In 1927 Carl Spitz started the Hollywood Dog Training School, still
one of the largest and oldest institutions of its kind. Since 1962
it has been run by his son, Carl Spitz, Jr. Mr. Spitz received his
early training instrucion in his native Germany starting in 1919 and
has ever since then been associated with the training of dogs.
In 1926 he immigrated to the United States and for one year trained
dogs in Chicaco. The move to California and the formation of his
Hollywood training school follewed the next year. Some of the dogs
Mr. Spitz has trained include the two Great Danes for Big Boy with
Al Jolson; the Saint Bernard in the first Moby Dick with Lionel
Barrymore; Toto the Cairn Terrier belonging to Judy Garland in The
Wizard of Oz; Buck, the dog lead in the Clark Gable movie The Call
of the Wild; and the Great Dane in The Most Dangerous Game, to name
a few.
In 1941 the War Department Quartermaster Corps requester that Mr.
Spitz organize the first continental platoon of war dogs in
Stockton, California. He later organizer another in Pomona. In 1942
it was off to Washington to help with the training of the first men
and dogs for the K-9 Corps and to help draft the first instructions
for war dog training. In 1943 Carl Spitz assisted the U.S. Marine
Corps in training their first combat war dog platoon, which served
so well in Bougainville.
Mr. Spitz first began judging the obedience classes around 1935 and
wrote a book on obedience training in 1938. This book was updated
recently. One of his most recent judging assignments was at the 47th
Annual Specialty Show and Obedience Trial of the Doberman Pinscher
Club of America in Maumee, Ohio, on October 5th, 1972.
When speaking of Dobermans as working dogs and recalling Carl Spitz
and his Hollywood Training School, we must realize that the trained
movie dogs have not always worked to the advantage of their breed.
It seems that whenever a "vicious" dog is requred for the plot of a
movie its always a "snarling" Doberman pictured lungeing at the end
of a least with teeth bared. An October, 1975, telecast of a film
entitled They Only Kill Their Masters was aired on CBS-TV and
"starred" Doberman Pinschers. The film contained such detrimental
phrases in reference to the dog as "ate the lady," and "vicious
attack." This certainly is no help in our efforts to educate the
public to fact only trained Dobermans attack on command and the
temperament of the avarage Doberman will blend remarkably well with
a family routine and way of life.
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