Pat Whitacre

He was one of the trainers featured on DogTown and passed away in January at the age of 62.  Much too young.  You never know.  (I better get off my ass.)

Here's a couple of goodbyes from Pet Alive and bestfriends (including a bunch of comments).

I found out from a post from Ellen at dwf.

After reading about him, I think Pat is the kind of person I aspire to be in some small way.

I think I remember (either reading or from the show) that Pat was first a psychologist or scientist (or something) and gravitated to animal training as a second career.  Maybe I'll check out my old DVDs.  I notice that some of the DogTown episodes have been playing on Nat Geo Wild lately.