Cesar's Rules by Cesar Millan

[zebra363]

Cesar's Rules by Cesar Millan

In this book Cesar Millan (the TV "Dog Whisperer") interviews a variety of accomplished dog trainers and behaviourists, many of whom don't agree with some of his methods, to provide an overview of the various options.

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[el1ie]

Although Millan has become a very controversial figure there's a lot of good advice you can get from him in the way of getting good whole life behaviour as against training, I've probably picked up more helpful tips from him and Jan than anyone else down the years. Not everything, but some of his basic stuff still holds good for me - especially in training the person rather than the dog.

Walk with your head up and shoulders back, with your arms relaxed and the leash loose, Again, it's not so much saying this is what to do, it's the belief in yourself that's the hardest thing to do

[zebra363]

there's a lot of good advice you can get from him in the way of getting good whole life behaviour as against training

I agree. I think a lot of the vitriolic criticism of him is quite overblown. His "no talk, no touch, no eye contact" for having visitors greet your dog would be one of the single most useful things anyone has told me. It's so easy to communicate to people and prevents all sorts of problems.

Walk with your head up and shoulders back, with your arms relaxed and the leash loose, Again, it's not so much saying this is what to do, it's the belief in yourself that's the hardest thing to do.I'm getting better at it! When she's walking perfectly at my side, it's hard NOT to do this, since I'm so proud of my dog! We've just come back from a 6km walk around a city lake and most of the way I was positively beaming at her excellent conduct! (Also, we witnessed a horrible example of someone with a rude pushy dog letting it get right up to a dog that obviously didn't want anything to do with it. The second dog's owners held

[el1ie]

When she's walking perfectly at my side, it's hard NOT to do this, since I'm so proud of my dog!YAY!! That's wonderful and it really is like a feedback loop, you feel proud and so will she and soon all this hard work you're doing will be a distant memory as everything will just fall into place naturally. The more you begin to understand how dogs work, the harder it gets to watch all that bad behaviour from humans making their dogs conform to human standards, it's frustrating but still informative - you know who to keep away from