Tag Cesar Millan

How Life with Kody has Changed

Matt
Tuesday, September 7th 2010 12:12am
When I first started this blog I talked a lot about training methods and how much Cesar Millan sucked. But I’m lucky because now there are lots of other people to do that for me who know much more about both topics. Cesar Millan is suffering quite a lot of very scientific criticism and probably [...]
Oh my gosh, this is a great article. I highly recommend reading it. The rest of the article is an interview with Jennifer. There can be no doubt Jennifer Arnold knows her stuff when it comes to training dogs. As the founder and CEO of Canine Assistants, Inc. in Milton, Arnold and her staff have [...]

Is it really cruel to perform an ‘alpha roll’ on your dog?

Matt
Wednesday, August 11th 2010 6:46am
Very down to Earth article on the topic. Talks about how one of the benefits of pack theory for many people has been in learning to be more consistent with their dogs. However, the alpha roll itself is probably not so great. Is it really cruel to perform an ‘alpha roll’ on your dog?
Here’s an article that really covers the latest thoughts on this topic very well. In the end, it comes down to which method science can prove works (not only for dogs, but humans too.) Cesar Millan or Victoria Stillwell? Who Would You Rather Have Train Your Dog?

It’s Me or the Dog – Great Dane Devotion

Matt
Saturday, January 16th 2010 8:48pm
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 [...]

Recognizing and Working Through Fear

Matt
Thursday, January 7th 2010 12:37pm
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 [...]