Cesar Millan – the Good, the Bad, and All the Rest. Cesar Millan is host of The Dog Whisperer, a popular dog training show on the National Geographic channel.
Millan has a charismatic personality, and his show is very entertaining. As a result, he has made The Dog Whisperer into a big favorite among dog owners everywhere, and his many fans implement his techniques on their family dogs and puppies. <A HREF=" Widgets</A> However, there are some who feel that his techniques are risky, and inappropriate for novice trainers (most pet owners).
In this article, I examine Millan’s approach and discuss some of its pros and cons. Cesar Millan – The Good 1. To be a good pack leader, Millan talks about setting rules and boundaries for our dog. Since dogs live in a human world, we need to provide them with a degree of structure, so that they feel safe, and so that they do not inadvertently harm others or themselves. 2. Cesar Millan gets people to fulfill their dogs’ needs, not just their own. 3. 4.
Cesar Millan – The Bad 1. Cesar’s Way or the highway. Critics Challenge 'Dog Whisperer' Methods. Dogs, Dominance, and Cesar Millan Redux: Dominance is Real. Dog expert Mark Derr's recent essay called " Cesar Millan and the Tradition of Pack Bully as Pack Leader " is an excellent review of what we know and don't know about the behavior of our best friends and their wild relatives, wolves, from whom they "emerged" during domestication.
Derr's discussion of the notion of "social dominance" and the role and behavior of "alpha animals" is right on the mark (no pun intended). Animals, including dogs and wolves, do indeed form dominance relationships and there are alpha animals. However, dominance does not necessarily, or even frequently involve, animals coming to injurious blows and alpha animals can assert their dominance and control in rather subtle ways about which we still know very little.
Dr. Maestripieri and I have studied dominance for years and in my essay I noted that even wolf expert Dave Mech agrees that wolves do form dominance relationships. In response to my earlier essay Dr. Modern Dog Training vs. Cesar Millan. Talk Softly and Carry a Carrot or a Big Stick?
By Jean Donaldson, Director of The SF/SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers Dog training is a divided profession. We are not like plumbers, orthodontists or termite exterminators who, if you put six in a room, will pretty much agree on how to do their jobs. Dog training camps are more like Republicans and Democrats, all agreeing that the job needs to be done but wildly differing on how to do it. The big watershed in dog training is whether or not to include pain and fear as means of motivation. The force-free movement has been partly driven by improved communication from the top.
On a more grassroots level, trainers have found more benign and sophisticated tools by boning up on applied behavior science themselves. But dog training is currently an unregulated profession: there are no laws governing practices. And so the current professional climate is one laden with some remaining fierce debate. READ MORE ABOUT CESAR MILLAN: NEW! Dr. Dr. Dangereux et dépassé les techniques de Cesar Millan? Faux! Les méthodes de dressages adaptées au comportement canin ne sont pas dangereuses ni dépassées Cette semaine, je n'ai pu m'empêcher de sourire à la lecture, dans le Journal de Montréal du 1er Novembre, de l'article "Dangereux et dépassé" au sujet de l'opinion de l'Association des médecins vétérinaires et de Cesar Millan.
Attention à la "pensée unique" et ne généralisons pas, svp.L'article n'enlève en rien la valeur de l'excellent reportage d'Éric Yvan Lemay, la preuve, le sujet a été repris par TVA lors de l'émission de Denis Lévesque. "Dangereux et dépassé"? Je regrette, mais il n'y a rien de dangereux à comprendre et à appliquer le comportement canin. Ce qui devient dangereux, c'est de traiter son chien comme un jouet, de lui faire porter des bonnettes et de lui parler comme à un humain, voilà un comportement incompréhensible pour le chien, que de nombreuses personnes tendent pourtant à adopter. Un chien a un comportement inné qui est celui de la meute.