Any Fool Can Be Unpleasant
I was talking to a client the other day after a consultation and she told me that she was surprised as to how I had treated her. She said that she knew that I would be kind to her dog but, having seen a number of the 'Dog Training' programmes on TV recently she expected me to shout and maybe swear at her. She certainly expected to have her stress levels raised by me. I told her that it's been a long time since I've raised any womans stress levels but, hey, look at John Prescott, there's hope for us all.
The whole Amichien ethos is that everything, both dog and humanwise is done in a natural stress-free way. There is no point in any kind of bullying either physical or emotional it is wholly unproductive and I will never use such methods. I prefer to rely on a proven system, thirty years of handling a variety of dogs, handling them all day, every day not just for a couple of hours in the evening and, of course, my natural boyish charm.
When I got to thinking about unpleasant people on TV I realised that it's not just 'Dog Trainers' with character flaws who feel a need to massage their already inflated egos by humiliating the participants in the show that they think, they've come on to be helped. There are the copycat versions on British TV of the Jerry Springer type show which make the Springer version look like Shakespeare.It is beyond me how we can pay presenters vast amounts of money so that they can gloat and pretend sympathy at the same time when some-one tells their husband or wife in front of millions of people that they are sexually attracted to mice or have some even more bizarre hang-up. They always seem to justify their cruelty by saying "You weren't there for me".
One of the biggest waste of a wage bill must be down to those two godawful creatures whose day seems to consist of getting dressed in the dark having got their clothes out of a charity shop reject bin and then having the nerve to tell members of the public that they look like crap. Don't they have mirrors at the TV station? Hasn't any TV executive got the guts or moral fibre to tell these people the truth? I fear the answer is, No. Rudeness sells to a certain type of viewer. The problem is that the behaviour encouraged on TV is moving into everyday life.
Well it's not going to influence me, I expect to be treated with courtesy and I hope that I deal with everybody with the same courtesy and consideration no matter who they are. Life is just so much nicer that way.
My client told me that I should be on television. No thanks. I've done a few bits, some years ago I was on a 'World in Action' about the 'Special Patrol Group', I also was involved in a 'CuttingEdge' programme about the Naval Provost in which I was shown with my dog doing a drug search at a Naval base. My TV career climaxed with a six part ITV documentary 'Dog Squad' in which I appeared in several episodes. The problem is that the the programme makers are looking for people to be larger than life and play to the cameras and if you get swept along by them then you can end up looking a complete muppet. In one instance a camera crew had been with me on patrol on a Saturday day shift. In the evening I was going to a pub to watch my sons band play a gig ( check out www.voodoofire.com ). A camera crew were filming the gig, still no problem but then, they wanted to film me getting out of my uniform, having a shower and then getting dressed again. They couldn't understand why I said no. I had visions of viewers phoning the TV station in distress saying "I don't know what that dog handler's wearing, but it needs ironing".
Everybody I know agree that when it comes to television then I have the perfect face for radio.
All I really want to say is, let's hear it for good manners. Whenever I hear people in the street swearing, belching, breaking wind, spitting or doing any of those things that make life unpleasant for the rest of us and then thinking it's clever because they've seen some third rate presenter do it on TV. I just say to myself,..................ANY FOOL CAN BE UNPLEASANT.
The whole Amichien ethos is that everything, both dog and humanwise is done in a natural stress-free way. There is no point in any kind of bullying either physical or emotional it is wholly unproductive and I will never use such methods. I prefer to rely on a proven system, thirty years of handling a variety of dogs, handling them all day, every day not just for a couple of hours in the evening and, of course, my natural boyish charm.
When I got to thinking about unpleasant people on TV I realised that it's not just 'Dog Trainers' with character flaws who feel a need to massage their already inflated egos by humiliating the participants in the show that they think, they've come on to be helped. There are the copycat versions on British TV of the Jerry Springer type show which make the Springer version look like Shakespeare.It is beyond me how we can pay presenters vast amounts of money so that they can gloat and pretend sympathy at the same time when some-one tells their husband or wife in front of millions of people that they are sexually attracted to mice or have some even more bizarre hang-up. They always seem to justify their cruelty by saying "You weren't there for me".
One of the biggest waste of a wage bill must be down to those two godawful creatures whose day seems to consist of getting dressed in the dark having got their clothes out of a charity shop reject bin and then having the nerve to tell members of the public that they look like crap. Don't they have mirrors at the TV station? Hasn't any TV executive got the guts or moral fibre to tell these people the truth? I fear the answer is, No. Rudeness sells to a certain type of viewer. The problem is that the behaviour encouraged on TV is moving into everyday life.
Well it's not going to influence me, I expect to be treated with courtesy and I hope that I deal with everybody with the same courtesy and consideration no matter who they are. Life is just so much nicer that way.
My client told me that I should be on television. No thanks. I've done a few bits, some years ago I was on a 'World in Action' about the 'Special Patrol Group', I also was involved in a 'CuttingEdge' programme about the Naval Provost in which I was shown with my dog doing a drug search at a Naval base. My TV career climaxed with a six part ITV documentary 'Dog Squad' in which I appeared in several episodes. The problem is that the the programme makers are looking for people to be larger than life and play to the cameras and if you get swept along by them then you can end up looking a complete muppet. In one instance a camera crew had been with me on patrol on a Saturday day shift. In the evening I was going to a pub to watch my sons band play a gig ( check out www.voodoofire.com ). A camera crew were filming the gig, still no problem but then, they wanted to film me getting out of my uniform, having a shower and then getting dressed again. They couldn't understand why I said no. I had visions of viewers phoning the TV station in distress saying "I don't know what that dog handler's wearing, but it needs ironing".
Everybody I know agree that when it comes to television then I have the perfect face for radio.
All I really want to say is, let's hear it for good manners. Whenever I hear people in the street swearing, belching, breaking wind, spitting or doing any of those things that make life unpleasant for the rest of us and then thinking it's clever because they've seen some third rate presenter do it on TV. I just say to myself,..................ANY FOOL CAN BE UNPLEASANT.
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Thursday, April 27, 2006
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