Whole New Respect for Cesar Millan - Page 1

I have just finished watching Cesar's episode on The Most Aggressive Dog Breeds, and have come away with a brand new respect for him. In that episode he twice had to break up a fight between some pit bulls with his bare hands. The one fight just involved Daddy and the pit he was trying to rehabilitate. The other was a multi-dog fight involving the above pit and several of Cesar's pack members.

Cesar says he started his career 25 years ago working with rotties, so, despite what some people think, he knows all about how to handle large, dangerous high-drive dogs. He says the German Shepherd has become a problem breed because it is big, intelligent and high-energy, and people do not know how to take leadership with such a dog.

But what impressed me the most was the very end of the episode, where he revealed what his own choice was as the most dangerous breed. His viewers fingered rottweilers, German shepherds and pit bulls as the 3 most aggressive breeds, with pits being the most aggressive.

Cesar's answer was 'none of the above'. It's all in how the OWNER handles the dog. It's the OWNER that creates the problem.

And, folks, we ALL KNOW THAT'S RIGHT!!

Oh yeah Forgot to say.....

At the end of the episode, he got all the people and so-called aggressive dogs he'd worked with during the ep together, and they held a dog walk in memory of all the dogs who had been euthanized because they'd been misunderstood!

In the part of the show where he dealt with a GSD that had nearly killed a maltese, he fingered the small dog as being partly responsible for the fight. He said many small dogs are aggressive, and trigger the fight. Of course, because they are so small, the large dog takes the blame!

Gee, where have we heard (or even experienced) THAT before??

Yup he's right, it is the owners. So his dog fights, should have never happened in the first place! Why the need to run a pack of 25 dogs together? I still can't stand the guy.

4pack, the fights happened when the pitty's OWNER showed up, and the dog felt the need to protect her. Nothing to do with Cesar's dogs. They were just on the receiving end of it.

I'm not saying I agree with everything he does, but he certainly was getting the right message out to the public in this episode, and one that people BADLY need to hear!

You should be glad he's standing up for our breed. He went into the h istory of the GSD and said some very positive things about it, and placed the finger squarely on the owners for the problems the breed is having.

You can point the finger at breeders and owners of every breed, for screwing dogs up or mishandling them.

Cesar can talk until he turns blue in the face. I still think he's a Dingleberry.

Dingleberry that gets results with what he does.

 And probably making a fortune doing it!

 Um 4 pack it was the owners fault in that episode.  It was showing the part from dueling Pit Bulls.  You don't like that he has 25 dogs running together? I've seen what just a few dogs can do to help a dog who is unstable, working a dog with my own little pack. 25 to 40 dogs could to a lot to influence the other dog. Contrary to what others believe, his pack is NOT like taking a dog to a dog park. His dogs are actually stable, dog park dogs are typically not.  In the episode with the Pit Bulls, there was never a fight the whole time. The owners came back to visit one month into the rehabilitation. The dog was overly excited to see them and they didn't control the Pits excitement......this was a dog who if she was too excited would become dominant, and then aggressive. Guess what happened next, another Pit came close, and she attacked it.   And after the fight was broken up Cesar put the same two dogs who fought in the same kennel. A little tension, but they did not try to fight.  Again a little later the owners were sitting in his RV and Daddy got a little too close to the owners of the Pit, and the Pit attacked Daddy, he was protecting his owners. He put a muzzle on her so the owners could relax and that was the last of the fights.

For those who don't like Cesar, I've noticed a lot of positive reinforcement in his new season. He did use an e collar in a recent episode on a k9, but it was pure vibration. The trainer is a retired police officer and has been training detection dogs for many years, but really knew little in regards to psychology.  His dog was too nervous to work in the prison to detect cell phones which are commonly used to get drugs in or whatever else he said.  He used positive reinforcement with quite a few dogs in the new season though. Treats, praise, and other things.  I think he's going to continue to do a mixture of both. However I know that you can't always do the positive excited verbal stuff with dogs especially if you go back to a dog like Trinity the Pit Bull who will attack your dogs if she's too excited. Cesars point is NOT to get dogs to work around other dogs....training........his point is to get them to be able to be both rehabilitated, and be able to live, play, and coexist among them. That is different.

Forgot to add to that, when the owners came to visit the Pit during the rehabilitation, Cesar even suggested they control the Pits excitement.

Cesar Milan is a good trainer and he is  even better in marketing.
However there is a lot of good trainers. What I admire about him are is communication skills with his customers. I have heard many aspiring trainers saying  that they do not like people and thus they want to be professional dog trainers. And  I always ask them; and who's dogs are you going to train and who is going to pay you for it?
I respect Cesar Milan. 
Prager Hans