I admit I have never EVER watched Ceasar Milan, but you can’t live in this world and not have heard much of what he espouses. It sounds like common sense to me (as a dog trainer). However, does he never ever fail? I simply cannot believe that. There really are dogs out there (just like there are people) who are unreachable. I don’t buy the no bad dog drivel.
You should try to watch the show sometimes.
I think he probably does have dogs that fail.
He talks about the ‘red zone’ dogs he deals with, where if he can’t turn it around, the dog has few options.
He doesn’t ‘train’ dogs in the traditional sense on his show. He doesn’t train them to ‘sit’ ‘stay’ ‘come’, etc. He deals with aggression, territorial and fear-biter type issues, unbalanced dogs. He gets their personality re-adjusted so they would be in the right frame of mind TO be trained. He does a lot on-leash work, teaching them to heel, basically, and follow him, but not as a command really, as a tool, a means to an end.
But I’ve never seen him actually teach a dog a skill. He leaves that to others. He deals with normal and abnormal dog pack behavior, and teaching people how to better be at the top of the pack. Teaching them to stop rewarding and encouraging all the wrong behaviors in the way they were doing things.