Not what it looks like
A phenomenon took this country's digital cable audience (or maybe just my roommates and people that came by our house on Friday nights) by storm, the National Geographic Channel's The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan. Cesar is simultaneously assertive, comical, authoritative, rigid, naive, and absurd. He also has several homosexual tendencies. He likes to imitate the behavior of some of the dogs, which for some reason usually involves him arching his back and getting on his knees and shaking his shoulders and making noises such as "Adi, didi, didi."
Above all, though, Cesar is a dog's best friend. He understands dogs as dogs, not as toys for human amusement or emotional crutches, but as complex creatures with whom one must choose to enter into a relationship. He fulfills the primordial needs of dogs under his care. He treats them as instinct-driven animals, not as human beings, and it is easy to see the results on the dogs' own faces. They repay Cesar for his leadership with good behavior, loyalty, and affection. Few things could make life more enjoyable than a dog that is willing to requite its owner's love. Thus, unanimously, we declare Cesar Millan, Dog Whisperer, our "Man of the Year" for 2006.
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