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Narrator: Do not attempt the techniques you
are about to see without consulting a professional.
On this episode of Dog Whisperer.
Howie Mandel: I love animals from afar.
And now I married my wife, and it's like,
it's like I live with Noah.
But my wife has no control over the animals.
I'm scared for my life.
Please Cesar, please.
Help me.
Kim Haueter: Bebe just gets fixated on things,
like the lampshades.
Bob Haueter: I don't remember seeing it the
first time, but she just went for it.
But it's not just lampshades.
She'll take after the blinds.
Whatever tends to startle her.
She attacks it, almost like it's going after
an animal to kill it.
Narrator: When good dogs go bad, there's one
man who's their best friend.
Cesar Millan.
Cesar Millan: No dog is too much for me to handle.
I rehabilitate dogs.
I train people.
I am the Dog Whisperer.
Narrator: When an English bulldog puppy named Bebe first
joined their household, Bob and Kim Haueter thought
they had found the perfect companion for
their aging dog Sadie.
Bob Haueter: They were great together.
Bebe literally would curl up in, in Sadie and,
and sleep with her.
They were inseparable.
Narrator: Sadie, a lab/golden mix had been a
gift to daughter Kim 14 years ago.
Bob Haueter: Sadie's the queen of the house.
I mean, she is the mellowest, sweetest dog
I've ever had.
Kim, when she was growing up, had different times
where there were emotional things going on in her
life, and Sadie was always there for her.
Narrator: At age 12, Sadie developed a benign
tumor on her shoulder, one of several
age related ailments.
Kim Haueter: She was having joint pain,
we had to carry her upstairs.
We were really afraid that, you know, pretty soon she
was gonna pass away.
When we brought Bebe in, Sadie kind of
became more alive.
It was just like it was one of her puppies that she
never got to have.
Bob Haueter: Where Sadie is very calm,
Bebe is feisty, she's crazy.
I fell in love with her.
She's just, she's so ugly, she's cute.
Kim Haueter: I don't know exactly what happened
between them, but it was kind of like they were
playful fighting at first, and then all of a sudden it
was like it wasn't playful.
Bob Haueter: Then the next time it escalated a little
bit more and then it got to the point where Bebe
actually got hurt.
Sadie kicked Bebe's butt.
Kim Haueter: There would be a little blood, so then we
had to keep them apart, and we had to put one dog
outside at all times.
We went to a psychiatrist for dogs that my dad had
heard about, and the only thing we got from that was
tethering the dog, like nothing else helped.
Bob Haueter: Okay, all excited.
And then it got to the point where we realized
that Bebe was the one who would be,
I guess the aggressor.
If you tethered Sadie, Bebe would go up and
jump on Sadie.
So we got to the point, which is where we live now,
where Bebe's tethered and Sadie has the run of the
house, unless we have Sadie outside.
Narrator: But even when Sadie's outside and she's
free to roam the house, Bebe has issues.
Kim Haueter: If Bebe's not tethered, she just gets
fixated on things, like the lamp shades.
Bob Haueter: She's very skittish, she's like, you
know, crazy behavior.
I don't remember seeing it the first time, but she
just went for it.
Kim Haueter: I'll be upstairs getting something,
and all of a sudden I'll hear this like ferocious
growl, and I know right away what's going on.
Bob Haueter: We've probably gone through at least a
dozen lampshades.
We started out with some really nice ones,
and then some not so nice ones,
and now we don't have lampshades at all.
But it's not just lampshades, it's whatever
tends to startle her.
She'll take after the blinds.
She attacks it, almost like it's going after an animal
to kill it, I mean she just, grrr.
It's like you can't relax when you come home,
you have to constantly be on edge.
It, it's like you're constantly walking on
eggshells around the house.
Narrator: Fortunately for Bob and Kim,
they live only minutes away from Cesar's
Dog Psychology Center.
Bob Haueter: So there's two things we'd like to
get to the point where Sadie and Bebe can be
free to walk around the house together.
And if Bebe's free, we need to make sure
she doesn't attack the blinds and the lampshades.
Sadie is older, so she's done, she doesn't have what
we would say is negative stuff,
she, she's pretty easy.
Bebe's a handful.
Cesar Millan: Yeah.
The reason why people love so much Labradors and
golden retrievers is because they stay in a more
rules, boundaries, limitations zone.
So even if they attack a dog, they're not going to
kill him, but they will dominate him.
So, as a member of the family, it's a way of
saying, "Okay, this one Bebe requires the same
rules, boundaries and limitations that I have."
But the more she grew up with no rules, boundaries
and limitations, the more powerful she became.
And then the bulldog in her kicked in.
It's a time in their life where the breed kicks in.
Bob Haueter: Two things that, I don't know if it'll
help or not, but our routine is, Sadie goes in
the back yard and Bebe goes in the side
with the garage.
There have been a number of times when someone who's
left, hasn't made sure the gate was closed, they've
been alone together all day.
They don't hurt each other when the two of
them are alone.
It's like, when the other thing is, I saw your show,
you had said something about
walking them together.
And at first that was like crazy, but now I can walk
both of them together and they're fine, they're fine.
You can walk them all, but then you bring them back in
the house and the tension's there again.
Cesar Millan: That could be the, the, the tension of
the human, like can trigger a fight.
Or when the human is a source of affection, the
human sees the dog as babies, or as humans, and
then the human becomes a follower.
So the dog is going to fight for what he owns.
So in a way the dog owns, you know, the humans that
they live with.
That could be why they don't fight when there's no
human around.
Kim Haueter: Got it.
Cesar Millan: You know, 'cause they're not
protecting anything.
Who stays with the dogs more often?
Kim Haueter: I do.
Cesar Millan: You have an amazing teacher,
you know, as a bulldog.
And, and yeah, and you don't just have a bulldog,
you have a bulldog in the red zone.
You know, so, it, it's a project, especially in the
situation that you're in now, you know, with all
this power get, gets unleashed towards, towards,
what do you say, a lamp?
Kim Haueter: Lampshades, blinds.
Cesar Millan: Lampshades, you see what I'm saying?
They have to release that unwanted energy.
And they will do it on something that doesn't
make any sense.
Narrator: Cesar meets Bebe first, but only after Sadie has
been securely locked in another room.
Kim Haueter: This is if Sadie's in the house.
She gets excited, or she'll be all like, you know,
"Give me attention, pet me."
Cesar Millan: Okay, that's your interpretation.
That's just excitement right there.
So as you see, what I did is just own my space, and,
and disagree with the jumping.
She was about to.
But she's already telling me, "Okay, this
is what I normally do.
Are you going to allow that, or you're not?"
At this point, you're a dog lover and friend,
but because you are a dog lover and friend,
you are in the back of the pack.
Now, can I see the other dog?
Kim Haueter: Come here Sadie.
Cesar Millan: So that's normal?
Kim Haueter: Yeah.
Bob Haueter: Yes.
Cesar Millan: She sees her, she starts barking?
Kim Haueter: Yeah.
Cesar Millan: She sees her.
But this, she stop becoming fixated or anything.
Bob Haueter: No, she's fine.
Cesar Millan: So when does she goes after the blinds
and stuff like that?
Bob Haueter: Oh, do you wanna see that?
Cesar Millan: Yeah.
Bob Haueter: I mean, any time I move them.
Cesar Millan: I want to make sure that they have
more control, more relationship with Bebe
before I actually put her around Sadie, you know,
just as a respect of an elderly dog.
Bob Haueter: Put Sadie in the back.
Cesar Millan: I feel that it's healthier if we take
the slow route instead of taking the quick route, and
putting Sadie in a situation where she can
actually get hurt.
You know how it looks like?
Like a Mexican piñata.
Say, what, what do you normally will do
in that situation?
Bob Haueter: I will take her, grab her and say,
"no, down, no, no!
But now if I let them down, she's waiting.
Okay, they're gone, they're gone.
Hey, hey, hey!
They're gone, they're gone, okay.
Cesar Millan: I saw something very, very
important, you know, a clue when Mr. Bob approached
Bebe, Bebe will surrender.
So I saw a calm, submissive dog, you know.
At one point you did non rational behavior,
"Hey, no, I don't want it," right?
So that's good.
It's when you went into a rational behavior and
you start talking to the dog and trying to tell him,
"It's okay, there's nothing wrong,
blah, blah, blah."
They're not getting the words.
They're just getting the human.
Is being nice when I'm still in, in a, in a zone.
I'm not touching the blinds, but I'm still
in the zone.
Bob Haueter: She's still in the zone, you're right, so
you need to be firm all the way till the zone's gone.
Cesar Millan: Until the zone is gone.
Then you can be rational.
Bob Haueter: Okay.
Cesar Millan: Okay, let me do the piñata thing.
So first I'm gonna begin by claiming the couch.
Before I actually move into claiming the mini blind.
See, so I'm breaking it down by steps,
so it's actually fair for her.
Because the closer they get to the target,
the harder it is for them, and the harder it
is for you.
Bob Haueter: Right, oh yeah, that makes sense.
Cesar Millan: He allowed Bebe to go all the way to
the top of the couch.
By that time Bebe was in level 9.
If I can keep Bebe away from the couch, I'm gonna
keep her in level 3, level 2 max.
So without saying so much the name, now I have to
follow through that, just walking away.
I don't want her to walk away.
She doesn't know what I'm asking, so just
have to stay there.
Tsst, that's the follow through.
If I would end by her walking away she never
would've learned the lesson.
Bob Haueter: She would've, she would've been in control.
Cesar Millan: Yes.
The most important part is that you set your
dog to succeed.
You don't want to begin a level one of excitement,
you want to begin at zero level, okay?
Kim Haueter: Got it.
Cesar Millan: Tsst, Tsst!
Tsst, Tsst!
Tsst,
Tsst!
Now, when did I use the sound?
Kim Haueter: Every time she was getting fixated
on the blinds.
Cesar Millan: She was about to.
She never got fixated.
Bob Haueter: She was interested, but she wasn't,
she wasn't gone.
Cesar Millan: Yeah, fixated is red zone.
Kim Haueter: Okay.
Cesar Millan: That my simple little touch here,
my sound, would not work.
Bob Haueter: She is so much more calm.
Cesar Millan: Right.
Narrator: Coming up, Cesar gets involved in
some shady dealings.
Cesar Millan: Tsst, hey!
You're watching Dog Whisperer on Nat Geo Wild.
Please remain calm and open minded until we come back.
Narrator: Bulldog Bebe attacks lampshades and
Venetian blinds.
She also has a testy relationship with fellow
housemate, Sadie.
Cesar Millan: Come and practice this,
you just saw right there.
You and I move here.
See, now there's two saying the same thing.
I wanted Kim to see support system, which is a
wonderful project as a family.
In this case how her as a daughter can influence, or
support what her father is trying to accomplish.
That's awesome.
Now she's actually looking for your dad's direction,
not for the blinds' direction.
Can you feel it?
Bob Haueter: It's amazing.
The lampshade's something else.
Kim Haueter: With the blinds, you just pull the
string and it goes up, and then it goes down.
With the lampshade, you have to be quick enough
than the dog to grab it from her.
Bob Haueter: We have a different lamp we use.
My thought process was that he was pretty good up till
then, but Bebe was gonna win that one.
Cesar Millan: A little bit more daring.
He has killed a lot of lamps in his life.
So the intensity was bigger.
But I can definitely bring the lamp towards the dog.
Now what happens in the predator state is now what
you normally chase is coming after you.
Come on, come here.
I gave the lamp the opportunity of
claiming her space.
I know it's funny.
Come on.
I'm sure that's normal, because we're telling her
not to attack her.
So, but we don't want the flight.
Bob Haueter: God, where were you about
20 lampshades ago?
Cesar Millan: The lamp intentions was not to hurt.
It was just to be left alone.
Bob Haueter: I've never seen her not want
to get near a lamp.
Cesar Millan: When the lion was a predator, it's
attacking a water buffalo.
And when the water buffalo decides to confront the
lion, the predator backs away.
And the buffalo becomes the dominant one.
Bob Haueter: Look at this, that's just unbelievable.
Cesar Millan: She's not expecting that approach.
She's expecting the move away approach, which makes
them become alive.
You don't want a predator to learn not to attack
something when it moves away.
That's not how they learn.
They learn by facing it.
You ready to practice this exercise?
Kim Haueter: Yeah.
Cesar Millan: Okay.
So she's all yours.
All right, so you can grab the lamp and just point.
Kim Haueter: Tsst, Bebe no!
Cesar Millan: Hey, see, now that she's in that, hey.
When she did the exercise for the first time, she was
coming from a heartfelt point of view.
And automatically Bebe had no mercy for that state.
You went after what is typical from sweet people
and loving people, they go after the name.
So automatically the animal said, "Well you're
not in the zone."
She was so close to the lamp, and you went
and gave affection.
Remember that?
You actually caress her.
What you just say is, "whatever you're
doing is fantastic!"
Okay?
So go and grab the lamp with an assertive approach.
Cesar Millan: Tsst!
Wait, celebrate that.
Celebrate that, yeah!
Bob Haueter: Yeah, she did it.
That dog just went.
You didn't think you could do that, did you?
Kim Haueter: No.
Cesar Millan: Repetitions create the master.
You understand?
So you visualize it, and then you feel it,
and then you do it.
Kim Haueter: Got it.
Cesar Millan: Don't worry, she doesn't move,
that's perfectly fine too.
That's right.
Now square, square yourself, there.
Right , there we go.
Put her on the table.
That was a little hesitant.
Look, just put it on the table.
Kim Haueter: Oh, tsst!
Cesar Millan: That's, that's not hesitation.
She got more distance, Bebe got more relaxed.
Her dad was right there.
Forget about Bebe now, it's "my daughter is actually
doing it."
That's the beauty of dogs.
It, it's a project.
I'm definitely gonna come back and like I said, I
wanna, I want to coach you a little bit more.
You know, you don't learn to play softball
in one day.
It was repetitions.
In dog psychology it's the same thing.
Bob Haueter: He was like, "Okay, this is all we're
gonna do today."
And I'm kinda like going, "Hey, wait a minute, hold
out, time out, you know, the, the lamp and the
shades were important, but the dogs are why
we called you."
And again, he, he, you know, he amazed me.
He said, "No, I want Bebe calm.
Bebe's gotta learn to be calm before we
do the other."
Bebe fell asleep, okay?
We need to learn to do that, because then we can
deal with the Sadie issue.
Kim Haueter: And get her in that state when that Sadie
issue comes up.
Narrator: When we return, Cesar reveals his
master plan for Sadie and Bebe.
Then, Cesar gives Howie Mandel some much
needed comic relief.
Cesar Millan: A little bit more daring.
Narrator: By showing Bob and Kim how to correct
Bebe's behavior before it escalates,
Cesar has given them a way to stop the bulldog's
attacks on blinds and lampshades.
Cesar Millan: My intention today is to find out
if there's any success with
the activities we practiced in the past.
But to me the most important part is,
daughter/father, how much in sync they have become.
Rehabilitating an aggressive dog comes from
rehabilitating or training the mind of human, okay?
That's why we gotta focus on father/daughter.
So let's find out how they're doing.
Kim Haueter: The lamp is very well, we have been
communicating really well on the blinds.
I mean, even like when he's just lifting up the blinds
and I'm just talking to him, all of a sudden I'll
see her, then I'll correct her.
Cesar Millan: How nice.
Kim Haueter: Also, we have been practicing with her
where we have been, you know, putting down the lamp
and moving it towards her.
Bob Haueter: She's more subdued.
She's not as, uh, crazy.
Cesar Millan: That means she's more clear what is
expected from her, so.
Bob Haueter: That's a good way of putting it,
I guess, yeah.
Cesar Millan: Which, it relaxes her because she
knows what you want.
Kim Haueter: Mm hmm.
Cesar Millan: Everything is, is, you know, really
what they were focusing on in the beginning,
doing fantastic.
No problems with the blinds, no problems with
the lampshade.
We're definitely going to have these two girls
together, it's no doubt about it.
But they needed to do their work.
Bob Haueter: The lampshade's the best, yeah.
Narrator: Given Sadie's advancing age, Cesar wants
Bob and Kim to continue practicing their teamwork
curbing Bebe's aggression towards inanimate objects
before reintroducing the dogs to one another.
Cesar Millan: And the next step will be them mingling.
If I'm going to work with these two dogs, I'm going
to work on the barking, which creates excitement.
And then how she gets from that.
Good, we'll be back.
Cesar Millan: You did good today.
More space now, huh?
Bob Haueter: Doing some redecorating.
Cesar Millan: I see.
Well, you don't have to worry about the lamp any
more or lampshades.
Bob Haueter: No, actually I got a floor lamp.
Cesar Millan: It's higher, huh?
We learned to claim the lampshade.
We learned to claim the mini blinds.
So we begin with dog psychology before we move
into dog training tools.
So at this point we are in a position where we have to
teach the human how to utilize tools.
Narrator: Using a piece of ham, Cesar teaches Bebe
that she will only be rewarded if she becomes calm.
Cesar Millan: See how we are creating the association?
She still want to eat it.
But now, now she knows that she have to wait
and eat it over here.
All right, so now I want to go to where
Sadie is at the window, because I know
it was a little confrontation there.
Bob Haueter: Right.
Now the interesting thing, just to tell you, though,
is, if she's outside, Sadie goes right to the window
and barks and does stuff.
When she's inside and Sadie's outside,
she doesn't bother.
Cesar Millan: Okay, but let, let's see that part.
Bob Haueter: Okay.
Cesar Millan: You don't just learn to pull a dog.
You learn timing, you learn intensity,
you learn to follow through.
At the end, you want to be the tool,
you want to be the source of information,
you want to be the source of love.
You're absolutely right.
Bob Haueter: She could care less.
Cesar Millan: Yeah.
Now I'm going to challenge the brain, alright?
So at the moment, you see, you're going to see the
ears go forward when she gets in a, chest up, head
up, I'm going to control.
Kim Haueter: Got it.
Bob Haueter: Okay.
Sadie, it's okay.
Sadie.
"Why'd you open the door?
I was real brave till that door opened."
Cesar Millan: She's avoiding, right?
That's, that's what she's saying,
I'm avoiding the situation.
All right, so there's nothing that we have to do
about it, we actually enjoy that part.
So, I went with her this time, because I do want
them to relate with each other, right?
Kim Haueter: Got it.
Cesar Millan: Tsst.
Right there.
Ears, you had, anybody had it in the camera?
Alright, so as soon as she pass by,
as soon as Sadie pass by, you saw this.
That's what, see my timing?
So I'm being very consistent.
Look, the way I tell you about the ham and the way I
tell you about the door, it's the same thing.
I'm just telling you, stay calm/submissive.
Okay, so now we're gonna go behind the door.
She stays with the collar and.
Bob Haueter: Come here Sadie.
Cesar Millan: How old is she?
Kim Haueter: She's 15.
Cesar Millan: Oh okay, she's like Daddy.
You know that, she walks better than Daddy,
I tell you that.
Bob Haueter: That's what happens.
Cesar Millan: And it's very clear who's initiating the
whole ripple effect, you know, which is Sadie.
But, at the same time, you can also ask a
younger dog to avoid.
When we have an older dog like Sadie, it's really
hard to apply any kind of corrections.
And sometimes they can't hear, you know what I mean?
Sometimes they're so disoriented because they're
dealing with an internal pain that, you know, like
the hips and, and internal, internal pain that
overrules their common sense.
So that's why I'm not focusing so much on her.
I can actually ask a younger dog to just
learn to ignore.
And so what's going to happen is, Sadie is going
to get so bored that nobody is actually answering to
that, that she will do it less and less and less.
So that is how we are actually helping her.
Narrator: With Sadie in the room, Cesar teaches Bebe
that an open door doesn't give her the
automatic right to enter.
Bob Haueter: I thought it was amazing when he got her
not to go after a lampshade.
What I wanted was to work on the dog issue.
What I saw today was that he was working on that
issue from day one.
But he had respect for Sadie and her age, you
know, he dealt with Bebe so that Bebe would give Sadie
the comfort to accept that she can feel safe.
Cesar Millan: I want you to see when she gave up.
And her mind is no "As soon as the door is open,
I'm coming in."
So she have to learn to stay outside with the door
open as well.
Tsst!
Now she's giving us distance.
That's better.
Bob Haueter: Sadie was growling when you first
opened that door, and now she's just like ignoring.
Cesar Millan: Right, because this is what her
experience is.
Every time she comes through that door,
I have to be ready.
When you have two dogs, regardless of what breed
you have at home, you want them to behave
as family members.
And so the growl here, I'm going to allow it, because
I want her to learn that if she growls, she has two
choices ignore or surrender.
See, you're correcting the state of mind of a dog.
So you never confuse a dog and you deliver a clear
message of what is it that you are looking for them,
you know.
What you're looking for them is social behavior.
So now what we're saying is, "Look, go, walk around,
just I'm not holding the leash."
Bob Haueter: We were doing just the opposite.
Every time they fought, Sadie would go outside,
Bebe would go in the garage.
What I saw with Cesar was that that's the worst
thing you can do.
Cesar Millan: So we stopped the attack, right?
We stopped the attack, and then she was about to walk
away from the attack, and I said, "No, that's
unfinished business.
This is how I want you to finish."
Kim Haueter: And, I mean, the way I think about it
is, you know, if two guys on a team are fighting, you
don't just separate them and have, go their own
ways, 'cause, you know, if they see each other,
they're just gonna continue that fight because
it never got resolved.
Bob Haueter: Come here.
Come here, girl.
Come on, there.
Cesar Millan: If you don't follow through with family
members, dogs are incomplete.
Correcting a dog is not just about telling not to
do it, but helping him to achieve calm,
submissive state.
That is finishing the business.
So this is the example of, it's not that we don't want
you ladies to be together, this is how we want you
ladies to be together.
So this is how you end the exercise.
Bob Haueter: What's gonna happen now is we have the
tools necessary and we're gonna have to do a lot of
work, Cesar's just kind of started us on the long road
where, you know, now we have to practice
what he taught us.
Our original plea was, we want to be able to live in
a house without having to be walking on eggshells.
I think that's possible now.
Narrator: Next up, whatever Lola wants, Lola
gets until Cesar visits Howie Mandel and his wife.
Narrator: For more than 30 years Howie Mandel has been
entertaining audiences with his outrageous,
take no prisoners brand of humor.
But these days, the versatile comedian is
feeling more like a prisoner in his own home.
Howie Mandel: Okay, Howie Mandel here.
I'm in my kitchen, and I'd like nothing more than to
be able to sit on the couch beside my wife.
But I, I'll be totally honest with you,
I am terrified.
My wife has purchased an animal that is, just
strikes fear into me.
I don't know if you can get, can you get a
shot of the animal?
Get a shot of the animal.
I'm gonna take a step toward my wife.
See.
I've never had a dog.
I didn't grow up with animals.
Terry Mandel: I've always been a dog lover.
My mother got me a little poodle, and I loved her.
And I've always needed to have dogs.
Howie Mandel: I have OCD.
So I don't really, I love animals from afar.
Terry Mandel: The warmth a dog gives you,
and the love is like no other.
Even more than humans.
Howie Mandel: And now I married my wife, and it's
like, it's like I live with Noah.
I have dogs, we've had ferrets.
We get calls from the Wildlife Way Station to
tell us, when she's not home, that her crow has
been released.
I don't touch them, but I love them.
I work very hard and I purchase their food, and I
pay the vet bills.
Just to see the joy on my wife's face.
Terry Mandel: Lola, I walked by a pet store and I
saw her there, and I fell in love.
It was one of those purchases, you just don't
even think about and you just do.
And then you get home and then you say,
"What have I done?"
Lola could be sweet one moment, and then all of a
sudden she could be in my arms and somebody could
approach me, and she can go attack them and
try to bite them.
It's very scary.
Howie Mandel: I may be exaggerating, but I feel
like Roy, of Siegfried & Roy.
I am sure that Roy thought nothing's going to happen,
Siegfried will take care of this.
My wife is my Siegfried, and he didn't take
care of the tiger.
And this is my tiger.
My wife has no control over the animals.
Terry Mandel: No!
The word I use is "no."
I don't, I go "no, no," and I try to be firm.
Doesn't seem to work, so I give up.
Howie Mandel: She's brought trainers in.
She brought in a trainer, this is not a joke, she
brought in a trainer with four fingers.
He had five steps for training a dog, five steps.
He had four fingers!
Terry Mandel: I hope Cesar can train me so I can keep
this dog in my house, and know that I never have to
worry about her hurting anybody or attacking my
husband or my children.
I'm just always nervous now.
Howie Mandel: I have a book coming out this year.
It's called Here's The Deal, Don't Touch Me.
Had I known what I was in for, I would've changed the
title of my book to Here's The Deal, Don't Bite Me.
I am scared for my life.
Please, Cesar, please, help me.
Narrator: It's time to turn bite into no bite.
Cesar arrives to open the case.
Cesar Millan: How can I help you?
Howie Mandel: Can I, do you want to answer?
Terry Mandel: No, you go first.
Howie Mandel: Because I'm the one with the problem.
Terry Mandel: I know, go ahead.
Howie Mandel: I, I, I'm afraid, Cesar.
I'm afraid for my life.
It sounds like I'm kidding.
But I think that, you don't want to come home and think
that blood could be drawn.
Cesar Millan: It's towards you, or towards
somebody else?
Howie Mandel: The blood that I'm most concerned
about is my own.
But it is toward other people, too.
If a stranger comes into the house,
it, it's an attack.
I'm, we are attacked.
I am attacked.
You're not attacked.
I think it, it, Lola loves her.
And I think Lola hates me and everybody that
approaches her.
So, I'm asking you, and maybe this is too much,
save my life.
Cesar Millan: Save your life.
Howie Mandel: That's all I'm asking.
Is that too much to ask?
Cesar Millan: That's not too much to ask.
Howie Mandel: The thing is that, you know, I don't
know if you know this about me.
Cesar Millan: Yes I do.
Howie Mandel: But I, but I have OCD.
So I don't touch.
Cesar Millan: You can't touch physically, but you
can always touch energy wise.
Howie Mandel: That's what I've been trying to do.
Cesar Millan: You know, I always say, "no touch, no
talk, no eye contact."
Howie Mandel: We've been married for 30 years,
and those are the three things that have
gotten us through.
Those are the first no touching, no talking, and
no eye contact.
And people say, "What makes it work?"
Tsst, don't talk to me.
Howie Mandel: We didn't know that we were
employing your rules.
Cesar Millan: Well now you know.
Howie Mandel: I can even say it, at this point in
the episode, this is my favorite, this is my
favorite episode so far in six years.
We watched you.
This, personally, is my favorite episode.
And I haven't even seen the whole episode, yet.
Narrator: Coming up, Cesar takes off the gloves when
he takes on Lol a .
Cesar Millan: Thank you for watching Nat Geo Wild.
If you stay calm and submissive untl we come back, Coco will
give you two paws up.
Right Coco?
Narrator: Howie Mandel may be loved by millions of
"Deal or No Deal" viewers, but his wife's Chihuahua,
Lola, is not a fan.
Cesar begins the session on the couch, where Lola's
aggression is most pronounced.
Cesar Millan: I always say, you know,
the aggression is not the problem,
it's the outcome of the problem.
So it was very important for me to know where is
this aggression was coming from.
Howie Mandel: I can go sit down then, right?
No I can't.
Cesar Millan: Right.
All right, so this is what I would do, Howie.
I'm not coming with the intentions of anything.
You know, just right here.
Claim the space, own the space.
Take over.
Tsst!
Don't worry.
The sense I got from Lola was her nervousness, more
than her aggression.
Cesar Millan: So I'm gonna go back again.
So here is, "Hey babe, how are you?
It's me, I'm home."
Right?
Come in, take over.
Terry Mandel: Just ignore her?
Cesar Millan: You see, I didn't touch, right?
Howie Mandel: You didn't touch.
Terry Mandel: But she's still behind me
growling at you.
Cesar Millan: Right, because you have not
disagreed with it.
You're only doing this.
Terry Mandel: Yeah, I'm scared to get bitten.
So what should I do?
Cesar Millan: Disagree with it.
Terry Mandel: Disagree with her?
Say no?
Cesar Millan: Yeah.
Terry Mandel: Okay.
No!
Howie Mandel: Wow, it's amazing.
Cesar Millan: But relax, just relax.
This is your couch.
Just by you being comfortable and at peace
and harmonious, you're projecting that energy.
So now she wants to relate from a dog point of view.
Howie Mandel: Okay.
Cesar Millan: What are you doing?
Howie Mandel: Am I allowed to come?
Now, see now what's happening?
Now Cesar is sending me away.
Now it's not the dog, now you're sending me away.
Cesar Millan: Yes.
I'm going to tell you why.
This is how you're coming.
Howie Mandel: Don't make fun of the way I walk.
Cesar Millan: I'm not.
It's just like challenging the dog, like, you know?
Versus just coming and sit in your couch.
Just learn to approach calm assertive.
Howie Mandel: Look.
Cesar Millan: What are you doing?
Terry Mandel: He's not gonna bite you!
Howie Mandel: No, no.
I know, don't worry.
I'm uncomfortable.
I'm not avoiding anybody.
Cesar Millan: Yes you are.
Howie Mandel: I'm having a nice time.
Cesar Millan: So now that she's in a calm, submissive
state, then you can bring her into your lap.
You can actually grab her and put her in your lap.
Oh, that's because the way you hold.
Terry Mandel: Because I don't want to get bitten.
Cesar Millan: A lot of the people that seek our help,
they become generally fearful.
So it was definitely one of the biggest challenge to
help the relationship, Terry and Lola.
Because when Lola was next to Terry, she became
extremely powerful.
Let me have this space so I can grab her so
you don't get nervous.
Terry Mandel: Okay, I'll move over.
Cesar Millan: So, I'm going, I'm gonna, I'm just
gonna break it down for her, you know, because at
this point, she is so conditioned.
In the beginning, I thought Howie was playing when he
said, "I'm really afraid."
But, he was absolutely right about Lola.
It was a lot of sound going on.
It looks worse than what actually it is.
You can definitely get hurt if you get
tense or nervous.
She's nervous, and so if you're fearful and then
it's two fearful, nervous energies touching each other.
The outcome can only be bad.
Terry Mandel: Should I put gloves on?
Cesar Millan: You can put gloves on.
Do you have some?
We use gloves to make it safer for, for both.
We have to wait until she stops so, so she can see
what is it that we want to do with our hands?
We don't want to hurt her.
We want her to experience our hand in a calm way.
Terry Mandel: Whoa!
Like a Gila monster!
Howie Mandel: Remember the movie The Exorcist?
Isn't she adorable?
Cesar Millan: When I was working with Lola, I hit a
wall where I was not able to help her any more.
So that's why I decided to bring Lola from her home
into my home and give her a dose of balanced dogs.
It's a very overwhelmed feeling for any dog to be
surrounded by a dog without being attacked.
There you go.
She just have to go through the experience.
It was a lot of jumping at that moment that I
introduce her to my pack.
Tsst!
See this, this is the nervousness
expressed differently.
You notice it, Tsst!
There we go.
Terry Mandel: That pit bull won't kill her?
Cesar Millan: If he, if he was not under control,
of course he will.
Tsst!
Terry was a little nervous about the situation,
which is understood.
Terry Mandel: I'm feeling horrible for her.
Like I don't know, I'm feeling like.
Cesar Millan: I know, but they're not doing anything
to her except smelling her.
Terry Mandel: And how is this helping her?
I don't understand.
Cesar Millan: We don't have aggression.
Notice?
Terry Mandel: Yes, I do notice that, you're right.
Cesar Millan: So, come here.
I keep reminding Terry, there is no biting going on
at this moment, so it's no need to worry.
So as much as I was working with Lola, I was also
making sure Terry was comfortable as well, and
understanding what is it that I was doing
at that moment.
Terry Mandel: I'm afraid that one of the dogs will
attack her, I'll be honest with you.
Cesar Millan: I know, but that's the story in your
mind, that's not reality.
So we're gonna focus on what is really happening.
The dogs are just curious about her.
That's the reality.
So definitely I was working with two nervous sources
human source, dog source.
So I have to be very gentle with both of them.
Terry Mandel: You want me to go pick her up?
Cesar Millan: Yes, that's the difference
See, it's related to environment.
Terry Mandel: Oh, so then.
Cesar Millan: You see it?
So now let's put her back in.
So, in my house, her mind went into
a submissive state.
Very good.
Terry Mandel: Oh, wow.
Cesar Millan: If it doesn't work for me with what I'm
doing, I always go and ask the help from the pack.
The pack does magic.
Those are obviously the real dog whisperers.
All right, so I'm going to bring one of my dogs,
and we're gonna do the same exercise
on your table.
Terry Mandel: All right, that's fine.
Cesar Millan: Okay, come on, Coco.
There you go.
And then you tell her what you want.
Terry Mandel: Sit.
Cesar Millan: There you go.
Terry Mandel: Good girl.
Cesar Millan: She surrender.
Now the grab touch, there you go.
Terry Mandel: Because he's there, right.
Cesar Millan: Because it's a new source of energy
in the circle.
Howie Mandel: Does that mean that now we have to,
we have to keep Coco?
Cesar Millan: No, Coco belongs to us.
You can't have him.
Howie Mandel: Good.
Cesar Millan: Now, go ahead.
See, the mind is already in the zone, so you have to be
able to practice with the gloves and
without the gloves.
Narrator: In spite of his OCD, Howie accepts the deal.
Terry Mandel: Don't drop her.
Cesar Millan: There you go, she is already
coming to you.
So that's beautiful.
Howie Mandel: Yeah, no problems, I'm comfortable.
I'm comfortable and I am right here.
Don't worry, there's nothing, just if you would
just calm down.
Cesar Millan: Please, what do I do?
Howie Mandel: Then I will.
It would be, if that was my flesh it would be gone.
There's another hand.
It's going well, it's going well.
Now it's perfect.
Thank you, thank you so much.
Cesar Millan: Once Howie got into a more serious
state, he was definitely doing whatever I was asking
him to do so he can experience, and his wife
can also experience how can they work together.
Now, you are at least are giving her the opportunity
to relax, you know, with you.
Howie Mandel: How to handle.
Terry Mandel: Oh my gosh.
Howie Mandel: I like this.
That was good.
See that?
Look, look at this.
Cesar Millan: Fantastic.
Terry Mandel: It's amazing that, even with gloves, you
picked him up.
Howie Mandel: It is amazing.
You saw it first.
This is a first.
I don't carry dogs.
Cesar Millan: You can just put her back over
there on the couch.
Howie Mandel: Put her on the couch?
Cesar Millan: Yeah.
Howie Mandel: I'm just gonna put you on the couch.
Terry Mandel: Don't *** into the.
Howie Mandel: I won't *** into this.
Terry Mandel: The monkey.
Howie Mandel: And I'm just putting it down.
Just, slowly, yes.
Cesar Millan: Don't let her go into.
Howie Mandel: I'm not letting her go, no.
This is going, it's going smoothly.
I didn't ah, I didn't, there's a lot of biting,
you know that?
Cesar Millan: Yeah, yeah, just move back.
Howie Mandel: Move back.
Cesar Millan: And just put this hand.
Howie Mandel: And this hand, just put it down here.
All right.
And with this foot, I leave.
Cesar Millan: No, not now.
Howie Mandel: Not now?
Cesar Millan: Turn around.
Narrator: Before Cesar takes off, he wants to make sure that
Howie and Terry retake the couch from
their feisty Chihuahua.
Cesar Millan: At this point, she can't move
from here until she calls her to it.
Because every time she gets into that state,
you comfort her.
Terry Mandel: That's right, you're right, I do.
Cesar Millan: And if you give affection to a dog
when it's in a nervous moment,
you're not really helping.
This is a good example that you can make a dog unstable
just by giving only love.
Discipline is part of love.
It gives animals a sense of direction, understanding
what place, of the place in the pack.
Howie Mandel: Lola.
Can I get your focus?
Hi.
Hi.
Can I give you?
Can I pet you?
No.
No.
No.
No.
Cesar Millan: Don't say "no" any more,
just stay there.
There you go.
Don't, don't take the hand yet.
There you go.
Now you can say "good girl."
Howie Mandel: Good girl.
Cesar Millan: So if she tried to go that there, you
use that hand just to block.
Howie Mandel: Okay.
Cesar Millan: Move towards, gently that's it.
There we go, there we go.
Stay right there.
Stay right there.
Howie Mandel: Stay, stay.
Stay.
Let me get her, stay.
Cesar Millan: Nice.
No, you're learning.
Tsst!
Yeah, that's perfect, that's perfect.
Terry Mandel: What an amazing transition to see
how it, you know, it really changes everything.
Howie Mandel: Honey, I'm home.
Cesar Millan: Just on the couch.
There you go.
Howie Mandel: Wow.
This is amazing.
Cesar Millan: Today it's more about that it's possible.
Permanent is only repetitions, right?
Howie Mandel: Wow!
Cesar Millan: People might feel that they have
ten different problems.
But when I address them, I address them the same.
And I give people options of using a leash, using a
cushion, using your hand to block, using your legs.
Those are choices.
It's just very important that you don't get stuck in
only one way.
So keep the mind open.
That makes you assertive.
Terry Mandel: There's a calm feeling in my house
and I haven't had that in a long time.
Howie Mandel: I can honestly say I no longer
feel in danger.
You've saved my life.
Terry Mandel: Bet you can't wait to sit on that couch
with me.
Howie Mandel: Well, that's not, we'll do that
when the TV people leave.
Cesar Millan: All kinds of bad behaviors disappear
when owners create the rules, boundaries, and
limitations that all dogs need.
Recently, I went back to visit Terry Mandel and I am
happy to report that Lola has become a perfect little
lady, now that Terry has firmly established herself
as pack leader.
Terry Mandel: Thank you very much Cesar, for coming
out and helping me.
It was a very eye opening experience.
I learned that I need to follow through more, and I
learned how to do it in the right kind of behavior.
Thanks again, Cesar.
Stop by any time, I really appreciate it.
Cesar Millan: Watching TV together has become a new
pleasure now that Sadie and Bebe can stay in the family
room without an incident.
Bob Haueter: Things have, uh, dramatically improved
in this household.
And the two dogs haven't had any kind of problems
for a couple of months now.
They don't have an interest in going after each other.
And they just want to play and have fun and
ignore each other.
Thank you so much.
Cesar Millan: Of course, if you're going to watch TV
with your dogs, you know what show I recommend.