The Dog Whisperer/Miracleworker?

I came home from a long day of work/baby-shower shopping/Quiznos purchasing to find Guy watching an episode of Bones. I decided to join in while I ate my most delicious Prime Rib and Peppercorn sub. It turned out that tonight's show would be my second television dog encounter of the day (read my previous post to find out more about the first encounter). I came in halfway through, but the premise of the episode as I saw it was that a man was murdered by a dog and Bones and co. were on the case. They eventually narrowed things down to a man with a dogfighting arena in his barn. That's when Cesar Milan appeared on the scene. No explanation or "we called in the experts" comment to tell us why he was there -- just Cesar in all his glory, calming vicious dogs with a "shh" and a flick of his hand. To me, the whole scene was a tad ridiculous. The detectives walked into the barn in question with the Dog Whisperer in tow and were greeted by about a dozen barking, snarling puppies. All Cesar had to do was shush them and, voila! Silence! Then, he gave them the typical "down" hand motion, and one by one, the dogs obeyed. I don't care how good this guy is...I just don't think that would ever happen! I wonder how many people will watch the show and go, "Wow! Cesar Milan is a genius! I need him to train my dog!"

Despite Cesar's shameless self-promotion, I did think there was one other interesting aspect of the dog-centric episode. Although most of the dogs shown in the dogfighting scenes were pit bulls, the dog that turned out to be the killer looked to be a German Shephard mix. I had to wonder if someone involved with the show told them to be sensitive about adding to pit bulls' already bad rap. That, along with later scenes of the killer shephard laying with his head in Bones' lap and the forced comments that the dog only killed because his master commanded him to felt a bit too sugar-coated to me. Kudos to Bones for attempting to do something different, but I think they went about it in the wrong way.