Cesar Millan Quotes

America focuses on being very intelligent because that’s how you make more money.

Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it’s going to hurt their feelings. They’re actually looking for you to be the pack leader.

I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.

My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I’m up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.

‘The Dog Whisperer’ to me is a show that had a passion, and it helped me save relationships.

We’re the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true – it has little to do with America – around the world, pack leaders are unstable. Animals don’t follow that.

Children are becoming disobedient… why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It’s an unnatural point of view.

No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.

Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.

I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won’t get into trouble.

People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.

I’m naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.

Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is causing the behavior, of course. Anything that is good for an animal, let’s do it.

When looking to adopt a new dog, the most important thing to consider is always the energy of the dog and how the dog will fit in with your lifestyle and your family.

The reality is, if you have a high-level-energy dog, it’s not going to be happy with a one-hour walk. Those types of dogs are going to require more than one hour of physical challenge in the outside world.

All dogs can become aggressive, but the difference between an aggressive Chihuahua and an aggressive pit bull is that the pit bull can do more damage. That’s why it’s important to make sure you are a hundred percent ready for the responsibility if you own a ‘power’ breed, like a pit bull, German shepherd, or Rottweiler.

Bill Gates can’t control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn’t see that as leadership.

Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they’re all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That’s the lesson behind animals.

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs – especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I’ve dedicated my life to this.

Any time you’re working in the world of taming animals, you’re going to get hurt. But it’s a rush that we get.

A lot of people, for example, live an anxious life. They don’t realize they have a super-high level of anxiety. So we’re gonna work on really writing down how anxious you feel at the moment you wake up. There’s nothing wrong with it; the point is you learn to evaluate yourself and regulate yourself.

When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn’t speak any English.

Aggression is not a breed thing. It’s a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.

Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.

Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they’re older. People just don’t realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

When I go and work with people, I never say, ‘Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.’ It’s like a diet. You’ve got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.

I have never met a dog I couldn’t help; however, I have met humans who weren’t willing to change.