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Cesar Millan instructs Howie Mandel. MPH - Emery / Sumner Joint Venture "Cesar, please, help me!" pleads comedian Howie Mandel. So begins the premiere episode of the newest season of National Geographic Channel's "Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan." Mandel, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and did not grow up around animals, is terrified of his wife Terry's chihuahua. Millan is quickly dispatched to Mandel's Los Angeles home to meet the tiny and temperamental dog named Lola. The little pooch stations herself on the sofa beside Mandel's wife and snarls at the comedian every time he tries to approach. "I am afraid for my life," admits Mandel, and he's not joking. Mandel ...

Grizzly Creek Films Perhaps the most recognizable star of the new Nat Geo Wild network is Casey Anderson, a wildlife expert who captured headlines last year when he chose his pet grizzly bear, Brutus, to be best man at his wedding. Anderson talked to Paw Nation about his new series, "Expedition Wild with Casey Anderson," (which premiere's tonight), and what it's like taking care of Brutus, who turned 8 years old in January, weighs 900 pounds and eats 40 pounds of food each day. How did you get Brutus? He was a little grizzly bear that was born in a wildlife park that was overpopulated. Essentially they had one choice, and that was to euthanize him. When bears are born into captivity, they ...

"Rebel Monkeys" National Geographic Things are about to get even wilder at National Geographic. Tonight, the nature-loving institution is launching its TV channel, "National Geographic Wild" (aka Nat Geo Wild) for American audiences. The Nat Geo Wild network, which first launched in Hong Kong in 2006, is dedicated to giving viewers a window into some of the most remote and exotic locations on earth and the creatures who inhabit them. "Against a global backdrop of increasingly urgent conservation challenges facing wildlife, Nat Geo Wild is giving the animal kingdom center stage as it features the work of some of the world's foremost explorers, filmmakers and scientists," the new network ...