23/10/2026
⚠️🐾What are your thoughts on Cesar Milan and his approach to dog behaviour and training?🐾⚠️
Some excellent conversations and debate this week within the Impackt community. Pamela and Marcie posted about Cesar and the fact that a lot of people have a love/hate relationship with him.
The main point to our discussions was looking at the concepts he has always put forward that were relevant in the 00s and still are, even more so, today. How he forged an approach that put the “dog and owner” relationship in the spotlight like never before.
“Exercise, Discipline, Affection, in that order” Cesar Milan
He showed people that the use of dogs as emotional pawns was the reason for most behavioural issues. If just affection was applied, and exercise and discipline/ training were omitted, then the dog was looking at overfeeding, lack of stimulation, structure and all the excuses under the sun leading to a life of misery for both dog and owner.
Looking back to 25 years ago he didn’t work for me as a dog professional. All I could see was the TV persona and the “edited for entertainment” footage of dogs in desperate need. His stare downs and physical interactions with these dogs put me off.
However, I have learned a lot more about him in the intervening years, the concepts he puts forward, more digestible away from TV, and the behaviourists and trainers he has supported and mentored. Todd Langston being one of them who has brought me back into the light, of Cesar’s approaches, that we admire most here in the Impackt community.
“Remember, we are responsible for our dogs, they mirror our energy and most importantly, we must be their leader”
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