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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  I'm going to come out and say that I don't like "The Dog Whisperer" very much. My impression is that Cesar IS in fact a dog whisperer - he is very intuitive and I think he connects with dogs on a deep level. While this is fantastic for him, I don't think he is a very good teacher, because I think a lot of the time he himself doesn't know exactly what's he's doing.
I feel like "The Dog Whisperer" is more about the legend of Cesar than it is about actually training dogs. He throws around words like "energy" and it seems to mean about twenty different things. Often he'll attribute his methods to some type of "energy" when it's a basic, established training method - desensitization, for instance.
I think Cesar has done a lot of great work for dogs, so I admire the man himself quite a bit. It just boils down to this: I think everyone should watch "It's Me or the Dog"!
I read a very interesting book recently that said that dogs are basically baby wolves, so they don't need a "pack leader" so much as a momma and poppa wolf. Which boils down to something pretty similar, since you need to teach your children that you are in charge and show them how to behave. |
I totally see what you're saying. But I have to sort of disagree. I've been watching that show and doing some of the things he does, and has been working like a charm on Jackson! I love his techniques.
And as he states, he is training PEOPLE, not the dogs.