![]() Learning English: Millan’s dream was to be on television, but Pinkett frankly told him that he first needed to learn English. Impressed by his abilities, she referred him to other celebrities needing help with their dogs, but she also took him under her wing. Millan helped the pint-size actress become leader to a pack of four Rottweilers. In 1994, he met Jada Pinkett, then a burgeoning sitcom actress (now Jada Pinkett Smith, after her marriage to Will Smith). He quickly gained a reputation for rehabilitating “red zone” cases, dogs with severe aggression issues. The business owners realized Millan was homeless so, along with a job, they gave him a key to the shop, where he could stay overnight.īig break: Millan eventually ended up in Los Angeles, where he washed cars in Carson and saved enough money to start a mobile dog training business out of an old Chevrolet Astro van his boss gave him. “I just thought, ‘I can buy a lot of hot dogs!’” “It was a lot money!” he recalls thinking. An hour later, he emerged unscathed, the dog handsomely groomed. “I could buy two for 99 cents,” he said with a laugh, “and it had your protein, carbs and vegetables.”įirst job: Looking for work, he walked into a dog grooming shop after learning his first sentence in English, “Do you have application to work?” The “interview” consisted of his getting a cocker spaniel known to bite to stay well-behaved for its grooming. Homeless, he said that he, at times, asked strangers for money to buy gas station hot dogs, his food staple. ![]() Once in San Diego, Millan wandered the city looking for work so he could make enough money to travel to Los Angeles, his ultimate destination. Chasing his dream: At 21, he traveled to the border near San Diego and paid a smuggler $100 of his father’s life savings to get him across.
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