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Narrator: Do not attempt these techniques yourself
without consulting a professional.
On this episode of the Dog Whisperer.
Jeanie Buss: I feel like I kinda let her down,
because I'm supposed
to be her leader and her protector.
Phil, this is Cesar.
Phil Jackson: Hi, Cesar.
Cesar: I love the Lakers.
If you manage to accomplish trust and respect from a
dog, it's a ripple effect.
Toni: She gets whatever she wants,
she totally rules the house.
Come on, baby, come on.
We had acupuncture done on her and
you know, spiritual doctors.
Cesar: I've said it before, you know, you can
live in a castle, doesn't mean your free.
Kelle: I was, like, absolutely stunned.
I thought to myself, what have I gotten myself into.
He's a monster.
Narrator: When good dogs go bad, there's one man who's
their best friend, Cesar Millan.
Cesar: No dog is too much for me to handle.
I rehabilitate dogs.
I train people.
I am the Dog Whisperer.
Narrator: Princess is the smallest and hairiest
member of the Los Angeles Lakers
basketball organization.
Princess' main jobs include being a constant companion
and best friend to the Lakers' Executive Vice
President, Jeanie Buss.
Jeanie Buss: I decided a few years ago that I wanted
to bring a dog into my life, and I thought that if
I put enough message out in the universe that somehow,
the right dog would find me.
A breeder had just had a litter of puppies, and I
thought, "Oh, this is a sign."
So, when I saw Princess, I knew she
was the right dog for me.
Phil Jackson: She's the littlest thing you've ever
seen, she was two pounds.
Narrator: But for a lightweight little dog,
this princess packs a punch.
So, Jeanie's boyfriend, Laker coach, Phil Jackson,
came up with what he thought was a
more fitting name.
Phil Jackson: For a guy my size and my masculinity to
call a dog "Princess" is not my, you know, my idea.
But now she's known as "Princess Cujo."
Jeanie Buss: She answers to both names.
Princess, stop it.
Cujo stop.
And she really does have a split personality,
sometimes she's just as sweet as can be, and then
sometimes she goes into Cujo mode.
Why are you doing that?
Narrator: But Princess Cujo can't afford to foul.
It's her job to help the Lakers charities such as
The Amanda Foundation.
Jeanie Buss: We like to reach out to the community
in so many different ways.
At our game a few weeks ago we hosted a doggie fashion
show at half time with the Laker girls
handling the dogs.
Woman: Wait, which is the princess?
Is it Jeanie Buss, or is it the dog?
Narrator: Jeanie believes Princess Cujo's aggressive
side surfaced three years ago, when the ten-pound
Maltese was attacked by two German Shepherds
during a walk in the park.
Jeanie Buss: Stop, stop.
It was a very dangerous situation,
she ran two blocks away.
I feel like I kinda let her down because I'm supposed
to be her leader and her protector.
Narrator: Jeanie feels it's her fault that Princess
Cujo now tries to attack and bite Laker team members
and any other visitors to her office.
Jeanie Buss: I think now, she doesn't trust me, that
when she feels threatened, she doesn't listen to me.
I don't mean to yell in your ear.
Sometimes she'll go and hide behind my legs because
she's scared.
And if the dog doesn't back down,
she'll get in a fight.
Stop it, stop it.
Stop, stop, stop.
I'm hoping Cesar will be able to maybe,
you know, set me straight.
He talks about the fact that he rehabilitates dogs
and trains people.
I think I need some training.
Narrator: Dog behavior expert, Cesar Millan was
thrilled to get a call for help from
his favorite team.
He's been an avid fan of the Lakers since the days
of Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
In 2000, to celebrate a Laker championship win,
Cesar put Laker jerseys on his Rottweilers, rented a
convertible, and drove around town.
Cesar: Because I am a Laker fan.
Jeanie: Hello.
Cesar: How are you doing?
Jeanie: Hi.
I'm Jeanie, nice to see you.
Cesar: Cesar Millan, nice to meet you.
Jeanie: Stop it, quiet.
Quiet.
I'm sorry.
When people come into my office she goes crazy.
Stop it.
Sit down, sit down.
Cesar: Is that a Lakers suit?
So is that what you do?
Is that really you right there?
Does she ever listen?
Alright, so tell me why she became, you know,
territorial, dominant, antisocial, what is she,
do you think?
Jeanie: Um, when she was about six months old, two
dogs decided that she looked more like lunch for
them than a dog.
And they went after her, and she ran away, and she's
never been the same dog since, because of that one
instance where I told her it's okay, and it wasn't.
Cesar: But, do you have friends who they have dogs?
Jeanie:I have a couple of friends, as a matter of fact,
my best, best friend, Linda, um, got her brother from
the same litter.
So they're really close and, but yet.
Cesar: Do they get along?
Jeanie: Um, she's dominant over him.
Being the female, it's interesting to see that she
bosses him around all the time.
Cesar: Why, it happens all the time.
Jeanie: Don't say that.
Cesar: It's nothing wrong with that, because in a
natural habitat, a female can control a pack.
In the elephant world, female controls the pack.
Yeah, so if, if the brother is, is less energy than
her, she is supposed to tell him what to do.
Jeanie: I'm so glad you told me that, because I
work in a business that's male dominated and
I'm really interested in leadership and I believe
that leadership comes from within and
it is about a confidence.
And, you know, maybe I, in my mind,
I think gender too much.
Cesar: That's really what it counts.
You made a mistake, yes you did.
That's part of the learning experience.
So a leader sees a mistake and move on.
That's a true leader.
If you manage to accomplish trust and respect from a
dog, it's a ripple effect.
You can't help it, it's going to happen, it just
happens in the rest of your life.
Cause at the moment, one of the players become
insecure, it has a ripple effect.
Jeanie: Then it doesn't work any more, right.
Cesar: Right.
So if the pack leader is insecure,
that's going to affect the pack.
I love the Lakers.
Jeanie: The Lakers love you.
Cesar: I love the part of woman being in control.
You know, because I'm from a third world country and
women are never, have control.
It's a cultural thing.
Jeanie: Well there's a lot of that in the,
the sports business as well.
People like to intimidate and use whatever they can
to get a competitive advantage.
Narrator: Can Cesar take the Cujo out of Princess
with the help of Laker coach, Phil Jackson?
Narrator: Three and a half year old Maltese, Princess
Cujo, is both a darling and a devil to Los Angeles
Lakers Executive Vice President, Jeanie Buss.
After their initial consultation, Jeanie brings
Cesar to observe a Lakers practice session.
Cesar: Testosterone will always challenge
a weak mind.
She's surrounded by testosterone, so she have
to embrace that, you know, because she's already in
the position of being that authority figure.
So this is where the pack hangs, huh?
I am hoping that before I die, I see a woman who
rules the world.
Cause it is, it is in your DNA to really, not just do
it for your family, for others, you know, there
will be less war.
The woman is going to find solutions for
the best of humanity.
But if don't come with the energy, what guys do?
Jeanie: Yeah.
If I can do that, that would be,
that would change my life.
Narrator: To help improve Princess' social skills,
Cesar brings along a pack of calm, submissive
assistants: Coco, Louis, Nicholas, and Daddy.
Cesar: Daddy at the Lakers' place.
Jeanie Buss: When Cesar brought in the pack of
dogs, uh, I thought I was going to have a heart
attack, I literally felt my heart in my throat.
And I'm sure she felt that, and she came over and she
wanted to get into my arms.
Cesar: Now I need for you to really not be there for
her in a nervous way, insecure way.
If she goes behind, under you, just move.
Yeah.
Do not nurture insecurity.
Let him deal with this.
Nothing bad is happening.
Now with that energy, with that energy, this is what
you're going to do.
You're going to turn around and shhh.
Jeanie: Okay.
No, stop.
Cesar: Shhh, now turn back, turn.
Jeanie: No, no.
Cesar: You got it, that's it.
In the dog world, if you have the biggest franchise
in the world, you can have all these millions of
dollars, you know, to a dog doesn't matter, what
matters is what energy were you sharing,
or you share every day.
That's normal.
This is moving away and all that stuff.
What you're seeing here is, she's allowing or giving
space to the new guys.
So that means she's being social about it.
Phil: Hello, what's going on?
Jeanie: Come in, come on in.
Cesar: How are you?
Jeanie: Phil, this is Cesar.
Phil: Hi, Cesar.
Narrator: Phil Jackson is the only NBA coach to
successfully lead two different teams to three
championships in a row.
He is renowned for a Zen-like approach for
commanding a pack of players.
But as Cesar points out, human psychology doesn't
usually work on dogs.
Cesar: Why do you call her Cujo?
Phil: Well she comes to uh, attack you every time you
come through the door.
So she's.
Cesar: To you too?
Phil: Yeah, but it's our game.
So, cause then she barks at me, then she bites my hand
a little bit like she wasn't gonna let me in.
She doesn't really bite, she just puts it in her
mouth, and then I get down on the floor with her, and
then she's okay.
Cesar: You, you encourage that?
Phil: Uh, that's a greeting.
She stands up like this a lot of times.
Cesar: He was, in a way humanizing a dog and making
things cute, when he shouldn't.
I felt that, that, he doesn't yet understand dog
psychology 100% like the way he understands the
human psychology behind a team, you know, but, but, a
step at a time.
When you say it's cute, when a dog bites, that's
actually nurturing territorial dominant
behavior over human.
But it looks cute, so that's a big, a big
misunderstanding that a lot of people that own little
dogs do, you know, cause they don't
allow that with Rottweilers.
So to me, most of the little dogs are neurotic,
because most of the time people pick them up and
that's how they deal with the problem.
Is that behavior normal what we see right now?
Phil: No, normally she, when you knock on the door,
normally she would bark.
She is keyed to bark at every knock on the door,
every sound at the door.
Cesar: Can we have somebody knocking at the door to see
to experience that part?
Jeanie: No, no.
Cesar: Not finished, you're not finished.
How do you feel inside?
Just tell me how you feel inside.
You're not feeling serious.
That's right, I can feel it over here.
Jeanie: She's so cute.
Cesar: Okay, let's take the jersey away maybe
that will help.
This time you actually went into a little yelling.
There's no need for that.
Just stay with the same sound, look.
Jeanie Buss: I'm out of control and it's up here.
Cesar: Yeah, you're out of control, that's it.
So you getting it?
It's practice.
You need to practice, that's why I want you to
come to the center.
Let's see, now you got 100% attention, "What is next?"
That's what we want.
Jeanie: And I want, I want this job,
I want to be her leader.
And it's hard not to just melt every time I see her,
but I want to take on that role in her life.
Cesar Millan: Good.
Phil Jackson: Cesar is right on, he's right on,
and it's basically a lot of the belief that
I have of exactly.
You know, establishing dominance and, you know,
taking responsibility for it.
Jeanie Buss: When I was invited to come to the dog
psychology center, it was one of those
things that sounded good.
Then when Cesar said, "Well, you'll bring
Princess too."
I was like, wait a minute, okay, it would be hard
enough for me to be around the dogs.
Cesar: Come and meet Princess.
That's right.
That is just a sign of insecurity, so we can't
nurture insecurity.
Jeanie Buss: It took everything in my power not
to pick her up and, and protect her.
Cesar: You know, this is a pack of small dogs so you
don't have to worry about, you know, an attack or
they're all the same size, so how bad can that be?
Now she's moving towards what normal dogs do.
So she's sharing right now a little bit of the
insecure side, and then the curious side.
Jeanie: Which is where she really wants to be, she
wants to be with the dogs.
She just doesn't know that.
Narrator: Since Jeanie believes that German
Shepherds help trigger Princess Cujo's aggression,
Cesar brings in Zeus, one of his German shepherds to
help with the rehabilitation process.
Cesar: So the more you are around, you know, German
Shepherds who never did anything to you, the more
you give them access for them to show you that they
can be, you know, like Rin Tin Tin.
Everybody loves Rin Tin Tin.
And Rin Tin Tin was a German Shepherd.
Jeanie: And now I'm standing here, I don't know
exactly where she is, I'm not looking at her.
I'm like letting her be part of the group, and I'm
not catering to her.
That's hard for me to do.
Cesar: See, it's no different from like when
kids are insecure and the parents want
the kids to mingle.
If they are showing insecurity, it's best for
the parents not to go and hug and kiss and say, you
know, "You want to leave now?"
Jeanie: Well I have to tell you something that happened
the day after I, I last saw you.
there's a dog that for three years I've had to
stay at least a block away from because our dogs
didn't like each other.
So when I saw my neighbor with his dog, he turned to
go the other way, and I said, "Wait, wait, there's
been a change."
And at first the dogs wanted to go after each
other, but I wouldn't allow it.
You know, it was the first time I ever got to speak to
my neighbor, so now.
Cesar: So they actually smell each other?
Jeanie: Oh yeah, I mean, it was a miracle,
I couldn't believe it.
Cesar: Turn around, turn around,
you gotta see this picture.
Because they were, they were nose to nose.
That's right.
My goal here is to keep pushing the envelope.
So let me push the envelope a little bit more.
So let's put the dog on the treadmill.
Narrator: The treadmill serves a dual purpose.
First, Princess can burn off excess energy, which
can help make her more submissive.
But more importantly, if Jeanie can assert power
over the German shepherd, it can renew her promise to
Princess as her protector.
Cesar: Now correct this guy on the neck boom.
Now why did I ask you.
Look, boom like that.
Because he's fixating on her.
Now, see, the more he stays in the front looking at
her, the less she relaxes.
Now it would be great for you to do it,
because and then she say, "She protect me."
See, I'm sending, I'm putting you in a situation
where you gain trust and respect from
your dog today.
Today is about living in the moment and being calm
and assertive in any situation.
Jeanie: Keep comin', keep going.
Good girl, good girl.
Stay on it, stay on it.
That a girl, that a girl, good girl.
This is intense, this is so much energy,
you know, I, I see a huge
change in her, and I know I have more
confidence, it's just, it's really all
about the practice.
Cesar Millan: That's my mission in life, to create
that, the highest level of connection, bond where a
human can become balanced from a dog,
aligned from a dog.
So one of those days, you know, the business world is
too hectic, go into Mother Nature world, there is
always, you know, that relaxation world.
Narrator: Cesar believes that projecting calm,
assertive energy is the key to being a
successful pack leader.
No matter whether your pack consists of a ten-pound
Maltese or a championship sports team.
Cesar: I just want you to know you make my day.
That's a great way for me to begin a year,
empowering women.
Jeanie Buss: This has been a great opportunity, I
can't thank Cesar enough.
It won't be something that just changes and now
everything is fixed, it's going to be a process as I
learn more to mean it, be strong.
I'm going to hear those words in my head.
Any time I'm in a situation, I'm going to
hear Cesar talking to me in my ear.
Toni: Prada is extremely spoiled.
And this is the special fan that we bought her, and
then that's her air purifier over there, we did
it so she has fresh air.
And then there's her little Louis Vuitton.
She gets whatever she wants,
she totally rules the house.
So this is Prada's bed, well it's her
toy box actually.
Toni: I order millions of toys and they get delivered
to the house and then we put them into the surprise
center, which is this box in the other room, and
every single day she gets to pick whatever toy she
wants out of the surprise center.
What kind of pig do you want?
Yeah.
She gets cooked for every morning and every evening.
She only gets bottled water.
Honey, you want some water, sweetie, water?
Zach: The macho side of me finds myself just saying,
"oh that's my wife's dog, the little small six-pound
fluffy Pomeranian dog, that's my wife's dog."
But the truth is that I really do love her, and
she's as much my dog as she is Toni's.
Narrator: It wasn't always this way.
Prada's pampering started after her playmate, Gucci,
passed away from a mysterious illness, and
Prada herself became seriously ill.
Toni: We were devastated.
After she started to show signs of, you know, getting
better and everything like that,
we devoted our lives to her.
Narrator: Toni and Zach's attempts to provide Prada
with a luxurious lifestyle has turned this two year
old Pomeranian into a diva.
Toni: Now, Prada is this crazy dog who, if I don't
pay attention to her for a certain amount of time, she
will literally throw herself on the floor and
kick her feet and throw a fit.
Oh now, you're throwing a fit, huh?
If we're watching a movie, and ten minutes into the
movie she gets all freaked out and starts shaking and
scratching us, we'll turn the movie off, and, like we
won't finish watching the rest of the movie because
the dog's uncomfortable and she wants to go upstairs.
Zach: But another one of her problems is how she
interacts with other dogs.
Toni: She's like a little velociraptor.
The growling may be cute, but will it be a bite?
Will it be a snap that someone or some little kid
or another dog, especially a bigger dog?
Zach: Which is more than annoying to me, it's also
kinda scary because one day she's going go to attack
another dog because she seems so angry towards
other dogs, and the dog is going to attack her back.
Man: Thursday.
Thursday.
Thursday.
Toni: She's just so mean to everybody.
Zach: No matter how spoiled she is, or how bad she is,
it's very, very hard to, to discipline her.
Toni: I want her to be happy, I don't know where
that fine line is to draw.
Maybe we should stay in a different one, we have to
have one that allows dogs.
Narrator: Are Toni, Zach and Prada, the pampered
Pom, ready to accept the full dose of Cesar's calm,
assertive medicine?
Cesar: She's already excited, then you come with
more excitement.
Stay tuned for more Dog Whiperer on Nat-Geo Wild!
Narrator: Whatever Prada wants, Prada gets.
A lifestyle of gourmet meals, a bottomless toy
box, and nonstop pampering has turned this Pomeranian
into an unfashionably spoiled little dog.
With Prada's behavior over the top, Toni and Zach put
out a call for help.
Cesar: Cesar Millan.
Narrator: Cesar has turned around hundreds of pampered
pooches over the years.
But each case is unique, Cesar never knows exactly
what he'll confront when he knocks on the door.
Cesar: Nice to meet you.
Pleasure.
How can I help you?
Toni: First, we got Gucci as a little puppy from a
breeder, and then we decided that we would bring
Prada in so that she would have a little
sister to play with.
Both of them got really, really sick and they went
to the emergency room.
Gucci died within three hours, and Prada just
became totally depressed, and in her own world and
not really a social dog.
So, every one around us, after doing the research,
said give her attention, attention, anything she
wants, you gotta show her that she's loved.
So that's what we've done ever since.
She doesn't want any dog friends at all.
I'm in a dog friendly environment at work, and
all the dogs play except for her, 'cause she doesn't
want to be a part of it.
She needs help.
Cesar: Yeah, yeah, she needs help, absolutely.
But what about the parents?
Toni: Oh we're crazy.
My husband is just as crazy.
He's tattooed and kind of macho man.
And there he is with the pink leash walking the dog
down the street, and he allows her to get
away with everything.
Zach: Will you please stop?
Cesar: Who gave you that information about giving
whatever she wants because she is depressed
and she is going through a lost?
Toni: The vets.
We took her in and had acupuncture done on her,
and, you know, spiritual doctors, and they were just
like, give her all this attention, give her all
this love, take her mind off the depression.
And so that's what we've done.
You know, if I go to work in the morning, we'll take
a new toy in the car so she can play with
it in the car.
When we come home, she gets a new toy.
Cesar: And so why does she have to get a new toy?
Toni: Because she wants one because she likes them.
She likes the squeak-squeak toys.
Cesar: Right, this is amazing.
Toni: It's hysterical, it is.
Cesar: Right.
I said it before, you know, you can live in a castle,
doesn't mean you're free.
This is an example of people who are successful,
good careers, professional people, they run the show.
But they lost themselves and what life is all about.
Toni: My world became about this dog.
I never let her outside,
I don't take my eyes off of her.
If she coughs, she is rushed to
the vet immediately.
And she lives in this bubble because I'm afraid
she's going to die too, so.
Cesar: We are the species that normally become sad
for years when somebody that we love passed away.
Nobody has power over somebody dying, you know,
when it's time for you to go, it's time for you to
go, as much as it hurts.
Only human spoils for his own benefit.
Toni: To make us feel better about the situation.
Hmm, that's very interesting.
Cesar: So you're being a little selfish.
Toni: Absolutely.
I never thought of it that way, but it does make sense
that everything I give to her is to
make me feel better.
Cesar: To me, I'd rather live with stability, poor
than non-instability, rich.
Which one do you want?
But you have to be committed to it, because so
far you're being committed to instability, right.
Buying, buying, buying is not working.
Turning off TV any time the dog wants, is not working.
It's not working.
Toni: But won't she be confused when I start to be
harsh with her?
Cesar: No.
You want me to say yes?
No.
The whole point of this conversation is to give you
access to awareness.
It's up to you, you can take it from there and make
it the rest of your life and finally be free.
Toni: Okay.
Cesar: Okay?
Toni: Sounds good.
Cesar: Let's do it.
Narrator: Cesar asks Toni to describe her routine for
taking Prada on a walk.
Toni: This is one of the most difficult things I
have, is trying to put the leash on her because she
will run away.
Want to go potty outside?
Okay, come on.
Okay, let's go potty outside.
Go potty.
Come on, come on, come on, let's go potty.
And it's like this game that we play.
Until she is so exhausted that she finally lets me
put the leash on her and then we go for a walk.
Cesar: So show me how you put the leash on her.
Toni: Okay Prada, you want to go for a walk?
You want to go for a walk?
Come on, come on, come on, let's go, let's go.
Okay.
She's fixated on the toy that I just
took away from her.
Cesar: Oh, all right, all right, okay, so let me see.
What about if she learns to come to the leash?
Toni: By putting the toy there?
Cesar: Right.
So you are using whatever is attracting
her to come to you.
The approach that you are using is making her
go away from you.
She's already excited, so when you go,
"Okay, you want to go for a walk?"
Right?
So you already creates a very excited.
She is already excited.
Then you come with more excitement.
Let's use the toy for something positive, not
just for spoiling.
Let's spoil the dog, but at the same time,
let him work for it.
She now have to wait for things, she have to figure
it out how to get it, so it becomes more challenging.
Dogs love challenge.
Toni: Right.
Cesar: She have to learn that once she wears the
leash, she stays calm.
I'm not being mean about it.
Shh.
Now, that whining, you have to disagree with it.
Whining is anxiety.
I am not allowing that behavior.
There we go.
This is what I allow, calm, submissive state of mind.
Very good.
There you go.
Toni: Unbelievable.
Cesar: At the moment she went into that calm
submissive state I reward state of mind.
Toni: So that she knows that when she gets to that
point, then that's what she's good at.
That's when she can be rewarded.
Cesar: See, you're putting the two
together too quick for me.
Toni: Yeah, yeah, it's brilliant.
Cesar: You are a very bright lady.
You just got it right there.
Some people are not ready to be helped.
I think you're ready to be helped.
Cause this is a very extreme case, not from the
dog part, from the human part because you blame
yourself about what happened to Gucci.
It's nothing you could have done, you know.
Destiny is destiny, you can't help.
Right?
You did your best.
And then you have to hug yourself and say,
"You know what?
I still love Gucci, but I can't blame
myself for the rest of my life."
Give me a hug.
Toni: Thank you Cesar.
Cesar: You're, you're great.
Toni: You made me cry for Gucci.
Cesar: Okay, Prada what do you wanna do?
Toni: Exactly.
Narrator: Four weeks later, Cesar returns to help Toni
and Zach to learn how to deal with Prada's
aggression towards other dogs.
Cesar: She doesn't have a job.
Toni: She goes to work with me.
Cesar: I know, but she's not doing anything.
Toni: She's protecting the office.
Cesar: But that's a really bad job.
So, may I bring another dog?
Toni: Yes.
Oh my God.
Cesar: Come on, Luigi.
Narrator: Cesar's assistant today is Luigi, a Lhasa
Apso, and one of the calmest members
of Cesar's pack.
Toni: I'm scared that she'll get hurt with the
little tiny dogs at work that are like two pounds, I
can't imagine these feelings when.
Cesar: So regardless, you know, her behavior is,
just, that's right.
That's alright, don't touch.
Just relax.
Toni: Down.
Cesar: Luigi has a lot of experience, so don't worry
about, don't even project any energy,
don't think about it.
See, right now this is the advantage of having a dog
with social skills and bringing to a dog that
doesn't have great social skills yet.
Right?
So Luigi is right now providing avoidance.
I knew Prada was not really being aggressive,
she was just bluffing.
So Luigi didn't feel intimidated
by the approach.
And Luigi did exactly what he needed to do.
Ignore.
It makes a dog go into a different state of mind
cause nobody is paying attention to
that state of mind.
So Prada went from a fight mode to submissive mode.
So Prada now is studying Luigi.
Luigi is doing the right thing, ignore the girl.
Luigi got a lot of good skills.
Zach: It's like high school.
Cesar: That's right.
Toni: So when she does approach the other dogs,
like in our office, and she does that aggressiveness, I
usually do pick her up and that's what causes
her to keep going.
So I should just let her go.
But how do I know that it's not going to
cause a dogfight?
Cesar: Instead of "Prada, no, no, please no, no."
Toni: That's so me.
Cesar: But if you come with an assertive manner,
they can't disregard that energy.
So it's not about conversation any more, it's
about, this is what I want, right now.
Cesar: You're gonna say, hey this is my office,
these are my rules.
That's because you claim your office.
Zach: That's very funny.
Sorry.
Toni: She's throwing a fit, but see this is what she
does, she throws a fit when nobody pays
attention to her.
Always.
Cesar: So ignore the fit.
Zach: Just got to ignore the fit.
Hey, Luigi.
Cesar: That's right.
Zach: Hey buddy.
Narrator: The next step.
Cesar asks Toni and Zach to give Luigi affection
while Prada watches.
Cesar: Don't feel bad that she is outside the circle.
But if she wants to join the circle with this
manners, perfectly fine, right?
But if she start trying to nip Luigi,
you have to just block.
Zach: Yeah.
Toni: Just block, just put like you're.
Cesar: That's like that, that's unacceptable by you.
So you have to be able to touch any dog you wish
without her complaining about it.
Toni: That's a good boy.
Zach: She's is very clearly saying, you're not paying
attention to me, you're giving my attention away.
Toni: And I was like wooh, and my heart just started
to sink because I saw like the little eyes and the
little ears and I just wanted to give her
little snuggles too.
Cesar: So I was saying about, you ignore the
behavior when it's mild.
And when it's intense, you have to address it.
Toni: Like now?
Shh.
Zach: That was pretty good, sweetie.
Toni: You know what, she was absolutely perfectly
fine, and so I realized that she's not getting her
feelings hurt, and she just went away like
it was no big deal.
Zach: She should have friends and she should, you
know, want to run around with other dogs and play in
the grass and all that kind of stuff, and I never
thought she'd be able to.
But seeing how calm she was with Luigi, I think there's
hope for her to act like I think a dog should.
Cesar: So you think you have it?
You think you understand what you need to do?
Toni: I do, I think that I'll start introducing her
to the submissive dogs at the office.
I'm going to try and put them in an area, let them
sniff, let them play.
And then little by little, I'm hoping that energy and
that balance will overcome the aggressiveness
that she had before.
Cesar: So if she just picks dogs that they imitate
Luigi's energy, she's going to be very successful
making sure she now trusts herself.
It's all about trusting herself.
By having these experiences, it's going to
make Toni stronger, and it's going to make Prada
more balanced.
It's really the gift that Prada wants.
Toni: Say hi.
Cesar: This, this is what I call balanced dog.
Zach: Hey guys.
Cesar: That's right.
Zach: I think she did have a good time.
But I think more important than her having a good
time, we learned how to make her life better and
our lives better.
Toni: Absolutely, absolutely.
Narrator: Can Cesar lead this raging Rottweiler out
of the red zone of aggression?
Kelle: I got Bearz about five months ago, I rescued
him from the East Valley Animal Shelter, they were
going to put him to sleep.
He was horribly emaciated, his bones showed through,
he couldn't even hold his head up;
he was just a horrible mess.
Kelle: I didn't know Bearz's aggression for a
really long time.
I just thought he was the sweetest animal.
and I didn't realize that
he was so sick, he didn't care about anything.
And then, several weeks down the line, I saw
another side of him.
And I was like absolutely stunned, I thought to
myself, "what have I gotten myself into,
he's a monster."
One of the worst things that happened in Bearz's
recovery is I thought he was sleeping one day,
resting from all these antibiotics, and I thought,
"Gee, this would be a really good time to take my
bird out, Pretty Bird, and let him sing on my finger."
Oh, I love you.
Bearz jumped up immediately.
I had to stick my hand in his mouth and
pull the bird out.
That's how he lost his eye.
I pray before I walk out the door every day.
Narrator: For Cesar, Rottweilers will always
hold a special place in his heart.
His first pack included several Rotties that had
been deemed "unfixable."
Cesar believes that with proper leadership, powerful
breeds like Rottweilers can become calm
and submissive companions.
Kelle: I had a yellow lab for 11 and a half years,
and he died on July 4th weekend.
And I was so sick over it, I just didn't know what to
do with myself.
So I went to this, the East Valley Animal Shelter, and
it was like, I don't even know how I got there, I was
really that upset about my other dog.
And I saw this Rottweiler, but he had pneumonia, and
he was very, very sick, and his eyes were running, and
I couldn't take it, it broke my heart.
So he seemed to calm down around me,
so they let me take him.
And it took me two months to get him on his feet.
I was like feeling so good about myself, until
several weeks later when he was feeling better,
is when I found out how aggressive he really was.
Cesar: Hearing the conversation from Kelle,
big heart, but at the same time,
she was in a weak state.
Kelle: This dog doesn't like noises, he goes
absolutely bonkers.
He doesn't like trash trucks, he doesn't like UPS
trucks, he doesn't like strollers.
He does not like shopping carts.
He just goes absolutely insane.
And it's so weird, he like stands on his
hind legs like Zorro.
I can't stop him.
Cesar: I got the picture now.
Kelle: He peed on me once.
Cesar: He peed on you?
Kelle: On me.
I do walk him a mile a day cause I'm afraid to take
him to the park.
Cesar: Yes, so he became very attached to you, he
trusts you, but you have not accomplished respect.
Right, trust, you can accomplish that by feeding
the dog, rescuing a dog, you know, and getting them
back to normal, doesn't mean he respect you.
The time that he peed on you, that's disrespect.
You know what I mean?
They don't pee on pack leaders.
And then when he's pulling you all over the place,
that's disrespect.
Cesar: You get a lot of visitors?
Kelle: Not a lot, but I take him outside a lot, and
he knows everybody in the building.
Cesar: What does he do with the people in the building?
Kelle: He jumps on them all the time.
Cesar: Why?
Kelle: He just loves them.
He wants to jump and lick them.
Cesar: So you, you interpret that as love.
That to you, in your book, in your dictionary, in your
encyclopedia means love.
Kelle: I'm embarrassed to say yes.
Cesar: Yes, no, no, no, it is what it is, you know,
that's, that's 's your perception.
Kelle: Good boy, good boy.
Cesar: When a dog comes to me excited and
pushing himself to me, that is disrespect.
So I'm gonna, I'm asking him to do the same
behavior, but not as excited.
So I'm blocking right away to let him know
that this is my space.
I have to introduce myself immediately as the dominant
one, otherwise I am going to become part of his pack.
So my hand in the neck holding, just creating the
whole behavior of, of him knowing that I'm not afraid
of him, and I don't want to hurt him, but I definitely
wants him to respect me.
Oh, that's absolutely, that,
that's absolutely disrespect.
In her book, this is affection.
In my book, that's dominance.
Of course she celebrates that, it only gets worse
and worse and worse.
Kelle: I'm embarassed.
Cesar: Look, look at him.
He's in the top of look at him.
My evaluation about Bearz is all the symptoms:
excitement, dominance, nervousness, aggression.
All this thing combined, you have a ticking bomb.
When you own a powerful breed, you better know dog
psychology from A to Z.
Otherwise, one part that you don't understand,
they take over.
They see that or they sense that as a weakness.
I like to do the stairs very slow.
Narrator: How will Cesar bring out the good
side of Bad Bearz?
Cesar: Oh yeah, he's bad.
I am Cesar Millan and you are watching
Dog Whisperer on Nat-Geo Wild.
Narrator: When Kelle Taylor first rescued Rottweiler
Bearz, he showed no signs of aggression.
Today, Kelle can barely control
his violent behavior.
Bearz lunges to attack everything from cars to
shopping carts.
To begin, Cesar wants to show Kelle how to
master the walk.
Cesar: The first step that I needed to control is who
get out of the door first.
He goes in front of me, he's taking me for a walk.
So that is against what we are trying to accomplish,
then I move forward.
If you are walking on the street with a 110 pound
Rottweiler, you better have 100% control over them.
Then I turn around.
I like to do the stairs very slow, because if I do
it very slow, he learns to be gentle
on the stairs, right?
So me first, then he second.
But you have to control him from the beginning.
So the first thing I challenge myself to, you
know, was the shopping carts.
I wanted to see what triggers this guy and how
bad he gets.
Relax.
There we go.
Oh yeah, he's bad.
Really bad.
It was as bad as it gets.
A Rottweiler on two legs, growling and the whole
thing, very, very powerful.
Shopping cart, Kelle next to me,
I have to remove Kelle.
Kelle is a source of owning.
Shopping cart was a source of prey drive.
It was easier for me to deal with prey drive when
he had nothing to own.
Shh.
No.
Wait, wait, wait.
I start touching parts of the body, I find out that
between the rib and the leg was, the point for him to
snap him out of it.
So I start touching that part, and from that point
on, I decrease the aggression to only excitement.
Shh, sit, stay.
All right, one more time.
No.
Then from excitement, we went
into total surrendering.
So that's what you saw, you saw a step-by-step helping
the mind to calm down.
To transform himself into a different state of mind,
and the goal was always a calm, submissive state.
We use to the side, and we use the tap right here,
right there, see?
That touch right here creates this behavior, so
he can no longer focus on whatever is
in front of him.
Now he needs repetitions in order for him not to ever
do it again, just like a diet,
just like living healthy.
Repetitions.
Shh.
No.
Shh, no.
No.
Now I'm using only sound to control him.
But in the beginning, I use physical touch, no sound.
If I would've used sound when he was in that state
of mind, sound means nothing.
All right, so, based on what you learned, here it
is, you, just in case that you can't touch, I'm going
to touch it for you.
It's right here, right between the rib and the
leg, bam, right there.
Okay?
Step one, is just moving or rattling the cart.
Okay?
Now, if you study right now, we already have a
handler who's tense, we don't want tension.
Relax.
That's what we want.
We want calm assertiveness.
Okay?
Otherwise we have tense assertiveness, and that is
a bad combination.
Kelle: God, I wasn't even aware of that.
Cesar: See the eye contact that he's got
going on with me?
It's just right now I am his pack leader, he better
look at me, because they look at pack leaders.
Kelle: Come on.
I don't believe this, this is magnificent.
Cesar: It's, it's in front of you, we don't want him
in front of you, we want him behind.
Right here, right here.
So that homeless person over there with the
dog is a great example of how they're
supposed to look like.
And you see how they travel together whenever she
moves, the dog moves, but it's never in the front,
that dog is in the back.
So we are using a great example from people that
lives in the street with well-balanced dogs.
Kelle: This is amazing, I can't believe it.
Cesar: So we brought one of our dogs to keep helping
Kelle to understand that she can control the
scenario no matter what.
Different reaction, look at that.
Different reaction, stay right there, that's as far
as he can go.
See the difference?
Smelling each other?
Not an option right now.
Walking together will be the ideal.
Okay, can you bring the cart?
There we go, cart right here, shh, dog right here.
To me it's good to bring challenge number two right
after, because the more you shower the mind with
challenge, the more you accomplish rehabilitation.
You keep doing the same picture; you're an
actress so you're just supposed to just do
whatever the director told you to do,
boom, period, bam.
Kelle: I really felt good, I felt so much more
confident that I was in control of the dog instead
of the dog in control of me.
He's great.
Cesar: Show me that beautiful face,
beautiful eyes.
Kelle: I can't believe this.
I do, it's great.
Cesar: We keep moving on, we go on
with the flow, right?
Right, Kelle is in a great state of mind, she's
believing it, she's not just surprised, she's
actually living the moment.
Come on; give me those shoulders up, head up,
that's right.
Just turn around, there we go, turn around, very good.
Kelle: Come on, baby.
Cesar: Turn around.
No, no "baby" right now.
Kelle: Oh, sorry.
Cesar: Keep going, there we go.
Wonderful, wonderful.
Okay, tell me what you're getting.
Kelle: I'm getting that he's always been in control
of me, and now I have found a way to control him, and
do a pressure point that makes him refocus onto
something else than what he's getting,
um, obsessive with.
Cesar: Well said.
Nice, I like it.
Just keep it simple, that's what it is.
Narrator: Cesar recommends that Kelle finally let go
of the past and use her daily, 45 minute walks with
Bearz to reassert her leadership.
Cesar: Rottweilers are great.
It's the people.
They don't have the right information.
Let's be fair, right?
No knowledge behind instincts or reactions.
So it's up to us to really understand more than them
to have more knowledge than them.
Because they going to react.
So we can't blame Rottweiler, but we can
blame people, especially because they have this
face, look at this face.
A bear face.
In a natural pack of dogs, there's only one pack
leader, and he becomes the force of his pack.
And in your household, you should be that force,
that pack leader.
Thanks to Jeanie's newfound leadership, Laker dog
Princess Cujo has become much more of a team player
at home and in her neighborhood.
She's made a lot of new friends, and the neighbors
are amazed at her transformation.
Remember the spoiled Pomeranian Prada?
She still throws tantrums from time to time, but Toni
and Zach are working *** their leadership skills.
We are happy to report that Bearz, the problem
Rottweiler, no longer has issues with shopping carts.
But Kelle and Bearz need to keep working on improving
his manners on the walks.
Being a pack leader is a 24 hours a day,
7 days a week commitment.
Until next time, remember, be the pack leader.