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NARRATOR: Do not attempt the
techniques you are about to see
without consulting
a professional.
They're feared...
MAN: They just so big and fast
and when they get a hold of you
it's, it's over.
NARRATOR: They're reviled...
OLD WOMAN: Put 'em to sleep.
Get rid of them.
NARRATOR: Or are they
just misunderstood?
BREE JUSTICE: He just sits in
his doghouse and growls and
basically has no hope.
NARRATOR: On this special
episode of Dog Whisperer,
an eye-opening look at the
breeds Americans think of
as our most dangerous canines...
CESAR MILLAN: Tsst! Hey!
NARRATOR: Plus Cesar's own
experience wrangling these
reportedly aggressive breeds.
CESAR MILLAN: You get one of
my pack, lower level energy,
I get to keep her forever.
This particular case could
absolutely be labeled as the
most dangerous case ever.
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.
OFFICER: They came
toward the officers,
the officers knew they
were about to be bitten.
WOMAN: And I hit
'em with sticks.
And everything I had, they
kept taking it from me.
911 CALLER: Please help,
Pit Bulls are attacking me!
WOMAN:She literally had chunks
missing out of her lips.
GUY: These are land-sharks.
CESAR MILLAN: Any dog
can become aggressive...
but several powerful breeds
seem to have developed the worst
reputations as the world's
most dangerous dogs.
Some have even been banned in
certain areas of the country.
GUY: I think that German
Shepherds are the most
aggressive dogs.
GLASSES: Probably
the pit bull, right?
GIRL: I think a bulldog
looks the most aggressive.
SUNGLASSES: I believe it would
probably be the Rottweiler.
PANTHER: No, I think
it's pit bulls.
SPIKE: A pit bull.
WOMAN: I'm going to say
Chihuahua because they're
annoying, 'Yip yip yip yip!
MAN: The smaller dogs,
like Pomeranians and
they have like really bad
complexes, you know?
WOMAN: It's hard to choose.
I might say a, something
like a Presa Canario.
LADY: Dobermans.
CESAR MILLAN: Whenever there's
a poll about the top ten most
treacherous canine breeds, some
names show up, again and again.
What are the top most dangerous
breeds?
We decided to poll our viewers
to find out what you thought
and ten thousand of you
responded.
On this episode, we'll reveal
what YOU thought were the top
three most aggressive
canine breeds,
and I'll share my own opinion
on the NUMBER ONE culprit,
based on 25 years experience
working with red zone dogs.
NARRATOR: Let's start with
the number three breed in our
survey: Rottweilers.
CESAR MILLAN: I love
Rottweilers. I started my
business working with whole
packs of them at one time.
So, I'm deeply troubled that
people don't understand more
about these amazing dogs.
NARRATOR: When Ancient Rome's
Imperial legions set out to
conquer Europe, the huge drover
dogs that marched beside
them guarded their cattle
and ultimately became
the Rottweiler's distant
ancestors.
Hundreds of years later, a
bustling German market town
arose from the ruins of
an old Roman settlement,
and the local dogs there became
famous as the butcher dogs of
Rottweil, In recent times,
these loyal herders made a name
for themselves as police
and protection animals.
In the 1990s, the Rottweiler's
reputation took a scary turn,
not just for their roles as
evil co-stars in the Omenmovie
series, but also for their
sometimes deadly behavior,
having killed at least 33
people during this decade.
CESAR MILLAN: Rotties
are powerful dogs.
But a properly raised and
socialized Rottie can be the
most loyal, loving
companion ever.
All it takes is patience, hard
work, and the right human.
That's what happened in the case
of one very special Rottweiler
named Apollo.
BREE: If somebody comes near
him he turns very aggressive and
it's really escalated
since he first came in.
NARRATOR: Sixteen year old
Bree Justice was working as a
volunteer at the Orange County
Humane Society when she became
attached to one of its
residents, 1-year old Apollo.
But Bree couldn't keep him,
and he wasn't so friendly
to anyone else.
BREE: One male that worked at
the shelter, took him home,
adopted him, and then he bit
him and he bit another child.
JEAN DUARTE: Unfortunately, not
all dogs are easy to place and
many dogs with a lot of
different issues are just not
adoptable.
NARRATOR: The shelter was forced
to move Apollo to death row,
while Bree and her co-workers
searched for a way to save him.
One day before he was
scheduled to be put down,
a desperate Bree brought him
to a local pet store where Dog
Whisperer producers were
holding open auditions.
SHEILA EMERY: He's
aggressive towards people.
JEAN DUARTE: Not people, men.
Some men.
BREE: He just sits in his
doghouse and growls and
basically has no hope.
And it's so hard because he
loves like certain people,
he becomes your best
friend, he plays ball.
SHEILA EMERY: Okay. Don't
put him down tomorrow and
we'll, try to figure something
out. But don't do it.
JEAN DUARTE: Thank you
we would love that.
NARRATOR: When Cesar first
met Apollo, his high-pitched
bark signaled that he was
a very fearful Rottweiler.
CESAR MILLAN: Fearful cases not
necessarily want to bite you,
they just want to
run away from you.
But when you corner an animal
that is in a fearful state,
they're not using
common sense any more,
they don't know you're
trying to help them.
The brain can only stay in
a fearful state for so long.
Then the brain calms down.
So after the storm
is calm, always.
So who knows how this was
created,
but this was created by a human.
BREE: Good luck Apollo
NARRATOR: After saying
goodbye to Bree,
Cesar brought Apollo to
the Dog Psychology Center,
where he employed both his pack
of dogs AND his human pack
in the Rottie's
intensive rehabilitation.
CESAR MILLAN: Right now what
we doing is to create trust.
We know Apollo is
very good with dogs,
but this time we're going to use
everybody the two camera guys,
the sound guy, the producer,
the PA, to help Apollo.
Like I say, we need a lot of
humans to be involved to help a
dog that becomes afraid,
pretty much from anybody that
he doesn't know.
I'll present the leash and
see what the brain does.
And he avoid, he's
avoiding the leash.
Caress.
The leash is to caress.
See the lower he puts the head,
the more submissive he becomes.
This is good. Then,
I use her skills to help me.
Very good. And she is
going to bring him to me.
You know, and by me giving
affection, then they,
that gives him access
to be close to me.
He's not aggressive any more,
he's not fearful any more,
so that's a plus. Enjoy.
Just don't move too fast,
people, don't move too fast.
Very good, this is good.
See, she's bringing it to
me, so the puppy, you know,
the puppy means no harm.
He's so fragile, so sensitive
that it makes a lot of sense
that a puppy is leading
him into other areas.
So she's bringing
him around all of us.
See, now he's in a dog state.
There we go, that's
what he wants.
Magic is about to happen.
See that?
NARRATOR: Apollo spent the next
few weeks at the center as well
as the Millan's home, where he
developed a special bond with
Cesar's son, Andre.
ANDRE: Who is your
best friend ever?
CESAR MILLAN: My son is now
helping me with some cases
because they trust
his energy right away.
And so that's a big plus, see
this is my first time actually
touching so close, right?
First time touching
the, the face.
See, there we go, good job. Good
boy, good boy. You can touch.
NARRATOR: By the time Bree
came back for a visit,
Apollo had made great progress,
but he still wasn't 100% better.
CESAR MILLAN: But try to do
this now. That also changes you.
BREE JUSTICE: It's okay, baby.
CESAR MILLAN: No, no.
Whatever happens...
whatever happened, you
know, whatever touch, yeah,
that's an area that
feels sensitive to him.
So you don't touch
any more, just go.
Because he became weak, right,
so you being in an emotional
state, that's a soft state.
Soft. Just too weak.
So the first thing is,
stop giving affection.
Then once he goes
back to his old self,
then go back and
give him affection.
See he has already let it go.
BREE JUSTICE: He already let it
go. He dropped down, okay.
NARRATOR: When Apollo was
finally ready for adoption,
Cesar knew he had just the
right human for the job.
CESAR MILLAN: Sit down. You
always ask me for Preston,
for Spike.
How many dogs do we have?
ANDRE: Twenty, twenty five.
CESAR MILLAN: Right, and this
time you ask me to keep Apollo.
ANDRE: Oh my God! Yes!
Come here buddy.
CESAR MILLAN: So this is,
this is your dog, buddy.
This is your dog.
ANDRE MILLAN: Everything's
been great with Apollo.
He listens to all my commands. I
feed him at a certain time.
He loves me for it.
See, he's not aggressive;
he's not very tense, nervous.
He's affectionate.
So I don't know why
somebody would put him down.
NARRATOR: Coming up, the top two
viewer picks for most dangerous
dogs....and Cesar's own
number one culprit...
MAN: People are scared of pit
bulls, and Doberman Pinschers,
and Rottweilers.
MOM: I know someone
who was a repair man,
and he says he was
always scared of Labs.
ORANGE HAT: Myself, I think the
German Shepherd could be one of
the top candidates there.
NARRATOR: When we surveyed over
10,000 Dog Whisperer viewers
and asked them to name their
pick for most aggressive breed,
German shepherds came in
at #2 on the list.
CESAR MILLAN: A television
German Shepherd named Rin Tin
Tin was actually one dog
that inspired me as a boy.
So, it saddens me when I
see them unfairly judged.
Not everyone makes an ideal
German shepherd owner...
but during the
breed's short history,
these dogs have proven
their unshakeable loyalty to
humankind.
NARRATOR: In 1899, Captain
Max von Stephanitz,
a German cavalry officer, fell
in love with a yellow and gray,
wolflike herding
dog at a dog show.
This started the line that
would become the modern
German shepherd.
Adept at not only at herding
but at other essential tasks ,
the breed's popularity
grew during World War II,
when both Allied and Axis forces
sought out shepherds as mine
detectors, sentinels, guards,
attack dogs, and messengers.
But with popularity came
high demand...and sometimes,
the wrong dogs in the hands of
the wrong owners resulted in
German shepherds attacking
both humans and other animals,
igniting a lot of bad
press for the breed.
CESAR MILLAN: In the hands
of a calm, decisive owner,
a German shepherd can be the
most amazing companion ever.
But the lack of leadership has
led many of the German shepherds
we've come across into
seriously aggressive behavior.
One recent example
was a dog named Troy.
NARRATOR: Neal and Edie Adler's
house is packed with pets,
including four rescued dogs.
But one of them, a German
shepherd named Troy,
was terrorizing all the others
and he almost killed their
poodle/Maltese mix Dottie.
NEAL ADLER: When he
would see another dog,
he just gets into this state of
frenzy that is uncontrollable.
So we've had to confine
him to the back yard.
EDIE ADLER: Where's he gonna go?
If we take him back to
the pound, they're
gonna put him down.
NEAL ADLER: There's no way that
Troy and Dottie can be together.
He probably would kill
her in, in no time.
NARRATOR: With Dottie safely
inside, Cesar observed how
Troy interacted with the
rest of the pack.
CESAR MILLAN: They can't really
put the whole family together.
The guy who is going to teach
them really how to do this,
you know, pack leader
mentality is Troy.
Everybody else is
already a follower.
What I want to see is if he goes
into a dominant state towards
him, and then I'm
going to protect him.
EDIE ADLER: There he goes.
CESAR MILLAN: Tsst. This is what
he does to you?
Don't move. Then you stop the
behavior. You see.
EDIE ADLER: You're
showing him who's boss.
CESAR MILLAN: Yes, I'm claiming
his territory. Tsst. Hey!
So what I'm doing right now
is empowering The other dog.
the insecure one Yes. so he
can some out of his shell.
EDIE ADLER: That makes a lot of
sense.
CESAR MILLAN: By controlling the
excited one.
NARRATOR: Next, Cesar asked
Edie to bring Dottie into Troy's
view, but behind the
safety of the glass door.
CESAR MILLAN: Put her on the
ground. Tsst, hey.
What he is giving us right now
is why I'm not trying to kill
this little dog. Tsst.
See that's the
silence that I, hey.
So every time he gets into a
high level of excitement or a
predator, or hunter you
have to snap him out of it.
That's excitement. Tsst.
Now walking aw ay is really
good, this is more relaxed.
This is another exercise
people can practice.
Glass door, there's a visual,
there's a little scent going on,
a little of the barking and
every time you disagree with
something, you correct
them, that's the only time.
Better than keeping
him away forever,
because that creates
more friction.
This is removing friction away
and at the same time it's safe.
NARRATOR: Neal and Edie had some
success when they practiced
the window exercise.
But they also had continued
problems on walks and in
the backyard.
That lead to the next step in
Troy's rehab
Cesar recommended a trip
to his friend O.J.
Knighten's obedience school.
Troy was a highly intelligent
dog and he needed some real
mental challenges to help focus
his out of control energy.
O.J. KNIGHTEN: What is good,
this dog has prey drive.
So I can get him focused.
CESAR MILLAN: I guess you
got to give us that toy O.J.
OJ KNIGHTEN: Ahhh ha ha ha.
CESAR MILLAN: Now look at that.
NEAL ADLER: He loves chasing
the squirrels in the back yard.
O.J. KNIGHTEN: And that's prey.
So why not instead of training
a dog out of his element,
that's genetics, just use it.
Now I'm walking him through
the dogs, I'm just using
the prey to introduce him to
dogs that are under control.
So guess what, look at him now?
So now he trusts me.
CESAR MILLAN: He knows she is
here. So this is not bad.
Hey! Tsst! Hey! Hey.
I have witnessed many times that
little dogs instigate unwanted
behavior but because they finish
being the victim then people say
well it was the German Shepherd.
She's the one that's putting
the little trouble right now.
NEAL ADLER: Well
she can be a little
CESAR MILLAN: Oh yeah, she
can be a little dominant.
You're not going to use the
same intensity with her but
she definitely need the same
rules, boundaries, limitations.
EDIE ADLER: Ev, even
though I spoil her,
and I'll admit that
I'll spoil her.
She does what I want her to do.
She listens to me.
CESAR MILLAN: Yes, but
when she's around the dog,
she project dominance, that
can get her in trouble, tsst.
Leash.
Hey, leash is for that
to block that reaction.
The dynamic here was that
Troy and Dottie was in
the same state of mind. Right.
The same state of mind
definitely creates fight.
Two dominant dogs are gonna
try to dominate each other.
So right now we're creating an
avoidance toward it because
he's dealing with the muzzle
which is a good thing.
There we go. See he look and
then he turn back.
So the good thing is he's so,
he's actually associating the
muzzle with Dottie.
When I have this thing I can't
touch her, which is good.
So, of course, I totally get
it my friend, I totally get it,
she can get you in trouble.
But we know that the most
powerful mouth in the house is
this one.
EDIE ADLER: Oh.
CESAR MILLAN: Fantastic. Eh.
Watch out. Hey! Tsst!
When I see an attack I see an
opportunity to rehabilitate.
I see an opportunity to help
dogs to see each other in a
different form, which
is a more social way.
The good thing about the muzzle
here is that it gave us the
opportunity for them to make
a mistake, nobody gets hurt.
So nothing physically happened,
it was more psychological.
Somebody address,
put them on the side,
this is what happens if
you do what you just did.
He knows that this
didn't happen before.
EDIE ADLER: So he's learning
this is unacceptable.
I learned that Dottie
needs work too.
Because she's been a
little bit spoiled.
NEAL ADLER: A little bit?
EDIE ADLER: Yeah, a little bit.
CESAR MILLAN: That's how a
walk is supposed to look like.
Walking two enemies together can
bond them or send them into a
different state where
they can learn to coexist in a
different form.
That's my pack leader.
And so the walk always
creates friendship.
So what we did over there
was more like a meeting,
but this makes them a pack,
this makes them a family.
EDIE ADLER: Troy's still
a work in progress.
But he's accepted Dottie.
You know, we're a living example
that if you do what Cesar tells
you to do and you keep working
with the dogs, it works!
NARRATOR: Next, the story of
two powerful breeds that exist
inside one mixed-breed dog.
PINK MOTHER: I would say a
German Shepherd could be pretty
aggressive.
PUNK: I think of Rottweilers,
immediately,
because that's just what
I've seen in the media.
GUY: Probably a German Shepherd.
MAN: I gotta say, the most
aggressive dog is a Rottweiler.
Because, they just so big and
fast and when they get a hold of
you it's, it's over.
CESAR MILLAN: Dexter is a
Rottweiler/German shepherd mix
just like Chile, meaning he
possesses the genes from two of
the breeds voted as most
aggressive in our audience
survey.
MARY JANE: There are a lot
of things that trigger his
behavior, it's dogs,
skateboards, people on bikes.
First he started the spinning
and the barking and waking
everyone in the neighborhood up.
I tried to correct him, and it
got to the point where he was
biting on me.
My doctor actually asked me
if my partner was abusing me.
NARRATOR: Both Rottweilers and
shepherds are herding dogs,
which may contribute
to Dexter's agitated,
overexcited behavior when
bikes and skateboards roll by.
CESAR MILLAN: So we're
finding out what really,
causes the aggression.
He gets anxious about the sound.
That's very typical.
Hey. Tsst. No.
That, that we don't want.
We don't want him
to bite anything,
because he can pass
that to, to us.
But Dexter is dangerous
to the handler, it,
it doesn't have to be a hold on
destroying bite for them to be
seen as red zone because at the
moment a dog touches somebody
with his mouth, it's an
automatic for a lot of
professionals to put him down.
MARY JANE: Cesar's saying
project this positive energy,
and I just kept thinking,
He's going to bite me.
CESAR MILLAN: Watch this,
right, set him up, Tsst! Hey!
MARY JANE: I don't catch
him fast enough, or...
CESAR MILLAN: Hey! You're
hesitating when you move.
Mm-hmm.
He can't follow soft energy.
Mary Jane's timing was more than
two or three seconds too late,
and those three seconds
are extremely important,
extremely precious.
Right there, right there. Tsst!
That's right. Come on.
She just stayed right
there the whole time.
Dexter kept pushing
on the buttons,
but she didn't give up on him.
Hey, hey! No. No. Hey!
There was courage in that
woman, so I, I told her, Look,
we're not going to run away,
we're not going to hide,
we're going to face the
problem. Pull, pull, pull, pull
NARRATOR: Because Dexter
was such a difficult case,
Cesar returned three days later,
to work more with Mary Jane.
CESAR MILLAN: See this is a
faster way to rehabilitate
because we're not walking, so
we're doing a different speed,
and they have to
focus on that speed.
NARRATOR: But even after
exercising him and exposing him
to bikes and skateboards, Dexter
still turned into a different
dog when Mary Jane
took the leash.
CESAR MILLAN: Let me help
you, let me help you.
You gotta complete
this exercise. Hey!
He's just an
athlete, that's all.
He likes it when
we're moving faster.
NARRATOR: Over the
next three months,
Mary Jane committed
100% to Dexter's rehab,
running with him daily - and
getting herself into shape in
the process.
However, the problem
behavior continued.
MARY JANE: He has
shown progress.
He won't spin around and he
doesn't jump up on me as much.
But some days are
better than others.
NARRATOR: One year after
Cesar's initial visit,
Mary Jane and her
boyfriend, Shiro,
drove Dexter from Chicago to Los
Angeles for the kind of advanced
rehab that only Cesar's
pack can provide.
MARY JANE: Hey, hey!
CESAR MILLAN: Hey, hey! Hey,
sit.
Now remember, this can be
created by unstable person,
or this can be created
by unstable dog.
That is very unstable.
MARY JANE: I knew there was
all these other dogs and I was,
I was nervous and I'm sure I
transferred that energy
to Dexter.
NARRATOR: Once Dexter was calmer
and away from Mary Jane and
Shiro's energy, Cesar
introduced him to the pack
one dog at a time.
CESAR MILLAN: See the approach?
Look at that. He did it!
That's it! It's over.
He's part of our family now.
NARRATOR: For the next four
days, Cesar worked intensively
with Dexter, draining his
anxious energy with the pack's
vigorous routine.
When Mary Jane returned, she was
ready to give it another try.
MARY JANE: He taught about the
mental energy the first time but
I was concentrating more on,
Okay, have him walk here,
okay do the kick and then
that's going to solve it.
CESAR MILLAN: Hey! Hey! I teach
people not to see a bad moment
as a failure.
A bad moment is actually a time
for you to rehabilitate yourself
and you rehabilitate your dog...
MARY JANE: Now I'm nervous.
CESAR MILLAN: Well you
questioned me.
Instead of going over there
you went into a different
conversation right and
you lost the flow right.
So it's actually the
most important moment in
rehabilitation when
a dog misbehaves.
That's pretty good, huh?
Don't hold on to that two
seconds of instability,
because we have been more
successful than unsuccessful.
NARRATOR: For Mary Jane and
Shiro, the trip to California
was a milestone.
And not only because of Dexter.
MARY JANE: Shiro proposed to me
and we got married a year
and a half ago.
Dexter's been doing really well.
Dexter wasn't an aggressive dog,
he was just so excited that
he would charge at other dogs.
And that was just his
way of greeting them.
When I got over that fear,
my behavior transformed.
So, it's really exciting, he's
really become a lot better.
NARRATOR: Still to come, your
number one choice for the most
dangerous breed.
Will it be the same as Cesar's?
RED: I think the most aggressive
kind of dog is...a bulldog.
BRUNETTE: I think the most
aggressive would be a pit bull.
RED: Or a pit bull. Yes,
pit bull.
MAN: I don't know
a lot about dogs,
but in England there's
a lot of attacks,
and they're generally
from pit bulls.
They're quite aggressive
and quite brutal.
CESAR MILLAN: It will probably
come as no surprise that in our
survey of more than 10,000
viewers the pit bull got the
most votes as the number
one most dangerous breed.
It's hard to think of another
breed that has such a
negative reputation.
NARRATOR: There are actually
several breeds associated with
the name pit bulls among them
American Staffordshire terriers,
the Staffordshire bull
terrier and the American
pit bull terrier.
All the pit bull breeds have
been abused as fighting dogs
for centuries.
MAN: Dogs are put into a pit.
And they're probed, with a
like, stuck with a stick,
it's like a wooden dowel
with a point on the end.
What they do is they jab the
dogs to agitate them more to get
them to fight to
be more aggressive.
Ancient breeders created the
original bull dogsfor brutal
spectator sports such as
bull and bear baiting.
Later breeders crossed
the dogs with quick,
agile terrier breeds to make
them more energetic and nimble
in the dog fighting ring.
The British Parliament
banned bull baiting in 1835,
but the blood sport continued
underground in another form
dog against dog.
Throughout England,
and later in America,
dog fighting operations bred
hardy bull-terrier mixes for
ferocity, endurance
and resistance to pain.
A rash of horrendous headlines
about pit bull related attacks
in the news has led some
communities to actually
ban all pit bulls.
CESAR MILLAN: But I believe
biology doesn't have to be
destiny.
Right, Junior?
Anyone who knows me knows I love
pit bulls and have had many as
my own personal
dogs over the years.
When raised correctly, pit
bulls make the most loyal,
loving dogs ever - even if
they've had unfortunate pasts
like one tough character
I met in Seattle.
NARRATOR: When Sherry Steele and
Lee Burkhart bought a house in
Seattle, they discovered a pit
bull had been left behind by
the previous owners.
They adopted the orphaned
dog and named him Buddy.
SHERRY STEELE: I didn't know
what to think because I, you
can't leave your
dog, who does that?
Who leaves their dog somewhere?
LEE BURKHART: He was
in terrible shape.
He'd been abused,
according to the neighbors.
SHERRY STEELE: He had foam, he
had drool coming out his mouth.
He was shaking so hard he could
barely stand in one place.
LEE BURKHART: We think they
tried to prune him to be a
fighting dog by, you
know, treating him poorly.
SHERRY STEELE: And Buddy is
extraordinarily human aggressive
Just about everybody told me to
put him to sleep including some
rescue organizations.
I have a lot of faith in Cesar,
and I hope that he can see that
Buddy is, has a very good heart,
and that he's a lovely dog and
he can make him not
try to kill people.
NARRATOR: Once Cesar determined
it was safe to bring out
the camera crew, he approached
Buddy carefully,
waiting for him to surrender.
CESAR MILLAN: We're not
going to take that risk,
we're not going to
take the muzzle off,
we first have to make sure
we claim the territory.
Ears back, head
low, that's good.
The growling, he's unsure.
That's right, back, there we
go, see it, that's pretty cool.
You can protest as much as you
want. There we go.
Just me going into this position
gives him access so I'm not
overpowering too much,
you know, too strong. Tsst!
I'm taking over, I'm, I'm
becoming his protector.
I'm the guy who can actually
save your life, Buddy.
NARRATOR: But when a friend
of the owners approached,
Sherry's protective reaction
brought out Buddy's dark side.
CESAR MILLAN: So he was
being dominant, territorial,
CESAR MILLAN: So he was
being dominant, territorial,
but at the same time he
was nervous about it.
Now him being a
very powerful breed,
anything that he do
intensifies a thousand times.
SHERRY STEELE: I tried
to protect people.
CESAR MILLAN: Yes, I understand,
but the way you try to protect
her didn't have
the right energy.
That's what you went around you,
so you didn't became
a source of respect.
It feel more like you were
anticipating he's gonna do it,
right? Yeah.
They were trying to address,
but they were holding him back.
So unconsciously they were
making him more and more
powerful and sending him more
into a pit bull way of being.
This particular case could
absolutely be labeled as the
most dangerous case ever, and
people will put him down and
they would never
give him a chance.
And they will totally
blame the breed.
Instead of the human taking
responsibility and really say,
Okay, what's the
problem behind this dog?
SHERRY STEELE: I just, I
just have to get rid of my
frustration with him, cause I
really want him to just do it,
and, and do it now.
And my fear that he's
going to hurt someone else.
CESAR MILLAN: Just pass by,
forget about it, there we go,
nice, nice, nice. Keep going,
keep going. There we go.
That was a good one, see?
SHERRY STEELE: That was good.
CESAR MILLAN: Relax, relax,
relax.
No, no, no, seriously
are you feeling good?
I want to take your there
LEE BURKHART: I recognize
I have a long way.
CESAR MILLAN: Are you okay? You
want a hug? Give me a hug.
I'm glad you're doing it.
You know, hugging, and still
this guy is still, you know,
he's not attacking me.
LEE BURKHART: It's
overwhelming Oh good.
because of the change.
It's, it's, it's ...
CESAR MILLAN: That's why
I love to work with dogs.
NARRATOR: Although Cesar
made progress with Buddy,
Sherry still had trouble
trusting her pit bull.
Cesar tested buddy again by
recruiting a stranger to come
to the door
CESAR MILLAN: Nobody
knew this guy.
He was just working right
next door, he was a carpenter.
So he was a great soul.
He didn't know why,
he didn't get paid.
He just did it for the
benefit of the dog.
He's doing fantastic.
I'm not gonna take it
off until he relaxes.
He hears the click.
SHERRY: Buddy is much better.
When he meets people, he no
longer leaves the ground and
goes directly for
their face and throat.
He's been learning how to have
more fun and experience more of
the world around him without
just being scared of everything.
LEE: It's a job and it really
does take a lot of time,
and not getting discouraged.
CESAR MILLAN: because Coco is
calm submissive Chihuahua he
will be patience during this
commercial brake on NatGeo Wild,
we hope You will be
patience too, right Coco?
MAN 1: I believe the most
aggressive dog would have
to be a pit bull.
WOMAN: A pit bull
MAN 2: Pit bulls are vicious
animals and belong in,
not in the hands of amateurs
CESAR MILLAN: I find it ironic
that humans have made pit bulls
into villains - when we are
responsible for the breed in
the first place.
It's our duty to stand up for
pit bulls and be their strong,
reliable pack leaders - as
Monica Hoover learned to do
with her dog, Trinity.
MONICA HOOVER: Trinity
was in really bad shape,
had an owner that
basically neglected her.
When we found her, she was in
about a one an a half foot by
five-foot-ish space.
We know that she was
there for at least a year.
NARRATOR: But after a three
week stay with a trainer,
Trinity and her
pack mate, Sandi,
turned into mortal enemies
with the scars to prove it.
JUSTIN TURNES: We get the dogs
home and all of a sudden Trinity
is attacking Sandi, or Sandi
gives a look and it's a fight.
MONICA HOOVER: And I'm not
saying like a little, you know,
little weenie fight... Hey! Hey!
I mean, and neither of us were
experienced at that point in
breaking up dog fights.
We didn't want to look at our
hands cause we didn't even know
if we had fingers. Blood.
JUSTIN TERNES: We have a dog
shuffle where the dogs go in and
out of the house and they're
always separated, you know,
one's in the front yard
and one's in the backyard,
and they can never interact
because we don't ever know
what's going to happen.
MONICA HOOVER: We think that
we've tried basically everything
with these dogs.
And that's why we need Cesar.
There's something with her with
toys, squeaky toys, whatnot,
she has that, that very...
CESAR MILLAN: Possessive?
MONICA HOOVER: Yeah, she
won't drop a toy for anything.
CESAR MILLAN: Does
she kill the toy?
MONICA HOOVER: What
do you mean kill it?
JUSTIN TERNES: Tear it up.
CESAR MILLAN: See that. So that,
she's not playing, she's killing
There was a very deadly silence
feeling that I have from her.
Which is very typical
of a red zone dog.
Can we bring her to the
center at least two months?
She needs a lot of
social behavior.
MONICA HOOVER: Both of
them or just the one?
CESAR MILLAN: No, just her.
MONICA HOOVER: Hello.
CESAR MILLAN: We gotta focus
on the dogs' reaction of it.
All right. You guys,
you guys stay over there.
So my pack is
definitely reacting,
we definitely have
a red zone case.
And so that's why you saw
that my pack was copying
the behavior.
Now my, my pack is
influencing her.
It's a little bit more quiet,
but the energy of wanting to
fight is still there.
All right, so we're
going to need a muzzle.
NARRATOR: With the muzzle on
and the owners stepping back,
Cesar brought Trinity into
direct contact with his pack.
CESAR MILLAN: She doesn't
know we want to help,
what she knows is
what she has learned.
Attack another dog, another
dog is a victim, is a target.
See, sitting down is blocking
invitation of friendship.
So I gotta keep her moving.
So if she can't fight, she's
going to try to avoid, because,
you know, the way she wants
to meet is by fighting.
So even a two-month-old pit
bull is already showing we can't
trust this dog yet.
At this point I don't feel that
Justin and Monica has the energy
to keep two powerful
breeds in one place.
Especially when they have had
the, the type of scenario
they have had.
MONICA HOOVER: So, up to two
months she might be here?
Two weeks, three weeks?
CESAR MILLAN: Yeah,
I don't know yet.
I just know you got
a really bad case.
So minimum for a dog to stay
here is two months. You know.
Intense cases like Trinity
need someone 24/7 with them.
She needed to see many dogs.
She needed to experience
different scent, different
environment, different
people, different dogs.
NARRATOR: Trinity accompanied
Cesar on several Dog Whisperer
cases, and also
spent some quality time at
the Millan's home.
There, Cesar and his family were
able to take her muzzle off
although Trinity still showed
signs of fixating on toys.
CESAR MILLAN: Tsst! See, the,
the only inconvenient,
When you have a dog that has an
aggressive tendencies, is that
when they hear that squeaky
sound, it imitates just as a,
as an animal dying.
They scream, they squeal.
And then they, that's what
they get so excited and
start shaking it.
So, that's very important.
So with this one, fixation not
good.
NARRATOR: After a month of
rehab, Trinity joined
the rest of Cesar's pack on a
field trip to the site of his
new Dog Psychology Center.
But when Justin and Monica
arrived for their first visit,
their presence proved
a dangerous trigger.
CESAR MILLAN: Believe it or not,
this is not how you want to be
greet, even though the dog
haven't seen you in two weeks or
three days or three years...
'cause you represent excitement.
This is the meaning. Right?
But as you see, the avoidance
is only empowering her.
So it's best...
MONICA HOOVER: Push her down?
CESAR MILLAN: Not
so much to push,
it's no really about
pushing, it's really,
it's about claiming.
'Cause she right now she's
getting closer to you guys.
See this is distance, distance,
tail, now that's better.
See that's, that could be a
problem. Tsst! Hey!
CESAR MILLAN: Monica
was trying to help,
but she was helping with panic.
You know, it's this ripple,
it doesn't stop a fight.
MONICA HOOVER: I mean, I wasn't
not expecting that to happen.
I mean, I've seen
the show before,
and it seems like a
lot of times, you know,
everything will be great
until the owners come.
CESAR MILLAN: My suggestion,
based on this, Yeah.
we exchange dogs.
You get one of my pack,
lower level energy,
I get to keep her forever.
Good home.
MONICA HOOVER: Wow. For it
to be our energy and, you know,
Trinity's too much dog for us to
handle, it's hard to hear that.
NARRATOR: After Cesar, Monica
and Justin returned to the RV to
discuss the incident,
Trinity's protective instincts
erupted once again.
CESAR MILLAN: Tsst! Hey!
Daddy came closer to Monica,
and then Trinity went
back and went after Daddy.
MONICA HOOVER: I mean, there
is just that chance of things
happening, you know, and
there's always a chance.
I don't think any dog's ever
fully recovered, you know.
MONICA HOOVER: I just,
maybe it's selfish,
but maybe if you found like the
ultimate perfect person for her
to go to, but I'd really
like her to be with you.
CESAR MILLAN: I think I'm
the ultimate perfect person.
I, I'm not going to give
this power to anybody else.
It ends right here.
JUSTIN TERNES: It was a pretty
emotional roller coaster.
And I just kind of thinking,
what's best for Trinity and,
you know, but also making
Monica happy at the same time,
you know, you kind of
have to balance the two,
and that's a tough, that's
a tough one to figure out.
NARRATOR: Fortunately, Trinity
suffered no major injuries,
and was able to rejoin the pack.
Meanwhile, Monica came to
realize that she wanted to do
whatever it took to be able
to bring her dog safely home.
CESAR MILLAN: She got a hold
of us and said, You know what,
I got a lot of bad experience.
And I want to face it. You
know, for somebody to say,
I want to face what makes me
afraid, that's pretty brave,
and that's somebody who really
wants to live to the fullest.
NARRATOR: To find out if she was
finally ready to live peacefully
at home, Cesar put an e-collar
on Trinity and reintroduced
the pit bull to her old
environment, and then to Monica.
CESAR MILLAN: After that day,
she went back to my house and
everything went back
to normal really.
Now, can you just walk by
her and see her reaction,
you know what I mean?
Don't look at her.
And expect the reaction
that you want, you know, see
the reaction that you want.
That's a very, very,
very beautiful reaction.
Compared to her reaction
we had over there,
it's very remarkable.
Now stop. And do Tsst...
Just don't look.
NARRATOR: Today, Trinity and
Sandi are best friends again,
and enjoy daily walks in the
countryside around their home.
CESAR MILLAN: To see a dog being
rehabilitated is beautiful,
you know.
But to see a humans to really
stepping up to the plate and to
see the people practicing
calm, assertive energy,
to see people totally moving
forward, it's a beautiful thing.
MONICA HOOVER: It's really
impressive to see how far
she has come.
And I knew it was in her.
I'm a believer.
CESAR MILLAN: As I hope
I've convinced you,
even dogs from my viewers' top
three most aggressive breeds can
be rehabilitated to live
productive, peaceful lives.
Which breed of dog is
the most aggressive?
The humans in our
survey picked pit bulls.
But I say the answer is
none of the above...
and some others we
surveyed agreed with me.
LADY: Honestly, I think the most
aggressive breed is what people
make... aggressive.
GUY: It depends on the owner.
Whether they make them
aggressive or not.
GIRL: I worked in a vet and I
don't buy the stereotype of Pit
Bulls and Rottweilers and all
of those kinds dogs because
they can all be very gentle.
I just think it's about
how they're raised.
CESAR MILLAN: During my career,
I've rehabilitated hundreds of
German shepherds,
Rottweilers, and pit bulls,
many of which were on death row,
and I know that in almost every
case, when the right human
matched with the right dog the
result is a happy aggression
free relationship.
In fact, I asked for all the
dogs featured in this episode to
join me in a pack walk to show
that rehabilitation can be both
effective and long lasting
even with the most
powerful breeds.
So, we gonna push
with calm stance.
And at the end the whole point
is to create one big pack of
dogs in the memory of all the
dogs that have been put down
because they've
been misunderstood.
That's the parade.
Vamonos. Oh!
That's my girl from Seattle.
Come on ladies.
All right German
Shepherd, sheesh!
It's like a march, you
know like the Gandhi march.
There you go. Gandhi.
He fought with peace.
Alright, I never seen this,
because normally
I'm inside the pack.
Let me see how this looks like.
Ha ha.
It looks awesome.
You look great man.
Lead the pack, lead
the pack, Andre!
So next time you hear
about a dog attack,
please don't just blame
the dog...or its breed.
Let's all make sure everyone
understands why the dog became
that way....because of the
humans in that dog's life.
I'd like to end with a statement
credited to Gandhi that has a
special meaning for me.
He said, The greatness of a
nation and its moral progress
can be judged by the way
its animals are treated.
EDIE ADLER: Mazel tov!
NEAL ADLER: Felizidades!