I read or heard that Oprah "discovered" Cesar Millan, ture ?

Question

that she got him that TV show, but I thought that he was on the National Geo. channel and in the intro to his show it says that he has been a pet guru to the stars for many years in LA.
He may have helped her with her pets but why does Oprah have to take credit for everything?

Answer 1

No..she did not...he already existed before her show. On December 23, 1990, at the age of 21, Millan decided that though he spoke no English, he was going to sneak over the border into the United States, not to Arizona where he had family, but to Hollywood, to follow his dream. His family objected, but scraped together $100 USD for his journey, and Millan found a way in via Tijuana. He didn't have enough money for an official visa, and didn't want to pay any of the professional smugglers, so he spent weeks at the home of a cousin in Tijuana, studying the border. His first three attempts to cross by himself failed, but he eventually ran into someone who only wanted to charge him the $100 that he had, so he accepted. The next night, after an arduous journey which involved spending hours in a water hole waiting for the right time to try to sneak past the border guards, he succeeded, and on the other side of the border he was put into a taxi towards San Diego, a city Millan had then never heard of. He lived on the street for a month, but then got a job, and eventually room and board, at a dog grooming parlor. According to his book, as with his earlier job at the veterinarian, Millan rapidly gained a reputation as someone who could work easily with the difficult and most aggressive dogs, who would often behave quite differently around Millan's calm assertive personality than they did around their owners.

Millan's next job was washing limousines, work that had been offered to him by one of the San Diego clients who liked Millan's work ethic. Though the duties didn't involve dogs, Millan accepted because the new employer had also offered him his own car, an '88 Chevy Astrovan, and it allowed a move to Los Angeles. Millan changed his career goal from that of being a Hollywood dog trainer, to rehabilitating the many troubled dogs he was seeing in the United States, so he started his own business, the Pacific Point Canine Academy, and came up with a logo, a jacket, and business cards. His employer started recommending him to his friends, and Millan's client list grew, as well as his own pack of dogs. Millan freely admits that he was never licensed, and was just "that Mexican guy who has a magical way with dogs." Via word of mouth though, in 1994 he came to the attention of celebrities Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith (who Millan cited as being responsible dog owners), who began recommending Millan to many other celebrities, and also mentored him in other ways, helping to improve his English and becoming good friends.

As his linguistic skills grew, Millan worked on improving his own education, reading books about dog psychology and animal behavior. He particularly cites two books as major reinforcing influences: Dr. Bruce Fogle's The Dog's Mind, and Dog Psychology by Leon F. Whitney, DVM.

By word of mouth, Millan's fame continued to grow, and he was able to found his own Dog Psychology Center, a two-acre facility in South Los Angeles with six employees, whose purpose is to rehabilitate dogs. He keeps a pack of 30 to 40 "unadoptable" and abandoned dogs there, and is president of his own company, Cesar Millan, Inc. He is also a member of the International Association of Canine Professionals, an organization open to anyone working in the dog industry.

Millan now has a green card and is in the process of applying for U.S. citizenship. In 2002, after a profile in the Los Angeles Times, he received many offers from Hollywood producers, and chose the MPH Entertainment Group, who developed the show The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, and pitched it to the National Geographic Channel, where it became their #1 show within its first season. Millan wrote a book that came out concurrent with the second season, and the book went to #1 on the national bestseller lists.

He presently lives in Inglewood with his American wife, Ilusion Wilson Millan, and his sons, Andre (b.1995) and Calvin (b. 2001). He credits his wife with keeping him grounded, and keeping their marriage stable by setting "rules, boundaries, and limitations."


[edit] Media fame
Millan has been featured on the Oprah program, and was portrayed in a tenth season episode of the Comedy Central animated series South Park (entitled "Tsst") that aired on May 3, 2006. In the episode, Cesar is hired to train Eric Cartman to behave (and succeeds, until Cartman's mother undoes the training), after popular "nannies" (see Nanny 911, Super Nanny) have failed.


[edit] Awards
In 2005, the National Humane Society Genesis Award Committee presented Millan with a Special Commendation, for his work in rehabilitating animals.

Answer 2

Because she can pull the wool over a LOT of eyes. She has LOTS of people fooled, but the smart ones know she's a phony and a racist.

Answer 3

it's true...she really does try to take credit for everything