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The next time I have a panic attack, I want Cesar Millan to talk me off the ledge. He might be known as the Dog Whisperer on the National Geographic Channel, but I have a feeling he's great with humans, too. I'm sure I'd respond to his gentle "ch ch" murmurs just as well as the angry pit bulls he deals with regularly on Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan.

The show celebrates its 100th episode on Sept. 19, and this household is officially hooked. There's something strangely meditative about the way he calms the dogs on that show. And, truthfully, it's not so much the dogs he works with as their nimrod human companions. Let's face it. The dogs are alright. The humans need work.

It's all about relationships, and his job, he says, is to draw out the good behavior in any given dog ("There are no killer dogs!"), and then tell the humans how to maintain it.

Millan surfaced into the public eye after a 2002 Los Angeles Times article touted his Dog Buddhism. He was a dog trainer to the stars, including clients Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, and went on to found the Dog Psychology Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Ok, reading that, I'd be thinking, Right...only in Los Angeles could a Dog Psychology Center take center stage. But after watching Millan work his special brand of magic on the hounds, I'm sold.

So was Jim Milio, co-chair of MPH Entertainment Productions, which produces the show. "I can think of only two other people I've met in the business that I think have the kind of magic Cesar has," he says. "One is Jacques Cousteau, whom I worked with for a little bit, and the other is Jim Henson. To me, (Millan) is in that category. He's just a special soul."