

I think if the faults are too great, it is kinder to put a bad dog to sleep after training and possibly veterinary advice have failed. Some people get dogs they don't deserve hereditary faults play havoc with some dogs, and the poor owner can do nothing. She firmly believed there were "no bad dogs", just bad owners and defined it to mean dogs without genetic problems: Woodhouse's autobiographical books include Talking to Animals and No Bad Dogs. She continued to appear on television regularly until she died on 9 July 1988 at the age of 78.
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Her 1980 BBC series made her a television personality at the age of 70. She first appeared on television as a contestant on What's My Line, where panellists failed to guess her occupation. She was a well-loved family dog that found adventure and saved the day most of the time. The series ran from 1954 to 1974 and featured a beautiful Rough Collie. Lassie (Lassie) (1954-1974) At one point in time, Lassie was the most famous dog of them all. Sara landed the fifth spot in AGT thanks to. Eddie was famous for his long-drawn-out stares with Frasier. Simon loved her act too much that he even convinced the other judges to root for the young trainer and allow her to go on with the competition. Meanwhile she married a second husband, Michael Woodhouse, in 1940 and moved to Wiltshire and had three children, Pamela, Patrick and Judith. The world-renowned dog trainer once wowed the difficult-to-please Simon Cowell with her astounding dog trick performance featuring her border collie, Hero. In the 1930s, Barbara became a dog breeder and ran kennels until about 1960. The marriage ended in divorce and she returned to Headington.

She later became the only female student at the Harper Adams Agricultural College in Shropshire.Īfter returning to Oxford to start Headington Riding School and Boarding Kennels, she married her first husband, Allan George Mill, in August 1934 and moved with him to spend more than three years in Argentina training horses. As described in her autobiography, the family moved to Brighton, England, a few weeks later, and afterwards to Headington in Oxford, where Woodhouse attended Headington School. She grew up there until her father, the warden (headmaster) of the school, died suddenly in 1919. Barbara Blackburn was born on at St Columba's College in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland, to an Irish family.
