More on Cesar Millan

Cesar Millan is a controversial figure. Depending on who you ask, he is either the canine Messiah or evil incarnate. Objectively, I would like to point out that he is a human being. I think if you asked him, he would agree.

Cesar has successes and failures. He makes some mistakes, and he does some things properly.

Feelings about his techniques do not make a good argument, either way. You may love him because he is trying to get dogs & people to understand and work with each other for the goal of reduced euthanasia. You may hate him, because he uses ancient training techniques that were dropped from most training programs decades ago because of the risk to dog's psychological well-being, resulting over the long-term in more bites when used improperly, necessitating long-term use.

Like every interaction between dog and human, we can learn something. By suspending judgment and analyzing, we can clearly identify what is of value & why, and what we disagree with & why.

AGREE
More exercise
More structure
"Live in the moment"
Read dog's body language
Appropriate & inappropriate times to reward
Neutral emotion interaction
No yelling
No hitting
Use of distractions
Development of trust
Rehab don't euthanize

DISAGREE
All problem behaviors ARE NOT dominance issues
Fear is not a deliberate choice
Behaviors do not change beliefs
Eliciting aggression so that you can show dog it "doesn't work" is not optimum approach!