Don't anthropomorphize? Don't you think we anthropomorphize ourselves!

* Dogs might be more like us than we are. Do any of us act like what we think human beings are ever? Certainly none of us all the time. If you want to communicate with another species, you're going to have to do some creative anthropomorphizing.

Don't talk to dogs like people? How else are you going to talk to them: you got some insight into a dog language that you're skillful at and not a bumbling amateur?

* Dogs have lived with us for about 33,000 years, WE are there natural environment. They know more about us than they do themselves. Start talking to them in some made up dog language or amateurishly in what you think is dog language, they will think you're insane. Just talk to them, you'll at least sound like you're well to them. Believe me they know all about human language, they been hunting it for a living for tens of thousands of years.

Learn To Smile At Your Dog

The big open mouth smile with tongue hanging out and all is very important in the dog social world.

Most of What Millan Says Is True For Primates Not Canines

This is why it just sounds so right, seems like common sense to ignorant people.

If the rule is making you nervous, if all the rules are making you nervous, FORGET the rule and the rules. Stop letting dogs make you so nervous. Dogs are not tests.

So many training programs are full of so many rules: never go to pet a dog on the top of a head, on & on, and then there's Millan: where dogs are presented as bombs to be diffused. Dogs are not tests, nor are they innately dangerous. Nervous people, frightened that they can't remember all the rules freak dogs out. Nervousness will lead to far more bites than mistakes will.

Nothing is responsible for the growth of Millan's influence than the Millan opposition.

Any serious opposition left the fray years ago: scared off by ANY association with the fringey, tin foil hat, Oprah, American Idol types both pro and con. All fine and good for them to stay above it all but they left all these dogs in risk, misery and worse. Now there's still only the bumper sticker crowd. it's the mode of thought that is the enemy not Millan. Change, brighten, elevate the thinking and Millan will fade instantly.

People will do anything for their dog: travel any distance, pay any price, go without food or sleep, ANYTHING - except think. Just never ask them to think. If asked to think, people will let ANYTHING - no matter how horrible - happen or be done to their dog.

Families Used To Gather To Watch Lassie & Rin Tin Tin
Now They watch Cesar Millan.

* Millan speaks of how Lassie & Rin Tin Tin were his inspiration to become "The Greatest Dog Trainer In The World" but never mentions anywhere Lee Duncan the trainer of Rin Tin Tin or the Weatherwax family,
trainers of Lassie. Does he even know who they are?