On the latest episode of It's Me or the Dog Victoria Stilwell helps Victor Wertz, a human dad with two pit bulls who are wrecking his home and just generally untrained.
Victor takes Victoria on a walk and the pit bulls are pulling like crazy. She asks how he is walking these dogs and without mentioning any names he shows exactly Cesar Millan's method of leash tugging. She smiles knowingly and says, "Uh huh… well it doesn't appear to be working does it?"
Victor's experience was similar to mine in that Cesar Millan's method seemed to be making his dogs anxious and actually pull more.
As usual, Victoria shows her gentle techniques to make the dogs sit and wait at the door, and Victor is clearly amazed at how easy it is. But when they are on a walk, Victoria at one point waits 20 minutes for one of the dogs to offer her a sit. This was strange because there is a gentle, no-touch way, to make a dog sit that doesn't take 20 seconds usually. I'm pretty sure Victoria knows this. I didn't understand why she was waiting there 20 minutes for a sit. It certainly wasn't that waiting in this case would make for better training. I have no idea what she was doing.
As always, it was an enjoyable episode. They even managed to slip in a minor "Victor Victoria" moment for us to enjoy. Victoria Stilwell remains the Mary Poppins of dog training.