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In this episode Victoria Stilwell helps a couple who have three great Danes. I actually really liked this episode. The couple were willing to do some work and Victoria was actually solving problems. One thing bugs me, and that’s that although Victoria doesn’t train like Cesar Millan, she’s started talking like him. This has been a [...]

Kody is quite the dog. On the day he was given to me, we all went to Petco with Kody and his brother Flex. Flex was fine, but Kody was scared to death and shaking, and eventually threw up. What I didn’t know at the time was that this is who Kody was going to [...]

I've been doing a lot thinking lately about Cesar Millan and what makes him so popular. And I think I've got it. As a way of manipulating people it's brilliant, and it's been used for literally thousands of years by many different people. (Obviously, not just for dog training!).

One of the things Cesar Millan emphasizes that I and probably all dog trainers agree with is that the feeding ritual is very important. Your goal is to have you dog be as calm as possible. Cesar has a pack of dogs, so the way he accomplishes this is the feed the calmest first, which [...]

Last week on It’s Me or The Dog Victoria Stillwell visited one of my favorite actresses, Nicole Sullivan. I loved her on Mad TV. But there’s an interesting moment where again Victoria speaks out against Cesar Millan’s methods, like so many other trainers are these days. Victoria: What sort of training styles have you done, have you [...]

I love Victoria Stillwell, and compared to Cesar Millan she’s awesome. Even if you love Cesar Millan, which many of my readers do, you can see that nobody’s going to learn to accidentally hurt their dog from Victoria. However, there are a couple of minor things she doesn’t do that I think are important. First, instead [...]

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. The Good Victor takes Victoria on a walk and the pit bulls are pulling like crazy. She asks how he is walking these dogs and without [...]

Tonight Seattle’s KOMO 4 News had a segment about the controversy behind Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan’s methods. I can’t seem to embed this video, so here’s the link. I’m glad they mention that nobody’s questioning Cesar Millan’s intentions, only his methods. I think everyone agrees Cesar wants what’s best for the dogs, he just may not [...]

So generally I try to be a positive person. I try to promote the good things instead of rant about the bad things, but Cesar Millan is going to come up occasionally and I think I need to be up front with you about my history with him. First you need to know a little about [...]