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Cesar’s Six Audiobook Picks For Your Dog In October

Calmer dogs. Happier dogs. Seriously. You may have heard that Cesar Millan recently teamed up with Audible, the leading provider of spoken word content and audio entertainment, to provide a hand-picked selection of audiobook titles that can help your dog stay calm while you’re away. (If you haven’t heard, you can get the lowdown here, with links to free audiobooks, videos and more.) “My audiobook pick for October,” says Cesar, “is Until Tuesday, a powerful true story about the love between a man and a dog and how they together healed each other’s souls. It’s told by Captain Luis Montalvan, a

October 10, 2017 No Comments

Cesar Millan sits with a dog listening to a story online

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Have You Heard? The Key To Calmer, Happier Dogs

Audiobooks are the key to calmer, happier dogs. Does your dog become a nervous wreck or a destructive menace when you leave him or her at home alone? Here’s a new way to solve the problem that you may never have thought of. The Problem Dogs are highly social pack animals, which means that one of the most unnatural things we can do is leave them home alone. Unfortunately for many people, bringing their dog everywhere is not an option — but neither is having a bored or anxious dog tearing the house apart when they’re left alone. Crate training

August 4, 2017 No Comments

Cesar Millan works on training with a dog.

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Winding Up

One of the issues I get asked about the most is separation anxiety. It most often shows up as a dog being either destructive or excitable while the humans are away — or sometimes even while one human is away even if the rest of the pack is there. The best solution to separation anxiety is to never cause your dog to develop it in the first place, of course, but it can be fixed if you’re willing to understand how you created the problem, and then have the patience to take the steps necessary to undo it. What’s happening

May 12, 2017 No Comments

All About Dogs

5 Consejos Para Aliviar La Ansiedad Por Separación

Llegas a la casa después de un día largo de trabajo y un torbellino lleno de energía, saltando y girando te recibe. Tu perro te sigue hasta la sala donde encuentras tu par de zapatos favorito masticado. Luego, tu vecino te dice que, una vez más, tu perro ha perturbado a todo el barrio aullando y ladrando mientras estabas fuera. ¿Te suena familiar? Tu perro puede sufrir de ansiedad por separación. En la naturaleza, los perros casi nunca están lejos de su manada. Es nuestro deber ayudarles a hacer que esta situación antinatural sea menos estresante. Así que siguen cinco

June 18, 2015 No Comments

Adoption Tips

Rehabilitating A Puppy Mill Dog

Cesar is not alone when he recommends “adopt, don’t shop” when getting a new dog, but a substantial number of pets still come from puppy mills, whether direct from a pet shop or breeder, or via a rescue or shelter. Rescuing a Puppy Mill Dog Puppy mill dogs require extra attention and training in order to rehabilitate them because the conditions they were brought up in are horrible. Unlike reputable breeders, who take the steps necessary for the comfort of their breeding dogs and puppies, puppy mills treat their dogs as products to be churned out as quickly as possible.

June 18, 2015 No Comments

Placebo(w)-Wow-Wow

You may have heard of the “placebo effect.” This is a phenomenon that happens when people take harmless or inactive substances, like sugar pills, with the belief that they are medicine, and then their body reacts as if they had taken an actual drug. The Scoop on Placebo It’s most used in clinical trials of new medications, typically with half the people getting the test drug and half getting placebos. Ideally, neither the patients nor the doctors running the trial know which is which until researchers look at the data after the fact. The whole point of this is to

June 18, 2015 No Comments

A dog looks out the window waiting for his owner to return

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6 Tips To Help Dog Separation Anxiety

By Cesar Millan You come home from a long day at work to a spinning, jumping whirlwind of energy. Your dog follows you into your living room, where you find that he has chewed on your favorite pair of shoes. Your neighbor comes by to tell you that, once again, your dog has been driving the neighborhood crazy by howling and barking while you were away. Is this scenario familiar? Your dog may be suffering from dog separation anxiety. In nature, dogs are almost never away from their pack. It is our job to help make this unnatural situation less

June 18, 2015 No Comments

Agression

Los Comportamientos Caninos Más Comunes Explicados

La comunicación empieza con comprensión. Si deseas crear una relación mejor con tu perro, puedes empezar por esforzarte por comprender el significado y las causas que se ocultan tras algunos de los comportamientos caninos más comunes. A continuación presentamos una lista de algunas conductas caninas comunes: Jadeo Dado que los perros sudan a través de sus patas y por la piel de su barriga—la parte sin pelo—la mayor parte del calor de su cuerpo se libera a través de la boca cuando jadean. Jadear es el principal medio de regulación de la temperatura corporal de los perros. Ladrido excesivo Básicamente,

June 18, 2015 No Comments

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Cesar’s Dog Training Video: Dog Separation Anxiety

Because of the many questions Cesar receives about dog separation anxiety he decided to create this down and dirty dog training video on the subject. Cesar says that the single worst thing that can happen to a dog is being away from you. “Dogs are pack animals and there’s nothing more unnatural than being away from their pack,” he explains. In this dog training video, Cesar explains why dog separation anxiety occurs, and what Pack Leaders can do to overcome separation anxiety in their dogs.

June 18, 2015 No Comments

A dog is anxious as his owner leaves for the day.

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Dog Separation Anxiety From Leaving Dog Alone

By Joe Wilkes Dogs are very social animals, and they would like nothing more than to be by your side 24/7. But dog food doesn’t buy itself, and that may entail you having to leave them home alone while you go off to bring home the bacon, and the dog treats. We might imagine our dogs gleefully doing the Tom Cruise “Risky Business” slide when we shut the door behind us in the morning, but the more likely scenario is the dog experiencing some level of separation anxiety. This separation anxiety might manifest itself as anything from nuisance barking or

June 18, 2015 No Comments