Like his father, who taught him, he bred and coached the collies that played the heroic star of television and movies. By Michael S. Rosenwald Bob Weatherwax, a Hollywood dog trainer who carried on ...

Bob Weatherwax, who trained dogs who played Lassie as a member of the famous family that also taught Hollywood hounds a thing or two in The Thin Man (Asta), The Wizard of Oz (Toto) and Old Yeller ...

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Bob Weatherwax, a Hollywood dog trainer who carried on his father's legacy of breeding and coaching collies to play Lassie, the resourceful and heroic canine who crossed flooded rivers, faced down ...