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Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan takes on Puppy Mills, Friday May 8
By April MacIntyre May 8, 2009, 14:45 GMT
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C.W. Meisterfeld published books on how to psychologically train your dog in the early 1990's. Largely ignored by veterinary, professionals rescue groups and trainers to prevent and cure dog behavior problems. Now his pioneering psychological dog training concepts/terminology have been corrupted by Millan. What Millan is teaching is still dominant based dog training. His secret must be a very good Public Relations campaign an a gullible dog owner audience.
See Jelly Bean versus Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Psychological Dog Training by C.W. Meisterfeld.
I applaud Cesar's interest and advocacy for victims of puppy mills, but isn't it rather hypocritical to enthusiastically defend one animal while condemning and supporting the torture of another very similar animal? Numerous studies have shown that pigs, especially, and cows and chickens also, have all the intelligence, sensitivity, and conscience present in dogs and cats. The simple fact that we choose to eat one animal, but befriend another should not be the criteria for allowing or combating cruel handling. 'Live stock' is routinely kept in exponentially worse environments than these much bemoaned (and rightly so) puppies. If we honor one species over another, is that not tantamount to racism within the human fold?
I don't intend to offend, just to raise the question for honest consideration.
Humans were originally, divinely engineered to function at optimum efficiency on a plant-based diet, and meat is contraindicated for us. Eating dead animals (carrion) is tantamount to putting diesel in a gasoline engine - not a good idea!
Genesis 1:29
I attended several of his seminars. His books talked a good talk, but he demonstrated no methods to really back it up. Jelly Bean's owners spent in excess of $15,000.00 dollars in training. The dog still tried to bite the owners occasionally, and that was Meisterfeld's own admission to both facts. He admitted that he made a great deal of money off of a genetically unsound dog.
I am not a huge fan of Milan, either. There are some great trainers and wise behaviorists today. Check out Sue Sternberg and Brenda Aloff.
Check out Jeff Gellman he is awesome!
www.solidk9training.com
We love our dogs and treat them like 'dogs'. We have a tendency to apply some human qualities. I never knew or heard of a Puppy Mill. It was very sad. We have personally always adopted from our local animal shelter. We need to pass ou as much information about puppy mills to reduce the horror that happens there.
I applaud Cesar in all he does. Keep up the great work.
Think about it dog backwards is God, He created them for
us to care for them, they have a purpose in the world and in
our lives. We could learn alot from Dogs and animals in general.
God Bless you Cesar Millan. Love ya
I think Cesar does some really good work, but I would highly recommend Jan Fennels book and dvd 'the dog listener'. I think her methods are better than Cesars, although a lot of them are very similar. Jans methods start in the home. As she says...if you cant connect with your dog in the home, what chance do you have in the outside world, where there are so many distractions.
I hope all the owners of puppy mills will one day get what they deserve.
I am saddened that Cesar is affiliating himself with anything to do HSUS. The Humane Society of the US has no shelters. Their agenda is the same as PETA's to eliminate pet ownership.
The president of HSUS says 'one generation and out' meaning sterilize all the pets and there will be no more.
This LCA group appear to operate like a group of terrorists.
Why will kennel owners let them come in, only to find out they are being filmed?
I think puppy mills are awful, but it is more scary to watch these animal 'rescue' groups operate.
Again I am very sad to see Cesar involved in something like this.
After looking at Last Chance for Animals web page, it appears they have the same agenda as PETA and HSUS.
Hey folks, they want you to stop eating meat, and they will to it be slowly legislating things until no one has any animals.
Be afraid of these kind of groups. Their real agenda is too eliminate all pet ownership first and foremost.
Sad to see the Dog Whisperer wrapped up with these kind of people.
Dear Meisterfeld
Where do you get the idea that Jelly Bean, after retraining, tried to bite it's owners? Meisterfeld was given an incomplete behavioral history was the cause of continued training.
“Check out Sue Sternberg and Brenda Aloff.” I met Sternberg She doesn’t know how to test an animal. Tests are preformed on starved and traumatized dogs with false results. I have seen Aloof’s work.
You missed Meisterfelds point companion dogs are not things that you pick a unwanted behavior and desensitize the animal to that behavior. You need a holistic, Meisterfeld, approach. Apparently you have not thoroughly studied Meisterfeld
In response to 'very scary' and 'NGP' here is a partial quote of the United States Humane Society's Mission:
The mission of The HSUS is to create a humane and sustainable world for all animals—a world that will also benefit people. We seek to forge a lasting and comprehensive change in human consciousness of and behavior toward all animals in order to prevent animal cruelty, exploitation, and neglect, and to protect wild habitats and the entire community of life.
A year ago my husband and I adopted a 7 yr old 'mama' surrendered from a puppy mill to our local Humane Society. We see first hand the psychological damage caused by 7 years of living and being forced to breed in a crate! Thank goodness famous people like Cesar bring attention to this cruel situation and advocate for change. He definitely has a different philosophy re animals that some may not endorse but he is not a cruel person and I applaud him for educating the public to not buy puppy mill dogs.
'Very scary' and 'NGP' need to check their facts. With all respect to opinions of others, they are greatly distoring the truth. I would bet they are both 'freedom' loving conservative people who also endorse other foolish freedoms like the right to smoke in public and own sub-machine guns.
I agree with Diane from Wisconsin. PETA and HSUS are trying to do something to stop the stupidity. Yes they have to do some crazy stuff sometimes - like going naked to condemn fur dealers and wearers. But they have to - in order to get our attention. We as a nation are so oblivious to anything that doesn't directly affect us. We can walk right by a man who has been run over without offering help. We make so many excuses to explain why we kill animals, but their are people who just enjoy killing. Even our former Vice President Cheney felt he needed to go shooting quail (and accidentally shot Harry Whittington - a 78 year old man who probably isn't competent to drive, but still has a shotgun). Don't tell me that Dick needed to eat a quail and that's why he was there. It's bull. Some people just enjoy killing plain and simple.
CAN ANYONE SAY: SERIAL KILLERS.
Thank you Caesar and thank you PETA and thank you to everyone who has a heart and a brain big enough to realize that the greatnes of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. {Mahatma Gandhi}
ALL LIFE IS SACRED.
Two years ago I adopted a puppy mill survivor, Oliver, a wonderful poodle. I have used some of Cesar's training techniques and they worked wonders for the little dog that was scared to death of everything!!
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