Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar’s Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life
- ISBN13: 9780307381675
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Product Description
The New York Times bestseller!
Be the Pack Leader is Cesar Millan’s guide for taking your relationship with your dog to a higher level. By developing the skills necessary to become the calm-assertive owner your dog needs in order for him to live a balanced, fulfilled life, you’ll improve your dog’s behavior and your own life as well.
Be the Pack Leader is filled with practical tips and techniques, including:
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Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar’s Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life
Price: $7.92
January 7th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
I bought this as a gift for my neice at Christmas. I’m sure she loved it.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 7th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Little correct or accurate information on why dogs behave as they do. More ridiculous information that continues to mislead and misinform. I don’t know where he picked up this silly notion that our dogs need to walk behind us or to go through doors after us. So much research has been done, so much has been learned about dog behavior and how to change and improve our dogs’ behavior and what to we end up with on tv? Out dated, potentially dangerous myths and old wives tales. When will we get to see a real behaviorist on tv?
Rating: 1 / 5
January 7th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
More of the same oversimplification of dominance theory from the celebrity trainer du jour.
If only settlements were made public…
Rating: 1 / 5
January 7th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Cesar Milan does it again with this book. He has been denounced by all credentialed trainers and PHD’ed behaviorists around the world. The Humane Society even feels his methods are cruel and inhumane. His training methods are based on “wolf pack” research that has since been found to be false. There are no alpha wolves, and what we once knew as wolf packs are really small family groups. Wolves do not “alpha roll” one another as Cesar Milan shows owners how to do to their dogs. They do not employ fear and intimidation tactics like Cesar. Choke chains, shock collars, collar jerks…these are all things of the past. There is no need to make man’s best friend fear us. We have over 50 years of research into training that s hows us that Cesar’s Way is the WRONG way.
There is a reason why Cesar will not be interviewed by modern trainers and behaviorists. That reason is that his methods are not backed by fact. His methods are dangerous, and can fast ruin a dog. Sure, they make for great reality TV, but do we really want to be hurting and scaring our dogs ? Choking an animal is still choking, even if one does it calmly. If you love your dog, please respect them and learn to relate to them in a way that does not scare or hurt them.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 7th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
This book is uninspiring. As a trainer, I look at the dogs that Mr. Milan has trained and see behavior suppression not joy, waiting for the other shoe to fall as it were. I work towards a joyful, happy relationship with my dogs – domination is not neccessary. A confident happy dog is relaxed, trusting and resilient, ears up and alert, tail wagging.
My inspiration comes from books by Patricia McConnell, Trish King, Pat Miller, Suzanne Clothier, Karen Pryor and Terry Ryan, not to mention my dogs!
Spend your hard earned dollars wisely look into these other authors first.
Rating: 1 / 5