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Originally Posted by Gingergirlsmom  I love Cesar. I also like Victoria. I struggle enough with my two angels, I think anyone who is able to work with difficult dogs and their owners and turn a miserable situation into a pleasant one must be doing something right. Even if their methods disagree. There is more than one way to skin...  
That being said, I watched the video of Cesar with the husky several times and I saw the little tap Cesar gave the dog on his hind quarters. It was a little tap. I'm sorry, I just can't see that as abusive. The rest of the time, Cesar remained incredibly calm, I gotta tell you if that dog were coming at me like that, I'd be on the floor in a fetal position.  So, maybe, if nothing else, watching Cesar is teaching me to approach mine and other animals calmly, no matter what. How can that be a bad thing? |
I can't really analyze the dog's behavior fully. But the thing with the tap... we're starting off by saying, "it was a small tap, a normal dog should have been able to deal with it." I think some other people are saying
you have to judge the method by the dog's reaction. You can't fault the dog for its reaction, it is a dog. So if an ever so gentle tap on the hindquarters startles a dog badly enough to provoke that kind of behavior, it's a bad method. I've seen enough of Cesar's show to see that a lot of dogs DO NOT like the "tap". If I (or a strange handler) did that to Thor on a walk, even adjusted down to his size, he would jump straight into the air and cry the whole way home.
I can't say this for certain... but to me, it did not look like the dog wanted to kill Cesar, it looked like it REALLY wanted to let Cesar to let go of his leash and give him back his air supply. That's why he was biting the leash, and yes, he was gasping for air. Now would the dog have run off and picked flowers for everyone? Don't know. I think he might have just run away a to a certain distance and observed. But keep in mind, there is a huge camera crew around, and almost certainly people on hand to step in and protect the on camera people. If there are not, they should be.