I am not always a big fan of Cesar Milan's methods, however one of the things he tries to stress is dog first, then breed, then name. People must always remember that small dogs are still dogs. Many of the problems that small dogs have are that they are so darn cute that we forget that they are still dogs. We carry them around and coddle them like they were children. I am a breeder with a pack of seven and if I forgot that they were dogs, total chaos would erupt in my house. The best behaved small dogs that I ever had were when my children were small and I didn't have time to coddle them. He mostly stresses that there has to be rules and that we have to stick with them and I sure don't see anything wrong with that. |