Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan ‘Disciplined’ On British TV [Video]

LOVE this interviewer. Wish US media would take him to task as well. Milan even admits his credentials are essentially nil, his methods made up and based on no science (and contradict what animal behavior experts teach), and even compares himself to cigarettes!

love the interview he states he lightly kicks well a kicks a kick plus he uses shock and prong collars to help people with arthritis control a dog well ive never seen anyone and charging that much shows he in it for the money positive training works better.

Alan Titchmarsh dared to ask the questions that we all want the answers to. What a shame that Eamon Holmes and those silly bids from Radio London couldn't take a leaf out of Alan's book instead of just fawning over this dog abuser.

The author of this article has apparently not watched enough of the Dog Whisperer videos. There are frequent examples of the methods that Alan Titchmarsh referred to, and many of them can be found on YouTube as well. All one has to do is learn a little bit about canine communication/body language, and then watch the programs with the sound off – you'll begin to see that the dogs often are frightened and highly stressed, far from the "calm and submissive" claims of CM. The Titchmarsh interview was fully backed by evidence, and to me, it represented excellent journalism.

The British talk show didn't try to rhetorically jerk Cesar Millan’s leash, they succeeded in doing it good style…hence the CM worshippers all crawling out of the woodwork to protest.
Still, I suppose the author of this article doesn't mind CM constantly jerking the leashes of dogs when he is attempting to rehabilitate them.
http://peterdobias.com/community/2009/05/one-jerk-can-cause-a-lot-of-damage/#more-221

You can't win with some people, Rise. I posted a compilation of Millan kicking dogs on Cesarsway for his fans who insist he doesn't kick dogs. They kept insisting he doesn't kick dogs and kept asking me what show I as watching because it sure wasn't The Dog Whisperer! I kept reposting the link for fun and it was the same counter claims every time.

Yet again the photo says it all, look at the puppy's face, not happy and the larger dog is being pushed into view. The article, well CM may think he was 'calm assertive', but he did not answer honestly or clearly and only today he said E-collars are for disabled people so they can train their dogs, then he said that he only uses them because the owners are already using them! Can he just be honest and say 'I use them as I have no idea what else to do'. Then prehaps he could go and get a better education, afterall he has the money and the resources to change and start again.

whoever wrote the article states never seen CM punch a dog, so no homework or background done then.

The writer must condone abuse then as a kick is a kick regardless of how are or gentle. Also on his shows I have seen the use of shock collars and prong collars which can and do do a lot of damage (print collars can pierce a dog's trachea) as well as kicks and punches he even misses the warning signs of a dog about to attack another dog! Also whoop de do da day so he charges $100,000 which to me says he cares more about the money than the dogs themselves.

I'm disabled and on disability. I trained my own service dog. No shock collar needed. I'm magical.

26 UK charities including the RSPCA and DogsTrust are calling for Cesar's methods to be banned in the UK. He freely admits to using electric shock collars and these are now illegal in Wales with calls to have them banned elsewhere in the UK.

The interview was a masterpiece, it never ceases to amaze me at the amount of CM followers who cannot see abusive actions in this man's show's. His methods are totally unacceptable and demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of genuine dog behaviour and learning ability. Good for Alan, all the dogs of the world thank him for showing people what a menace and abusive man CM is in his treatment of dogs that are already severely traumatised.

So Millan only uses light kicks or 'touches' as he calls them. I've seen dozens of videos of him employing these light kicks to wind a dog up and set him off, and in quite a number of them the dog winces and is lifted off his back feet with the force of the kick, or knocked sideways. Time someone used Millan's tactics on him and see how he likes being kicked, punched, pinched and frightened constantly.

interesting article TM gonna repost this

Who ever wrote this report is as unobservant as CM, CM was showing classic signs of stress not giving AT any eye contact, sweating, lip licking etc He was definitely not calm & assertive, he failed to answer any of the questions & having seen a lot of CM's programs of which a lot are available on youtube etc there are lots of examples of CM failing to observe the body language of the dogs he"rehabilitates"which has resulted in dogs being forced to bite him to stop his abuse!

Firstly, thank you for this great article.
Shock collars should be given another name as I have only ever seen these collars used on vibrate mode as a distraction (including on Cesar's shows), the dogs are not given an electric shock. I was urging Cesar to mention this to A.T. like he does on his own show. He tests the device on the owners hand to prove it is just a vibration that the dog will feel.
I remember a British tv show where a British tv vet was converted to the benefits of the 'Vibrate' collar for certain circumstances. One time I saw Cesar using one it was to save the dog's life, the owners of the dog were farmers and had tried various strategies to stop their farm dog chasing the tractor very close to the wheels, the collar (on vibrate) worked very quickly and now the dog stays away fromn the wheels and is still free to live the life of a farm dog.
As a conscuientious dog owner and dog lover, I tried to learn from reading many dog psychology books in the last 10 years. For us it wasn't until Cesar came along that we really started to understand dogs and as a consequence our dogs were happier. Dog euthansia, due to what is deemed aggression, is all too common through lack of real knowledge and I know that Cesar has saved the lives of countless dogs by helping their owners to understand that the fault usually lies with the owners. I don't think I have missed an episode of the Dog Whisperer since is started, I think Cesar Millan is a Godsend to dogs. Do you really think this guy would be so popular if he was cruel to dogs? I really don't understand where all this nonsense about him being cruel comes from. He is a caring, compassionate, man who only wants the best for dogs. He stresses that we should never show anger or frustration to our dogs and he would never suggest hitting or kicking dogs! Yes, yes I have seen the 'jabs' he gives, but they mimick the jab one dog would give to another with it's mouth and nose. We have 2 dogs and you only have to watch them together to know what Cesar says is true.
I will never watch the Alan Titchmarsh show again, I only watched it because Cesar was on anyway) but I look forward to every Cesar Millan programme where I know I will learn even more about dogs.
As for the picture of Cesar with Daddy and Junior as a puppy, I see 2 beautiful, impeccably behaved, happy and relaxed pitbulls.
Julie

How wrong you are, there are vibration collars, which are usually used by people with deaf dogs to signal to them that they need to look at their owner for a cue, although most people think they are pretty useless, and then there are electrocution collars which shock the dog. If you watch the dogs it is clear they are receiving a shock not a vibration. It is well known that Millan preps the dogs in advance using shock collars. However, if you look at pictures of Daddy and Junior and see relaxed dogs then your dog body language skills are distinctly lacking!

well said Carlo!!

I am a total fan of CM and have used his training methods with great success. Has anyone observed other training methods and not seen so-called abuse when a dog is reefed around with a choke or spike collar…obviously some people don't have the time or patience to train their companions or maybe they think good behavior happens by osmosis? I guess some people just shouldn't have pets..just as some shouldn't have children which is increasingly evident in our society today!