Shows like «The
Dog Whisperer,» which features superstar trainer Cesar Millan, whose personal
dogs («Daddy,» and then «Junior») were pitbulls with calm temperaments and a lot of patience with smaller
dogs, and «Pit Boss» — a reality
series that follows Luigi «Shorty» Rossi, a little person who rescues pitbulls that are often bigger than him — help.
In his 2007 best - selling book Become the Pack Leader, Cesar Millan (of the popular
Dog Whisperer TV
series) states, «We've gone from the old - fashioned authoritarian extreme — where animals existed only to do our bidding — to another unhealthy extreme — where animals are considered our equal partners in every area of our lives.»