Cesar Millan Quotes

Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

It's natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals' droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.

Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.

Any dog can be aggressive; it's basically the way they're raised.

The pack is very important for a dog. Once you give him the right pack and the right energy, you look at him.

When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.

No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.

Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is causing the behavior, of course. Anything that is good for an animal, let's do it.

It is very easy to forget how much of a pain training is when you have a dog for so long, but trust me, it's not as easy and quick as we all hope.

It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.

You have to train a dog to think.

Though each trainer believes his or her method is best, I don't think it matters which method the pet owner adopts so long as that owner finds a capable mentor and sticks with the training. Eventually you will learn to see your dog, and when that happens, the richness of your and your dog's lives will tell you what to do next.

My job is making irrational people do rational things.

I love my dogs and I give them affection all the time but it has to be at the right time or they get confused.

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

'The Dog Whisperer' to me is a show that had a passion, and it helped me save relationships.

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, 'Baby, you don't seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.'

The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Anger is a good motivator.

It's just extremely difficult to shoot with five dogs. They're great, and the people who handle them are amazing. But they're animals.

As parents, you want to try to mitigate your children's pain.

I think I'm good at training dogs, but none of my dogs agree with me on that.