The Dog Whisperer - Cesar Millan
-a pet topic of nathan e. lewis.
(The most famous of all dog trainers, Cesar Millan, the dog trainer of Oprah Winfrey, and creator of the successful Dog Whisperer Show on the National Geographic Channel has been interviewed by Cathy Newman in the National Geographic, December 2006 issue. -excerpts follow!)
Cathy Newman: What is the biggest mistake we make with dogs?
Cesar Millan: We humanize dogs. We hold conversations with them as if they were people. We use dogs for our own emotional yearnings. A dog doesn’t know it lives in Beverly Hills or how mch we spend on it. In Mexico, Petco would never make the same amount of money. I use a 35-cent leash - a piece of cord. It’s all about us. Animals need to work for food and water. The ones who get food and water just because they are cute - those are my clients. Continue reading »
