CESAR: When I started my
journey and people started
calling me the Dog Whisperer,
the only thing I wanted to
do is to teach people there is
no such a thing as a bad dog.
WOMAN: Oh, my gosh.
CESAR: Give me the leash.
She's safer with me.
Today, I'm still
doing what I love,
but the world has changed.
(overlapping chatter)
CESAR: Record dog adoptions
have made many packs complete.
But now more than ever,
people and dogs still...
Tsch.
Need...
Tsch.
Help.
WOMAN: We can't live like this.
MAN: Yeah.
WOMAN: The problem is me.
MAN: What do I do?
CESAR: More pooches,
more problems, right?
He needs rehab like ASAP.
So many things you
can fix already.
Tsch!
MARLON: Sorry, I'm sorry.
CESAR: Ignore the excitement.
MEGAN: I just don't
want you to get bit.
CESAR: Do you know who I am?
MEGAN: Yes.
CESAR: Together
with my superhero pack,
our mission is to teach the
world to honor the pack code,
honesty, integrity, and loyalty.
Once you get this, you're
going to have everything else.
ALL: Yay!
CESAR: And that's how we
create better humans and
better dogs one pack at a time.
CESAR: During the
darkest time of COVID,
many of us turned
into the comfort of dogs.
Thousands of new packs
were formed around the country,
and dog adoptions
went through the roof.
Today, I'm meeting a woman that
adopted four dogs during COVID, four.
That's a lot of dogs.
Now her new pack is tearing
her life and her house apart.
So I'm gonna help her
get her pack back on track.
SHERRY: I'm Sherry Sweitzer.
CHRIS: I'm Chris Carrizo.
We've been going out
about six months now.
SHERRY: COVID was very
difficult on everyone.
I got bored and lonely.
I went to a pet store with no intention
of getting a dog and...
(barks)
(whining)
And I just
couldn't leave them, so.
Get back over there.
I have four dogs,
there's Bruzki,
the Pomeranian husky.
Lunatic, she's a husky,
and then there's Kenzi.
I think she's a
Basenji Dachshund.
And then there's Jameson who
I think is a Basenji something.
And she's a little over one.
She still is a puppy.
CHRIS: Each one of these animals
is just absolutely amazing.
SHERRY: What are
you doing big girl?
CHRIS: When we first met, it was made
clear that she has four dogs.
When I came into
the house, I was a stranger.
And it was a
little intimidating.
Because it is absolute chaos.
(barking)
SHERRY: They are
extremely destructive.
They've destroyed all of
the furniture in my TV room.
And the backs
off chairs, couches,
eaten all the recliner wires.
CHRIS: The leather
corners on the tables.
SHERRY: They've taken
out my irrigation wires.
They've eaten all
the sprinkler heads off,
they've been
replaced several times.
CHRIS: Ornaments,
gloves, furniture.
SHERRY: They've cost about
six or seven grand so far.
(barking)
All right. Try to calm down.
All right. Okay.
CHRIS: When we go for walks,
it's the same routine there.
(barking)
The whole pack,
just walking chaos.
I'm not a small guy, I've
been yanked over, pulled over.
Not only is it
challenging physically,
it's demanding but it
borderlines on danger.
SHERRY: One time, Jameson and Luna went
out and, uh, k*lled a skunk.
(barking)
The neighbors were
awakened by the noise,
and called animal control.
That gave me a citation,
but it gets worse.
Over the course
of my living here,
neighbors have
probably called animal control
on me eight or ten times,
and it's 300 bucks every time.
SHERRY: Shh.
CHRIS: Kenzi.
SHERRY: Come here.
CHRIS: Kenzi.
SHERRY: Come here. Come here.
CHRIS: Come on. Kenzi.
SHERRY: They're not fun
letters to get, that's for sure.
Come on. Come inside.
The worst case scenario would be for me to
have to surrender all of them.
And I just don't wanna do it.
Within the last decade,
I've lost my mother,
I lost my dad, and
I lost my brother.
Um, I have almost no
other direct family.
The dogs got me
through a lot of death,
and they got me through COVID.
So I owe a lot to these animals.
It's really important to me
to get help from Cesar because
I don't know how to
deal with this destruction.
I don't know how to
deal with the chaos.
CHRIS: We are at our wit's end.
We, we don't know
what the next step is.
SHERRY: These dogs have been
my way of just moving forward
forcing myself, you know, get
up every day just keep moving.
And so this is
really frustrating for me.
And I don't know
how to get out of it.
So I'm just really hopeful that
Cesar is gonna give us the help
that we need so
we can move forward.
(barking)
Hey, Cesar.
CESAR: Hi, guys.
SHERRY: Welcome.
CHRIS: Cesar, welcome.
CESAR: Oh, my God.
(barking)
Obviously you're, you like cats?
SHERRY: Yes.
CHRIS: Yeah.
CESAR: Right.
SHERRY: But have a pack of dogs.
CESAR: You do.
I can hear that.
SHERRY: This is where the
dogs hang out most of the time.
CESAR: Mm-hmm.
SHERRY: They do
kind of have free rein.
CHRIS: They were
chewing on the side corners...
SHERRY: Yeah.
CHRIS: Over there.
SHERRY: All the corners are gone,
back of my chair is gone.
CHRIS: Back of the chair.
SHERRY: Back of
my couch is gone.
CESAR: Immediately you can see
and hear these dogs are ruling
this house, not
Sherry and Chris.
They're barking nonstop,
climbing all over the furniture,
and treating the whole
house like a giant chew toy.
This is really hard to see.
This, in my house,
would never happen.
It's inviting versus invading.
BOTH: Mm-hmm.
CESAR: So if they do it on
their own, they end up invading.
You can have a
dog on furniture,
you can have a dog on beds,
you can have all of that.
All of that is beautiful, right?
But it's also
important for them to,
to know that the
human invite them.
SHERRY: Mm. Mm-hmm.
CHRIS: Wow.
CESAR: They can't just
do whenever they want to.
SHERRY: Yeah.
I think moving to the
home to work remotely now,
and spending so much time
with the dogs during COVID,
I just became so comfortable and
familiar with them that I think
I slipped into
some really bad habits.
There's no structure in
their life, I was always here.
And so then I think
they've become, you know,
really attached to me, and I'm
ridiculously attached to them.
CESAR: What happens when they
do whenever they want to is,
is they start controlling,
they start owning.
And then what you
purchase is not longer yours.
SHERRY: Or I
don't want it anymore.
CESAR: You don't
want it anymore,
you let it, but
they develop a habit.
SHERRY: Right.
CESAR: Destructive behavior in
a young pack like this is often
due to excessive energy.
So I need to see
their exercise routine.
How often do you go
for walks, long walks?
SHERRY: Three or
four days maybe max.
CESAR: So then, how
do they drain energy?
SHERRY: Got a sizable backyard.
So I feel like they get,
they self-exercise but I'm sure
that's not enough.
CESAR: Backyard
play is not exercise.
It should be a reward after
exercise which comes on walks.
Dogs need at least one hour of
sustained exercise every day to
burn off energy.
A great way to do
that is long walks.
CHRIS: Well, if
we can work on the,
the frenzied nature
of the dog walks,
we'd certainly take
them out a lot more.
CESAR: Yes, you should.
SHERRY: Yes.
CHRIS: Yeah. That'd be nice.
SHERRY: Well, I used,
I used to love walks.
I made friends out on my walks.
And, you know, now I, I try
to stay away from everybody.
I go out late.
I try to go places where, I
stay away from the park because
there's gonna be
people and kids and...
CESAR: Yeah.
SHERRY: So that's...
CESAR: So you're
practicing avoidance and flight.
CHRIS: Yeah.
SHERRY: Yeah, I am.
CESAR: You see what I'm saying?
So you have to practice
more of calm confident.
SHERRY: Right. Right.
CESAR: You set the rules,
you set the boundaries,
you set the limits, but when you
practice flight and avoidance,
you are letting them lead you.
If these dogs are ever gonna get
the exercise they need to stop
this destruction, I need to
sort out their chaotic walks.
So that's what I
need to see next.
I wanna see your preparation,
however you do it.
SHERRY: Okay.
CHRIS: Sounds good.
CESAR: Show me
what you normally do.
SHERRY: All right.
CHRIS: Okay.
SHERRY: Here we go.
Guys gonna go for a walk?
You wanna go for a walk?
CHRIS: Luna, bud.
SHERRY: Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
CHRIS: Luna.
SHERRY: Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Here we go.
And that's where they are.
Okay. You got Jameson.
Bru-Bru, come
here honey. Bruzki.
CESAR: This is normal
or this is a little quiet?
CHRIS: This is a little quiet.
SHERRY: Yeah.
CHRIS: Really quiet.
Like they've already
been out today once.
So I think it's a little,
a lot less energy.
SHERRY: Yeah.
This is much easier than normal.
CHRIS: This is nowhere near.
CESAR: Yeah.
Well, Sherry is doing the
opposite of what she should do.
She's using whistling
and high pitch baby talk.
SHERRY: Quick, quick, quick.
Here we go.
CHRIS: Luna.
SHERRY: Okay.
Kenzi, where are you?
CESAR: Which get the dogs even more
excited when she should be calming them.
So the pack has
too much energy and
the pet parent is
adding excitement.
I'm a little nervous
to see how this will go.
(barking)
SHERRY: Just calm down, okay?
All right. Kenzi, stop it.
CESAR: But it's already chaotic.
SHEERY: Stop it.
CESAR: Yeah. A lot,
a lot of excitement.
SHERRY: Come on. Over here.
CESAR: I've never seen a pack
leave the house quite like that.
It was like shaking a can
of soda before opening it.
SHERRY: Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
CESAR: That makes total sense with
how I saw Sherry getting them ready.
CHRIS: Leave it. Leave it.
CESAR: And chaos just
continued down the street.
Yeah, the two brown ones are the one
that is sending the message to attack.
SHERRY: Please (bleep).
CESAR: Yeah.
It's pretty chaotic.
But the little one, the little one
is definitely sending the message.
Oye. Guys, stop, stop.
Somebody's gonna get hurt.
CESAR: I think we've
all seen enough. Look.
SHERRY: Kenzi, stop it.
CESAR: Over here, guys.
The two brown ones.
CHRIS: Yeah.
CESAR: That one is
sending the message.
SHERRY: Kenzi?
CESAR: This one is
about to finish the job.
SHERRY: Jameson.
CESAR: The chaos in Sherry's pack
is really caused by one dog, Kenzi.
He's nervous and excited,
locking on everything
that passes,
charging and barking.
SHERRY: Whoa.
CESAR: Then newcomer Jameson
picks up on her lead and goes on
the attack joined by
the rest of the pack.
This one is the one
that's sending like, like,
like the trumpet.
Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta.
And then they
send the mercenary, boom.
Tsch.
SHERRY: I knew that Kenzi had
anxiety issues but there was
so much destruction and so
much havoc being wreaked that
it just so
overshadowed everything.
But now to see that Kenzi
is actually the instigator,
it makes total sense.
CESAR: This is the one
that's giving you the, tsch.
Hey, look at that.
See, the whole, "Rah! Rah!"
Tsch.
Hey, yeah, this is the one that's giving
you the aggressive tone.
"Let's go and make
chaos everywhere!"
And then they go,
everybody go, "Okay."
SHERRY: Right.
CESAR: She's leading the pack.
CHRIS: Wow.
SHERRY: Okay.
CESAR: Sherry assembled
this pack but right now,
it's being led by Kenzi whose anxiety gets
her pack mates worked up.
Making walks
chaotic and dangerous.
So Sherry doesn't walk them
as much which leads the dogs to
turn all of their energy into
destruction of Sherry's house.
Let's use the healthy leashes,
it will help them calm down.
I need to find the source of
this nervous unsettled energy
because that will be the key
to calming this chaotic pack.
Earlier you also asked me,
where did they become anxious?
They match you, dogs absorb
the negative energy we provide.
SHERRY: I was actually trying to think
what was going on in my life
when I got Kenzi.
CESAR: Yeah.
SHERRY: And I had
just lost my job.
CESAR: Yeah.
SHERRY: We were in
the middle of COVID.
CESAR: Yeah.
SHERRY: I'm sure I was just giving off
waves of not very happy.
CESAR: Yeah.
SHERRY: Maybe I
transferred that to her.
I looked back over my behavior
and some of the tense times I
was going through when I
brought Kenzi into my house.
I wonder if I didn't feed some of her
anxiety issues with my own.
They've had a very unstructured
existence in this house.
So yeah, it's
gonna be some work.
CESAR: Without a doubt,
I wanna definitely
invite you to the DPC.
It's a calming place that
should help both you and Kenzi
get a handle of your energy.
See you at the ranch.
CHRIS: All right.
SHERRY: Okay.
CHRIS: Thank you, Cesar.
CESAR: Thank you, guys. Appreciate it.
SHERRY: Bye, Cesar. Bye.
CESAR: Bye, guys.
CHRIS: Thanks again.
We'll see you at the ranch.
NARRATOR: The next day,
Cesar heads to the streets of
La Canada where
two problematic pooches
pull a family's
youngest members into danger.
GINA: I'm Gina.
WILL: And I'm Will.
We have two daughters.
SAMMY: Hi, I'm Sammy.
MADISON: Hi, I'm Madison.
WILL: And we also have
two dogs, Ollie and Bailey.
GINA: Bailey is a Whoodle or a Soft-Coated
Wheaten Terrier Poodle.
MADISON: Bailey up.
GINA: He is very
sweet-hearted, very gentle.
Hi.
And loves to
give everyone kisses.
Oh, he's tired.
Ollie is the older one,
he's a little Maltipoo.
WILL: Let go, let go hey. Ollie.
MADISON: He's like a rascal.
SAMMY: But he's still
really cute and nice.
GINA: He's very loving and
loves to snuggle up next to us.
But as much as we love him.
WILL: Let go, hey. Ollie.
GINA: Ollie is quite the punk.
(barking)
MADISON: Stop, stop, stop, stop.
GINA: It's the walks,
that's where the stress happens.
No. No.
(barking)
Ollie will start barking and
that will always set off Bailey.
WILL: When they see another dog.
No.
They will both bark and be aggressive
towards the other dogs.
And then they'll start directing
that towards each other.
(barking)
GINA: No. No.
Hey, come on.
WILL: Our neighborhood
is an awesome area but
we have no sidewalks,
the roads are narrow.
There are blind corners.
So as pedestrians, we do
have to take special care.
GINA: It becomes really difficult when the
girls are walking the dogs.
SAMMY: Ollie.
GINA: Because once
they get triggered,
they're literally
pulling you into the street.
Bailey, no.
WILL: There's
that time with Sammy.
GINA: They're all
walking together,
Ollie and Bailey saw the other
dogs and then Ollie started
running into the street,
and then Sammy started walking
into the street as
well chasing after,
oh my gosh, chasing after Ollie into the
street trying to grab her dog.
It's one of those moments
where after you hear about it,
and it's just,
as a mother, you know,
your heart just sinks and it
jumps because she could have
gotten hit by a car.
(sighs)
That didn't happen but
it could easily happen.
WILL: You're always thinking
in the back of your mind,
could that happen again?
Could it be worse?
GINA: I wouldn't
want the dogs to get hit.
I wouldn't want
our girls to get hit.
If Cesar is able to
resolve this issue,
it would be huge.
WILL: Yeah. This is our
chance to really help our dogs,
help our family, and kind
of eliminate that fear of
something's gonna happen.
(doorbell rings and knock)
Stay, stay.
Hello.
GINA: Hi.
WILL: Finally.
CESAR: Family. How are you?
GINA: Hi!
WILL: How are you?
CESAR: Come outside,
we're gonna talk over here.
WILL: Okay. All right. Yup.
CESAR: Is that okay?
MADISON: Hi.
CESAR: Hi.
SAMMY: Hello.
CESAR: Hello.
WILL: Stay, stay.
GINA: We need your help and the entire
neighborhood needs your help.
CESAR: The entire neighborhood?
GINA: Because they,
our dogs are infamous.
When they see bigger dogs.
CESAR: Yes.
GINA: And they
go berserk, they're pulling,
they're barking, and
then they're just biting...
CESAR: Right.
GINA: Each other.
CESAR: What Gina is describing
is called redirection.
When an aggressive dog is
unable to reach their target,
they redirect that
aggression on something closer.
Ollie and Bailey are
redirecting on each other.
GINA: Stop, stop, stop.
CESAR: By getting caught in the crossfire
is another way that Gina, William,
and especially
the girls could get hurt.
GINA: Our primary concern
really is our daughters.
CESAR: Yes.
GINA: You'll notice how our neighborhood
doesn't have any sidewalks.
CESAR: Yes.
WILL: There's always the
chance of a car coming up
kind of a accident
waiting to happen.
CESAR: Oh.
Well, I wanna see the walk next.
Who taught you
how to walk the dogs?
GINA: Ourselves?
WILL: Self-taught?
(laughter)
We didn't know
there was a course.
CESAR: They laughed but they
know firsthand how dangerous it
is when you don't know the
right way to walk your dogs.
So, Gina, you're
gonna get to do your thing,
and we're gonna watch.
I need to see what
they're doing wrong.
We have some
dogs waiting for you.
Oh, there she comes.
WILL: Yeah.
SAMMY: There she is.
CESAR: But Bailey is pulling.
WILL: Yeah, Bailey's pulling.
Bailey is physically
stronger but Ollie...
MADISON: Is the barker.
WILL: He's very slow.
MADISON: Until he
sees another dog.
WILL: Yeah. And then he
becomes a teenager and just.
CESAR: Not too close to the dog.
Not too close to the dog.
GINA: No, no, no.
CESAR: Wow.
Move it, move it, move it.
Keep moving.
You don't wanna get
caught between them.
CESAR: Stop, Gina.
Here. Give me Ollie.
He's the troublemaker.
Both Ollie and Bailey's lunging is
dragging Gina around the street.
Even worse, they're redirecting
their aggression on each other
and Gina got
caught in the middle.
GINA: Ah!
CESAR: She really
could have been hurt.
It's clear that Ollie is the
instigator and Bailey is just
following his lead.
I need to get Ollie
under control immediately.
GINA: Ollie. Ollie.
CESAR: Stop saying his name because he
could sense your fear.
(whining)
He's nervous.
That's why he was doing that.
Ollie's a nervous, excited dog.
He's sensitive to
tense and fearful energy,
which is exactly
what Gina is giving him.
She's scared her
dogs will attack,
but Ollie senses fear and
thinks he must protect her.
GINA: No. Come here.
CESAR: Bailey joins his pack
mate and all the lunging and
barking causes Gina more fear.
GINA: Hey. Come on.
CESAR: Even worse, the dogs
then redirect on each other.
GINA: Hey. Come on.
CESAR: Ollie and Bailey
can't reach the neighbor's dogs,
so they turn on
each other instead.
GINA: Come on. No.
CESAR: It's a vicious cycle of fear that
leads to dangerous situations
in the road for Gina,
and especially for the girls.
SAMMY: Ollie.
CESAR: I need to work with Gina on
controlling her energy better.
But first, I have
to calm Ollie down.
Shh. Shh.
(whimpers)
Tsch. Tsch.
There you go.
I am calm, so Ollie is calm.
Shh.
I must show Gina how to model calm energy
when walking the dogs,
because the only way they
can actually be safe is when
the dogs become calm surrender.
Tsch.
You have to
stay calm, confident,
no matter what.
I'm leading him to where I want him to go,
moving where I wanna move.
GINA: Mm-hmm.
CESAR: Stopping
when I wanna stop,
because they are learning
to trust that the human has
control over himself,
to control the situation.
GINA: The results that we
saw were crazy instantaneous.
I mean, just the little
things that he did seemed to
make a really big difference.
CESAR: Tsch.
Correct with a slight pull on
the leash to snap him out of it.
GINA: Yeah.
CESAR: It is about you carrying
the calm confident position and
then they follow. Get it?
GINA: Mm-hmm.
CESAR: Your turn.
GINA: Who? Me?
CESAR: Yes.
GINA: Okay. Here we go. Okay.
CESAR: And you're
gonna do the same thing.
Short, not tense.
Go ahead. Don't hesitate.
GINA: Ollie, Ollie,
come on tsch. Oh, oh. Oh.
CESAR: Hold on.
So with this guy,
you have to act faster.
GINA: Uh-huh.
CESAR: Because he gets stuck.
GINA: Yes.
CESAR: Okay?
Get your energy right.
Let's try it again.
GINA: All right. Come on, Ollie.
CESAR: Go ahead. Go ahead.
GINA: No.
(barking)
CESAR: Keep going.
Keep going. Keep going.
Little faster. Little faster.
Little fast, there we go.
Correct. There you go.
Correct. Correct.
GINA: Tsch.
CESAR: See that?
He stopped barking because he has to pay
attention to her lead.
Once Gina was projecting
calm confident energy,
she didn't tense up when Ollie
barked and she even corrected
him effectively,
which calmed him down.
Now, it's time to see how
she does walking Ollie and
Bailey together again.
Last time they
redirected on each other.
So this is a big test of
Gina's energy and leadership.
Same thing, calm confident,
move, move, move.
You're moving too
close to the pack.
There you go. Yes. Yes.
Ollie didn't even
react to that charge because
you didn't seem afraid, which
means he's following your lead.
GINA: So this is amazing.
CESAR: You're welcome.
GINA: This really is.
So this is a very good lesson.
I need to kind of
exude the calmness first,
and then the dogs will follow.
CESAR: Yeah.
GINA: The dogs
actually did really well.
I feel really hopeful.
SAMMY: Ollie.
CESAR: I just wanna
leave you with some homework.
GINA: Okay.
WILL: Yeah.
CESAR: Practice self-control.
GINA: The self-control.
CESAR: That means being aware
of and maintaining calm confident energy.
WILL: Yeah.
CESAR: So by the time you move.
GINA: Uh-huh.
CESAR: You just ask
them to stay in that zone.
We have to focus on Gina.
Gina is
definitely excited, tense,
and I want her to
be calm and confident.
Simple as that.
That means Gina is just going to have
to practice her walks with confidence.
Walk, walk, walk.
Practice, practice, practice
because it's only after
Gina commands the energy of the household
with calm confident leadership
that we'll reach our goal
of the girls safely walking
the dogs on their own.
CESAR: Thank you.
SAMMY: Thank you.
WILL: Thank you.
CESAR: Thank you.
SAMMY: Thank you.
GINA: Bye.
SAMMY: Bye.
NARRATOR: A few days later,
Cesar returns to La Canada to
check on Ollie and
Bailey's progress.
CESAR: I need to see if Gina has
practiced the calm confident dog
walks needed to calm this pack,
so the girls can safely walk
the dogs without
being pulled into traffic.
MADISON: Hello.
WILL: Hello.
GINA: Hi.
CESAR: All right.
This is a beautiful
obedient state of mind.
This is good. I like it.
GINA: They've definitely improved in
terms of controlling the dogs.
They're walking beside us.
No barking, no craziness.
Even the neighbors
with their dogs passing us.
They'll comment, "Oh,
that's so much better."
But there are still a
lot of redirecting and
trying to wrangle them in.
And the girls really haven't had a chance
to walk the dogs by themselves.
I don't think it's gonna happen
until we feel more comfortable.
It's definitely a
work in progress still.
CESAR: Yeah. Well, Gina,
you are the pack leader.
If you stay calm confident,
the dogs will get to calm, too,
and the girls will
have no problem walking them.
GINA: All right.
CESAR: Let's go for a walk.
GINA: Okay.
CESAR: I wanna
see you in action.
GINA: We'll see.
SAMMY: The dogs are, like,
definitely getting better.
MADISON: Due to the
guidance that Cesar gave us,
I think he's done
a pretty good job,
but like this was
a lot more stressful.
CESAR: All right, Gina.
You're gonna be the role model.
GINA: Okay.
CESAR: The pack
leader of the family.
GINA: All right.
CESAR: I know this is
very important to you,
the pack walk, so the girls
can do it without any problem.
So we have some
dogs waiting for you.
GINA: When Cesar told me about
the gauntlet f dogs, I was nervous.
CESAR: Let's go.
And we're gonna
support you over here.
GINA: All right.
I was hoping that everything
that Cesar told us to do would
just kind of happen naturally.
CESAR: All right. Let's go.
♪ ♪
CESAR: When you see a dog too close,
you have to, watch out.
Watch out.
Give him a little distance.
Calm confident.
(takes deep breath)
Breathe.
Gina is tight and stressed,
which puts the dogs on edge so
when they pass dogs
with more aggressive energy,
Ollie reacted and
Bailey follow his lead.
Gina needs to move
with more calm confidence.
Beautiful. Relax the shoulders.
There you go.
That was great.
Keep going. Keep going.
Bring it in. Bring it in.
He's trying to negotiate.
Don't let him hesitate.
Keep moving.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
That was the best one.
I see a different Gina,
more confident.
Ollie tried to stop in
the middle of the road,
but Gina wasn't having it.
She pulled on the leash to correct him and
Ollie got right back in line.
It was a perfect
calm confident correction.
She's becoming a
true pack leader.
Gina, how you feel?
GINA: I feel good.
CESAR: You did great.
GINA: Thank you.
CESAR: You did great.
Yeah, yeah.
GINA: When I was walking Ollie
and Bailey past the other dogs,
I saw that, you know, they,
they're able to
handle themselves
because they take
after what we show them.
CESAR: I think you're
ready for your final challenge.
Now, we'll see if Ollie and Bailey can
stay calm with the girls.
GINA: Girls, you ready?
CESAR: Come on.
Here, have Bailey.
MADISON: Okay.
CESAR: Yeah.
Gina and Will were terrified
about letting Addison and
Samantha walk the dogs out of fear they'd
be pulled into traffic.
But under the calm
leadership of Gina,
both dogs are in a much
calmer mindset on walks,
if Sammy and Addison can keep
moving them and give distance
when necessary, they should
have no issues controlling them.
That's it.
Don't think about it. Just go.
SAMMY: Okay.
MADISON: That way?
CESAR: Yup. That way.
MADISON: Oh, okay.
When Cesar said that
me and Sammy were up next
to walk the dogs, I
was like, "Uh, seriously?"
Like, I was a little
unsure about myself.
CESAR: We don't want this.
WILL: Yeah.
CESAR: We want this.
GINA: Mm-hmm.
CESAR: Projection.
GINA: Yeah.
CESAR: Calm confident.
GINA: Mm-hmm.
CESAR: Yeah.
GINA: It's also bad posture.
CESAR: Huh? Bad, yeah.
It's a, it's also bad posture.
That's right.
Look, they didn't even
react to the other dog.
WILL: Oh, that was good.
CESAR: Yeah. Yeah.
Ollie's trying to control
by shutting down and stopping.
Don't let him push you.
Correct that.
Beautiful. Look at that.
GINA: They're doing really well.
CESAR: Yeah.
GINA: That's good.
Good job, girls.
CESAR: Yup.
WILL: There you go.
CESAR: Look at that. Yeah.
GINA: Good.
CESAR: You remember.
GINA: Good.
CESAR: Hey, that was great.
You guys did better than mom.
How does it feel?
SAMMY: It was good. I was surprised that
they weren't like barking or pulling,
they're just walking.
CESAR: Right? That's right.
GINA: Mm-hmm.
I do feel much more assured that
the girls have more control of
the dogs and that they're safe.
CESAR: Yeah.
GINA: They're not gonna
get pulled into the street...
CESAR: Mm-hmm.
GINA: Like they were before.
This is gonna enhance our
relationship with our dogs.
CESAR: Yeah.
GINA: You know, like, because the
stress level has gone down immensely.
CESAR: The entire Lee family
is feeling the effects of Gina
becoming a strong,
calm confident leader.
She's truly become the pack leader Ollie
and Bailey and the whole house needs.
Lee family, we did it.
We did it. We did it.
WILL: Good job.
CESAR: We did it.
WILL: Thank you.
CESAR: Let's go for a pack walk.
GINA: All right.
I feel great about today.
I'm really proud of the way
Ollie and Bailey reacted or
didn't react to all the dogs that were
kind of coming at them and,
and walking past us, and I
feel like we really implemented
all the tools
that Cesar gave us.
I'm proud of us.
WILL: Woo!
GINA: Yeah. Woo!
WILL: Yay!
NARRATOR: The next day, Sherry
and Chris arrive at the DPC with
their four-dog pack.
SHERRY: Yeah, you guys
getting excited? Yeah?
You're always excited.
You were born excited.
NARRATOR: Sherry assembled
the pack during COVID to deal
with stress and unhappiness.
But now it's upended
her life and her home.
CESAR: Good morning and welcome.
SHERRY: Thank you.
CHRIS: Good morning, Cesar.
CESAR: Bring them out. Bring...
SHERRY: Okay.
CHRIS: Yeah.
CESAR: You don't
do the back door?
SHERRY: I'm afraid we,
we're afraid of, I got it.
I got it.
I'm afraid they'll run.
CESAR: Oh.
It's clear this pack
is exploding with energy.
Whether it's exiting
the car or the house or
tearing Sherry's furniture
to shreds, led by nervous,
excited Basenji, Kenzi.
All right. So we're gonna focus
with Kenzi and the agility.
I wanna show you
something that is...
CHRIS: Okay.
CESAR: Very powerful.
Since the rest of the pack
takes its cues from Kenzi,
she needs extra exercise
every day to drain her energy.
That will calm her down, which
will calm the rest of the pack.
I want to show Sherry a
new tool for doing that.
Well, I heard you
guys have a treadmill, so.
CHRIS: Yes.
CESAR: I just wanna give you
more options to be creative,
you know, in how
we drain energy, so...
CHRIS: Great.
CESAR: Treadmills are for us and
fitness and in the dog world,
it's gonna be super mental.
SHERRY: Okay.
CHRIS: Okay.
CESAR: So let's see you get Kenzi on the
treadmill and then I can help.
SHERRY: Okay.
CHRIS: Okay.
SHERRY: Come on.
CESAR: To a dog,
treadmills are not natural.
So at first, Kenzi
would not want to be on it.
This exercise is as much about
teaching Kenzi how to be on a
treadmill as it is
about teaching Sherry
how to lead her
confidently and calmly.
SHERRY: You're pretty
exited about that, huh?
Oops. Yup. There we go.
Okay, let's get
your legs squared away.
CESAR: Okay. But she
didn't know how she got there.
She actually has to go on.
SHERRY: Do it herself.
CHRIS: Yeah. Okay.
SHERRY: Okay.
CESAR: Like a, like a stairs.
SHERRY: Okay.
CESAR: Yeah.
Guidance and then she
had to figure it out.
SHERRY: Okay.
CESAR: Sherry's instincts was to pick up
Kenzi and put her on the treadmill,
but in doing that, Kenzi isn't learning
how to get on the treadmill herself.
Part of the teaching
is allowing the student,
in this case, Kenzi,
the space to learn and find
out for herself how to succeed.
SHERRY: All right. Up we go.
Good girl. Okay.
CESAR: There you go. See that?
CHRIS: Oh, she looked up to you.
Like, "What am I
supposed to do?"
And then, and then...
CESAR: And then she did.
CHRIS: Yeah. That's great.
CESAR: So guidance.
And then she has to do the rest.
SHERRY: Okay.
CESAR: If you do everything,
the brain never
learns you are the leader.
From the beginning.
It might seem small, but
teaching Kenzi how to get
onto the treadmill is a big
victory for Sherry and her dog.
Showing Kenzi how to walk on a moving
ground is the next lesson.
(beeps)
There you go.
I'm riding the
wave of like flight.
CHRIS: Uh-huh.
CESAR: And, and we're gonna
wait for the calm surrender.
And you come here.
Come in over here.
And while my handler
Jaime watches for safety,
they see you in that direction.
Look.
SHERRY: Yeah. That's,
she's speeding up a little bit.
CESAR: There you go.
So that's pretty
much what we want.
CHRIS: Oh, that's great.
CESAR: Is this.
SHERRY: Oh, yeah.
Yeah. She's got it.
CHRIS: She, she's got it.
SHERRY: That's amazing.
When Cesar asked me to
get her on the treadmill, I,
I never thought
it would work, but,
you know, it,
it's just patience.
And amazingly, she just
came right around over time.
CHRIS: Whose dog is this
and what did you do with Kenzi?
CESAR: There you go.
We're gonna stop.
We're gonna, we're
gonna stop on a good note.
Draining Kenzi's physical and
mental energy with structured exercise,
not just the back yard
play is key to getting her
into this calm surrender state.
She's now ready
for her next step.
We can take the leash off
because if their pet parents are
holding the leash, then they can also go
into protecting their pet parents.
She has to do it on her own.
CHRIS: This is the first time
she's been off-leash anywhere.
SHERRY: Yeah. Oh.
CESAR: I'll be right back.
CHRIS: Okay.
SHERRY: Okay.
CESAR: I'm gonna bring my pack.
On day one, I saw how Kenzi's
nervous excitement turns into
aggression around new dogs.
So now, that she's
in calm surrender,
I think she's
ready to meet my pack.
CHRIS: Are they all just kinda come
marching down the road, do you think?
SHERRY: I don't know.
CESAR: But really, this next exercise
is a test of Sherry's energy.
SHERRY: Oh, boy.
CHRIS: Oh, my God.
SHERRY: It's overwhelming to
see this variety of dogs because
they're all different and
there's little tiny ones and
there's giant ones.
Kenzi's running
around and, yeah,
I'm tense
watching them come in.
I have to say, I'm a little
concerned about the little dogs.
I certainly don't
want any dogs to get hurt.
CESAR: Watch out.
(barking)
Now she's getting too anxious.
(barking)
CESAR: Tsch.
Tsch. Tsch.
There you go.
CHRIS: Um, what's
going on right now?
CESAR: Well...
CHRIS: With the other dogs?
CESAR: That's, that's
why I moved in really fast.
You see how she charged?
So I charged in first.
When my pack arrived,
Sherry became uneasy and
that anxious energy upset
Kenzi setting off the charge.
But by stepping in with calm,
confident energy, I relaxed her.
Now we're gonna move in that
direction just for her to keep exploring.
CHRIS: Okay.
CESAR: See? I like this.
She's paying
attention to what we want.
This is a perfect opportunity
for you guys to take over.
CHRIS: Okay.
CESAR: She doesn't
know where she is.
It gives you the
opportunity to teach.
Her following you
right now is really good.
Just look she's
in a follower state.
CHRIS: Oh, I see.
CESAR: No leash.
Now that Kenzi is following
the guidance of the human,
Sherry is less anxious.
And if she remains calm, her dog will
be in harmony with the pack.
This is the key moment that
Sherry must experience for her
pack to truly transform.
CESAR: Sweet girl.
Peaceful girl.
Very respectful. She's doing it.
SHERRY: Seeing Kenzi just run free
like that, just the happiness, the joy,
it just brought so
much joy to my heart.
It was amazing.
No, I really didn't ever
think I'd see Kenzi with
all these other
dogs behaving well.
What's really phenomenal
about working with Cesar is,
you know, he teaches you so
much about your relationship
with your animals, but also
an awful lot about yourself.
Told him I wasn't gonna cry.
Um, I brought my dogs in
because I was very lonely and
I had a lot of bad
things going on in my life.
And I really thought that
I was doing well by them.
I realized now I probably took more from
them than I gave to them.
And now I'm excited about
giving them the structure
and the appropriate kind
of love and the discipline,
and everything
else that they need.
They mean a lot to me.
They need, they
need a better life.
Yep, and now
they're gonna have it.
CHRIS: She is happy-go-lucky.
SHERRY: Look at that.
That's a
happy-looking dog right there.
CHRIS: Yeah.
CESAR: Sherry's seen that when
she keeps her own energy light,
Kenzi changes instantly.
Now we can bring the
rest of their pack and it is
a completely
different story from day one.
The entire pack is
happy-go-lucky and playful,
and that's what we want.
But the real work will
be Sherry and Kenzi keeping
this energy going at home.
So for homework,
practice what we did here,
separate the pack to
keep that calm surrender.
Three dogs walk and
Kenzi can go by herself.
Or put her on the treadmill.
You have the
skills to do that now.
CHRIS: Okay.
SHERRY: Okay.
CESAR: And then once you feel good,
you can put the pack together.
(laughs)
CESAR: Sherry had a
great breakthrough today.
She saw how her own energy is key to
keeping Kenzi calm and happy.
CHRIS: Hey, thank you.
SHERRY: Oh, this is awesome.
I expect it to be a
good day, but it was,
it surpassed my expectations.
CESAR: Yes!
But it is just as important that
Sherry gives Kenzi the exercise
she needs to burn
her excessive energy.
It's happening.
SHERRY: It is happening.
While we're doing our homework,
it's still not perfect.
But the treadmill's been fun.
It's been gathering a
lot of dust until recently.
And then the walks are coming.
Particularly for the dogs
that need their energy diffused
it's helping tremendously,
particularly Kenzi.
Cesar reinforces calm confidence and I've
seen how important that is.
At the point that I
brought Kenzi into my life,
I was not a very calm person.
Sit.
Trying to get better at it,
but I have a lot of work to do.
NARRATOR: One week later,
Cesar returns to check on
Sherry and Kenzi's progress.
SHERRY: Hello.
CHRIS: Hi, Cesar.
CESAR: Oh. Come on out.
Come on out, guys.
When I first visited, Sherry
seemed defeated and it wasn't
just because her pack was
tearing her house apart and
lashing out on
walks led by Kenzi.
SHERRY: Whoa.
CESAR: Already today, she seems
brighter and more confident.
That's a good sign and I can't
wait to see their progress.
I'm excited because it's the first time
that I see you excited.
CHRIS: Yeah.
SHERRY: Oh, no,
I'm super excited.
CESAR: I wanna see the walk.
Come on.
BOTH: All right.
CESAR: When I was here before,
Sherry and Chris exploded out of
the house and
walks were pure chaos.
I'm not surprised the neighbors
were calling animal control.
(barking)
SHERRY: Kenzi, stop it.
CESAR: Today, I need to see if Sherry can
keep Kenzi and therefore,
the rest of the pack calm
and quiet just by keeping
her own energy right.
(laughs)
SHERRY: Who are these dogs?
CESAR: My jaw has dropped.
Sherry and Chris departed
the house calmly, silently,
and they're leading the pack with a
confidence I never seen from them before.
The transformation
is incredible.
Wow, what a difference.
SHERRY: It's amazing,
yeah, it's...
CESAR: That's more beautiful.
SHERRY: Yeah.
CESAR: Absolutely.
SHERRY: Yeah.
CESAR: Are you guys ready
for your final challenge?
CHRIS: Yeah, let's do it.
SHERRY: Yes.
CESAR: All the work
Sherry and Kenzi have done was
directed on calming
their nervous, heavy energy.
For their final challenge,
I need to see Sherry maintain
her calm, confident leadership
even when the outside world is
throwing distractions at her.
We're gonna take
Bruzski and Luna.
Let's focus on
Kenzi and Jameson.
The more reactive
and destructive ones.
SHERRY: Okay.
CESAR: And so what we're gonna
do is very simple which is,
see those cones right there?
CHRIS: Uh-huh.
SHERRY: Mm-hmm.
CESAR: You guys gonna go in loops and then
I'm gonna surprise you with things.
SHERRY: Okay.
CHRIS: Okay.
CESAR: Okay?
CHRIS: Great.
CESAR: Enjoy it.
CHRIS: All right. Thank you.
SHERRY: Okay.
CESAR: Beautiful.
SHERRY: All right.
CESAR: Kenzi is
doing really, really good.
She's entering to
a happy-go-lucky self.
All right, guys. Get ready.
My crew is gonna start
bringing things your way.
SHERRY: We've done a lot of work,
but they're not perfect.
CHRIS: I'm fearful.
I'm wondering
what's gonna happen.
CESAR: This is
just the beginning.
Don't hesitate.
(barking)
CESAR: Uh-oh.
SHERRY: Tsch.
CESAR: They're
losing it a little bit.
You need to get her
back to calm surrender.
Keep Jameson back there
until I get Kenzi to calm down.
She got a little too excited.
CHRIS: She looked back to Jameson like,
"Where's my muscle?"
CESAR: Yeah. This one
was sending that one.
Kenzi is still causing the
problems in Sherry's pack from
the destruction inside, to the
latest aggression on the street.
She gets nervous and
starts barking and lunging and
gets her younger pack mate
Jameson to follow her lead.
Sherry created this situation by
not correcting Kenzi as soon as
she began staring at
the approaching dog.
Even worse, she stopped moving,
which led Kenzi stay locked in
when she should have been giving
distance and kept walking.
Tsch.
So sometimes you can
just keep a little distance.
CHRIS: Mm-hmm.
CESAR: Tsch. Just
like the social distance.
Moving away from a problem
situation gives you a chance to
make your corrections and to get your
energy back into a good place.
Tsch. There you go.
That's the energy right there.
The biggest thing for dog
people is not to get caught up
in the moment of anxiety
and lose your calmness,
lose your patience,
lose your focus.
Look, now that I got her to calm down,
Jameson is calm too.
Sherry, you come take
Kenzi now that she's calm.
You keep her in that state.
SHERRY: I had a little bit
of self-doubt actually and
I think that she
picked up on it.
Kind of embarrassing, but
Cesar showed me how to do it
more gracefully, with
a whole lot less stress.
Again, practice makes
perfect and the more repetition,
the better it'll get.
CESAR: Much better.
That's what we want right there.
The silence
tells you everything.
You come take Kenzi
now that she's calm.
SHERRY: Never
thought I'd see the day.
CESAR: Kenzi's in a
perfect follower state.
All right, let me
walk right next to you.
If I bring Jameson over
and Kenzi doesn't get anxious,
then you guys are
really as calm as you seem.
See, Kenzi is calm,
so Jameson's no problem.
CHRIS: Wow.
CESAR: Well, you can see it clear as
day when Sherry's energy
stays light and upbeat,
Kenzi is a model citizen and
the other pack
members fall right in line.
I'm passing her.
There you go.
The transformation of
both of them is remarkable.
That's it.
SHERRY: Amazing.
CESAR: Fall in love
with calm surrender.
That's your best destination.
Tell me how you feel, Sherry.
SHERRY: Just amazing.
Yeah, this is more than I
could have ever asked for.
CESAR: Aw, Sherry.
SHERRY: Yeah, two calm dogs in
the middle of my neighborhood in
the middle of the day.
Don't have to go
creep around at night.
CESAR: How about that?
SHERRY: I can actually look up what my
neighbors' houses look like.
CESAR: How about that?
When I first met Sherry,
Chris, and the pack,
there was so much pent up
anxiety and bad energy and
it was literally exploding out of the
dogs and out of the house.
It was chaos and
it was dangerous.
CHRIS: Hey, hey.
SHERRY: Whoa.
CESAR: Now, seeing the work
Sherry has done with her dogs
and her own energy, I
am super proud of her, Kenzi,
and the whole pack.
More importantly, with
the entire pack getting more
exercise led by a
happier pet parent,
destruction in the house
should be a thing of the past.
SHERRY: No longer concerned about
animal control being called.
CESAR: I'm glad.
SHERRY: That's
gonna be a relief.
CHRIS: You're the
real deal, Cesar.
CESAR: Thank you.
Feels really good
seeing you, especially,
you Sherry because you were
so worried when I came and,
and just, just the
lightness in your face.
When I arrived this morning,
I wanted to cry, you know.
I want, I wanted to
cry because it touches,
you know, touches how much
you love your dogs obviously.
And the freedom that
you felt, the relaxation,
the happiness, the clarity,
but I'm feeling the gratitude.
So I thank you.
SHERRY: This has been as
much about me as the dogs.
CESAR: Yeah.
SHERRY: This has been
a huge transformation for me personally.
So thank you very, very much.
CESAR: Yes. I felt it.
SHERRY: Yes.
CHRIS: Absolutely.
SHERRY: When I brought Kenzi in at a, at
a dark time during COVID,
I knew she was an
anxiety-ridden dog.
So to see her change the way she
has and improve and calm down,
has been wonderful.
I'm actually looking at life
with a new lease on everything.
This whole experience has been
eye-opening and, and life-changing for me.
CESAR: Thank you.
SHERRY: Thank you so much.
CESAR: Thank you, guys.
Appreciate it.
SHERRY: Yes.
CHRIS: Good job.
Thank you so much for your help.
CESAR: All right.
My job is done.
CHRIS: Thank you, Cesar.
CESAR: Thank you, guys.
SHERRY: Thank you.
CESAR: It's something
I see again and again,
dogs show us
what's wrong with us.
When we are happy,
they are happy.
But when we suffer,
they often suffer too.
During COVID, so many of
us were stressed, unhappy,
and grieving.
And that's what our
dogs reflected back.
But as the pandemic eases,
and people do the hard work of
healing from what
we have endured,
their dogs will be right
there healing alongside them.
When you fix yourself,
you fix your pack.
Better Human. Better Dog.
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With dog adoptions at a record high Cesar's timely return to television will give new pet parents the tools they need to teach their dogs good habits and shed the old bad habits.
With dog adoptions at a record high Cesar's timely return to television will give new pet parents the tools they need to teach their dogs good habits and shed the old bad habits.