ANISHA LAKHANI: How many dogs you know that
have a Bentley, a Ferrari, a Porsche and a Beemer?
ANISHA LAHHANI: I’m going to go bold and
I’m going to say that Luigi Maestro has the largest car collection in the United States
and possibly out of any dog on planet earth.
COMM: Luigi Maestro, the five-year-old Shih Tzu has a car collection that many New Yorkers
could only dream of.
ANISHA LAKHANI: Humans can walk too, why do we have cars, right? We have cars because
even though we can walk, we enjoy travelling so we’ll take a plane, take in a drive,
dogs too and they like walks but it's just more fun, right?
ANISHA LAKHANI: So, I started with the BMW
and then there’s the piece of me that’s like let’s see what the Ferrari’s like - it becomes an addiction!
COMM: As well as his unusual collection of cars, Luigi also has an impressive wardrobe
full of canine fashion.
ANISHA LAKHANI: Do you want to wear this or this outfit, Luigi. What do you think? All
right, maybe you don’t like any of those.
ANISHA LAKHANI: Luigi, his whole posture changes when he puts on an outfit. This little pajama
set or this cool football outfit, Luigi look. He swaggers on the street, he enjoys it.
ANISHA LAKHANI: And I enjoy it too, it’s fun, it’s cute. It brings out his personality.
ANISHA LAKHANI: Spoiling is really an interesting word to me because I used to be an English
teacher, so I do tend to think about the word a lot. Spoil means to ruin and so when I’m
buying a living being a toy, that makes him smile or I’m putting on a little outfit
that gives him attention or I’m taking him to the park and he’s happy, am I making
him worse? No, I don’t think so.
ANISHA LAKHANI: Luigi I am going to talk to you about this sweater. Do you have his size?
Luigi this is the other choice, a super model, puppy pride.
LADY: Bye Luigi, thanks for shopping Olive & Bette's.
ANISHA LAKHANI: I thought I would definitely get some people rolling their eyes, maybe
they do once we’ve whizzed past?
ANISHA LAKHANI: I had never anticipated the warmth, the friendliness of New Yorkers.
ANISHA LAKHANI: I have been with elderly New
Yorkers, who have told me, I have never seen anything like this in my life, thank you for
making me smile. It’s funny! I would smile, wouldn’t you?
LADY: This dog car is amazing, I have two
dogs and I would love to put them in this quite frankly. It would be really the best
day of their lives. So, super cool!
MAN: That’s wonderful! I mean it is so funny and entertaining. I know the kids get a kick
out if it, I got a kick out of it. I have never seen anything like that before in my
life. That was real good. I liked it. It made my day.
ANISHA LAKHANI: Luigi is my heart, he just,
I look at him and I just feel so happy. I just, I adore him, I love him like a child.
Who wouldn’t? My poor mom, she is a little upset, she says that she doesn’t want four
legged grandchildren. We go back to Thomas Malthus’s theory that we are an over populated
planet. I think it is wonderful that there are animal enthused people, who view animals
as their little babies and are not bringing more kids in to the world, so, sorry mom!
ANISHA LAKHANI: Luigi would you prefer to
drive than do this interview? Yeah, he has had it. So boring, he is so bored. He is very
dramatic, don’t, baby Jesus, what, what happened? This interview is just the most
boring thing. Ok I am sorry.