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Narrator: Do not attempt these techniques you are
about to see without consulting a professional.
On this episode of the Dog Whisperer.
Maria: This is their house.
We are tenants and we are prisoners.
They say who comes in and who leaves and when
you can leave.
Molly: Maddy is terrified of men.
And whenever I take her for walks or take her
anywhere where there's men, she just gets
really skittish.
Milly Sanders: He'll take a rock and he'll
just chew on it.
He barks if you take the rock away,
he barks like at you.
It can be kind of scary.
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: Miniature pinschers Taz and
Victoria were born in the same litter a year
and a half ago.
And like many high spirited, mischievous
siblings, they often wreak havoc when
they're together.
Maria: This is their house.
We are tenants and we are prisoners.
They say who comes in and who leaves and when
you can leave.
Narrator: Steve and Maria have owned Taz
since he was a puppy.
Victoria joined them when her original
owners moved into an apartment where pets
were not allowed.
Steve: I expect it to be a little hyper, it's
the first time we've had little dogs.
But Victoria is way beyond where it
should've been.
Narrator: The miniature pinscher is a very old
breed, part of the larger German pinscher
family, but definitely not a smaller version
of the Doberman as many wrongly believe.
Like many small dogs, min pins can become
aggressively possessive of their
homes and companions.
Taz and Victoria display their
possessiveness by jumping and biting.
Maria: We now have to replace the fence
because Victoria has just about
chewed through it.
And she's bitten four people here in my home.
Steve: She is affecting Taz.
He's getting worse by being around her
being that way.
Maria: Every Wednesday is gardener day here.
It is also our ballistic days.
The dogs will chase in every room wherever the
gardener is, try and bust through the windows.
Narrator: Since they work from home, Steve
and Maria are now worried that the dogs
are hurting business.
Maria: We have our clients come up to the
door, we inspect their vehicle.
We take statements.
And we now have to work outside of the house
because of Taz and Victoria, and now our
clients are diminishing.
Narrator: Even more disturbing, the
family's own vet has warned them about the
possible consequences of the min pins'
aggressive behavior.
Juliena: The vet told them that if something
were to happen with Vicky and he was called
to testify in court, he would recommend to put
the dog down.
Maria: Cesar is our last hope because it's
not worth losing our home, our business, or
somebody's body part.
If the dogs are not able to be
rehabilitated, we will put the dogs down.
That is our last alternative.
Narrator: Dog behavior expert Cesar Millan
often has members of his own pack serve as
good examples to calm unbalanced,
excitable dogs.
Juliena: When they first got Taz, I
remember a conversation that we had about how
nice it would be to take the dog to the
beach or walk at the art fair, to the swap
meet, to have your dog as a part of your life
and now it has become the dogs are your life
because you can't go anywhere, you can't
have people come over.
Steve: Those two are very smart
and very manipulative.
And they've got me.
Cesar: They've got you?
Steve: They got me and I have to fight her
over how I'm doing it sometimes, which is
tough enough because she does it differently.
She wants to play and I want to just
strong arm them.
Cesar: You don't agree with that?
Maria: I agree with it.
I just don't want the dog to be mad at me.
Cesar: The dog is mad at you right now.
Maria: Well I don't want them to be, and I
don't know what to do.
And I want to be a dog owner.
I've always had a fear of dogs.
My children don't.
I was attacked when I was six by
a German shepherd.
And I will admit that I would use my son
and my daughter as a human shield.
The word is "doggie alert," 'cause.
Juliena: If there's a dog coming on the
sidewalk, she would actually grab us by the
back of the shirt and put us in between her
and the dog.
Cesar: And what do you do?
Juliena: Laugh, what can you do?
"Mom, it's a dog, it's this big," you know?
Cesar: Well you make them strong.
That's one good thing you did.
So with Maria, I sense a lot of fear, a lot of
hesitation, a lot of impossible.
You know, "my life has been terrified the
whole time, the whole time."
You mention Victoria and Taz.
Steve: We can't walk them in the daytime.
Cesar: You can't?
Steve: No.
Cesar: Why, what happens?
Maria: Too dangerous.
Steve: I would have to be holding her up like
I was hanging her.
Now, he won't bite.
Cesar: Right.
Steve: But she does.
Cesar: She will.
Steve: Yeah, in a heartbeat.
Cesar: But she doesn't address this energy
towards you guys or the family members?
Steve: No, once she really knows you,
you're just another part of the family.
Cesar: So Taz was hundred percent under control?
Steve: No, but he was still under a year old
when she got here.
Maria: She got here.
Steve: But he was very trainable.
Cesar: What about Victoria by herself?
Steve: Haven't done that.
Maria: Their inseparable.
Cesar: You gotta separate the team.
Maria: They're inseparable, Cesar.
If one is outside and one's in the house,
they look for each other.
Then they're a team.
Cesar: Yeah but that way, you're telling me
that if my dogs making that decision, there's
nothing we can do.
Maria: Well they're brother and sister from
the same litter.
Cesar: Yeah but if let's say you're
raising me and she's my sister and I'm really
bad, you're going to separate us.
You never finished with Taz.
Steve: Correct.
Cesar: So the mother of Taz would've been left
alone with them, she won't have
problems with them.
They correct them from the moment they're born.
Maria: Well, I really don't know how to put
these two dogs on timeout but that's what
they need.
Cesar: Timeout, no, animals don't put each
other in timeout, only human.
'Cause we think.
"Go in your room, think about what you did."
They don't.
Steve: That doesn't work anyway.
Cesar: You're going against the program
because you're thinking of them as humans.
Maria: Well, I am trying to teach them to
speak and they do say, "I love you."
Cesar: Case closed.
Narrator: Will Cesar be able to soothe the
savage min pins?
Cesar: Hold it right there.
Narrator: Maniacal min pins Taz and Victoria
instigated a hostile takeover of Steve and
Maria's household with their relentless
jumping, barking, and biting.
Cesar knows that high energy dogs can be
draining, but these dogs need to drain
their energy as well.
Narrator: As a breed, miniature pinschers are
famous for their liveliness.
To work off some of Taz and Victoria's pent up
energy, Cesar takes them for a run through
the neighborhood.
But this dizzying duo seems determined to
test his patience.
Cesar: Taz and Victoria are two little dogs
with a lot of frustration,
very insecure.
They were not tame on the leash.
These dogs control you on the leash.
Narrator: After thirteen minutes of
Cesar's leadership, the min pins' pack
instincts finally kick in.
Cesar: They're getting their groove on.
They're working finally.
Narrator: Amanda, Victoria's former
owner, joins the family to witness the twins'
transformation.
Amanda Millias: This morning I was like,
"this is our last hope" and I didn't believe it
when I got here.
They were running down the street with no
problem and not trying to attack other dogs.
Cesar: Good boy, Taz-y boy!
After they surrendered to it, we had a great
time where they can experience the scenario
and this way of being.
Let's do a min pin run, guys, min pin run!
Woo-hoo!
Now we're close to the house and we're close
to you guys.
At the moment you remove their, their,
shh, hey, shh hey, shh.
See they're going back into it.
Sssh.
But I just met them, right?
And I took them for a ride.
Now I'm telling them what the rules are, but
I'm doing it right away.
I'm not saying,
"What, what are you barking at? "
Steve: Right.
Cesar: Not having a conversation with them,
'cause if I let that little bark, she goes
from there to a high level in one second.
So if I snap her out of it, she goes right back
to where she was, this.
See this is great state of mind, calm,
submissive state.
Steve: Beautiful.
Maria: Well, I can see that
they're exhausted.
But, I don't see any affection or petting
for being behavioral, behaved dogs at this moment.
They're just there.
Cesar: What?
Maria: You went on a long drive and you came
back and they've been good and there's no
love, reward for being great dogs that they're
being right now.
Cesar: So for you the only way to share
affection is by me touching?
I'm happy being here, Maria.
Maria: You're happy, they're happy.
But do they know that?
Do they know that they're being good?
Cesar: See you underestimate the power
of how they read you.
I am giving affection because I'm proud of
what they did.
Maria: But do they know that you,
that you did this for.
Cesar: Yes, they're animals.
They know.
They know when you're afraid.
Shh.
They know when you're afraid.
they know when you're nervous.
They know when you're fearful, and you don't
have to tell them.
Steve: You just be with them.
Cesar: Are you with me, Maria?
I mean are you here on earth?
Maria: I'm here today and I don't believe
what I'm seeing.
Cesar: Maria was the weakest link in the
family and we needed to make sure she's right
in their state of mind, where they all
see dogs as dog.
So that's why I focus on Maria today
as much as I did.
Let me just move away from you.
Maria: Stay.
Cesar: Stay in the zone, Maria.
Knowing that she's afraid of big dogs or
just dogs period, I asked Daddy to join us.
So Maria went pale on us, right in
front of my eyes.
I thought I was talking to a ghost.
Stay right there, Maria.
You're the most powerful woman on earth.
Hold it right there.
Maria: The closer Daddy got to me, the more I
felt the fear come back inside and just, I just
wanted to have him hurry up and bite me
and get it over with.
'Cause I thought that's what was
going to happen.
I'm afraid of your dog.
Cesar: You're afraid?
That's how you're going to get rid of it.
You gotta be in the middle.
So when we start walking, then
eventually I'm going to pass your dogs and
you're gonna walk three dogs.
Maria: Today?
Cesar: I walk in the now.
I work in the now, not in tomorrow.
Maria: Okay, Cesar.
Juliena: When I looked at my mom's face, she
was white, her eyes were huge, and I was
standing behind everybody trying to
tell her, "it's okay, it's okay. "
Cesar: Relax, go to the side.
Very good, grab the leash.
Maria: Hello, Daddy, you want to go for
a little walk?
Cesar: Relax.
Grab the leash, nicely.
Juliena: To see my mom pick up the leash and
walk Daddy without a problem was just monumental.
Maria: This is awesome.
Cesar: Yeah, how you do you feel?
Maria: I feel pretty powerful right now.
Cesar: So what about the story about big
dogs are mean and all that stuff.
Shh.
Maria: Well Daddy's a perfect dog so.
Cesar: That's right, and there's a lot of
perfect dogs out there.
Now here it is.
Yes, Maria.
You know, I believe women can do
multi-task, are multi-task, and that's
what you're doing right now.
You're being multi-task.
Shoulders up, head up.
You having a good time?
Maria: Wow, this is beautiful, being out in
the day with my dogs.
This is great.
Cesar: Alright, Mister.
Come over here.
Steve: There was a lot of things that he was
showing us while we were on the walk; how
you keep the tension on or off the leash, how
you stay out in front of it, how your aura as
you're going by things changes the way the
dogs react.
Cesar: Now we have a Labrador off leash in
the corner.
Are you okay with that?
Maria: No.
Cesar: Why?
Maria: I don't know what that dog is going
to do.
Cesar: Don't worry about it.
You make it happen.
Come here.
I show you how.
You skip, you stay in the zone.
Forgot about the dog.
You control this one.
Maria: Sssh, sssh.
Cesar: That's right.
Maria: Shh, shh.
Cesar: Bring her back, that's right.
Keep them, that's right, keep moving.
Maria: Shh, shh.
Cesar: What you're saying is, forget about them.
Maria: No.
Cesar: That's right, very good,
keep moving forward and relax the tension
You went through it, Maria.
Maria: Wow.
Cesar: Yeah?
Maria: That was a big deal.
Cesar: Um-hmm, that was huge deal.
More for you than it was for her, 'cause you
keep moving.
You see what I saying?
You didn't stop.
You didn't quit.
You didn't give up.
You moved forward.
Steve: Just like you're doing right now.
I got to see her change.
They were better with her today than they
were with me.
So I have a lot to of work to do.
Amanda: They're not ballistic.
Steve: That's what's going to make this so
much fun because by me having so much to do,
it's going to be able to re-enforce her and
she can just keep us going.
Cesar: What we accomplished was to
control the dogs in the outside world.
I know they have a lot of homework to do in
the inside world.
But to me right now, the most important part
in this case is that they are committed to
walk every day and they're consistent to
do it, not at 11 p.m at normal hours.
Maria: I can be an honest dog owner, a
proud dog owner.
Cesar: You see, now, you said the magic words.
Thanks, Maria.
Maria: You're wonderful.
Cesar: I thought I was not gonna' bring that
out of you "Oh my god!"
Amanda Yates: I love Punkin, Punkin is so great.
And he just looks at you with his big brown
eyes, and, and he's just so loving.
Milly Sanders: Punkin is the friendliest dog.
I mean, he just comes up to everyone, he
loves everyone.
Give me a kiss.
Narrator: Amanda Yates and her roommate Milly
Sanders spent months looking for
the perfect dog.
On the internet, they found a Rhodesian
ridgeback-pit bull mix with a
heartbreaking story.
Amanda Yates: A man was going to drop him in
the ocean along with his sister at six weeks
old, and this little boy found him.
We got him right around November.
We named him Punkin because he's like, you
know, it's October, November,
like pumpkin pie.
And he's sort of the same color
as a pumpkin.
Narrator: But a few months after he
arrived, Amanda and Milly noticed he was
developing a very strange quirk.
Milly Sanders: Punkin, if we would take him on
a walk, he would see a rock and, and he would
just go crazy.
Amanda: It was like, that was it, he's found
his calling in life, rocks.
Come on go get it.
Go get the tennis ball.
Narrator: When Punkin first developed his
stony obsession, Amanda and her friends thought
it was cute.
Amanda Yates: People are always like, "Is
that a rock?
That's so funny, Why's he carrying a rock? "
And I'm like, "It's not funny.
It's really annoying.
Narrator: Punkin will chew and paw rocks
until his mouth and feet bleed.
He becomes so fixated, he'll even choose a
rock over food.
Milly Sanders: There are moments of fear,
because you're the person trying to take
it away, and he's barking so at you, it
can be kind of scary.
You're afraid he's going to break his
teeth or that he's going to hurt himself.
Amanda Yates: I want Punkin to be himself,
the dog that I know and love, and I'm hoping
that Cesar can help me with that.
Narrator: Can Cesar convince Punkin to
leave all stones unturned?
Narrator: Amanda Yates and her roommate Milly
Sanders are at their wit's end over
two-year-old Punkin's obsession with rocks.
They hope Cesar can stop Punkin from
becoming a stoner every time they go out.
Amanda Yates: Hi!
Cesar: How are you?
Narrator: First, Cesar needs to determine the
severity of Punkin's condition.
Cesar: How long he's been behaving this way?
Amanda Yates: He started to become this
way around four to six months.
He's not interested in anything else
but the rock.
Cesar: Just territorial.
Amanda Yates: Yeah, I guess so.
Cesar: What is the word for that, he is what?
Like.
Amanda Yates: He is obsessed.
Absolutely obsessed and neurotic.
Cesar: When the mind is obsessive, it is best
for you to become leader than just a
person who say, "What is he doing that? "
You know, "I don't understand.
What is he thinking? "
You know, all those questions that come to
your mind you're wasting precious time
just to tell the mind, "snap out of it."
You have to set rules, boundaries, limitations.
Otherwise the obsession will not go away right?
So in the meantime he is right?
He went from this to this in a second.
It's a reaction, there's no thinking.
Normally, dogs eat rocks for mineral
purpose, or they lick the rock, but not
really to carry the rock and to chew on the
rock and, and to push the rock and to wash
the rock, you know, so all this behavior comes
from the obsession.
It's, it's unusual, it's unnatural, no dog
in their own natural habitat becomes
obsessive to anything.
Pack leader never allows obsessions or
insecurity or instability.
Dogs only develop that side effect when they
live with us.
This is it.
This is it right here.
Amanda: This is it, you're seeing it right
here, yeah.
Honestly there's, I, I would not know what
else to do.
Cesar: So when you have the choke chain on, do
you get a better response with it?
Amanda Yates: Not really, not when he has.
Cesar: So it's the same.
Amanda Yates: When he's interested in the
rocks, like, yeah, he doesn't care about pain.
He knows no pain at that point.
Cesar: So in this case, I want the mind to
become weak or sensitive to the
presence of my physical touch.
I am not trying to hurt the body, the mind,
the spirit or any.
I'm just trying to create an opening in
order for him to calm down.
When people become panicked, we use it, we
use our hands to snap them out of it.
So it's a physical touch that makes the
brain react.
Narrator: For forty-five minutes,
Cesar uses touch and calm, assertive energy
to establish his dominance over Punkin.
Then he begins the psychological part of
the exercise.
Cesar: So we, now we're going to bring the
rock, the rock comes to him, he normally comes
to the rock.
Shh.
So I'm using the same technique he is using
on the rock or the same technique he would have
used on another dog if it comes near the rock, right?
So now, I owning the rock, now I am
becoming the one who owns the rock.
This is the only thing that they respect.
Shh, hey!
Now we're doing psychological behavior,
we don't have to touch any more.
Now we are going to condition the mind that
this sound means stop.
So I'm following the principle of exercise,
discipline or body-mind.
Body-mind, I touch the body,
then the mind got it.
Now I'm touching the mind, then the body
gets it.
This is what I mean about calm
assertive energy.
I am calm, I'm assertive.
Amanda, she was aggressive, she felt
she was firm, but firmness, it's, that's
not assertive, you know?
"Stop it, just get it."
That only feeds that energy back into a dog.
So he is not gonna understand any
message that way.
You try it now.
Shh I'm going to help you.
So my hand is doing the bite motion and that
snaps him out of it because he became too
intense, right?
So if you start saying, "No, no, no," that only
going to intensifies this.
Amanda: Oy!
Cesar: That's a push.
He's already challenging you.
Narrator: As Cesar suspects, Amanda's pack
leader instincts are not yet strong enough
to counter Punkin's high level of
obsession.
This case calls for more intensive
treatment.
Cesar: It's no quick fixes in the obsessive
mind.
Probably one of those cases that I would like
to take to the center.
It's something that he can get from a dog
faster than he can get from us, where, where
he can, instead of being so obsessive to
the rock, he can be, he can become playful to
the ball, or, or swimming, or some other
activities that can lead him into a better
life.
And it will be very helpful for him to, to
have a little vacation away from you so he can
thoroughly go into a retreat, so to speak.
As much as you love him, you also have
brought this obsession.
Unconsciously him not having you around, the
source of the obsession is not there.
Amanda Yates: Yeah, meanwhile, I'll go to yoga
and get calm myself.
Cesar: Read a book, you know.
Narrator: Will Punkin turn Cesar's pack into
a bunch of rockers?
Narrator: Punkin is a two year old rock
obsessed, Rhodesian-pit mix.
Cesar believes this fixation can be solved
by having Punkin spend some quality time with
his pack at the Dog Psychology Center in
Los Angeles.
For 14 days, his pack of balanced dogs will
assist in Punkin's rehabilitation.
Cesar: So now we're going to see how the
pack relates to Punkin.
He's a little excited right now; the pack is
going to behave excited towards him.
He have to, he have to be calm just as the
rest of the pack.
This is ex- See it?
Hey, hey!
You bring one unstable dog into a stable pack,
it's going to be a reaction.
So the pack just told me exactly where
he is mentally.
So here he is, calm submissive state now.
Now he can go inside that pack.
Follow me.
And my job as a pack leader is to
re-establish that balance immediately.
Hey.
We can't allow one second of tension, we
have Rhodesian ridgeback, we have pit
bull over here.
When they get into that state, the first, the
first reaction they, they come at as a breed
is to bite each other.
So we don't want them to get into that state
of being breed.
We want them to stay in a dog mode.
Shh, shh
They have to see that I have control over him
right away, otherwise one of them is going to
try to control him immediately.
To be part of a pack, the pack leader have to
let the new, the new dog understand the rules.
The whole point of him being here is for us to
study him if he goes into an excited mode
and go get a rock.
This is really good right there.
If he doesn't go after the rock today, the
chances of him rehabilitating
himself is big.
Today is the biggest day you can ever dream
about, especially trying to help him to
stop being neurotic about the rock.
So far he is, he is being playful with the
pack, which we knew.
There we go, this is great.
I just know that this poodle can actually
match the way he plays.
So it's important to know your dogs very
well before you introduce it to a new dog.
So as you see right now, we have a lot of
rocks everywhere, which my pack never worries
about the rock, never cared about the rock,
except for him.
He is the only case that we have being
neurotic about rocks.
What we're experiencing today in a matter of
five, ten minutes is that his world has
become a normal world.
It's about the tree, it's about the water,
it's about flowers, it's about many other
things, not just the rock world.
That's what we want, we want him to relax.
He knows I have rocks, I mean, the rocks are
really obvious.
He has learned to run away from the rocks, I
don't want him to run away from the rocks,
especially when I'm carrying the rocks,
because then I represent fear.
I don't want to represent fear.
I want to represent submission.
I want him to know that if I have a rock, it's
for him to surrender to it, not to run away
from it.
Like I always say, you have to face your fear
or you have to be right in front of what
obsesses you the most, and then your mind is
actually working with you.
So in this case, I have to block what his mind
wanted to do and give him something
else to do.
Now we're going to experience if he takes food.
So the pack is definitely going to
help us, so you don't give it to him first
in order for him to know what is it.
So he, he wants to copy what the rest
of them are doing.
Relax.
There we go, see.
That's, that's very successful.
At the same time, he's learning that I can
hold food here, and nobody can come near
the food; that makes me pack leader.
So if I allow them to get too close to the
food, he can actually learn that behavior,
which that's not what we want.
We want him to be very gentle,
to have great manners.
Very good.
This is a challenge, this is a wonderful
challenge that all dogs should practice, you
know, being in front of the ball, being in
front of the rock, shh, being in front of food.
Exercise, discipline.
This is discipline and affection is when I
gave him the food.
So I am practicing all of them at the same
time, as you see.
And what we get is a balanced state of mind dog.
As you see, it's a very obvious changed
state of mind.
This is what I, I will call a dog that has
finished his detox.
Watch out, guys.
So today is Day 8 for Punkin.
I'm going to give you an update on how he's
doing and how great he's doing, by the way.
His rock obsession is really decreasing, and
you're going to see how the pack has
influenced his behavior.
You are about to experience high level
of energy, you are not going to observe
fights, you are not going to observe dogs
killing each other for a ball.
And this is what Punkin has learned
from our pack.
The pack has rules, boundaries, limitations.
The pack is not obsessive to the ball.
When we begin playing the ball, fine.
And when we end, it's fine as well.
Narrator: The dog psychology pack is so
stable and balanced, that 40 dogs can chase
the same tennis ball without a fight.
Cesar: So after we play ten minutes of a ball,
I don't like to play for a long period of time,
I don't like to exhaust a dog playing the ball.
I like to begin the game and end the game
on a good note.
So after this great game, no fights, no
scratches, everything went great.
You experience a lot of intensity; a lot of
these guys here are pit bulls, Rottweilers, so
when they play they're going to be a little
bit more intense.
And a lot of German shepherds as well, so
they're going to bark more than anybody else.
I have to be the source always of being calm
and assertive.
If I go, "Okay, okay, I come on, let's play
with the ball! "
I can actually get bitten by this energy.
After I drain some of this energy, I'm going
to work with the rocks now in order for him to
understand the concept of rock, ball.
What is allowed, and what is not allowed.
When you rehabilitate and you have to stop
the behavior here, but you got to give them
something else.
So what we've given to him right now is just
the experience of the ball.
He can touch any ball he wants, he can carry
any ball he wants, but not to look at the
rock, not to smell the rock, not to touch the
rock.
This time we don't want a lot of excitement, we
want the pack to stay quiet, to stay calm so
they can influence Punkin as well.
Rock #1.
Shh.
Hey, hey, hey.
Stop!
The only one who's, who's behaving really
weird is Punkin.
He's the only one who is still not being
submissive completely.
But at least it's not moving towards the rock
like he used to.
Sit.
And as you see, everybody is
surrendering to the experience of being
around the rock.
The rock means nothing to them.
But for Punkin the rock had a meaning before.
So right now you're experiencing a dog that
doesn't really know what to do, but because
the pack stays here, he automatically comes
back.
This is why the pack is so important for
rehabilitation.
Because things that I can't do, the pack will
do it for me.
He doesn't understand, you know, why nobody is
going after the rock, but that's just part of
the process here, he's been doing this for
years, eight days later, this is what he
has accomplished.
Punkin has definitely come a long way, this
is the stepping stone for him, this is a
great jump start for him.
Right now he's the fastest member of my
pack, nobody can beat him.
So this is what I will call an active
submissive type mind.
But the ideal is for him to be calm,
submissive after he finished being active submissive.
So today is the last day for "El Magnifico,"
which is Mr. Punkin.
He finished his rehabilitation time.
Now it's time for us to bring him back to Amanda.
Let's see how much Amanda has changed.
Amanda: I'm so excited to see Punks,
I cannot wait to see him.
Milly: What do you think he's gonna be
healed?
Amanda: I hope so very much.
But mostly I'm just excited to see him.
Cesar: So, he knows you're here.
No touch, no talk, no eye contact, just go
with me, okay?
Just trust me 100%.
Alright.
So, this is like a march.
Follow me.
This we want.
Now the ball.
Shh!
We have to change the mind just from the presence.
See it.
So his nickname at my place is 'The Magnificent.'
'Punkin' is too cute.
Amanda: He is so cute.
Cesar: But 'The Magnificent' fits him
because he is definitely, he was the
fastest guy in my pack.
See you gotta keep the mind focused on something.
If you don't give him something to focus on,
he's going to go into what he normally focus on.
Amanda: Displacement theory, we know that.
We have been studying.
Cesar: Very good.
Now we can switch.
Amanda: Okay.
That's incredible.
Cesar: See it?
We can switch.
And Punkin, shhh!
This is good.
When before he won't take food.
So right now the mind is not in red zone.
We can make the mind excited, and we can
make the mind calm down.
So when the mind is calm, they, they eat,
but when the mind is excited, they won't.
So we have the three elements: the ball, the
food, the rock.
So you see the transformation.
Calm, calm-submissive
But, you have to be calm, assertive at all times.
Not just calm.
Amanda: Calm and assertive.
Cesar: Yes, that's the projection that they
need in order for them to get to that
state of mind.
Okay?
Just simple as that.
Amanda: It's amazing that he's not getting
his rocks and he's going after the tennis ball.
Milly: I know, there's so many around here and
he's not even going after any of them.
Amanda: He's not doing anything.
Milly: That's amazing.
Amanda: Yeah, that is amazing.
Look at that rock just sitting there and he
doesn't even notice it.
Milly: He's just waiting for the ball.
Amanda: He doesn't notice it.
I can't believe that.
That is great.
Milly: To have both those things right there,
the ball and the rock and then,
and then he would just go after the ball
is really great.
Cesar: So what are you learning so far?
Amanda: Having a dog is not just about you and
what you want from the dog, that you,
but being a pack leader really is a
lot of responsibility.
And that you have to be vigilant all the time.
And that's your job.
And then you'll get the companionship that you
want from your dog, and you'll get like a
healthy, happy dog.
But that you can't just expect the dog to,
like, give you love and get love from you when
it has its own needs and its own desires
and its own.
Cesar: I like that, you did get it.
You got it!
Amanda: Yeah, I got it.
Cesar: Yes, awesome.
Today I have a lot of hope for Punkin.
I can definitely feel that Punkin's future
life is going to be balanced.
Amanda: I think it's great that Punkin is
not going for those rocks any more, I'm
really pleased, I'm really excited.
I think it's going to be really great, really
much better for Punkin and much better for me
and our relationship.
I'm really enthusiastic about it.
I'm thrilled.
Narrator: Can Cesar win over this man-fearing
mutt?
Narrator: Molly Schiot is fresh out of college
and just starting out as a music video director.
One day, near an L. A. freeway underpass,
she spotted a mangy little dog who instantly
won her heart.
Molly: She was just kind of like a
neighborhood stray.
So I got this huge box of pizza crusts, and I
just lured her to my car; and she was
covered in mats; that's why I called her Maddy.
She just sat down, you know, right next to me
and was shaking a little bit all the way
back to Laurel Canyon, where I live.
She was incredibly timid and really scared
and didn't really trust me, initially, just
because, you know, she had never seen me; she
had never been on a leash or had a collar
around her neck.
Narrator: Initially, Maddy was terrified of
just about everything.
But after about a week of Molly's love and
care, she eventually began to relax.
Molly: Over the course of that week, there was
definitely a lot of things that I picked up
about her character.
Like she started to develop a personality,
but I also noticed a lot of idiosyncrasies
that she had that were coming up that weren't
necessarily good.
And then I started to realize that really
serious reaction to men where she would just,
you know, crouch down and become
incredibly skittish.
Man: Hi!
Hey, Maddy.
What are you doing?
How you doing, hon?
It's okay.
I'm a good guy.
Maddy!
Molly: Come on, Maddy, it's okay.
She's a little skittish.
Come on, Maddy, say hi.
It's okay, it's okay.
Narrator: There's a world full of men out there
and Maddy can't live her life avoiding all of them.
Molly calls in dog behavior expert Cesar
Millan to help Maddy overcome her gender phobia.
Cesar: Alright, so how can I help you?
Molly: Maddy is terrified of men.
And whenever I take her for walks or take her
anywhere where there's men, she just gets
really skittish and usually I'll give her
treats to the men, you know, when she's scared.
And then she usually just doesn't even touch it.
Cesar: Of course, so if you give food or verbal
communication to a dog that is under stress,
it has the same significance.
In order for the mind to take food, the mind
have to be in a curious state, right?
So if you give food to the mind that is under
stress, they're not going to take food.
Animals when they are afraid,
don't take food.
So right now what you're experiencing is
that I'm inviting to come in my space, which
normally she doesn't come into men's space
because men moves forward.
So when men moves forward, we have
tendency to project very strong energy.
So, unsure animal, or insecure animal is
going to sense that right away and
immediately try to hide.
So the best thing we can do is pretend like
we ignoring.
So we can share different energy to
them so they can become curious about our presence.
Right, so when we curious about our
presence, when they're curious about our
presence, and then we can share food, right?
See, notice that I'm not bringing the food
all the way to her; she's coming to get the
food from me.
So that allows her to have better self esteem
towards me.
You see it?
Because she is coming to me, the brain is
moving forward.
When before, human is coming to her, and the
brain is not moving forward any more.
So that only slows her down, or would not
allow her to recover ever from trusting men
or trusting women.
Cesar: So far you're seeing, we just met, I
have not done, touch, see, she's on me now.
Her paw is on me.
I have not done touch, not touching her,
right, talk, I'm not talking to her, or give
eye contact.
Because after all, what dogs want to do is to
smell your scent and feel your energy.
They don't want to hear you.
Most dog lovers, what they want is, "Oh
my God, what a beautiful white dog,"
you know, "she's so cute, oh my God."
Right?
That's dog lover for you.
A knowledgeable dog person allow the dog to
be a dog, nose first, eyes second,
and ears third.
But right now we don't have, we don't' see a
dog that has issues with men.
Right now we seeing a dog that is curious
about what the men have.
So the way you actually helping them or sharing
love is by giving space.
Insecure dogs, fearful dogs require space for
them to come on their own, for them to show
you, "Look, I can do this when I trust you."
You see it?
But you're not going to be able to see that
when they don't trust you, you don't get to
see this beauty, you know, when they don't
trust you, you get to see the, you know, the
insecurity, the nervousness, the shock,
you understand?
So you see that I'm making her work for
this thing.
So I'm becoming like the popular guy in high
school where all the girls want him.
I'm playing hard to get.
So now, as you see I'm moving slowly,
you know, in our relationship, of course.
I don't like to move too fast with insecure girls.
So now I'm touching, I told you in the
beginning I wasn't going to touch, now I'm
touching because she's been trusting me
already for awhile.
So now I am giving the physical touch.
In the dog world, in the animal world,
showing the softer side of you, especially when
they are unstable, it doesn't create instability.
It was important for, for Molly to see that
her strong side will help the stability in
Maddy's life, will help the future of Maddy.
Narrator: The week following their first
session, Cesar returns to work on some of
Maddy's more specific issues.
Cesar: Is Maddy home?
Narrator: Cesar starts by showing Molly how to
support Maddy during situations that
distress her.
Cesar: Maddy was afraid of pretty much anything.
But in order for us to help her to become
comfortable with the environment, we have to
project that calm assertive energy.
The less the brain moves around and, you
know, zigzags and go behind you, the more
you tell the brain this is what you want.
The more the brain come out with her, or its
own conclusion, the more the brain stays
fearful, see all that sound, and she's not
moving from here.
Molly: Okay.
Cesar: Look at, that's right.
She's not totally relaxed, but she's not
freaking out.
And if she, and if she wants to freak out, we,
I just pull the leash up a little bit and she
stays in the, in the state of mind.
So let's go back.
This is what we want.
We want this.
This is good.
This is what we want.
There we go.
So you saw it, right?
She throw a little temper tantrum or panic
attack, you stop, let her regroup herself and
then walk.
So right now what we're using is energy, body
language, energy, body language.
I know that she has some issues with sound
and with things, but if I give energy to that,
and then I'm not really going to encourage her
to change her state of mind.
Narrator: Cesar hands off the leash to Molly
so she can practice walking calmly with Maddy.
Molly: No?
Cesar: Because you're holding like this.
Just relax, like a purse.
Do you use purses?
Yeah, no?
Molly: Yeah I do.
Cesar: Okay.
Just grab it, pretend like it's a very
expensive purse, but you don't allow the
purse to move anywhere, you just keep the purse
in one position.
You see it?
Molly: So she's starting to freak out a
little.
Cesar: She's starting to freak out but that's
when you go, that's when you go into a much
more calm state.
You see, that's how you block that, there we go.
Stop, there we go.
Stop, stop, stop.
Bring her back.
Bring her back.
Just a little tension.
That's it, just a little.
The whole thing is for her to experience then
relax.
If you're tense and then she's tense then
she gets, yeah?
So right now what the brain is getting is,
this sound creates this.
When before this sound creates this, right?
Molly: Come on.
Narrator: Molly is starting to get the
hang of it, but she's still visibly tense.
Cesar: Okay.
Turn around and do it again.
Have fun, have fun.
You're not having fun.
Yeah, you wave.
That's right.
Just wave.
Just pretend that we are, where?
Barcelona or someplace.
Molly: Anywhere but L. A. right now.
Cesar: Anywhere, yeah, but L. A.
Molly: So once I felt at ease and kind of
relaxed, then that's when she was most at
ease and relaxed, and then it was just easy.
Narrator: Next, Cesar and Molly head off to
the local coffee shop to meet with Molly's
friend, Spike.
Cesar wants to show Molly how to properly
introduce Maddy to men.
Cesar: So we really needed Spike to
convince Maddy that Spike is a great guy.
Spike owns four dogs; so he's, he's a dog
lover.
But Maddy didn't know, you know?
The only thing Maddy knew is everybody feels
sorry for her.
And nobody knew how to block her fear.
She had no clue that everybody around her
was dog lover.
All right, so so far what do you think?
She is not facing you; she is ignoring you, but.
Spike: She's doing, she would never do this.
Cesar: She is not freaking out, right?
Spike: She's got her back to me, that's amazing.
She's actually touching, she's
actually sitting on my foot here.
Cesar: Would you mind?
That's good there.
Don't use the sound, use the touch, just touch.
Massage the brain, you know what I mean?
A lot of people want.
Molly: She's never, ever, ever, ever done
that before.
Cesar: There we go.
We want real case scenario; we want the
sound; we want the guy; we want, you know,
the reality.
The reality in the store is, it's a lot of
action, you know, this is feeding time, or
whatever, breakfast time, everybody is here.
She is still in, now the shaking, typical.
So, observe the dog, but then change the eye
contact, because you're feeding energy too
through the eye contact.
Molly: Yeah.
Cesar: See, now she's just dealing with it,
you know what I mean?
And this doesn't stay there for the rest of
her life.
That's the good news, you know, she, she
doesn't have to stay like this for the rest
of her life.
Molly saw today the power of living in the now.
We were in the store: Spike, Molly, myself,
having a great conversation, not
really worrying about what happened the other
day, or what happened in the past.
We were recreating a different relationship
between Spike and Maddy.
And that's all that counts.
So it was just a matter of time for us to
accomplish this.
And this is the time that you go away.
See it?
This is done.
Our session for today is done.
Molly: The future of Molly and Maddy is
mostly the future of like me changing my ways.
I mean, she's going to stay, I mean, she won't
stay the same but, you know, she is a dog, and
it's just me, you know, changing my little habits.
But hopefully, and I, and I think it will
happen, just based on today, that things will
be really, really good.
Narrator: If this story were one of Molly's
music videos, it would end on an "up" beat,
with Maddy on her way to trusting men.
Cesar: Our goal on Dog Whisperer is to bring
good news and happy endings, but in real
life it's not always that way.
Recently, I have been informed that one of
the jumping minpins, Victoria
has been euthanized.
I was notified of this decision after the fact,
and I believe that other options are available.
But I know that Victoria's life and
death leave us all with an important lesson.
When choosing a dog to take into your house,
you must be honest with the style of life you
have, with the limitations you might
have, and the type of dog you can handle.
Remember, no amount of love and good
intentions alone can create balanced dog.
On a happier note, my friend Punkin has given
up on rocks and now he's having a great
time playing with tennis balls.
And to top it all off, Maddy is no longer
afraid of strangers.
Remember the best time to give your dogs love
or affection is when they are doing the
behavior that you want.
Like this guys right now.
Group hug yes.