Greatest American Dog

I am sure that you all have either seen the commercials or heard from someone else that the Greatest American Dog premieres on July 10th.  The Greatest American Dog is a new reality show on CBS; it is one of the first prime time television shows that is based on owning and training dogs.  We are looking forward to watching the show and observing the different training approaches used by the contestants.

The 12 teams, made up of professional and amateur   with their dogs, will live together and compete in a series of challenges to prove their training abilities.  Each week a team will be eliminated by the judges (Wendy Diamond, Allan Reznik and Victoria Stilwell), and the winning team will receive $250,000 and the title of Greatest American Dog.

I am looking forward to seeing some of the challenges that the contestants are faced with.  My hope is that they are not common everyday tasks, you know the on-leash, shoving treats at the dogs stuff that we see all the time.  I am looking for a very high level of training out of this show, but I guess it all depends on what the producers’ definition of dog training. I guess we will have to tune in to see if this show is any good.