The Dog Whisperer is a reality television series in the United States of America which features Cesar Millan as the dog behavior specialist.
In this page, I would like to share Cesar Millan's techniques of "training people and rehabilitating dogs" that I have learned from his television series.
I am a fan of Cesar Millan. I have watched 3 seasons of the Dog Whisperer and I learned a lot from him. His dog training techniques are simple and efficient.
If you know how to use techniques, you will become the dog whisperer in your house. If you are able to master some of his dog training skills, you could train the dogs yourself and save up the money to hire expensive professional dog trainer.
Overall, Cesar Millan has categorized the dog behavior problems from level 1 to level 10. Any behavior problem that is above level 10 is called as "Red Zone". Any dog which has behavior problem that is in the "Red Zone" will be very hard to fix.
Cesar emphasis that each of the family members has to be the pack leader of the dog. The pack leader needs to be calm and assertive in any situation. The energy from calm and assertive will make the person an effective pack leader.
When you are introducing to a new dog, you will need to give the dog to sniff on you without looking at him (Sense). In the same time, you have to be calm and assertive for him to feel your energy. Then only, you can look at him (Sight). Lastly, you can use your voice to communicate with the dog or use the dog training commands to train the dog (Sound).
This is an important sequence of actions that a person need to take to gain trust from the dog early on.
The reason behind this is that when a dog is a fetus, he will develop nose first, follows by eyes then ears. We all know also know that, in nature world, dogs have better sense and sight than human.
So, we should use the dog's way of communication to communicate with them.
The way a dog thinks is different from human. Human are able to logically think what is right and what is wrong. But, dog is not able to think logically. The only way the dog can understand us is through his state of mind.
So, we communicate with a dog by understanding a dog's state of mind and reward or correct his behavior at the right time.
A few examples are below: If you dog is excited mood and you are feeding him, he will show you more excitement in order for you to give him more food. This excitement is not healthy for long run, as it will develop into other bad behaviors. If you dog is barking at strangers and you pet him on the head to calm him down. This will not stop the dog barking behavior. In fact, this will encourage him to bark more everytime he sees a stranger. You should give him a warning when he is barking, when he has calm dowm and quiet, then, only you give him affection by petting on his head or body.When your dog or puppy constantly chews on your furniture, shoes or carpet. You will not able to stop the dog or puppy chewing problem unless you understand his state of mind. Most of the time, a dog developed chewing problem is because he feel bored. So, you need to give him more exercise
So when we want to feed a dog, we must make sure that he is calm state of mind them we start to feed. The dog then will understand that he needs to be calm to get feed.
To sum up, by understanding a dog's state of mind and rewarding the behavior at the right timing are 2 basic steps to train a dog.
To correct a bad behavior, you use your hand as a "torch". You hand becomes a mouth and the fingers become teeth.
The "torch" has to become assertive. It is like in the animal kingdom, the pack leader bites the neck of the follower without killing the dog. Just to show that you are the dominant one and he needs to listen to you as you are in charge of how he should behave.
During walking, you can use your leg as "torch". During walking, your dog should be walking next to you (either right or left side). The dog should not be in front of you or too far behind you. If the dog is in front of you, he acts as pack leader. It is because in animal Kingdom, pack leader is the first one to initiate any action which includes walking or eating.
Other than the "torch", you will have to maintain your emotion and energy. You should have calm energy when you correct the dog behavior problem. This is because the dog is able to feel your energy. If you are fearful or scared of your dog, your dog will feel it and will not listen to you.
Assertive "torch" with calm energy are the key of dog behavior problems modification.
Cesar Millan also likes to use choke collar and prong collar as the main training collars. When a dog shows undesired behavior, he will snap and release the leash. It is to snap the dog out from that state of mind, the dog will understand that behavior is not allowed.
When a dog is NOT balance, it has any or combination of the following characteristics:-
ExerciseEvery dog needs to exercise and it is especially important for high energy every dogs. Cesar Millan always emphasis that the walk is one of the primer activities with animal and it can create bond and trust with human.
At least 45 minutes of walking is needed daily and some high energy of dogs need 1 hour of exercise. Exercise can be a simple walk, walking with dog backpack or dog pulls owner on roller blade. DisciplineDiscipline is not punishment. Discipline is setting rules, boundaries and limitations on what your dog can and cannot do in your house.
AffectionThe common mistake that most people do is giving affection to their pet dogs before exercise and discipline. Cesar Millan stresses that affection is only given when the dog is well behave and only give during the dog is calm and submissive state of mind.
I am sharing what I have learned from Cesar Millan in The Season 1 of The Dog Whisperer listed by episodes below. I hope that you get some benefits out of it.
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