Joe Mallozzi calls RDA "Dog Whisperer"

[campylobacter]

Joe Mallozzi's promised on his WordPress blog to regale Stargate fans with reminiscences from his days working on the series; here's a charming excerpt from his 22 Apr 2011 entry:

The other stand-out introduction was to the man himself, Richard Dean Anderson (aka MacGyver). Although he had popped his head in to say hi when we first arrived, it wasn’t until I’d settled into my office that he actually swung by to say hi and welcome me to the show. I remember I was working on a script, my back to the door, my pug Jelly (she must have [been] one at the time) at my feet, when Rick stepped in and re-introduced himself.

Jelly, one of Mallozzi's pugs

We started chatting and I was momentarily distracted by something on my computer.

When I turned around, he was gone. I barely had time to be register surprise when I glanced down and realized he hadn’t left – he was lying on his back on the carpeted floor of my office, playing with my dog. That simple act endeared him to me so much that, years later, no matter what the script critiques and changes requested, I had nothing but respect for the big-hearted guy.

RDA with a dog

As I’ve often said: “People who like dogs are generally good and kind, while people who don’t like dogs are jerks at best and serial killers at worst”. Rick was – and continues to be – a dog guy, to the point that we nicknamed him “the dog whisperer” before Cesar Millan claimed the title.

ROTFL

Mallozzi, RDA saw your dog and couldn't RESIST re-introducing himself to play with Jelly.

Comments

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

Got nothing against dogs but I don't like them. Guess I'm a jerk. People who don't like cats are at best losers and at worst douche-bags. LOL.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

LOL Mallozzi's so clueless to his own douchitude. It speaks volumes that RDA likes JM's dog better than he likes JM.

I'm thoroughly a cat person, but some dogs melt my heart with their adorableness.

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

absolutely. I would take Danceswithgary's dogs in a heartbeat!!!

[magnavox-23.livejournal.com]

HA! You know Chey owns my heart forevermore, but before her, I was most defintiely a cat person! I can haz both? I play with my brother's cats all the time and we do the friendly headbutt thing and I talk to them. And with Chey, she curls up on my chest to sleep and we play on the floor etc.

They're very different animals whom I treet and respect as such, and I am totally endeared to both. :D

RDA is adorable with any animal, be it dog, cheetah.... ;D

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

RDA was so adorable in that little cell phone vid he did with the fish (http://twitter.com/#!/andersonrdean/status/31171428535500800)!

People who can make connections to animals tend to also have really good people skills, too.

[magnavox-23.livejournal.com]

Oh I tend to stop at animals. I can get a read on them like that *snaps fingers* :P but people? People confuse and scare the hell out of me. :P

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Here's a little secret: homo sapiens are animals, too, and once you identify all the social mammal behavior most people default to, it becomes less scary to interact with them -- although far more disappointing, sometimes. :(

[magnavox-23.livejournal.com]

LOL, true dat. ;)

[anna-sg1.livejournal.com]

LOL Mallozzi, RDA knew from day 1 that your dog is more interesting. :D

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

I'm also laughing at "no matter what the script critiques and changes requested", because SRSLY, did JM get butthurt when other actors questioned his writing?