UnNews:Dog whisperer 'just playing dead'

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Still with us. Milan, who is 8 in dog years.

Reports of the Dog Whisperer's death were certainly exaggerated yesterday - after it emerged the TV star was simply playing dead to amuse his owner.

César Milan, who rose to fame in 2005 when he became the first human to domesticate a dog, was reported to have died of a heart attack yesterday. Social networks were instantly flooded with the usual combination of mawkish tributes, trite pseudo-Christian sentiment, and trolling jokes.

However, it soon emerged that Milan was simply 'playing dead' to entertain his owner, Sally Milan. She explained, "He can sit, heel, beg, give me his paw, all kinds of things. Playing dead is when I make a pistol shape with my hand - I 'shoot' him, and he rolls over on his back, exposing his eight nipples and castrated genitals.

"Someone must have seen us and got the wrong idea. Later that day, I took César over the park to do a shit, and all of these fans came up to me - they must have thought it was the second coming! As soon as he was finished doing his business, César signed autographs and posed for pictures, and made them all laugh when he licked one girl's face."

Sources

• Leverage, "Cesar Millan death hoax: Dog Whisperer did not die from heart attack" International Business Times, December 9, 2014