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Narrator: Do not attempt the techniques you are
about to see without consulting a professional.
On this special episode of the Dog Whisperer,
Cesar goes to Oz.
Australia is famous for its boomerangs, its didgeridoos,
and the Great Barrier Reef.
A lesser known fact about the residents of this
Southern continent is how crazy they are
about their canines!
There are nearly four million dogs down under,
and three of them are about to come face to face
with the Dog Whisperer.
Cesar Millan: On my quest to rehabilitate the
dogs and humans of the land down under,
I visit two of Australia's most magnificent states:
New South Wales, and Queensland.
In every case, you'll see that it doesn't
matter what kind of accent you speak with,
you still need to learn how to communicate with your dog
using the universal language of calm-assertive energy.
David Cowley: When people come over to our place,
if they try and get in the yard,
he will get in their face.
It'll escalate and he'll turn on Paris.
Christine Smith: You can see it in his eyes,
they just get so focused.
David Cowley: He almost becomes possessed.
The thing I fear the most is that if Christine has to
deal with a fight, that she may, in fact, get bitten.
Alison Clark: As soon as I get the lead out,
to take the dogs for a walk, Astro starts barking.
Trying to get out the front door, it's craziness.
He's always barked in the car.
If I get onto the exercise bike, Astro starts barking.
I get frustrated, I do get angry.
It's really hard to live with,
I just can't control him.
Amanda Roche-Brown: I didn't notice the postman coming,
so he drove them toward me to give me the letters,
at which point Sydney grabbed onto his knee.
Morgan Brown: Sydney felt he was protecting her.
It was a good, nasty bite.
Amanda Roche-Brown: I'm afraid that my dog will harm
another person, and in the end have to be put down.
Narrator: When good dogs go bad,
there's one man who's their best friend,
Cesar Millan.
Cesar Millan: No dog is too much for me to handle.
I rehabilitate dogs, I train people,
I am the Dog Whisperer.
Narrator: Our first Australian story actually
begins halfway around the world in Ireland.
Morgan Brown: In Ireland we, we had a big property and
we were farming and there was forestry.
Amanda Roche-Brown: We went for a very brief period in
Ireland with no dog and it was like a part
of you is missing.
We were given Match by a neighbor.
We're in sheep country and we were using
Match as a sheepdog.
We purchased Sydney because we also had deer
on the farm.
Morgan Brown: Sydney is our all-around hunting dog is a
pointer, setter, retriever, that's his breed.
And so we were training him to become a hunting dog and
he was coming on very well.
Amanda Roche-Brown: At the end of 2002 we moved to
Australia and we brought the dogs with us.
Narrator: For the two dogs from Ireland,
the move wasn't just a change in hemisphere;
it was a completely different life in the
Sydney suburb, Elanora Heights.
Amanda Roche-Brown: They had a big lifestyle change.
In Ireland they had free rein on a very big farm.
Morgan Brown: They didn't have jobs,
you know, perhaps retrieving was a job,
but not in the same way as they had in Ireland.
Amanda Roche-Brown: So now they are in
an enclosed area.
Morgan Brown: Over here in Australia we had to be
behind the fence.
Amanda Roche-Brown: It's completely different
now for them.
About two and a half years
ago we went away.
Morgan Brown: And the dogs were here,
and my father-in-law was looking after them.
And when we came back my father-in-law told me that a
man on a bike had been at the front gate there and had
hit Sydney with a stick.
And ever since then he's been different.
Narrator: Sydney's fear of motorbikes is tested daily
since mail carriers in Australia often make their
rounds on vehicles known as red postie bikes.
Amanda Roche-Brown: It was just over two years
ago now and I arrived home.
I had the roller door up, I didn't notice the postman
coming and I was holding one of my children,
as well as being pregnant.
So he drove them toward me to give me the letters,
at which stage Sydney was barking quite
a lot and I expressed,
"Oh, he's harmless, he's all bark, don't worry."
At which point Sydney ran from behind us and then
grabbed onto his knee.
The postman was shocked, but it didn't hurt
him terribly much.
Morgan Brown: Sydney was obviously more protective
while Amanda was pregnant.
You could well understand that Sydney felt
he was protecting her.
Narrator: In 2008, the Australia Post logged almost
400 dog attacks most of them,
red postie bike related incidents.
Amanda Roche-Brown: They informed me that our dog has
been considered dangerous, and therefore we won't have
any parcels delivered to our house any more,
we'll have to drive up to the post office
to pick them up.
Narrator: After the incident, the Roches managed
to keep Sydney away from the posties.
But while on a family visit to a nearby farm,
they wandered into an unexpectedly risky situation.
Amanda Roche-Brown: Like a lot of farms,
they have red postie bikes that they do
the farm chores on.
We were talking to the worker.
He was straddled over the red postie bike
for about ten minutes, and then he said,
"Oh, I'm going to have to go off and do some work,"
and he kicked over the bike.
Narrator: Before they could stop him,
Sydney was charging the bike and clamping his teeth
on to the worker's knee.
Morgan Brown: Oh, it was a good, nasty bite.
Amanda Roche-Brown: Yeah, he was in quite a lot of
distress, the poor man.
I'm afraid that my dog will harm another person,
and in the end have to be put down.
Morgan Brown: If I was bitten by a dog,
and I didn't have enough sure,
assurances from the owners that they could control the
dog in other situations, I would insist for other
people's safety, that they would put the dog down.
And that's why we were so keen and so anxious to have
Cesar come and have a, a look at the situation and
see what he could do.
Narrator: And that's how a Mexican-American from
California came all the way to Australia to help an
Irish dog named Sydney.
Cesar Millan: How can I help you guys?
Amanda Roche-Brown: We've got a Weimaraner named
Sydney, and he used to love the postmen.
And about two and a half years ago he was hit by
someone on a red postie bike with a stick.
And ever since then, he's had a strong dislike for
anyone on a red postie bike and he has bitten.
Cesar Millan: So he lost the trust when somebody hit,
you know, anything with the motorcycle sound is, is.
Morgan Brown: It's definitely an association
with the bike without a doubt.
Cesar Millan: But have you tried to be on a bike and
just introduce the trust to somebody familiar,
a more intimate?
Morgan Brown: Not, not, no, we haven't.
Cesar Millan: The way out is the way in,
so you absolutely have to let him experience that,
and let him experience in a different frame of mind.
And so you mentioned, if the bike is moving,
it's not so much of a problem.
Morgan Brown: Yes, when we're here, I mean,
the bike, of course it's moving because it's a
postman's bike and he arrives,
Sydney runs up and barks and barks.
Cesar Millan: So you're not able to stop him
at that state?
Or do you try?
Amanda Roche-Brown: I've managed to,
I've been speaking to the animal behavioralist.
She said to pack, pet him.
Calm down, calm down.
Cesar Millan: Pet him when he's in that state?
That's kind of dangerous, because if you're petting at
the wrong time, you're nurturing that state of mind.
It goes against the nature of rehabilitation, you know,
that you pet a dog when he's agitated.
You know, they don't rationalize, you know,
so you might get a dog into a lower level of intensity,
and then slowly you moving into it,
but you're still moving a dog that is in a, you know,
probably quiet, but still anxious.
So that silence is, is to me more powerful than a dog
that is barking.
Because they're holding on energy,
and they just deliver the energy versus a
POW, POW, POW.
You see it coming.
Even though he bit already two people,
we still in a preventing mode because three strikes
and you're out.
It's only two, two strikes, so we got here on time.
What I'm doing is I'm putting a scent that he
actually loves.
He loves this thing inside, this dry liver.
So what my understanding is so far,
is that he doesn't react to the sight of the motorcycle,
or, or the smell of the motorcycle,
which actually really good He is, you know,
his traumatic event is related to the sound.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bring the motorcycle
in and see his reaction from a nose, eyes point of view.
In America, you know, kids go crazy when they
see an ice cream truck.
So I'm going to create almost like an ice cream
truck, but obviously it's like a liver truck.
Okay, so that's Sydney there.
So that bark, it's a strong bark, don't get me wrong,
but nothing to be worried about.
The reason why Sydney retained what happened in
the past is because nobody did anything in the now;
everybody hold onto the past.
That's how they hold onto the past.
So to start a new now, I have to reintroduce
the red postie bike in a nose, eyes, ears format.
That's, that's what I wanted to see.
That's what I wanted to see, I wanted them to, very good.
So we introducing the motorcycle as
scent, sight, scent, sight.
So we're introducing the postie bike as a liver bike.
So I'm introducing at a low intensity the,
the sound of the motorcycle.
So I want to see if he reacts at that level,
he didn't, you know, reacted the wrong way.
He stayed focused on the food, nose, eyes.
Well, it was obvious to me when I move into the
motorcycle that he was getting anxious when I moved
it, when he started hearing certain sounds.
That's a little bit of ready to strike.
He was targeting from a physical point, you know,
or you can feel obviously I was feeling it,
and how he was following my leg,
and how you can see his expression change.
See that sign, that's the sign.
And the seriousness of a bite coming your way.
Very serious feeling.
It's a silence.
Narrator: Coming up, more red hot postie bike action.
Cesar Millan: In Queensland and South Australia,
you can see the world's longest continuous fence,
which is more than 3,400 miles long.
It was built to keep sheep safe from wild dogs called
dingoes, of course, it is called the dingo fence.
I am Cesar Millan, you are watching Dog Whisperer
on Nat-Geo Wild!
Narrator: In a suburb of Sydney,
a weimaraner named Sydney attacks riders of
the red postie bikes that are ubiquitous
throughout the country.
Cesar decides to make the bike more appealing,
by transforming it into a treat delivery system.
Cesar Millan: See that little light, he's in the,
and the first thing he's gonna, if he bites,
he's gonna bite this leg.
That's why I'm moving this leg very methodically.
Look, this leg doesn't, see how he's, that.
I was very methodical with the steps, you know,
step number one, or picture number one,
I want you right here.
Big step, big step.
Tsst, hey, tsst!
Hey, hey, tsst, hey!
Ah, sit!
Good boy!
Good boy, that's a good boy.
Ah, sit!
What I'm doing with the, with the sound right now,
is asking him that him he hear the sound, sit down.
You're gonna get something.
Tsst, hey!
That's a good one.
Now once we have the body and the mind on that
position, then we gotta do it without the leash.
Hey, hey, good boy!
That's my boy.
Okay, well, there we go.
Tsst, hey!
Hey, sit there.
Now this eyes makes it a little bit more challenging
for the human, but you have to learn to trust them on
this side as well.
So, see so I have practiced, you know,
on a more safety side, which the motorcycle divides,
or gets me the, it gets me the protection.
This, this is where my energy gives me the
protection and understanding him and how he functions,
you know, when to, when to do the sound,
when to do the body language,
how much intensity should I use at that time.
Hey, no, no,
no, no, no!
Hey, sit!
Sit!
There you go, good.
For those who want to know a little bit more.
Okay, when did he gave the food?
I'm not giving the food when he's focusing
on the motorcycle, I'm giving the food when
he's focusing on me.
No!
That's me, that's me.
I am saying, "Look, don't look at the motorcycle,
look at me.
I am gonna help you.
Motorcycle is not gonna help you.
Not without my help."
If I would've give the food when he's looking at the
motorcycle, that's not redirection,
so very important.
See: nose, eyes.
Eyes is the eye contact with the human,
the understanding, so he gets the feedback, you know,
otherwise he believes the motorcycle gives him food
it's not, and it's not the motorcycle.
I give him the food at a certain time.
So it's like I took a hundred pictures to create
one shot.
You know, every inch was very, very important.
So I wanted to make sure that I prepare him for
every, for every part of the bike.
'Cause at the same time I was building
confidence and I was building a rapport with him,
and obviously the rapport had trust and
respect and understanding.
So I got to know a little bit more about him
through the walk.
Good boy, good boy!
That's a good boy.
That's right, there we go.
The handler has food, the dog doesn't,
but if the handler doesn't have food,
the dog doesn't care about it.
So very important that you end the exercise with
affection only, with a reward, with a caress,
with a kiss.
The mind is gonna remember that he also did it because
you gave him affection.
Narrator: Now that Sydney is more comfortable
around the bike, Cesar invites Amanda and Morgan to
join the exercise.
Cesar Millan: Come on in for session number one.
Now very important that you also represent
calmness when, when he meets you.
You know, when I introduce the bike,
I put treats all over the bike.
Morgan Brown: Really to, I suppose make the connection
of actually putting the food around the bike
and things like that.
We, we didn't, we didn't work that one out for sure.
Cesar Millan: Now, I won't give food there, see?
Morgan Brown: No, go on away, go on away,
go on away.
Cesar helped us by teaching us to be more broad.
And that is to break that behavior where we were
rewarding him for getting excited.
So by breaking that particular behavior,
we're going to be able to improve the way he reacts in
a whole range of situations.
And the postie bike situation,
that's just the most extreme example.
Cesar Millan: So, as soon as they get a bike,
Amanda asked me, "So, should we do this every day?"
Of course!
If you do this every day, in two weeks your dog
will be different.
And the reasons why I say this particular case
is how easy it was for him to understand
a different concept.
Amanda Roche-Brown: I definitely foresee us having
a plan that we'll follow up pretty much every time we
run into Sydney, where we only react with calm
behavior and that he associates calmness with us.
Cesar Millan: All right, three more days for me
to go back to LA.
Narrator: Still to come, a Queensland couple is at
their wit's end with their aggressive Shar-Pei.
And later, Cesar meets an Australian cattle dog whose
bark really is worse than its bite.
Narrator: The next Aussie dog needing a visit from
Cesar is an hour and a half flight away, in Margate,
near Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland.
David Cowley: Christine and I have had dogs
all our lives.
The attraction to Shar-Peis in the first instance was
Christine wanted a cuddly, fuzzy dog.
Christine Smith: Something a little bit different that no
one else had, and I'd looked at a lot of dogs and
Shar-Peis just stood out.
David Cowley: When Vincent was a puppy,
he was very cute and cuddly, a chick magnet.
Vincent has a strong personality.
Christine Smith: He's very sure of himself.
David Cowley: Well projecting individual.
Christine Smith: Vincent's behavior started
right from puppy preschool.
He'd be aggressive right from day dot.
David Cowley: He then went to an obedience school.
Instead of following the commands,
he would attack the nearest dog.
Christine Smith: We got Paris as a companion because
of this behavior, we thought that it would sort of even
it out a little bit.
David Cowley: Paris is a bubbly, cuddly sex bomb,
I think you might call her.
She's calm and very easy to deal with.
When people come over to our place, servicemen,
and childrens' friends, if they try and get in the
yard, he will get in their face.
It'll escalate and he'll turn on Paris.
Christine Smith: Just,"Ar, ar, ar" you know, at her.
You can see it in his eyes, they just get so focused.
David Cowley: He almost becomes possessed.
If I try and interfere in that,
he can turn on me I have been afraid
of his aggression.
Christine Smith: I do get upset when there
is a dog fight.
David Cowley: She'll say, get rid of him.
No, let's, he's gotta go.
Christine Smith: I just can't help it,
it's just like a reaction, you know,
I don't want any other dogs hurt,
I don't want my dog hurt.
David Cowley: Vincent gets lots of physical exercise.
We did the rollerblading, long walks.
I have put in the effort to fulfill his needs.
Why do I still have the issue, you know?
The thing I fear the most is that if he does cause
substantial damage to Paris.
And if Christine has to deal with a fight, that she may,
in fact, get bitten.
Christine Smith: There has to be a light at
the end of the tunnel.
I hope Cesar can snap him out of it,
make Vincent realize his behavior is unacceptable.
David Cowley: There's nothing better than
seeing a dog run free.
And Vincent's never had that experience.
For him to be able to run and socialize with other
dogs and, and have fun, that's what we want for him,
to, to enjoy being a dog.
Cesar Millan: How can I help you guys?
David Cowley: Vincent has some aggression issues.
Christine Smith: When I'm hanging the washing on the
line, he'll have a go at the little dogs next door.
And he gets quite into it, and like he said, focused.
And I've literally gone and sort of tapped
him on the side.
And the last time I did that,
he did a big lunge at me.
It was like, "Hey, don't do that you know?"
Not on, sort of thing.
I did sort of yell when he did, not from fright,
just from, that's not on.
And he seemed to be distracted and go off around
the yard again, and he was fine.
Cesar Millan: So that he went around you and follow,
or he just went somewhere else?
Christine Smith: He just went somewhere else.
Cesar Millan: What was missing in that puzzle was
that you didn't follow through.
Christine Smith: Oh okay, yes.
Cesar Millan: You have to help him.
Until he totally surrender in front of you.
Right when he did the mistake.
If you can't block or redirect the situation,
you become part of it, so then you get.
David Cowley: And that has happened.
Cesar Millan: Then you can, you get the attack.
So that's the part that we, I guess we gotta be working
on today, you know, the follow through experience.
David Cowley: That's it.
Narrator: Cesar approaches the gate,
triggering Vincent's guard dog's instincts.
Cesar Millan: All right, so he's already warning.
So this is a very classical warning of a Shar-Pei.
That,"Pfft, pfft" almost like a hippo.
Then the eye contact.
I like the nose.
He's doing the nose thing, yeah.
They don't have a really good nose,
that's a territorial bark, not an aggressive bark.
When I practiced the exercise,
it wasn't as intense as,
as what she normally experienced.
David Cowley: So, this is gonna be an introduction at
a distance through the gate.
Cesar Millan: So we, we brought this
French mastiff to help us.
I wanted to see, how does she begin the ritual of
addressing the situation.
Christine Smith: Hey, hey!
Cesar Millan: Take the time.
Now see that arm how you have, the left arm.
No, the right, yes.
Christine Smith: Put it?
Cesar Millan: Yeah, I just want him in a,
in a lower intensity.
This is part of the exercise, so don't worry,
take your time.
Because the more you become like him,
the less you can help him.
Christine Smith: Oh, okay.
Cesar Millan: Go and block again, there we go,
and then grab the collar.
There you go, there we go.
Sit him down.
Christine Smith: Sit, sit Vinny, sit, ah!
Sit, good boy!
Cesar Millan: What I'm seeing here is that you get,
you know, really.
Christine Smith: Yeah, the heart rate goes, yeah.
Cesar Millan: Nervous, or unsure, whatever,
and so that way you can't really influence, you know?
She became the same energy as Vincent was in.
She started rushing, she could not do a follow
through coming from that state.
Right there, right there.
We're not gonna, just right there.
Vincent was releasing his frustration on Paris.
Because I am not able to calm down,
what calms me down is to finish what I've started.
So that's why the follow through is so
important for them.
See I'm blocking here, so I'm just keeping,
there you go.
See the body language here?
So I'm blocking him.
When I practiced the follow through,
it took longer for Vincent to actually get
into a relaxed state.
That's when it was very clear to me that they did
discipline him in the past, but the only thing they did
is remove him and not helping him to recover all
the way to the relaxed state,
which says the follow through experience.
Narrator: Cesar uses a leash as a tool to help guide
Vincent into a completely submissive state.
Cesar Millan: Now he's growling,
so it's part of it, okay?
Christine Smith: Yeah, I've experienced that before.
Cesar Millan: You've seen it before.
Way of expressing is part of him throwing punches,
you know what I mean?
So he's gonna throw you a growl punch,
he's gonna throw you an eye contact punch.
He can't intimidate you with any of his strategies.
Much better.
Then when he's in a calm state, and then I,
I release him.
Tsst, hey, look!
See, now that the fence is mine,
it's easier for me to stop him here.
Christine Smith: Yes.
Narrator: Next, Cesar observes as David walks
Vincent and Paris.
David Cowley: Ah-ah!
Tsst!
Leave!
Whoa!
Cesar Millan: That's typical?
David Cowley: That's typical.
Cesar Millan: That excitement that Vincent
began the walk put him in front of him
three feet away.
So automatically he's gonna pull back.
And he was just walking like he was about to fly.
Even you just holding the arms like this, it,
that's a message; in the animal world,
that's a message.
David Cowley: Yes.
Cesar Millan: Much better.
David Cowley: That's the way, leave.
Cesar Millan: That pull that you just did right there,
was very important when he did this here, look.
David Cowley: Yeah, the contact.
Cesar Millan: That, that moment, that was a good one.
David Cowley: It's a relief to know that we're not
dealing with a red zone case,
that it's quite normal, and it's just the follow up
we're training to do to help the dog achieve the balance
that he, he needs and that we also need.
Christine Smith: Here's a gift for you and your family.
I learned just so much more than I've
learned from anyone.
I've got to follow through with the discipline,
letting him know I'm boss.
It doesn't matter how long it takes,
just finish what I've, you know, I've gotta do.
David Cowley: We look forward to seeing you on
your next trip to Australia.
Cesar Millan: Oh thank you, thank you.
Today was about understanding how to deal
with a pack, not so much how to deal with two dogs from
an obedience point of view.
They have done their work, they just didn't
know how to finish it.
Narrator: Next, a Queensland woman is driven
barking mad by her Australian cattle dog.
Narrator: Cesar's next stop while in Queensland is the
nearby town of Chapel Hill.
Alison Clark: Since I can remember,
I just always loved animals.
I've always wanted to do something with animals.
I really love Australian working dogs.
George is a cross breed of two Australian
working dogs, the Kelpie and border collie.
He's such an easy dog, he's very calm, placid,
well behaved, no trouble.
And I thought, well, one dog's easy, two dogs,
no problem.
And that's when Astro's story started.
Astro has always been enthusiastic,
I like to call it.
He's my little shadow, he just follows me around
everywhere.
He can be sound asleep, if I move or go downstairs,
he jumps up quickly and starts barking.
He gets up and he'll chase me and skid on the floor.
I just can't control him.
Our normal routine day, I get up and get dressed to
take the dogs for a walk.
As soon as I get the lead out,
Astro starts barking, barking.
Trying to get out the front door, it's craziness.
Then I put the kettle on to make a cup of tea and start
my morning routine for getting ready to work.
As soon as I put my hand on the kettle once it's boiled,
he starts barking.
I can't move around my own home without him barking or
biting, whatever it is I'm doing.
He's always barked in the car.
If I get onto the exercise bike, Astro starts barking.
And he's kind of encouraged George to do that.
As soon as I put my hand on the wardrobe to get my
pajamas out, he barks and tries to bite them as I'm
putting them on.
Sometimes George just gets a look on his face like,
"Mom, why did you do this to me?
I was a good boy."
It does get really hard to live with.
I would, I love them, I'd never get rid of
either of them.
Narrator: Astro nearly knocked Alison down the
stairs on several different occasions.
Alison Clark: I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong to
promote this behavior.
I get frustrated, I do get angry and
I know I shouldn't.
I tried yelling, I confess.
I've tried the silent treatment, nothing.
I know it has to be me, but I do believe
Astro is special.
And I would love Cesar to be able to identify
a way that I can stop him barking.
I'd like us to have a harmonious lifestyle,
and I'd like me to know that I'm definitely in
charge of the dogs.
Narrator: On a rainy Monday near Brisbane,
Cesar arrives at Alison's house of barking.
Cesar Millan: How can I help you?
Alison Clark: Astro I have trouble
stopping him barking.
Cesar Millan: For how long?
Alison Clark: Ever since he's pup.
Cesar Millan: How old is he right now?
Alison Clark: He's seven years old now.
Cesar Millan: So this has been going now
for seven years?
Alison Clark: Yes.
Cesar Millan: Wow and you have lived
that way for seven years?
Alison Clark: Yes.
Cesar Millan: It's not natural for dogs to bark
24 hours, seven days a week.
It's not natural.
It's natural as a communication strategy,
but not as a way of draining energy or,
or gaining some kind of attention.
That's an obsessive barker.
And so this obsessive thing comes from somewhere.
Okay, so that's what we're gonna find out from him,
and you tell me your story and then he tells me his
story, and then we put you guys in a more understanding
concept, and then we move from there.
It's always very important to me to meet people's dogs
without the owner, in this case, Astro and George,
because automatically I become part of
that same relationship.
And I want to be a new relationship,
a relationship that represents common sense.
I started in the bedroom, a very intimate space,
and I touch the doorknob.
When I work with a dog like Astro,
for the most part they get excited for movement,
from sound, from anything.
The doorknob is the beginning of excitement.
Somebody's coming in, so I wanted him to experience,
okay, doorknob, but nobody's coming in.
Doorknob, nobody's opening the door.
And what you're hearing is, is,
is anxiety at a mild level.
The doors have a little bit of space under,
so I want them to go under there and go.
That's what I want, I want to be scent
and I want to be energy.
Perfect time.
Door open doesn't mean excitement,
door open means relaxation.
So I wanted to start from the beginning working with
rules, boundaries and limitations.
To them, door open means just, just go.
Tsst, tsst!
When a dog has no limits, they don't know how to wait,
they don't know how to relax.
I saw that Geroge was just excitement, not anxiety.
So it was easy for George to go from
excitement to relaxation.
It took a little longer for Astro to go from anxiety,
excitement, and then relaxation.
I'm glad that he is in the front.
There you go, that's better.
Narrator: Coming up, Cesar's plan for peace.
Cesar Millan: Thanks for watching Dog Whisperer
on Nat-Geo Wild!
Stay tuned as we continue to change the world
one dog at a time.
Narrator: Alison Clark's Australian cattle dog spent
the past seven years barking and barking and barking.
Now Cesar's arrived to try and shut him up.
Cesar Millan: See, this is the response.
Now I'm telling them follow me to your front door.
After I practiced a few activities that he normally
does with his owner, nothing bad happened.
No excitement, no anxiety, it was very easy for him to
stay quiet and peaceful.
So now director Sue Ann is going to be the one
who is using the bike.
I'm just evaluating does he keep the same state
with me or was it just when Alison is around.
So obviously it's not the dog.
About that time I said, okay, after this,
I already created impression.
So I'm going to bring his owner into the picture.
You have to really know when to stop and when to go.
You know, they tell you, "If you do this right now,
you're gonna be good."
Now come over here before you go on the bike.
When I go into people's home,
I get a sense of some signs, some people have amazing
mantras, some people have amazing pictures.
She has a really nice sign on the refrigerator.
This is so meaningful, "Live the life you imagine."
So if you're picturing excited dogs before you go
on the bike, that is the life you're imagining.
But that's not the life you want.
So before you go to the bike,
visualize what you want your dogs to do.
And confidently move towards so you change the way you
are actually talking to your dogs.
Turn around, get on the bike confidently.
Visualize the concept of it.
Tsst!
This is a case where a dog does not respect the owner
because the owner is not respecting the way animal
and dog relates to the world.
So if you don't respect their nature,
we can't expect respect back.
They give you what you give them.
They know how to do it,
they just don't know how to do it with you,
because they have experienced you or very
loving, or very frustrated.
You see it?
So they don't know the middle yet from you.
All right, so just sit on it.
Alison Clark: Just sit.
Cesar Millan: What I said is,
do not move your body if the mind is moving.
So the mind is excited, the mind is moving.
Wait until the mind completely relaxes.
It's like you're breaking
it down for him, you know.
So what do you do for a living?
Alison Clark: I work as an executive assistant.
Cesar Millan: Banker?
For a banker?
Narrator: Cesar spends a few minutes calmly chatting
with Alison, which helps both dogs relax.
Cesar Millan: See now that he's in that state,
just move slowly, there we go.
We got to the point where I said,
"Okay, now stop pedaling, and the guys were totally
relaxed by the time she start moving."
So it took two things for us to just sit on it and
meditate and relax.
Wait for that zero moment before we actually
went into the pedaling.
At that time, the guys were just seeing movement as a
way of relaxation.
Every time she pedaled, she was expressing relaxation,
when before she was expressing the
opposite of it.
Can you feel it?
Can you feel the silence?
Alison Clark: I can feel in here the silence.
Cesar Millan: So this is the experience here.
So far so good?
Alison Clark: Yeah, it's great, fantastic.
Would you like a tea, tea?
Cesar Millan: Yeah, I'll take a tea.
Alison Clark: Just normal tea, is that okay?
Cesar Millan: Yeah!
So when he was here, he was totally fine.
It's when he got close to you that he went into that.
When a dog gets excited, the closer they get to the
target, he more intense they become.
So what I did right now is to snap him out of it with
the touch, and then I remove him form the target,
and then he goes into a more resting state, you know,
when they are away from,
they go into a waiting state.
When they get close, they get excited.
So sometimes it's okay to not agree with him following
you everywhere because the more they follow you,
the more excited they get.
A dog doesn't have to be right next to you,
under you when you're doing any kind of activity,
especially when they're excited.
Remember, the closest he gets down,
that's the target.
So the goal will be that you ask him to stay here.
And once he gets into a more relaxed state,
you can go down the stairs.
Right there.
Alison Clark: Oh, stay, tsst!
Cesar Millan: Stay like that, stay like that.
It's like, there we go.
There we go, beautiful.
Now turn around.
Tsst!
Alison Clark: Stay.
Cesar Millan: You have it in you.
Not yet.
That's pretty amazing.
On the stair exercise, I got to see another side of
Alison, I got to see a more confident Alison.
Now you come back, very good.
All that was said in an expression.
Tsst!
That was just said in that, you know, to the point.
It's very amazing, but you have it, pop!
It was so to the point, the right amount of energy.
It was the right sound that makes sense to her that
express exactly, "Stay right here, don't worry about it,
I'll take care of the situation."
And Astro just totally got it, it was just beautiful.
How did that feel?
Alison Clark: It's very good.
Cesar Millan: That's right.
Alison Clark: The stairs was, oh my goodness.
It was uplifting and invigorating.
It was just amazing, I couldn't believe
that I had done it.
And I'm gonna keep doing it!
And that motivates you, just to continue on.
And I want him to have a better life too.
Cesar Millan: You did it, that was you.
I was just observing.
You're speaking with energy, body language.
To me, a house is to reenergize,
that's your sanctuary.
It's not to learn to live in a way that you don't really
want to, but you don't know how to really live
harmoniously with your family, with your dog,
or with yourself.
And the beauty of this segment is,
our dogs enjoy to return back into this beautiful
harmonious state.
What I will call a loving state.
I'm happy to report good news from my
friends down under.
Amanda Roche-Brown: Hi Cesar, how are you going?
It's been three months since you were here.
And we're pleased to say that with a bit of effort
that we're putting in that Sydney has
changed his behavior.
So thank you and we're going to persist associating him
with red postie bikes.
Cesar Millan: Keep working on it Amanda and Morgan!
Christine Smith: Hi Cesar thank you for coming.
We've made great progress with Vincent;
he's a lot friendlier with visitors.
And his walking is a lot better,
and he's got babies now.
Six little puppies.
Paris is an excellent mum and Vincent is
an excellent dad.
Very friendly.
David Cowley: So, we'll keep you informed and stay in
touch and let you know how all this goes for us.
Thank you.
Cesar Millan: Finally, Alison is enjoying the peace
and quiet that comes with being Astro's calm,
assertive pack leader.
Alison Clark: Thank you for coming to our home and
giving us the tools to make a positive improvement
on our lives.
Uh, it's work in progress but we've made positive
progress and we appreciate it very much and I think
Astro would like to have the last word.
He'd like to say thank you to you in person.
Good boy!
Cesar Millan: And thanks to everyone who helped make our
trip to Australia possible and for giving us a chance
to begin changing the world, one dog at a time.