Cesar Millan Quotes

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

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

The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

I’m adding ‘canine’ to my searches,” I said. “And ‘instinct.’” “Whatever. I’m adding ‘lunatic.

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff for us just to please us with praise and stroking.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

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.

There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.

Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.

I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.

An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.

Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature.

I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.