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Friday, November 28, 2008
11/28: “Atlanta & Company” host Holly Firfer on “It’s Me Or The Dog” Saturday, Fox News host Mike Huckabee in town
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Atlanta & Company” host Holly Firfer (formerly of CNN Headline News and Dave FM-right) and her husband Shawn Arnold (a former member of local band Memory Dean) decided to open themselves to humiliation for the sake of their dog Kashmir.
Catch them this Saturday at 9 p.m. on the new Animal Planet TV show “It’s Me Or The Dog” led by fellow Atlantan and dog trainer Victoria Stillwell. (And don’t worry if you’re busy that night. The network will repeat it ad nauseum.)
“They call the episode ‘Monstrous Mutts’ ” Firfer said. “They’re not that bad!” The main problem was Kashmir, a pitbull mix, who chewed up the windowsills, the ottoman, the carpets, you name it. Arnold said the damage was about $10,000.
“Our house was so destroyed,” Firfer said, “I didn’t like people over.”
Stillwell said Kashmir needed more attention so Firfer now walks her two to three miles a day in the morning and then to the dog park in the afternoon.
Firfer loved Stillwell’s positive training techniques (vs. those of Cesar Millan) and is in awe how Stillwell (right) could calm her dog. “She’s really the dog whisperer,” she said. “Victoria would say, ‘Come here girl!’ and immediately, Kashmir would be mesmerized and melt.”
In fact, when they watched the debut episode of the show, when Stillwell started training the dog on TV and said “sit!”, Kashmir dropped his toy and sat. Since the taping ended in September, both Arnold and Firfer said Kashmir has seldom relapsed, only doing minor chewing.
Firfer has yet to see the episode and is a bit nervous: “I said to Shawn, ‘What state should we move to now?’ “
Shawn thinks he’ll be painted as lazy and Holly “look like a nag.” “Not like I care,” he added, bemusedly.
-If you are in Marietta at 8 p.m. Saturday and want to meet former Presidential candidate and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, check him out at the Borders in Marietta.
He will be signing “Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America.” The event will be a signing only, no discussion. Only copies of “Do the Right Thing” will be autographed. This is a free event, but ticket is required. Stop by Saturday morning for a ticket. The first 500 people are guaranteed a spot in line and an autograph.
Here’s the address: Borders Books & Music-East Cobb, The Avenue East Cobb, 4475 Roswell Road, Marietta GA 30062
Huckabee will also be doing his weekly Fox News show in Atlanta, which will include two local guests: Ashley Smith, the gal who bonded with killer Brian Nichols, and Gov. Sonny Perdue.
