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Narrator: Do not attempt the techniques you are about to see
without consulting a professional.
Allen Carrasco: Come here Sadie. C'mon.
Narrator: On this episode of the Dog Whisperer.
Allen Carrasco: Right away we saw that she was fearful of me.
If I'm walking through the house, the dog will walk to
the other side of the room.
And then, if I walk in a room, the dog will turn on me and
start barking at me.
Here I am in my own home and now I feel like I'm the intruder.
It wears on you.
Margretta Hansen: When we leave the house,
he will usually bark pretty aggressively.
Getting out of the car and leaving him behind in the car,
he pretty much, he freaks out.
And then he has a whole nighttime ritual where he gets
kinda agitated when we're going to bed.
I'm stressed, and I would not want to put a child
through that.
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.
Allen Carrasco: Hello, my name's Allen Carrasco.
Cesar, I am pleading with you today,
I'm sending you a videotape about a problem
we have with our dog.
Her name is Sadie.
Narrator: Allen Carrasco taped and sent this video to Cesar
without telling his wife Erin or their two children.
This was Allen's desperate attempt to get help for their
family crisis.
Allen Carrasco: She loves my kids and my wife very much,
but she doesn't like men.
And it's been rough.
Narrator: The Carrasco's initial goal of adopting
a dog quickly ran into scheduling conflicts.
Allen Carrasco: We kept kind of putting dates, you know, oh,
Christmas, or, you know, summer time will be a good time
for a dog.
And started construction on the house,
and I just said to Erin and the family, I says, when we're done,
we have a safe environment for a dog, we'll go ahead and get one.
Narrator: A local newscast dealt a swift blow to
Allen's plans.
Erin Carrasco: They had their Adopt-A-Pet,
which I think they do once a week where the pound comes in
with an animal that they're trying to adopt,
and it happened to be 'Sadie.
Allen Carrasco: Sadie was on television rolling around,
the newscaster was petting Sadie.
Erin Carrasco: And my daughter Sophia and I
just started screaming.
Allen Carrasco: Erin went right to the phone.
She's gonna make the phone call.
And I said, wait a second, we talked about this, right?
Oh, she just wanted to find out.
Erin Carrasco: And I think Allen was in a little bit of a
vulnerable state, I don't know if he was quite awake yet.
Allen Carrasco: They just went out of control,
and I tried to fend off.
Erin Carrasco: And we said, you know, honey,
can we please go see her, can we please go see her?
And he said yes, and the rest is history.
Allen Carrasco: And so here we have a construction site going
on, 24/7 there's guys here all around the house and Sadie's
over here and she's whimpering and running.
And I would say right away, right away we saw that she was
fearful of me.
Let's say if I'm walking through the house,
the dog will walk to the other side of the room and puffs,
woof, woof.
I'm thinking to myself, here I am in my own home and
now I feel like I'm the intruder. It wears on you.
And then, let's say that if I walk in a room and Erin's in
the room, the dog will turn on me and start barking at me.
I was doing everything I could, treats and moving slowly,
talking in that high pitched voice, trying to be really calm.
You want it? You better come and get it.
You know. It gets worse and worse.
And I find myself in a situation where I'm the only one at home,
and the dog is making a mess in the house.
Don't pee! There she goes.
I'm asking for help, I'm not getting help.
And there's a riff going on.
I mean, every time a program comes on of yours, I tell her,
say honey, come here, sit down.
Now see what's going on.
And then she gets defensive, she thinks I'm overanalyzing
everything.
Come on Sadie, you gonna lounge around all day.
I feel sorry for you. You don't need to do that.
I try, but I really think that we need to bring in,
we need the Dog Whisperer in a big way.
Erin Carrasco: He made the tape, I still haven't seen the tape.
I thought he was kind of kidding,
but he's serious enough about it that if the behavior doesn't
change, he wants to give her away.
I am agreeing to this, but only after we've exhausted all our
resources.
And that's why we're bringing Cesar to help us.
Allen Carrasco: My house is being urinated on and,
and she's pooping everywhere, and she's acting this way,
and then runs off to have fun and gets all the love she wants,
and then comes back in the house and treat this way over and
over again.
Of course I'm gonna get upset.
Erin Carrasco: It's gotten better though.
Allen Carrasco: Yes. It hasn't, honey.
It's gotten, it, it has been going on.
It happened yesterday, it happened the day before.
We had to tear a carpet up in the house. It's a real problem.
And it's a real problem with me, and that's the reason why
I have this resentment towards the dog.
I feel like I'm out here by myself because
I don't have the support.
Cesar Millan: Okay, take me back to that first day.
Erin Carrasco: We went together down to San Diego to her foster
home where her foster mom had her with three other basset
hounds and we met her as a family.
And she was nice to Allen, she let him pet her,
she was very playful with the other dogs.
Seemed like a very loving, sweet dog.
And I don't remember you telling us that we should wait about
the construction at that time.
But then when I drove down by myself and brought her back
here, from the second that Allen was in the house,
she started reacting badly towards him.
And a side note is that the pound who picked her up,
gave the information to the San Diego Basset Hound Rescue that
they believe she escaped from like a backyard breeder.
She loves children and women.
But some men just trigger her and it seems to me that
she's been abused.
Cesar Millan: So it's just, how can we close the gap?
You know, how can we gain the trust.
You didn't hurt her, so maybe I have to show you how to tame
wild animal, because when the animal run from people,
it's actually normal.
So if the human learn how to block, you know,
from flying away from, and then the human can make
the animal surrender.
But you have to do it in a way where they don't go into
a panic state.
Allen Carrasco: And that's what I've felt the whole time.
So what I've tried to do is take a step back.
Cesar Millan: Right, but that's what you do with the body.
What do you do with the energy? How you feel?
Allen Carrasco: I'm upset.
Cesar Millan: Yeah, what you're saying is,
you don't agree with her presence,
so they're going to give you that back.
Plus, she already has an issue with men,
so it's just going to go against the gap that, you know,
your family needs to close.
It gets worse and worse and worse.
Allen Carrasco: I hear it and I try to avoid it,
but it's unavoidable.
We're very busy people.
I do commercial photography, I manage a baseball team.
She has a very successful dance studio.
And because of that, that energy in our house is high.
Cesar Millan: Yes, but when you see the dog,
what happens to you?
Erin Carrasco: I get down to her level and I love her and I.
Cesar Millan: See, she switches.
So animal is to remind you to, to live a simple life.
Even if it's only five minutes.
So go ahead and live ten hours of stress till you can make all
the money in the world, but leave five minutes of
relaxation.
Erin Carrasco: I can take her down to my busy studio and they
just sit there and pet her.
And there's men, she'll go up and wag her tail,
and interact with them.
So I don't know that it's all men,
or if it's just the first couple of weeks he tried,
and he was so disappointed in the way that she reacted to him,
that he just quit trying, I think.
Allen Carrasco: I tried to get along with Sadie.
Erin Carrasco: But you always call her MY dog.
Get YOUR dog.
Allen Carrasco: She didn't fit into the timing of having a pet
in our home.
Cesar Millan: But that was your plan, you follow what I mean?
They had a different plan.
In their plan, she fit in perfect.
What I heard was, this dog came into the house by not everybody
agreeing.
Erin and the kids agreed, but not Allen.
So immediately the dog senses that somebody is not in
agreement on her being here, or him being here.
Erin Carrasco: He's told me three times in the last ten
months, the dog is putting a wedge between us,
and I want her to go.
Allen Carrasco: Because she has been telling me she was going to
seek professional help and never did.
Erin Carrasco: No, we, I did go to my veterinarian and he gave
us the name of a trainer, but it's a six week program on
Saturdays for the two of us.
And with the construction, it never fit into his plan.
Right?
Allen Carrasco: And then three months goes by, Honey,
when are you going to make that phone call?
Erin Carrasco: But you told me you were gonna make,
send a tape to Cesar, so I was holding out for that to happen,
and you're here.
Cesar Millan: The puzzle was not put together,
even though they have all the pieces.
Like Erin had the perfect affection and the perfect
willingness to help a dog.
And Allen had the perfect structure,
but he didn't know how to convey it.
How can we, in a way, create an agreement that can,
that can make us start all over again?
Narrator: Cesar wants the Carrascos to begin working
together as a team.
He brings in the ultimate team player, Daddy to assist.
Cesar Millan: When you have a basset hound,
scent is EVERYTHING.
And so I wanted Allen to be covered by a different scent.
And I want Allen to be distracted by a different
individual.
Sadie was curious about it, but Erin stays in the back,
because she was just there, but she didn't know how to bring
the dog closer.
Now one thing you can do is you can come in and say, now okay,
now Erin, come forward.
Get close to Allen so Sadie can follow you.
Allen Carrasco: The ear's going up.
Cesar Millan: So you notice that when, when you actually came in,
you triggered the brain to move forward.
So that, she was just looking for, Okay, so what should
I do now?
There we go.
So right now we are totally connecting with the nose,
it's all about the nose, you know.
Allen Carrasco: And being calm.
Cesar Millan: And being calm. Yeah.
Allen Carrasco: She looks like she wants to avoid,
by going behind?
Cesar Millan: By going behind, yes.
But because she blocks her and then she gives her no option.
So the only option is to surrender to the activity.
Narrator: Next, Junior arrives as the next visitor
for Sadie to smell.
Cesar Millan: See, Junior became a little nervous about her.
But Junior just did a sense who she is, right?
And Junior, because he is still learning,
he walked away from her.
Look, now they keep moving forward, and then she walk away.
Daddy is totally ignoring. There we go. That's better.
Bring it all the way, So that's how we move, nose and eyes.
She was getting the nose from Allen,
and she was getting the eyes from Erin.
So see, together, they become one.
Narrator: Coming up, Cesar's couples counseling continues.
Cesar Millan: His eye contact was going to send frustration.
That was going to be the conversation.
You are watching the Dog Whisperer on NatGeo Wild,
please remain calm and open minded until we come back
Narrator: Allen Carrasco resented Sadie from the moment
she joined the family.
Cesar believes the basset hound senses Allan's resentment and
reacts by behaving badly.
Cesar Millan: And it's more the scent.
Don't even give her anything, see it?
Narrator: Cesar's goal is to keep Sadie as close as possible
to the two men.
Cesar Millan: The more she touches me,
the more she trusts me.
And for her to see you with other dogs, all that counts.
Cause she sees that this dog is not nervous, is not fearful,
is not tense.
Is not anxious, is not aggressive, is not dominant.
She sees that, she's learning also by observing.
That's what I suggest, you know, if you can foster a dog that
would be great.
And you don't have to foster the whole month,
you can foster for a week or a weekend, you know what I mean?
And it's just to make that connection.
Allen Carrasco: And if the dog is table and is calm, then.
Cesar Millan: Then that becomes a role model.
Allen Carrasco: Right.
Erin Carrasco: He gave us examples of behavior that dogs
are very sensitive to, one of the things is Allen's eye
contact.
But just something that I've noticed in the past,
and I didn't feel it was my place to say.
Cesar Millan: See, it's not my eyes that is actually bringing
a dog to me, as much as is the scent that is bringing
the dog to me.
Obviously he was thinking something that frustrated him,
so his eye contact was going to send frustration, you know,
so that, that was going to be the conversation.
Now nose and eyes. See.
So he's not looking at the food, he's looking at my eyes.
And then, okay, Junior. See it. So it's nose, eyes.
Allen Carrasco: So once you get the eyes and then you get
acknowledgement and then.
Cesar Millan: And then you can say sound. Good boy, Junior.
Yeah, but it's the nose, and then the eyes,
and then good boy, Junior.
See it? Nose, eyes, ears. So I'm going to move in.
Right there. Here.
Allen Carrasco: Did she see your eyes on that?
Cesar Millan: No, no. Allen Carrasco: Doesn't need to?
Cesar Millan: With her I'm not doing eye contact.
Now with her, just nose, nose, nose, nose, nose, nose,
nose, nose.
And then what she's seeing is my body moving toward her,
but my eye contact not yet.
Because she learned previously that when human men gives eye
contact, intimidates her.
And eventually we move, eye contact, we feed.
Allen Carrasco: I see.
Cesar Millan: A little bit, move your hand.
Back. Back, no, no, look, look.
See how the body is moving? Sometimes you just wait for it.
Not giving her anything, she's not moving all the way.
And I'm not going to pay by her backing away.
So I'm going to invite her again.
Not yet, not food yet. But we still connected.
Allen Carrasco: Yeah, she's sitting,
so she's not gonna like she wants to back away.
Cesar Millan: But this is fantastic. So she surrender.
See that, that's something that I will pay for.
Because she is facing you, laying down in front of you.
I will reward that.
Allen Carrasco: Right, cause she's coming from a calm,
focused way to fe, to eat, rather than in a,
in a scared situation.
Cesar Millan: Right. You're not going to do this for the rest
of your life, you're just gonna do this for few months.
But after that, that's it, the line of trust gets to be,
you know, connected back again.
And it's all because a family was willing to give her a
chance.
You know, otherwise, it's, she's just going to go through this
everywhere she goes.
Fantastic.
Now two men, you know, participating in
the trust of dogs.
So there we go. So one gives affection, there we go.
And the other one gives food, right.
So then this is a team effort and then you get to enjoy
the long ears.
Then we both walk away, there we go.
We walk away, you know, in control of the situation.
And she wants some more. There we go.
Beautiful, beautiful.
Narrator: They move to the kitchen,
where Sadie tends to display another bad behavior,
protecting Erin from Allen.
Erin Carrasco: So I'm just gonna stand in front of her, hey,
tsst, no!
Cesar Millan: It's not just saying something.
You have to create something.
So, if Allen comes, Hey honey, how are you?
I'm so happy to see you, everything is great.
So with me is no reaction, so there's nothing wrong with it.
You know, so I can actually go down and, you know,
put the hand there.
See the response, and then touch.
But if she were to make her head that way,
if she would choose to move away from my reach,
then I would not touch.
I will wait until she look at me, and then I touch, see.
In that position.
I am acknowledge her acknowledging me.
Erin Carrasco: Okay. Hi! Allen Carrasco: Hi!
Cesar Millan: There we go. That's the way you welcome
somebody.
Erin Carrasco: Oh! She didn't do anything that time.
Cesar Millan: Now go down, Allen.
Go down. There we go. Nice.
Allen Carrasco: Hey there. Erin Carrasco: Good!
Cesar Millan: This is when you can come in and do this, look.
You come in, sorry about that. And then you, look.
Erin Carrasco: Oh, and then, okay.
Allen Carrasco: I see.
Cesar Millan: Look, love my husband.
See, don't let her walk away, you bring it back.
And then, I'm you right now. And then we both are doing that.
That's a perfect time to do it. Now it's okay.
This is what I want you to know. How my husband is.
This is what I know about my husband.
The other one that you're afraid, I don't,
that's not the one I know. Now you do it.
Erin Carrasco: Hey, come here. Come here.
Cesar Millan: Right there. Erin Carrasco: No!
Cesar Millan: Nice. Erin Carrasco: Tsst!
Allen Carrasco: That was really a great highlight for me,
to see that Sadie was able to be corrected,
and that she was in the moment.
And Erin took control. And we saw the benefits.
Cesar Millan: You can see the face, it's totally relaxed.
Totally. Can you feel it, Allen?
It's a different energy, right?
Erin Carrasco: Yeah, she normally would never do that.
Cesar Millan: So you didn't let one second pass.
That's why it was so affected.
And then you went and encouraged her to be next to your husband.
So that was like discipline, affection.
And that's really when you rescue and help a dog,
not when you give them a home, it's when you give them the
three ingredients: exercise, discipline, and affection.
You fulfill their needs.
Allen Carrasco: Wow, the fact that she even walked past me,
instead of going that way.
Cesar Millan: Make sure that you touch when you are in total
control of the situation, and she just passing by,
you just let her pass by.
Like, Oh, okay, I can just pass by him,
it's all going to be okay.
And then what you are going to see is that she's not gonna be
so, What is he gonna do?
Allen Carrasco: Right.
Erin Carrasco: I think that he really helped Allen to see that,
that his behavior could make a big difference.
Cesar Millan: You know, and don't forget, you can also put
your clothes, or something, you know, sweaty,
some kind of smell where she sleeps.
Or she can carry your scent around.
Allen Carrasco: If my wife does everything that Cesar asked him,
to her to do, then I think that tomorrow things should work out
just fine.
Erin Carrasco: Do you want to try to say that again?
Cesar made me feel today that Sadie's a really good dog.
He gave us hope that there is hope for Sadie and that she will
remain a part of our family.
Woo.. you are too fast for us, you are too fast for us.
Narrator: Coming up, a blue heeler's bizarre behavior makes
bedtime a living nightmare.
Joe Janiga: I wanted a dog and we moved near a park.
I'd known a blue heeler in Eugene when I lived there.
And it was quirky.
Margretta Hansen: A friend of Joe's had just gotten a little
cattle dog, darling little cattle dog named Oscar,
it was Calder's half brother.
And Oscar came running down the sidewalk towards me when I was
gardening, and I thought, Oh yeah, let's get one of those.
The thing about Calder that I really love is his tenacity,
you know, and his focus.
And it's incredible, he could do anything if he, you know,
had opposable thumbs.
Actually if he had opposable thumbs, it would be scary.
Joe Janiga: I nick-named him Cuckoo,
and this was before the behaviors.
But the legend goes in this family that maybe that
contributed to it, but.
Margretta Hansen: The behavior became apparent when he was
probably nine months or so.
When we leave the house, he will usually run and kinda launch
himself up at the door and bark pretty aggressively.
Joe Janiga: And also the car behavior.
Margretta Hansen: Getting out of the car and leaving him behind
in the car, he pretty much, he freaks out.
Bares his teeth and, you know, really barks.
Joe Janiga: I got out of the car in front of policemen and he
just went insane, and the cops just like looked at me like,
what are you, abusing your dog?
Margretta Hansen: And then he has a whole nighttime ritual
where he gets kinda agitated when we're going to bed.
Joe Janiga: Basically it's just when we start getting ready for
bed, he starts to get anxious, he starts to wind up.
Margretta Hansen: And he's going around in circles and
jumping around and whining.
Joe Janiga: He'll just start following us around,
even more frenetically than he normally does.
Margretta Hansen: If you go into the bathroom and close the door,
then he does that same thing of jumping up against the door and
getting agitated.
The whole process takes so much energy and so much time,
it's stressful.
Joe Janiga: Everything is just kinda stressful,
there's a lot of high energy going around, and it's like,
it needs to stop, you know.
Margretta Hansen: Joe and I want to have a family,
and I can't imagine putting a child to bed and going through
that whole thing at night.
I mean, I just can't imagine it.
I'm stressed, and I would not want to put a child through
that, I think that would be, that would,
that would be unfair.
He's doing these things for a reason, some thing is happening,
and we haven't been able to unlock that door.
Narrator: Joe, a musician and composer, and Margretta,
a dancer, ask Cesar to visit at night so he can help them deal
with Calder's bed time madness.
Joe Janiga: They seem to be a unique breed, from,
from people who I've met that have had the dog,
and met them at parks and traded war stories with them that they
seem to have peculiarities.
Maybe it's shyness. He was the runt of the litter.
We put him on time out when he was a puppy,
and I may have been a little rough with him, like said,
Time out, and dragged him into the room or something like that.
And I've put up a piece of plywood to block him off so he
couldn't get out of the room, and that one time fell on him.
And so we've wondered if door things or things shutting on him
was a trigger from that.
Margretta Hansen: It isn't just me going into the bathroom,
I can just open the door and he'll get agitated.
It's almost like he's recreating that event in a way,
I don't know if that makes sense.
Cesar Millan: Okay, so let me ask you something about him
being fulfilled, do you feel that his life is fulfilled?
Margretta Hansen: Just this Sunday we were at the beach and
I spent four hours on the beach with him.
You know, he was chasing seagulls 'cause he
just does that.
And he should've been tired.
And we came home, and he still went through the whole thing,
he went through the whole ritual again.
Cesar Millan: Because it doesn't sound to me like he,
he's heeler side of him is fulfilled, him as a heeler.
You know, like sheep herding, cattle herding.
Right, so because when the needs are not met,
that's when they develop issues.
In the animal world, time outs don't exist.
That's only for the human world because we rationalize.
So you can send a kid to the room and tell him,
think about what you did, and you don't come until you totally
understand what I say.
See, with dogs, you can't do that,
because it just doesn't make any sense.
So you actually have to deal with the behavior when it
happens so they can make the association there.
Joe Janiga: The thing is, it's not exclusive to the door.
Margretta Hansen: No, it's not only the door.
Joe Janiga: The bed time, thing, it just seems to come out at
night.
Cesar Millan: Well you're definitely more tired at night
time, so your energy level is much lower than the day time,
you know, so that's a factor there.
They're focusing on being tired, they're focusing on how
stressful it is to live with a dog like that,
and that just makes them more weak.
The way you stop the breed is by stopping animal.
And that, the way you stop animal is by understanding what
energy you are at that very moment.
You have to psyche yourself.
Joe Janiga: You have to get yourself in that state of mind.
In that state of mind, in that state of energy.
It's hard, our lifestyle is such that we get home late.
Margretta Hansen: Or you have games, or I have performances.
Joe Janiga: Right, and we did, we don't have like the set kind
of lifestyle like a lot of people that work 9 to 5.
Cesar Millan: Well, if you're tired,
you have to psyche yourself to give people what they,
to perform, exactly, so in a way you have to perform,
even though you're tired.
Joe Janiga: And that's the hard thing at night, I mean.
Cesar Millan: It's hard if you think it's hard.
The show must continue!
Joe Janiga: So it's like finding something where you have that
place in you, what you're suggesting, performing, dance,
music, whatever.
And that place is the place to take and carry over to the dog.
Cesar Millan: That's the place where you feel in control,
that's the place where you feel calm,
that's the place where you feel on top of the world.
That, that you have to find that place.
It's a different way of dancing.
I want you to think what makes you powerful,
what makes you calm, what makes you beautiful,
what makes you feel in control.
Narrator: Next, Cesar shares a surprising technique to help
Joe and Margretta manage their dog's anxiety.
Narrator: Joe Janiga and Margretta Hansen love Calder,
but their dog's weird bedtime behavior has driven them to
the edge, so much so, that they have even postponed
having a child.
Cesar Millan: Let's do it in a way where you actually embrace
calm, assertive state. Never done that before.
Narrator: Cesar gives Margretta a magnetic page of encouraging
words to help get her into the right frame of mind for taking
on the Calder bed time challenge.
Cesar Millan: I am, you get to pick how you want to feel.
I love to buy things that gives this positive affirmations,
you know, and this home definitely needed some positive
affirmations, especially before they go to bed.
Margretta Hansen: I don't know if I can have too many.
Cesar Millan: No, you can have them all,
as long as you feel that way.
But every time you feel one, you have to say I am determined,
see, you have to claim this.
Margretta Hansen: Well, this would be a good one right here
in the middle.
Cesar Millan: That's a bad behavior over there,
he's mounting it.
Narrator: When the Dog Whisperer camera comes closer,
Calder immediately backs away.
Cesar Millan: Good, that's good. Move in again, Chris. Very good.
So, we're gonna take over the bed, come in again. There we go.
Let me have, there we go. So we taking over his mate.
I'm using the camera as a way of taking over,
so this way I step on which is what he was doing, grabbing,
holding and claiming, right?
I'm not being selfish about it, I'm just claiming things that
make him powerful. Tsst!
So very small amount of sound, a lot of energy, body language.
So he gets to feel a calm vibe versus hearing, Off, move,
let it go!
See the vibration?
It completely changes the environment.
Tsst! See the ears back?
So the cat is moving, that, that's the predator side of him,
he saw movement, he felt movement and he went and
checked on the movement.
Well I just say, don't follow that movement. Right?
So that slows him down. You getting there?
Margretta Hansen: Yes, I am relaxed, I am determined,
I am peaceful. I am elegant.
Just for fun, I put that one in there.
And I am amazing.
Cesar Millan: That's right, go for it!
Do your thing. Yeah, that's your conversation.
That's what you're going to feed.
Margretta Hansen: Okay, all right.
Cesar Millan: Let's do it, let's go, just go.
Margretta Hansen: Here we go. Interesting.
I'm going to pull back the sheets.
He is not coming in here. He would normally be in here.
I'm going to go back down the hall.
I'm going to go back down the hall.
Maybe he's just normally be in here. He's not started.
Maybe he's just normally be in here. He's not started.
Cesar Millan: So this is what I'm doing to maintain the power.
Margretta Hansen: He's not coming down the hall.
I think he's been properly deflected.
Cesar Millan: He, he's, he's uncertain.
You can see the brain like, but that's what we want.
We throw him off.
This is good, you know, having this conversation for her to do
whatever she wants, and all that stuff we are psychologically
controlling the body.
If you control the mind, you control the body.
That's right, now he is trying to manipulate.
So he's killing the toy.
That's the same thing he does to the cat.
Joe Janiga: Exactly!
Cesar Millan: We have a dog that is insecure,
we have a dog that is tense, we have a dog that is dominant.
We have a dog that does show signs of aggression,
plus the energies that Joe and Margretta share.
Now, do you notice you're giving affection to tension, or no?
Margretta Hansen: Yeah. Joe Janiga: Really?
Cesar Millan: Oh! It's in the tape.
This poor guy is just carrying way too many energies on him,
and not good energies, he's carrying bad energies.
Margretta Hansen: Well I'm gonna go down there because
he sometimes will go in there first, just see,
see what he does.
Cesar Millan: I am.
Margretta Hansen: Okay, I am the peaceful and relaxed.
Cesar Millan: See it, she didn't went in there like I am the
queen, I am so beautiful, I am so sexy, I am so this,
I am so that.
Hey! Hold on! Stand statue.
He have to walk away, back away, because the closer he gets to
the target, the more powerful he becomes.
So, don't worry, it's all about patience here. That's right.
When he lower his head, move in. Stay right there. Yeah.
This is the psychological challenge.
Now if he, if you want to accelerate the process, look,
the Millionaire Real Estate.
Okay? So you can totally use this.
Margretta Hansen: So just push him back with that?
Cesar Millan: Hold on. Margretta Hansen: Hold it?
Cesar Millan: Back away a little bit.
Shhh! Hey! Now he's stalking.
He's in a stalking mode, so that will keep the cattle
right there.
Calder was fixated on her foot. He was being a heeler.
He was being a cattle dog on her.
Margretta Hansen: He's totally intent on my feet.
Cesar Millan: Margretta really needed some physical empowerment
because she was tense and because she as fearful of her
own dog trapping her.
Let me borrow the camera.
Cause the camera seem to work for him.
Then Calder just became more and more intense about it.
Can, can you ask one of the guys to get a racket?
Let's get a racket because a racket can shield both of your
legs, especially in that narrow space that she was in.
That's good.
This is just a block for him to come near your proximity.
There we go. Shh!
Margretta Hansen: So, do I keep pushing him back,
or is this good, no, you gotta come in.
Keep going towards him?
Cesar Millan: This is just a block. Okay?
Margretta Hansen: Keep moving?
Cesar Millan: Keep your body, that's right, that's right.
Margretta Hansen: Keep moving.
Cesar Millan: Keep it right there.
This is allpsychological. That's right. Yeah? Yeah.
You used this just to block him. Tst! There we go.
Margretta Hansen: So I'm making like space.
Cesar Millan: That's right, give me space,
that's all you're saying.
I am not the cattle, I am not a sheep.
There we go, that's right. That's right.
Everything you touch becomes your energy.
So having a racket gives you access just to move forward.
I'm not just, I'm herding him.
Margretta Hansen: Keeping that between us.
Cesar Millan: That's right, this is your protector,
this is your shield.
But what protects you is your energy.
Narrator: Still to come, Cesar helps Calder confront a
puppyhood trauma.
You are watching NatGeo Wild, sit and stay remain calm and
submissive until we come back
Narrator: Cesar has taught Margretta and Joe a variety of
ways to block their blue heeler's attempts to dominate,
but the most important lesson they need to learn is
correcting Calder's behavior before it escalates.
Joe Janiga: Should I make the bed?
Margretta Hansen: Sure. Well, I think it's fine, just hold on.
Cesar Millan: You see how he's keying on his feet?
If he does it to your feet, he will do it to her,
so you also have to do it to him.
Yeah, absolutely, you shouldn't, Hey!
Tsst! Tsst! Tsst! Hey!
That's just, this is a nervous dog that is showing a little bit
of aggression by growling and showing teeth,
but it's more nervous than anything.
So he's actually very, very unsure.
And the reason why he became unsure is because you let him
get fixated on your feet.
You were moving around, but he was just fixated on your feet.
Joe Janiga: So I didn't know what to do in that situation,
so should I just grab the tennis racket and put it right down?
Yeah Okay, okay, okay.
Cesar Millan: See, you're not afraid of him. She is. Right.
This is the advantage to you have over.
But my suggestion is that you, you should not even let him
go too far.
You see it? Don't let him get that far.
That's when he becomes strong. He's not strong here.
So that tells you, okay, if my dog stays away from my bedroom,
ten feet away, eight feet away, he's not going to be able to do
what he normally does.
Now you can also get a baby gate.
Nobody comes in when they're not invited.
Joe Janiga: The baby gates can scare him because that's like
the thing that fell on him.
Narrator: Six years earlier, a piece of plywood acting as a
door guard fell on Calder, making him terrified of any
rectangular object that blocks doors or hallways.
Cesar Millan: Cause we have to remove fear.
Did you ever saw that episode with the Great Dane that was
afraid of the shiny floor?
Okay, remember how he fought back,
and then I didn't let him until he started moving forward,
and then I sit down and he start moving forward.
So it was a little bit of leash, and most of it was patience.
All right, so he showing you, this is how he feel about it.
And relax.
Once he relaxes, and then you relax the tension.
There we go, that's good.
Now, this is when you praise him. Watch the nose.
Narrator: Cesar uses a vanilla scented spray to lure Calder to
the gate via his s ense of smell.
Cesar Millan: The reason why I'm spraying this is because I want
him to relate scent with relaxation.
There you go.
I'm just going to bring him closer and then relax the leash.
There we go. Once he gives in, I relax the leash.
There you go. There you go, right there.
So that's the conversation. But it's a quiet conversation.
I'm saying, I'm proud of you, you know, I'm saying trust,
this is the conversation.
There you go, see he, he gave in, and
avoidance instead of flight.
Yeah, we have flight, now we have avoidance submission.
That's shutting down. There we go, move it.
This is more important than a walk right now.
For him to let go of this traumatic event that happened
a long time ago, it's more important than anything else.
See that's, and so that's when the gate, walks away.
You can follow the gate.
Very important that we can't let him go nervous.
So he can only walk away calm, submissive.
This is so important. Extremely, very important.
Then I take him away.
He can't take me away, I take him away. See?
What I'm saying is, follow me away from the gate.
Magretta Hansen: He wants to keep his eye on the gate.
Cesar Millan: He wants to feel, so that means he doesn't trust
me I see so by me asking him to follow me in a follower
position, it's more important than him looking at the gate.
There is the gate coming back? No, the gate is not coming back.
Look, I am right in front of him, leading him to his fear.
Nothing bad happens.
And then we walk away from it, nothing bad happens.
So that's, you see, let's do it again.
Down to the gate, towards the gate, right here. Relax.
See I'm, I'm using tension, very mildly,
this is just a tension that says, don't worry,
I take care of it.
Joe Janiga: Yeah, he's never gotten this close.
Margretta Hansen: There goes his nose.
Cesar Millan: Related to it. Scent means, Positive.
Positive, that's right. Then we walk away.
Nice, much better, didn't he?
See how I'm using my body to block?
It's like dancing.
You have to dance with your whole entire body.
This is a more relaxed, look, facing the gate.
So it will be a perfect time to move forward.
Nice, right there. That's more submissive. It's great.
See it, not so much avoidance, look, mouth open, beautiful.
Margretta Hansen: That's good.
Cesar Millan: That was fantastic.
Margretta Hansen: That was great.
Cesar Millan: That was on his own.
Margretta Hansen: Yeah, he did that by himself, that was great.
Cesar Millan: See, I'm not gonna go his, the way he wants to go,
I'm gonna go the way I want to go.
So it's best that he follows as sure, you know, lead.
So having that baby gate is fantastic.
Joe Janiga: I think it's great.
Yeah, that, I'm just thinking how we can use it in the car.
Cesar Millan: You can put the leash in the car,
put the leash on it, send him into a clam, submissive state,
then walk away.
You have a sensitive case. He was born to be a follower.
Don't let him escalate.
Margretta Hansen: It's like we need to claim that bedroom for
ourselves, and then I think it'll move out, you know,
into the rest of the house, and then hopefully out into the car,
and then.
Cesar Millan: Because you are generating a different self.
Joe Janiga: That was an interesting thing that I felt
that Cesar was kind of weaving, was how everything is so
connected with it all.
Respect, the calmness, Calder's confidence and stuff will carry
over into most, if not all situations.
Cesar Millan: Because you guys are going to do it together.
You need her, she needs you.
Joe Janiga: And the other thing is for us to work as a team and
to do that together, you know.
Margretta Hansen: Joe can support me if Calder gets a
little more anxious or is feeding off my energy.
Cesar Millan: Both of you guys are lovely, relaxed, determined,
peaceful, and happy.
You are elegant and amazing. He is funny and bright.
Today was about empowerment, it was about education,
it was about understanding how powerful is silence.
Joe Janiga: It's world knowledge.
Margretta Hansen: Yeah, it's bigger, it's more than just him.
Joe Janiga: Calder is also like a meter.
He's an attenuator that kind of tells us where we're at in our
internal states in our life.
And that was a, that was pretty interesting, pretty profound.
I appreciate it.
Cesar Millan: My pleasure, my pleasure. You see it? A hug.
Margretta Hansen: You know, it doesn't have to be the way it
was before.
You can walk into it all afresh and anew and, you know,
and just to help Calder so that he knows how to be with us in
the family.
Cesar Millan: We are done!
Even when you don't realize how you're feeling,
your dog knows and reacts to your energy.
That's why it is important for every member of your family to
project a calm and assertive presence when dealing with
your dog.
By affirming the energy they want to project to their dog,
Joe and Margretta are slowly chipping away at
Calder's anxiety.
Joe Janiga: Overall, he's doing better than he was before you
guys came by.
Margretta Hansen: We just have to keep working him.
Joe Janiga: working on him.
Cesar Millan: Using food to create a bond,
Allen now has the once fickle Sadie following him around
the house.
Allen Carrasco: She's been real receptive and uh,
she's a lot happier around me and other men.
Um, we've seen a lot of improvement with her.
Erin Carrasco: She's let us into her heart, especially Allan.
And we just can't thank Cesar enough.
Thank you, Cesar.
Allen Carrasco: Thank you, Cesar.
Erin Carrasco: And Sadie says bye. Thank you.
Cesar Millan: With the right energy,
you can nurture a bond of trust between you and your dog that
will give you a relationship that dreams are made of.