House Training with Lisa Edelstein

For actress Lisa Edelstein, an early animal rescue marked the beginning of a lifelong passion—and led to a visit from Cesar before he was famous!
BY LARRY SUTTON

Not everybody who makes a living getting barked at is a dog trainer or a veterinarian. There’s also Lisa Edelstein, who plays Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Hugh Laurie’s long-suffering foil on the Fox hit drama House. Her role basically calls for her to endure the egomaniacal, Vicodin-popping Dr. House’s personal insults and sexual innuendos while keeping his career from imploding.

“But coming home to animals you love snaps you back to reality,” ” she tells Cesar’s Way.

Nowadays, those animals are her two rescue dogs, Shazam and Kapow. Shazam is a Schnoodle—a Schnauzer and Poodle mix—and Kapow is a Whoodle—a Wheaton Terrier and Poodle mix. “When I got Shazam, he was -pretty pathetic,” says Lisa. “He was only a puppy, but because he had gray hair, people thought he was much older. He was also very skinny. Had to be put in a hospital.” As for -Kapow, she says, “I wanted a breed that would get along well with Shazam, and it’s worked out great.”

Read more at http://www.cesarsway.com/magazine/Hollywood-Hounds/House-Training