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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  Okay, then, I feel that I have expressed my opinions on this, but I'm happy to repeat myself. In my non-expert opinion, I don't think Cesar has handled all that many truly extreme, aggressive cases. Lots of his training is fine. However, he often acts in a provocative way towards dogs, and then uses their reactions to prove his original contention. In several episodes in early seasons, I saw dogs make moves as if to bite him (always accompanied by ominous music). If those dogs had really been aggressive, they wouldn't have been posturing. Cesar was actually lucky that those dogs were much less aggressive than he claimed. I'm not even sure it's all Cesar -- I think the format of the show likes to emphasize the scariness of the dogs Cesar is working with and how they are THIS CLOSE to being put to sleep.
As I have also said, most of the owners Cesar works with are c-l-u-e-less. They know absolutely nothing about dogs, most have never taken their problem dogs to a class or a trainer. Who here on YT would complain about their horrifically aggressive yorkie, make no effort to train it, and then decide it should be PTS because it was such a problem? I mentioned a show where a dog rolled on its back in an effort to pacify Cesar and the owners thought the dog was taking a nap!
It is true I have much less experience with dogs than Cesar, and I would not be able to get the kind of results he does - not even close. Maybe in ten years. At the same time, you don't seem to give any weight to people who have studied dogs for years if their opinions don't mesh with your own, so I'm not sure why I should be held to a different standard. |
Mercury, what Cesar does is NOT magic. Or mysterious or abusive. Keeping the TV series in context, I am sure that the cases that are shown on TV are more extreme than the normal doggie problems so we see the extreme end of the training scale.
If you spent a few hours with him, or with any trainer and gave yourself permission you could glean techniques and taylor them to suit your lifestyle. It isn't about emulating a specific trainer, its about finding specific training techniques that will work.
Think about a training technique as a computer program module. You modify modules to suit a customer's needs -- there is seldom a case where a customer would buy a business application off the shelf that would work without modification. The same is true with dog training. You glean, modify, test and if it works keep it, if it doesn't work, either you debug or you ditch it and start over.