I walked away to cook something so my time limit for editing my post expired. I'd change it to Cesar Millan. I hate that animal abuser. All he does is he bullies dogs into learned helplessness. He doesn't understand dominance at all and his obsession with it is just really weird and harmful to dogs. Almost everything he says is opposed by behavioral science and he don't seem to know jack about actual dog psychology. He can't even correctly interpret dog body language most of the time.
Every dog, in his opinion, is trying to take over the world and he ruins people's relationships with their dogs because he makes people feel weak and he makes them paranoid that their dogs are trying to take over as they know it. He pits dog owners against their dogs in a battle for supremacy that the dog wants no part of.
Veterinary behaviorists, applied animal behaviorists, ethologists, the majority of animal welfare organizations, and most educated dog trainers and behaviorists have been telling people for years to stop being obsessed with dominance and to stop listening to this self proclaimed "expert" but people don't care. And all the studies in the world to show that aggression begets aggression don't seem to make a difference to people and they continue to cling to their confrontational treatment of their dogs. I do a LOT of rescue work and dog training. And I'm sick and tired of seeing all the dogs he's ruined once the dogs snaps out of their learned helplessness or the dogs that are strong willed enough to resist their owners. There are more than enough dogs that are euthanized, surrendered to rescues, dropped off at the side of roads, abandoned at shelters, and passed off onto new owners because the dog has developed severe aggression or their aggression became much worse after their owners took Millan's misbegotten advice. It's very easy to tell when a dog has been subjected to dominance treatment.
It really pisses me off every time I see someone make that annoying Tsst noise and jab their dog in the jugular, or kick them when they pull on the leash, or wrestle the dog to the ground and pin them there by the throat, throw the dog's worse fears at them, and all the other abusive crap he tells people to do. I work with very aggressive dogs often, as do other trainers, and also behaviorists, and they don't have to manhandle and abuse dogs to successfully modify their behavior. I've pulled more than my share of dogs scheduled for euthanasia for aggression problems and turned them into wonderful, well behaved dogs by using science based methods, free from cruelty or bullying.
