Posted on 10/10/2009 4:20:10 PM PDT by Saije
IT’S a miracle. That’s what the humans believe, more often than not, after watching this compact, 40-year-old C.E.O. do his work. He enters a room purposefully, his chest thrust forward and a smile on his face. “How can I help?” is his standard introduction, and the way he says it — calmly, assertively — indicates that your problems are about to be solved.
It’s unbelievable. That’s what the humans say when they see what Cesar Millan, the “Dog Whisperer,” can do. And the dogs? To a pooch, they appear to be thinking: “Thank God, help has finally arrived.” To prompt a visit from Mr. Millan, these dogs have exhibited seemingly irrational fears (of motorbikes, toasters, linoleum floors) and strange obsessions (biting rocks, ankles, tractor tires).
Their owners, meanwhile, have told poignant, if at times ludicrous, stories. One couple sought out Mr. Millan after their two pit bulls, hell-bent on killing each other, forced them to live apart. Another hadn’t slept in the same bed for months because their Yorkies wouldn’t allow it.
If you have a television, you may know Mr. Millan from “Dog Whisperer With Cesar Millan,” whose sixth-season premiere was on Friday on the National Geographic Channel, a cable network piped into about 70 million homes...
Partly because he is based in Los Angeles, the epicenter of the entertainment industry, Mr. Millan has become something of a cultural icon, a Latino man who commands respect wherever he goes. He has helped scores of movie stars and moguls — among them alpha dogs like Oprah Winfrey, the actor Will Smith, the former Disney chief Michael D. Eisner and the director Ridley Scott — become pack leaders in the one place they fail to rule: their homes.
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LOVE CESAR MILAN!
He trains the owners, not the dogs!
Cesar Millan is a genius!!!
The couple that lived apart could not get their dogs to get along. They had adopted two distressed pitbulls at different times and seeing them fight made them so upset, the dogs then got even worse.
After months of work with ceasar and even leaving the dogs with Ceasar for a while when the couple showed up at his place to pick up the cured dogs, they,the dogs, got in a fight. So Ceasar told them they should give one of the dogs to him. They refused and wanted to keep working on themselves, that was ultimately the main problem. They had to teach themselves to be calm and assertive and they did finally accomplish it.
“One of Cesar’s favorite sayings,” says Jim Milio, a partner in MPH, which produces the show out of a mini-mall in Burbank, Calif., “is that humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.”
I’ve nothing to add.
Now, I like the guy, but that is just presumptive as all hell.
>>”Cesar Millan is a genius!!!”
Apparently so. Two lessons from the story:
1. His lesson: “Anything that is realistic, if I create it in my mind, it can become a reality,” he says
2. My lesson: If you make yourself useful to the new Nomenklatura (Oprah, Eisner, et.al.[”wealthy, wealthy, wealthy people”]) You, too can be magically transformed from criminalien to citizen.
DG
Have you watched his show?
>>”Have you watched his show?”
No. This article is all I know of him. I admre people who have a special rapport with dogs (and other animals).
Millan MAY have shed his criminalien status in some honorable way, but it wasn’t mentioned in the story. Aside from that, My comment was intended to be ALSO a generalization regarding whatever “amnesty” program is going to be foisted off on us.
DG
It will change your opinion of him IMO!
Now I'm not against using public funds to help dogs that need help.
But it's gotta be workfare, not welfare. Dogs have to help themselves.
They can pull a sled at least.
CEO’s have “yes” men all around them....Their dogs know they are full of shit and act accordingly....:O)
My father always said "Never get a dog smarter than you are" and that just about sums up Cesar's philosophy...He is the alpha dog and they all know it.......My father was a mounted policeman and also trained horses for the department....he also use to say "raise your kids like you train a horse, discipline, but never break their spirit. A horse that has a broken spirit (fearful) never learns to think and sometimes the horseman needs his animal to think....He never laid a hand on me while growing up, but a look could stop you in your tracks.....a great father....
There was plenty of affection and correction, but I never saw him angry...
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