Move Over Cesar...The Dog Doctor Radio Show is Here!

Move Over Cesar... The Dog Doctor Radio Show is Here!
by Robert Forto, PhD

My name is Dr. Robert Forto and I am the training director and the owner of Denver Dog Works and The Ineka Project in Colorado. I am an expert in canine aggression and a canine behaviorist.

Starting on Saturday January 31, 2009 at 9:30 am MST we will be premiering a new radio show on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/. The shows focus will be on canine training, working dogs, and canine sports.I chose to promote my show on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ for several reasons; first radio time, even on AM radio is very expensive, about $1600.00 a hour on a low range signal. and besides does anyone really listen to terrestrial radio anymore? Especially at 6 am on a Saturday morning?

Second, I want to reach a wide audience with The Dog Doctor radio show and being on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ it will allow us to reach a world-wide audience and we will have a call in number for people to call in with comments and stories of their dogs.

Third, Cesar Millan, better known as The Dog Whisperer, and his national show on National Geographic has nothing on me. I have been doing this for 19 years and I have seen the worst and been bit by the best! With all due respect to Cesar, I do not have the luxury of a staff of hundreds and a full scale production team.

Cesar and his show, books, videos, flashcards, website, and everything else (he is a marketing genius!) have done wonders for the dog training industry and for canine trainers everywhere and any trainer that would "knock" him is nothing but foolish. Sure I have tested many of his methods and have had mixed results but by having him in our living rooms every Friday it has got to be good for business. And it has!One thing that Cesar and his resounding success has brought to us as trainers, well, at least my training school anyway, is that dog owners are expecting what they see on T.V. and in a limited amount of time and effort and that just is not the case. When I tell prospective clients that their aggressive dog will take "X" number of sessions, sometimes months, and "X" number of dollars, sometimes thousands, I inevitably hear, Cesar did it on his show last week in just one session. Ah...the magic of television! Of course all of us live in a immediate gratification culure and we want it all and we want it now (with as little effort as possible of course). I mean do you really like to diet or sweat to the oldies at the gym? No way, we just to be fixed, right?

I digress, back to my reasons for the radio show: fourth. I want to entertain. I am a musician. I was oh so close to being a rock star and signing that huge record deal back in the hey-day of Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and the rest of them but I decided to follow a different path and became a professional musher (dog sledding) instead. Now ten years later I am itching to be behind the mic again. Sure it is not in front of thousands in Thunder Bay Canada, on the Fourth of July (if you followed by band Rainmaker you would know) behind a radio mic will suit my desires. I am an Internet geek at heart. I was the first person on the Internet in my neighborhood in the 1980's when the public Internet consisted of Dow Jones reports (I was 12!) and bulletin boards and a $700.00 phone bill (sorry mom).

The Dog Doctor radio show will entertain, I promise. I have more dog stories than Jack London and I have dealt with dogs that make Marley look like an obedience champion! Our show will have weekly guests and call-in's from all over the world. And with it being an Internet radio show their are no filters. Just raw, un-interrupted radio. (what!!..move over Howard....ah, not quite, at least not yet).

Fifth, all that aside, I am an expert. I have worked for 19 years to hone my training techniques and my philosophies. I have tried them all from clickers to touch free to shock collars, and I know what works. I routinely travel throughout North America to offer training sessions to those requesting my services and we have placed service dogs all over the country. I routinely speak on canine aggression and I am a qualified expert in canine aggression for both plaintiff and defense counsel. I can navigate you through the service dog maze and I can teach you how tro become a certified dog trainer. I am the real deal folks and I am the dog doctor. I have even been given the moniker of The Dog Ninja, but I don't think that would be a good name for a radio show do you?

So, I urge all of you to listen to us live at Denver Dog Works or on the Internet at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ starting on Saturday January 31, 2009 at 9:30 am MST. If you miss us you can always download it to your i-pod and listen to The Dog Doctor radio show while you are at the gym (please refer to the paragraph 6 above).We will also keep the discussion alive with a forum at http://myforum.robertforto.com/ and http://www.personalbordofadvisors.com/ and on these forums we can take your questions, comments and complaints if you have them, for future shows.

So, move over Cesar, The Dog Doctor is here!
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Dr. Robert Forto is the training director of The Ineka Project and Denver Dog Works in Colorado. He can be reached through his website at http://www.denverdogworks.com/