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Post by pinkpony on Apr 13, 2008 19:39:38 GMT 1
oooo, good thread. I must say when I saw this guy on telly, I was transfixed, but thought to my self " Boy am I glad Im not that dog" (a big dog who was frightened of shiny floors) I thought he was scary, very tence with force. Im not too sure on his thoughts on women though!! Good thread, very informative!
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Post by colin on Apr 14, 2008 21:33:46 GMT 1
Not a book, but a very useful free resource His method of working translates so well to horses (bearing the different species in mind) that I'd recommend it to anyone who is interested in understanding how our body language affects the animals in our lives. Cesars work is to dogs what GaWaiN Ponyboys is to horses (www.ponyboy.com) they have alot on common.
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Post by deserthorse on Apr 16, 2008 7:08:03 GMT 1
Just wanted to add that there's an incredibly funny Cesar Milan episode in South Park Also serves well as a short introduction to Milan's techniques. I've glanced through one book, and it seems that he has to be interpreted within context: he is a man from south american culture, that is, his views on life are different than ours. So everything he says might not be true per se, his stuff (like everybody's stuff, whether its Monty or Nevzorov or Gawani) has to be filtered through the culture and personal background. But please, do yourselves a favour and check out that South Park episode
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Post by pinkpony on Apr 17, 2008 23:01:49 GMT 1
thamks for that colin.....Have you read any of his books?? I had wanted to read horse follow closely.....
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Post by pinkpony on Apr 17, 2008 23:05:59 GMT 1
Lol deserthorse....
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Post by HeatherL* on Apr 28, 2008 18:00:04 GMT 1
I love the Cesar Milan, my friend Carol from the yard and I are always chatting about the Dog Whisperer.
I had a chance to really see his "exercise, discipline, affection" rule put into practice on Friday when having just taken the dogs out for a long walk I got home to realise I left my keys behind and I had locked myself out of the house with two unruly dogs in tow. This was around 10 in the morning and I ended up having them with me all day until 8pm when my son arrived home!! I had no choice but to take them to the yard with me and dogs are not normally allowed but the yard owners very kindly allowed me to have them with me as a favour. Neither of them are used to being around horses and were quite excited. One is a Staffy cross and the other is a Jack Russell and they are both a handful. As soon as I got to the yard I took them for yet another long run along the bridle path, then as they had to be really well behaved on the yard I had to use rather a lot of discipline. They got a fair bit of affection too from friend Carol who commented on how well behaved my Staffy x was being despite my horror stories of her untrainable and unruly nature lol! We had to wait the rest of the day at my mums house which is a sea of cream carpet and imaculately clean, so I preceded this visit with yet another long walk and had to make sure the dogs were in check the whole time we were there. By the time we got home I two much calmer dogs who quietly sat at my feet for the rest of the night rather than pestering me constantly, play fighting and generally making a nuisance of themselves.
OK so it wasn't a truely Cesar Milan training day but it just went to show that my dogs were capable of behaving really quite well if I put in the effort and stopped making the excuse that they were a lost cause! Well that and the fact they were too exhausted to be naughty :-)
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