Showbiz “Dogs in America live


indoors eating, and I get to have a TV show.” He was referring to


his Cesar Millan: Bet- ter Human Better Dog, which premiered recent- ly on National Geo- graphic channel. But he could have been talk- ing about any of the TV


shows he has hosted since fi rst coming to prominence with his fi rst dog-train- ing show, The Dog Whisperer, which aired from 2004 to 2012 on NatGeo. “When I started my journey and


people started calling me the dog whis- perer, the only thing I wanted to do is teach people that there is no such thing as a bad dog,” Millan said. “My goal now is to make sure that


humans learn to connect, communi- cate, and have a relationship of trust, respect, and love with their dogs.” Millan feels that the information


There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Dog, says Cesar Millan


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The problem is owners treating their puppies like humans. It only makes them anxious. BY ADAM BUCKMAN


ike many of the people who own them, America’s dogs are sedentary, house-bound, and suff ering from anxiety.


That’s the word from the nation’s


leading expert in dog behavior, Cesar Millan, the famed trainer known as the Dog Whisperer for his uncanny ability to communicate with canines. For 20 years, Millan has trained scores of neurotic dogs whose desper-


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ate owners seek his counsel to help them control their pets. What makes America’s dogs so neu-


rotic? Among other causes, they don’t get enough exercise and they spend too much time indoors, just like their owners, Millan says. “I always tell people, dogs in Mexico


live outside looking for food. They’re skinny, but they don’t have psycho- logical problems,” the Mexican-born Millan tells Newsmax.


he imparts on his new show about the relationship between dogs and their owners is especially important today, because dog ownership has spiked upward since the start of the pandemic as people contemplated their new lives in lockdown and sought the compan- ionship of pets. But unfortunately, he says, many


of these new dog owners neglected to learn what it takes to care for a dog. “When the pandemic came in, all


of the paper towels and all of the toilet paper went out of the stores, and all of the dogs went out of the shelters,” Millan said. “It was more like a panic reaction.


It was good that humans took that moment to go and rescue dogs. But they went in and rescued dogs without any knowledge. That’s why you now hear that people are returning dogs.” On his new show, as on his other


shows, Millan counsels dog owners who come to him because their dogs are wreaking havoc in their house- holds. Some of the most typical behav- iors include uncontrollable barking or, worse, aggressively lashing out at


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