I ran across this article on the Critic’s Notebook on the NYTimes.com about at  three upcoming T.V. shows about the struggles of dogs and their owners. These shows will be airing this summer so for us big time dog lovers I think we are the perfect target market to watch some of these programs. I am going to watch “Dogs in The City” for sure just to see how Justin Silver deals with the troubled dog owners of New York City. I hope you will have time to watch a few of these programs this summer. Enjoy! Christina Lee – Deaf Dogs Rock

 

Loyal and Loving Beyond Reason, and That’s Just the Owners –

By: Neil Genzlinger – Critic’s Notebook – NYTimes.com

Dogs are having a television moment, with three very different programs about them turning up in the next few weeks on three very different outlets. Together they provide a dizzying display of reprehensible behavior, inordinate neediness and striking devotion. By humans.

CBS brings its version of dog whispering to prime time on Wednesday night with a series called “Dogs in the City,” which features a personable young man named Justin Silver, who has a keen sense of what is going on inside the canine head. There are other dog behaviorist shows, of course; this one’s gimmick is that all of its dogs are in New York City.

Do you have to be crazy to own a dog in a heavily paved, exceedingly crowded place like New York? Apparently not, because, Mr. Silver says, one out of eight New Yorkers owns a dog; that many people can’t be wrong. In the premiere Mr. Silver finds himself counseling a few who may not have lost their minds but have clearly lost their perspective.

For instance, a businesswoman named Elli insists on taking her dog, Charlotte, to work, even though the animal tries to attack anyone who walks through the door, and not in that friendly lick-your-face way. This is particularly problematic because “work” is some kind of talent agency, and models with dog bite scars are probably not all that marketable.

To view the full article by Neil Genzlinger, please click here. 

Photo above By: Steven Latham Productions – Tanya Dukes, left and Laura Guydon, bathing a dog in “Shelter Me” broadcast in May and June on PBS stations.

Photo: HBO – A scene from “One Nation Under Dog” an HBO documentary.

 

Photo by Brian Friedman/CBS – On CBS’s “Dogs in the City” Justin Silver, center, often finds the problems begin with the owners, not the dogs.