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In reply to the discussion: 'Dog Whisperer' Cesar Millan Under Investigation For Possible Animal Cruelty [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)he's doing what he's doing, with loud "dramatic" (and annoying) music, while putting their own interpretation of what is happening in writing and why what Cesar is doing won't work. Then criticizes him for failing to fix the dog in a single training session. Claiming that the dog's owner turned away from the camera because she couldn't bear to watch was disingenuous -- she was following the unfolding scene, which became clear immediately after she turned. The "jerk" on the leash that the accuser claims Cesar did looked more like a tug to me -- it barely stopped the dog.
And the dog was not "biting and tearing at" the "cowering" animals. The pigs were running around; one was restrained and got bitten once on the ear. I'm not convinced a chunk of ear was bitten off, either.
I would love to see the accuser actually re-training a high prey drive, livestock killing dog and see how well they do.
A second video, which the accuser didn't bother to mention, shows the same pigs with the same dog the next day. The pigs are not the slightest bit afraid of the dog, including the pig who was bitten, and the dog is no longer triggered by normal pig behavior or upset by the pigs' presence.
There are things in the 1st video I disagree with -- I wouldn't let a dog with high prey drive loose -- I would keep a very, very long lead on to be able to protect the pigs once the dog's prey drive was triggered, and to immediately administer the correction instead of ending up chasing the dog around. And the assistant shouldn't have pulled the pigs legs up to make it squeal -- I suspect that was in the interest of saving time, since they needed a pig to trigger the dog, and apparently squealing is the dog's trigger.
I wouldn't call it much ado about nothing, but the reality is that dogs that escape and kill livestock are at high risk of being shot in the act, or euthanized if found after the fact.