'Dog Whisperer' Cesar Millan Under Investigation For Possible Animal Cruelty

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19. For everyone demanding a link

to research that Millan's approach is inappropriate, here ya go:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950CE3DF1E3EF932A0575BC0A9609C8B63

The notion of the ''alpha pack leader'' dominating all other pack members is derived from studies of captive packs of unrelated wolves and thus bears no relationship to the social structure of natural packs, according to L. David Mech, one of the world's leading wolf experts. In the wild, the alpha wolves are merely the breeding pair, and the pack is generally comprised of their juvenile offspring and pups.

''The typical wolf pack,'' Dr. Mech wrote in The Canadian Journal of Zoology in 1999, ''is a family, with the adult parents guiding the activities of a group in a division-of-labor system.'' In a natural wolf pack, ''dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all,'' he writes.

That's a far cry from the dominance model that Mr. Millan attributes to the innate need of dogs by way of wolves.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1558787808001159

https://drsophiayin.com/philosophy/dominance/

http://4pawsu.com/dogpsychology.htm

My mom's Rough Collie was ruined by a trainer who used Millan's methods without regarding the fact that the breed is known to be "soft" and should never be trained with harsh methods. I detest Cesar Millan and his approach. It is outdated; veterinarians and animal behaviorists know that positive reward-based training is far more effective and that dominating a dog can make aggression issues worse--or even cause aggression in a dog that never before showed signs of it (which is what happened with my mother's dog).