To land where I want him to land. So he could be there, and an actor could be in front of the dog, and the actor can tell him to flip, and the dog flips, and done. Just like you know, just like that.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

So that's so crazy. You know, just how did you start that? Like the first time he did a backflip, like how did you start it? Were you risking him breaking his neck or something? Like it's all a process.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

It's all a process. Definitely. I mean, walk us through that real quick. Well, I mean, the the the backflip, actually, pretty much what it is, is to teach the dog. You lure him with a ball or a toy or something, and you teach him to go not in a full backflip, but like sideways, and you teach him and teach him, and then once the dog starts getting the idea, then uh then you can just give him the command and then you give him a reward after the dog does it. And then uh like with uh jumpies, the one that used to do my best backflip. I did ramps with him that he'll hit a ramp and go back and stuff like that, and do it in in places where the dog is not gonna get hurt, like high grass or or or even mats. Okay, so it took a while. It took a while to to get him to do a nice straight backflip in anywhere to be able to take him to a carpet with an area where there's carpet and the dog will do it. Never will do it like anything slippery or anything like that because the dog can slip and get hurt.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

So we have to be careful what we do, very, very careful. One of the things that he used to do a lot, and he does it too, is like the high jumps that they jump on me. I've done tons of of those scenes on on for TV work that they jump from buses up on the bus, way at the comes full speed running, and and they you know they travel 20, 30 feet in the air and I catch them. You know, so people when they see that they go, Oh my god, putting the dog in danger, whatever. No, that took years. We started from jumping uh one yard, two yards, three yards, getting the right focus for me to be able to stretch the distance and make the dog jump. And uh actually I was the one getting hurt all the time. I mean my elbows went, my knees went, every name it. Oh, when I when I was doing with him uh the the the truss fall, you can probably put the video when I was doing the trussfall with him, it was for uh uh for a uh training equipment that I was uh doing a promo. And when he went to do the trussfall, he slipped, so I had to jump and catch him and rip my uh bicep tendon. My bicep all the way up here completely. So it's like I'm the one that got hurt because I'm I'm not just making the trick, I'm spotting the dog to make sure that he doesn't get hurt.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

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SPEAKER_01 26:55

No, nothing. Uh I'm trying to think. Not with the dogs. I mean, that's when we were doing uh I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

They just, you know, dogs are like humans, right? They get sick or get a little added.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

We were doing we were doing a movie one time. I don't want to say names also, but it was a big movie. What's the movie? You can say it. I can say it but it's a lot of time. Something happened in the with the with the with the animals and other ones like so anyway, so it was a big movie. That's okay. You can still say it. It's all right. But but the animal company is gonna it's gonna take a heat.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

What? About what? We don't know anything wrong, we're just knowing what movie it was in.

SPEAKER_01 27:29

Yeah, but then now you want me to tell you what happened then. Yeah. We're shooting water for elephants, Bruce Westpoon and Rod Pattis. And the carriage of the horses just they hit uh uh because they were do supposed to be inside a tent uh circus, and they hit uh at the side of uh some um bleachers and they s they freaked out and they ran. I ran, everybody ran. Luckily it was no, we didn't have the dogs right there, but but the horses just came out, and luckily they hit the Wranglers, man, these guys were good. They were able just to jump and lasso the freaking horses and and and just drag and and and and went all the way until until they stopped the freaking horse. But that was crazy. Yes that was one that was some crazy shit. That was what it does. Yeah, I was very scared because I mean the horses could have killed this guy, sure. Because they they were just going like in an S T P like that, and and the guy just hung from the horse like crazy.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

That is that is a little bit crazy. How do you feel about all the AI stuff now in movies? Do you feel like it's gonna take away the the real stuff? Because like you're doing things legit, like real stuff with your dogs, and now all of a sudden they can just AI the stuff and make a dog do a backflip and not really do it. You know what I'm saying? Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

AI right now is crazy. What I've seen on AI, I mean, in the old days to do any type of CGI or anything anything like that, it was so expensive for for the production companies. I mean, anything like they wanted a dog to make it, you know, AI using AI, it was really expensive. Now people are making it on their own phones, and uh it's uh it's really incredible. I mean, it's crazy what they're doing. I it's definitely gonna take a lot of uh jobs for people in the studio work. Definitely, definitely. Because you're already seeing on the on the on the commercials, sure. You see all kinds of commercials already that's AI, that's AI, that's AI.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

Right.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

And uh so yes, definitely gonna they're gonna take the hit. Not me, I'm not doing that shit anymore.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

So you're good. Now you got a uh a painting. You're you're doing the painting stuff. We're painting, we're painting that so where do you see that going? Are you gonna open up a gallery, you think? I don't know. I mean, I know you sell a lot of pictures, you know, and and rightfully so, but you know, would you ever think about opening up a gallery?

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Uh I thought I thought about it. I talked to a friend of mine about maybe. Oh, we'll we'll see in the near future what happens, see how everything goes. But like as for now, we're just is we're doing something that we enjoy doing, and that's that's the whole thing. Just doing something that we enjoy doing, and the dog is not gonna get hurt. Because Monkey was very famous in the beginning, it was by doing his parkour and jumps and uh all the tight ropes and all kinds of crazy stuff that he was doing. That's what he was known for in the internet. And uh, but I was thinking is like, you know what, he was almost six when I started, and I was like, you know what? I want to do something. Of course, I want to do a painting, and I didn't know how far it was gonna go, but I wanted to find something that we could do together that the dog's not gonna get hurt because when the dog is doing all these jumps, it's not about if he's gonna get hurt. The truth is he will get hurt when sooner or later, when because if they're doing all these crazy jumps and he's a big boy, you know, his joints sooner or later are gonna start uh hurting. So I'm really glad that this painting stuff just came in because I get to do something different with him. And he's in my house, air conditioning, and the dough is painting, and it's all cool. Of course, he get he does get a lot of exercise. We go and play frisbee, we play ball, we take him swimming, all that kind of stuff. So he has a good life. Let me put it that way.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

He's definitely got a good life. He's got a good master, too. So we can see that. Where are you from originally?

SPEAKER_01 31:11

I am Colombian, Colombian.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

And you know, growing up as a kid, did you have dogs growing up as a young boy?

SPEAKER_01 31:17

Always, always. My family, everybody's been like crazy animal people since I was a little kid. Okay. My older brother used to train dogs when I was a little kid in Colombia.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

And uh you've been kind of around it a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 31:28

Yeah, yeah, since I was a little kid. And but it was it was like a gift, it was something natural that I had because uh I used to train like my German Shepherd when I was like 10, 11 years old. I would go out and any any trick that I saw Lassi or Renting Tin do on TV. Oh, yeah, let's go, Kaiser, to the park.

SPEAKER_00 31:46

He's like park, he's like his name was Kaiser.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

Yeah, I just go to the park and I will teach him how to do stuff. How?

unknown 31:54

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

It was just natural. It was just for me.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

What do you do though, man? When you throw a frisbee to the dog, you and the first time you throw the frisbee to the frog, you eat to the frog, to the dog, and you're trying to get him to bring the frisbee back to you. But he doesn't. You gotta go get the frisbee. Well, I mean, then you gotta start over again and you throw it the other end of the park and he doesn't go get it. Training him, there's gotta be, I mean, come on, help us out. Well, how do we do that?

SPEAKER_01 32:17

The thing is that everything has a foundation. Everything. And from in my opinion, all the tricks, everything that we do has obedience foundation. Like you were saying, I'm gonna call him and he doesn't come. So that means that he doesn't know his obedience.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

Right.

SPEAKER_01 32:32

Because if the dog knows his obedience, you say come, he's gotta come. I don't care if he has a frisbee or a ball or a rack on his mouth, you say come, the dog is gonna come to you. So that's that's that part is is not is not important. Um about teaching him to catch a frisbee, you get it, you teach him to play with different toys, frisbee, ball, tugs, all that kind of stuff. Especially balls. When they're puppies, they love to go and get the balls. So the dog already knows how to go and retrieve it, and then and then you get the frisbee, and then you roll it like this. The frisbee rolls, he goes and catches it just like if he's a ball. Same thing, same thing, catches it, brings it back to you, and then once the dog is get it gets really good at it, then that you can see that the dog is going with speed and catching it. If the dog is not going with speed and catching it fast, then I don't even bother to put it in the air yet. Once it's going and and sweeping the the the that makes a lot of sense.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

I would never thought about that.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

Then I would just simply start throwing it. And to throw the frisbee, that's another thing that you have to know how to throw frisbee right.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

If you don't, then you're gonna run into problems because the frisbee is gonna go like this, gonna go like that, it's gonna catch air and go high. So you have to practice yourself how to throw the frisbee correctly. And uh normally in the beginning, I throw it nice and straight and very low. So the dog comes and just like takes it and comes back. So once the dog is committing, going after the frisbee, then I start putting a little bit of uh I bring it up a little higher, maybe a couple of feet or something like that. The dog goes, catches it, and then you start going higher and higher. And of course, you do not want to go too high because that can hurt the dog. Right. And if you don't know how to frisbee, hit uh throw the frisbee, it might catch up some air and just all of a sudden just go up really high. And if the dog has a lot of drive, a lot of speed, the dog's just gonna go try to catch the frisbee too high, land on his back, and he can get hurt. So I like frisbee, but I like to make sure that I'm not doing it too high and uh straight long shots. It's really good for their stamina because I mean they have to really pick up speed and just go get it.

SPEAKER_00 34:31

Yeah. So if you were training a dog, what was the first thing you would you you would person at home should should do with their dog?

SPEAKER_01 34:37

The first thing that you can do with your dog is to teach your dog how to be on a crate. The dog comes, the puppy comes home, goes straight to a crate. Period. The puppy's gonna start screaming and yelling, I want to get out. You do not let him out. If you let him out, then you're teaching him that when he barks, you let him out. But most of the times, if I get a puppy that barks too much or goes crazy, I just put a towel on top of the crate and just let him bark. Okay, if I want to if we if I want to do a correction, some type of uh negative reinforcement because of the barking, I can just go and tap on the crate hard, like that. But the dog never sees me because there's a towel on top of it. So there's no conflict of me, the dog looking at me like, oh, you're you're the bad guy. Exactly. So it's just like a sound like that. So he be quiet. And then uh once the puppy's quiet for a while, then that's when he goes out. He goes out, he pees, he poops, he plays a little bit, and then goes back in the crate again. So it's uh you gotta be very consistent about crating, in and out, in and out for, I don't know, it depends on the dog, but I said a good at least a couple of weeks to make sure that you do that. And of course, you can spend time with your puppy on top of you. I do it, watching TV and the sofa, whatever, as long as I'm not letting go in the house and make a mistake. The idea is not to try not to let him make mistakes. You're the human, you're the one that understands how ever what everything around the house, and and it's up to you to raise a puppy accordingly, you know.

SPEAKER_00 36:05

Right, right. Um, you know, when do when do you say, okay, you don't need to create anymore? You know, I I you know, and I went through this. So I had a I had a real good golden doodle. His name was Yankee. He was my best friend, and he was probably the smartest dog I've ever had, for sure, definitely. And he was just so good. He was such a great dog. Like he never messed in the house. He would go to the door, he would actually go to my urinal if he had to pee. So, you know, he he did those things and you know, he he listened. He was a great dog. Unfortunately, I lost him and he died young, which sucks. Um, you know, and you kind of for forget that. But then I got a new dog, I got Bronx now. He's a puppy, um, still learning, but it's like I was used to Yankee could stay out of his crate, he'd be out around the house. He he could he controlled the house. Yeah. And he protected the house. When do you know, okay, now's a good time where your dog can can handle the home?

SPEAKER_01 36:57

Okay. Then again, you have to understand that there's tons of temperaments, tons of different breeds, attitudes, name it. And they there are tons of them. Okay, like some people say, like uh, some people I've heard people say, like, oh, you can never train a dog to be uh just to do it by positive reinforcement only only. Okay, and realistically, there are dogs like your dog, yeah, the one that you were saying. Yeah, there are sir, there are some dogs that are perfect. You don't even need to be a trainer, right? You just talk to the dogs, and they're like this, especially like Goldens and those type of dogs. They're perfect.

SPEAKER_00 37:30

You know, I will give a shout out to Nick White because he did train off leash canine, did train him for two weeks. Oh, they did train him. They did train him for two weeks, so they did put them, they gave him a good head start. Yeah, you know, and everything they turned out.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

Yeah, foundation training is very, very important. But like I said, there are some dogs that uh they're angels. Yeah, they're just freaking angels and they they follow everything you do. They they never mess in the house, they they they don't bark, they don't chew. It's like, but they're very little of those guys. Most of dogs, they need to be trained, they need to be, hey, especially dogs that have drive and stuff, border calips, like you have borderlies? Yeah, but border calips, malinois, working dogs. They're working dogs, they have that drive to be moving and doing stuff. So it's really up to you to guide them and teach them, hey, you do this and you don't do that. You do this and you don't do that. Right. And that's it. You know, it's just you're you're gonna put the time into the exercising, the taking them out, running, all that kind of stuff. And there's a time where the dog has to chill in the house. It's like, for example, he's a Malinois. People think like, oh man, you gotta spend hours on these dogs and and then exercising for for an hour until they get I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean, as long as there's a balance, I mean you go to the house, he's gonna be chilling in the sofa, just like any other dog.

SPEAKER_00 38:42

And it's you know well, you know what, the they get a bad rap, just like the pit bulls, right? You know, they you know, people think that everyone that they see is mean and it's gonna come, you know, bite your head off. But um, sweet dog. You know what I mean? It's sweet, sweet boys if they're if they're trained the proper way.

SPEAKER_01 38:57

Yeah, and also comes with the bloodlines too a lot too. You know, there are some heavy working lines that they're heavy working lines on their mind, on their head, it's just like bite, bite, bite, bite, bite. And if if if you get that type of malenoir, then that's what he's gonna do.

SPEAKER_02 39:13

All right.

SPEAKER_01 39:14

You know, you're gonna pet him bat your lower place and buy your wife and the kids and everybody else. So it's like it sometimes you can even sometimes with training you can't control that.

SPEAKER_00 39:24

Well, you know, talk about training a little bit because I know you train a little bit for canine as well, for police force and different things too, right? Those dogs are being trained a little bit differently because they're not doing tricks and everything, but you might want them to go bite somebody. You might want them to go, you know, grab somebody that's a danger and stuff. What's the difference in that and how hard is it to train dogs to do those types of things?

SPEAKER_01 39:43

Well, I mean, uh, police dogs are working dogs that are training specifically for those tasks. Okay, they're very strong dogs that uh I don't know much about lately. I've been kind I've kind of been out of the hoop for a little while, but but in the some years back, a lot of those dogs were coming from Europe. There were dogs that had basic uh title, working titles and this. So they had a lot of bite work on them. And then they were they will come here, then they will go through courses about teaching to be obedient and blah, blah, blah. But and a lot of police dogs, they they these guys have very little control on them. A lot of these guys, when the dog is biting, they don't even out, they don't release. If you really look at the videos out there, you see the guys that have like a screwdriver, and when the dog is biting the person, they have to prior their their mouth open to to let go. So so they're very drivey dogs. I mean, they're they're serious shit. They go out to get the guy, and that's that's their job. Right. So they're not gonna be putting tricks or doing silly things.

SPEAKER_00 40:44

You wear the suit at all where they come after you and they they bite you on the suit and take you down. What does that feel like, even though you got a suit on? It's still there's still some strong, strong grips.

SPEAKER_01 40:53

Well, it really depends on the dog. It depends on the suit. Okay. Uh I used to do some uh French ring sport that we used to have a very light suit. We're talking light. I mean, that shit would go through the suit and hurt you big time. It's not like the big police suits that you see out there, because when you're doing ring sport, you're going against the dog. So you're trying to make the dog miss, you're trying the dog miss the bite, uh, all kinds of stuff. So we used to use some very light suits, but we're professionals. I mean, with the uh if the dog bites, for example, in the leg or in the arm, as soon as the dog bites, you get out of the bite and leave the dog in the material. And and then you fight him or do whatever you need to do. But every once in a while you get a you get a nasty dog that instead of just going there, we'll go do into a rebite and you go, ow, you know, major bruising, major, major bruising. I mean, sometimes they'll go. I got I got scars through the suits really when when uh when the dogs bit me. And uh, but yeah, there's a lot of pressure. There's a lot of pressure on those bites. That's that's all I can tell you. It hurts.

SPEAKER_00 41:51

It hurts. Well, it's amazing what they do. I and Monkey, was he on the show America's Top Dog? Yes. Okay, so he was on that show too, which is a show where these dogs are going out there sniffing drugs, they're finding things, they got obstacle courses they're going through, they're taking down people, yeah, you know, and stuff. Um, yeah, what was that like? Tell us a little bit about that experience.

SPEAKER_01 42:08

Yeah, sure. Uh that was uh that was an experience because Monkey was only like 15 months. Actually, I told him that he was 16, so they let us in. Uh and uh the obstacle course it was gonna be no big deal because that's what I that's what we did in my house is the the parkour. The uh the sniffing, he had a little basic foundation, so it's like I had to train. I had to train like in two weeks to get this dog ready. And he was only like 15 months old. Uh he had no bite work. He had uh the only basic uh playing with the dog and and biting the the the tapo like just playing with me, you know. So he had no bite work, and I was like, geez. So I took him to a friend of mine and and we tested him. I said, You think we can do this in two weeks? And he said, No, I don't think so. You know, so so we worked. We played with it. We took him to another friend of mine and and we did bite uh funny, uh like playful bites and stuff like that. And and I didn't know if he was gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

So uh we went. But you know what? I love what you just said and what you just did. The first person said, No, I don't think I can do it. You went to another one. You're like, okay, I'm gonna get TV, I'm gonna find somebody that says they can. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:13

Well, is it it wasn't that they were, I mean, he was like, he was a friend of mine, and he said, I don't think so. Right. Because we were he was thinking about having a really hard biting dog and and and stopping the man. And the dog this dog had never been against somebody who was gonna be a bad bad guy.

SPEAKER_00 43:29

Bad guy, right?

SPEAKER_01 43:29

You know, so then uh I didn't keep I didn't I didn't go with him again, it was because he was farther away, but then I went to somebody that was closer, and it just went every morning and we did a little bit of training. And actually he liked it and he enjoyed. But when we did when it came and the show, we passed the uh we passed the obstacles and then we came with the sniffing and the and the attack work. So they gave us one chance to practice with it with the decoy. So uh so I took him out and I told the guy that so there were two guys. Right, one was telling the decoy what to do and what not to do, and blah blah blah. So I told the guy, tell the decoy that he's a very young dog. First time doing this shit. I don't know how he's gonna do, whatever, you know. Just so the guy told him, Hey, he's a young guy, just treat him nice or whatever, right? That's okay, cool. So the guy got out with the suit, hey, whatever, and I and I just let him go and he bit nice. Bang, he nailed the guy. Good.

SPEAKER_00 44:25

And I it was funny hearing that he bit nice.

SPEAKER_01 44:27

He bit nice, it was a nice quick bite. And and this dog has never been taught to out, let go or recall or none of that shit. But he had really good obedience, so I knew that if I call him, he'd come to me.

SPEAKER_02 44:37

Right.

SPEAKER_01 44:38

So he's biting, and I told him to let go. I told him to speak actually, because he he has to, in order to speak, he has to let go. So I don't have to speak and he let go and the guy stopped, and then I told him to bite again just to give him a reward because he bit. I was like, he didn't go okay, buy again, you know. So he bit again, and the guy got so pissed at me, the decoy. He got pissed. Get this freaking dog off my back. Don't let him bite if I don't tell you. Like, what the fuck's wrong with this dude, man? It's like I've been doing this for a long ass time, and I know that that's a call, that's called a reward bite, you know. But he was pissed. I don't know what was wrong with the guy. I don't like I don't know. I don't even want to talk about it. But anyways, he was he was he was just screaming, it's fucking off of me. Don't let him bite me if I don't tell you or something. Like, what the fuck? So I said, okay, so I'll call him back and leave. I gave him, I yell at him back. I feel I said him a few things too. But now I'm thinking, fuck, now we have a well, now we have a conflict with the with the helper, and that's the worst thing you can have. Right. Because a a helper can can run a dog very quickly if it if if it's a beginner, you know. So it's like when we're going through all that, I was like, oh man, I don't know if it's I don't know what's gonna happen. If this guy puts a pressure on monkey, monkey's gonna go. There's no way. So long story short, we did everything and and he bit the guy. He actually slipped. He slipped and came back and bit and held him tight, and then I called him off and he called off, and I was like, oh shit, he did it. So it was good.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

It was good. That's good. You know, you talk about health, and you know, a lot of dogs obviously, unfortunately, they don't get long lives like us, you know, and they become our best friends and and and we lose them. What does monkey eat? Like, what do you what do you do as far as there's so much food out there these days and everything else? People don't know what to feed their dogs, what not to feed their dogs, or give them raw hide, you know, toys and things like that. You know, what what should they stay away from? Tell the viewers what you do.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

I mean, uh kind of like switch around a lot of foods. Uh, there's a few really good foods out there, and uh, I also do a lot of raw food. Raw food, I think, is probably the best that you that you can give your dog.

SPEAKER_00 46:46

Yeah. So, you know, one of the dogs and I told you this actually um was my border collie when I was my very first dog when I was growing up, um, was named Buckus, you know, from from the movie with Rocky Had. But uh that dog lived to be the longest dog I ever had. And my grandmother used to feed him pasta and meatballs.

SPEAKER_02 47:03

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 47:04

So every Sunday he would have a nice plate of pasta and meatballs as well. Wow. So, you know, table food isn't a bad thing, you know, for if it's the right table food, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 47:14

I guess. I mean, as long as you keep him, you know, with the good balance meals and blah, blah, blah. The problem now is that we have so much cancer everywhere that it's very scary. It's very, very scary.

SPEAKER_00 47:24

How do we stay? How do we get away from that? Like, what do what do we do to protect our dogs from that stuff?

SPEAKER_01 47:28

Uh, you gotta be like a human. You gotta be like uh, I mean, we don't protect ourselves from cancer. We eat all kinds of shit.

SPEAKER_02 47:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:35

And uh and they do the same thing. A lot of these uh cheap, uh cheap uh kibble and stuff like that, it's uh it's not good.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

Right. Um, what would you suggest best food or something that uh you know if they're had a had a healthy, they're trying to have a healthy dog, what's what's the best line of food out there today? I will go with raw food. Yeah, yeah. That's just it. Well, listen, this is the part of the show where I do a run rapid fire questions, okay? Oh, yeah. Get quick answers from you. All right, you ready? Who is more stubborn? You or monkey?

SPEAKER_01 48:09

Me.

SPEAKER_00 48:09

Oh, okay, okay. Who will apologize first? You or monkey?

SPEAKER_01 48:13

Cam.

SPEAKER_00 48:14

Okay. Who's the boss?

SPEAKER_01 48:16

I'm the boss.

SPEAKER_00 48:18

Okay. Who's more famous?

SPEAKER_01 48:21

Monkey.

SPEAKER_00 48:22

What's monkey's favorite snack?

SPEAKER_01 48:24

Liver.

SPEAKER_00 48:25

Liver. Oh boy. Beef, liver, yeah. Beef, liver. Okay. That's cool. What's up the monkey hates? He's very jealous. Jealous.

SPEAKER_01 48:33

He's very jealous. He's he hates when people order dogs come to me.

SPEAKER_00 48:37

Okay. It's like, that's my man. That's my master. Get away from him. Famous thing monkey has ever done.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

Painting.

SPEAKER_00 48:43

Painting's crazy. It really is. What's the number one mistake new dog owners make?

SPEAKER_01 48:48

Treat a dog like a human and and and just not training him, not putting the time and and training and effort.

SPEAKER_00 48:57

If your dog suddenly started acting differently, what's the first thing you should check?

SPEAKER_01 49:01

Well, if it's something uh health-wise, you gotta go to a vet. Sure. That's uh that's that. If it's if it's because of the temperament, then you have to study why happened and and and figure out to get him out of the stage.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

Yeah, because a lot of times people say, you know, a dog drug draws blood, it's a little different than if they don't. So, you know, is that is that truth to that whole thing. If a dog draws blood on somebody, you know, you gotta be careful now because now they're a fighting dog.

SPEAKER_01 49:30

It depends on the bite. It really it really depends on the bite. I mean, because there are you could draw blood and uh and a light bite. Yeah. And you could draw blood when he clamps, like like if like uh like on a dog fight. And yeah, when once a dog bites like that, then uh then you gotta be careful.

SPEAKER_00 49:47

Yeah, cool. Walmart, it's been super, super cool having you here. Even more cooler, watching Monkey Paint. Uh I'm super excited to see where he's gonna be in the next couple years because right now he's already amazing. So I can only imagine the details and the stuff that you're gonna continue to do with him. Anything else you want to tell the viewers, anybody out there right now that's got dogs that they think are you know doing some extraordinary things, what they should do and what's some of the next steps.

SPEAKER_01 50:11

All right, what I can tell everybody is that, and I always tell people is that you can do this, okay? You can do this, you can do this. Like I've worked with a lot of people that did never train a dog before, and they put the time, they put the effort, and they spend all the time the positive training time with their dogs, and and they can do this. They can do this. There is a guy in Iran that is painting and he's following monkey, he's following his footsteps and the post steps, and he's doing really, really good. I've I've I've trained people to do tons of tricks with their little dogs, Jack Russell's, Border Collis, all kinds of things, and uh they're doing great. So anybody can do this, but you just gotta put the time and set and try not to finish quick because that's the biggest problem that people make. They're like, okay, I want to train my dog to paint, and they're already thinking about doing all kinds of things, and the dog doesn't even know how to hold a brush in his mouth. So you gotta start from the beginning, go through the basics and make sure that they're all there. And then the rest is history. It it can be done. It's uh and it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun to spend time with your dogs and and doing all kinds of things that the average person doesn't do.

SPEAKER_00 51:21

There you have it, folks. You heard it right there. You can do it. Have a little fun with your pets at home. You know, treat them right. And as your boy Wam Bam always says, if your life was a movie, would it be worth watching? And if the answer is no, stop being ordinary and start being extraordinary. Till next Wednesday, stay positive and keep testing negative.