leading man

What da hotheaded and full-of-himself animal-trainer character Hynes viewed himself as when contemptuously walking Lassie and da rest of da Duke of Rudling's prized pets on a leash. After da equally-temperish-but-fairer-and-more-sensible-minded upper-crust squire finally "sacked" said "utter nincompoop" lackey, I'm assuming dat he then didn't think of himself as quite such an entitled charming expert in furry four-legged-creature husbandry.