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Check out my interview in LA WEEKLY, written by Gendy Alimurung. CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE.
Tamar Geller, “life coach for dogs and their people,” is sitting at a café in Venice contemplating her career thus far. “Oprah gave me the title. I did not call it to myself,” she says. The anointing happened about seven years ago, when Geller was flying in Oprah’s private plane to Oprah’s house in Chicago to live, for one month, with Oprah’s golden retrievers.
Geller is best known for her cruelty-free training methods, turning pets into “happy, joyful and well-mannered members of the family,” as her best-selling book, The Loved Dog, describes.
The energetic, 40-something blonde with the megawatt smile was not always a life coach for dogs. In her early 20s, she was an intelligence officer with the Israeli army’s Special Forces. They use dogs. Though she didn’t like the harsh way the military trained the dogs, she didn’t think much of it until after her service, when she went to the desert to, as she puts it, clean her mind.
