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Originally Posted by Erin
The first option for anyone with a "vicious" dog should be immediately meeting with an animal behaviorist to determine the problem, probably after ruling out any medical reason. They should not be handling it on their own. Otherwise, according to one of her books, you manage the behavior and work on modifying the behavior. If you really are interested, join the Peaceable Paws Yahoo! Group. (It's a fast moving email list with a lot of professional trainers, but anyone is welcome to join. They have a lot to share.) All of the positive training books I've read say pretty much the same thing. Determine cause of behavior and work hard to modify it. Using conditioning you can teach your dog that "bad" things are really "good" things. There's a lot more to it, which is why I have so many books. And it takes a long time. There are no quick fixes, despite what you see on TV.
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Cesar Milan never says there are quick fixes for vicious dogs. You said to work on the problem. OK how. What do you do if your 120 pound dog has calimed the sofa and and bites at you if you try to make him get off.
You have not given any specific examples. Just generalizations. What if my dog does not fit into your box.
Cesar corrects the people. Once the people are corrected they can train the dog by any method they choose.
Until you have personally watched your trainer deal with a behavior problem, you really don't know how they would deal with it or how the animal would react. These are not simple problems with simple fixes. And they don't all react in textbook fashion.
Lets take your trainer and put her in front of a camera with a vicious dog and see how she deals with it and how tail wagging friendly the dog is.
What you read in a book, and what happens in reality are not always the same.
There is a HUGE difference between theory and practic, and between being educated and intelligent. Educated people come up with theories, Intelligent people are able to take a theory and put it into practice.