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(More customer reviews)We picked up this book during our research about how to get our two cats, Ted and Sylvia, jobs in the entertainment industry, for we had agreed among ourselves that they are super cute, and if we liked them, and we are very picky, why shouldn't the world?
You get a lot for your money with STARPET. At first I thought author Bash Dibra was from India; his name sounds like a Bollywood star. But, as he reveals, he grew up in a refugee camp in his native Albania, where he became obsessed with dogs and how to train them properly for entertainment. Growing up, he went to Hollywood where he met the legends of star pet training, including Rudd Weatherwax, the man behind LASSIE, and Frank Inn, the man who trained BENJI. The Old Masters, Bash calls them. They told him their secrets and now he passes them on, like a baton made of beef jerky.
work training the pets of a dozen or more Hollywood and music stars, including the pets of Jennifer Lopez and Mariah Carey. Catfight? He doesn't reveal, but I would hate to see those two cats pitted against each other, for it is said their owners aren't too fond of each other. Bash holds private StarPet workshops where he will work with you individually, but we are so far from Hollywood it's good he has condensed his training into nearly 400 pages, illustrated with dandy photos and some cleverly conceived line drawings. Bash reveals the three keys to motivation-the three P's he calls them-persistence, praise, and patience-but never punishment. He doesn't believe in cruelty to animals, even in the service of making them stars. That would be crossing the moral line.
He envisions a world in which you and your pet can enjoy the truly creative, collaborative work done by "Strasberg and Monroe," or "Scorcese and De Niro." That's aiming a little high, but you get the idea. A heartwarming book by a man with old-fashioned show business charm and moxie.
PS, we decided not to train Ted and Sylvia for stardom after all, but they are still probably the most appealing cats in North America.
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