Quote Originally Posted by katiadarling View Post
right.... taking a dog that has had issues with other dogs and trying to get a guy who has... 50 dogs (just an estimate, but he has A LOT) to take it and work with it... to me that's asking for trouble.

I don't think treating dogs like "humans in fur coats" is the way to go and I don't believe I said that Cesar abuses animals... I said that his techniques are questionable. I stand by those remarks. One example of his techniques being questionable is that one show featured a chihuahua that bit anyone who wasn't its owner. His advice was for the dog to be handed off to other people and held until it stopped trying to bite. To me this sounds like a recipe for disaster and I think that there are much better solutions that could be tried first, such as not allowing the dog on furniture, not holding the dog, training the animal and basically making it work for its keep. The dog obviously has been allowed to think it rules the household, which is likely to be one of the main reasons it tries to bite.

I have two dogs, both of whom I've trained myself and they are awesome animals. I get comments all the time about how amazing they are. littleindiangirl, I have to say I lost a lot of respect for you from your tangent and your generalization of me based on my posting a widely held belief.
Katia,

If you lose respect because of me voicing MY opinions, that's okay by me. We all have the right to discuss on a forum.

However, I DO have to point out I criticized the AHS, Not you personally. I can't control what you read between the lines, however I did not quote you to criticize you, frankly, you did not mention one word of how you train animals, or even if you had an animal, and I don't believe I had even hinted at your methods in any way shape or form.

Maybe next time, read the words written there? I realize it says "you", but it was not meant for you katiadarling, but the people that believe loving an animal is enough to fix it.


I also feel the need to point out that the programs aired on TV are short glimpses, and are edited to make it suitable as a tv program. We really have no way of knowing everything that goes on behind the scenes.