03x01 - Jurassic Park: Part 1

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CESAR: When my journey
began as the Dog Whisperer,

I taught the world, there is
no such a thing as a bad dog.

Today, my message has evolved.

Tsch.

But it's clear that people
and dogs still need help.

WOMAN: The problem is me.
CESAR: He needs rehab like ASAP.

WOMAN: I just don't
want you to get bit.

CESAR: Do you know who I am?

Together with my superhero pack,
our mission is to create better humans

and better dogs
one pack at a time.

(theme music playing)

CESAR: A pack with two dogs
fighting is dangerous,

but a pack with three dogs fighting
is a red zone emergency.

I'm in my way to
Huntington Beach,

where two dogs have
been in combat for years.

Now, the pet parent added
a third dog into the pack.

And that dog is now
becoming just as aggressive.

This is an expl*sive situation.

They can potentially end up in a dog death
or someone in a hospital.

I need to address
this immediately.

SUSIE: I'm Susie.

It's hard being an empty nester
and your kids are grown and

don't really rely on
you for a lot anymore.

So, it's great that now I've got
these dogs and they're kind of my purpose.

They're a little too
much of my purpose.

I've got Isabella and
she's an English Bulldog.

I've had Izzy the longest.

She is about
eight years old now.

She is not the
smartest dog in the world,

but she is very sweet.

Kane showed up when he
was about four weeks old.

That was three years ago.

He is 95-pound
Staffy Pit, Cane Corso mix.

I always say he's like Shrek.

He has no idea how big and terrifying
he is, but he's just a big heart.

And then Tricky
is new to the pack.

She came here about six months ago
and Tricky is just under a year old.

And she's also a
little Pit Bull mix.

She is probably one of the most
affectionate dogs that I've ever seen.

I love them so much.

And I don't like really
talking about these things,

but I went through a great deal
of trauma in a very short amount of time.

They were what I needed
to not feel alone with

all of the things
that I was dealing with,

but I signed up for
more than I can handle.

Kane and Izzy used
to be best buddies.

When Kane was about a year old, that
changed pretty significantly.

(barking)

I'm scared to death
when they go at each other,

because when the fights
have happened in the past,

they all required
stitches and surgery.

One time I was walking in the kitchen,
Izzy started growling,

Kane started growling,
and he went after her.

Kane grabbed Izzy by
the back of the neck.

He was just shaking
her around like a rag doll.

And I was afraid he
was gonna turn on me

because I was trying
to get him off of her.

And I could just, I
could hear the cry.

Finally, got a hold of Kane's collar and I
don't have a lot of control.

So, I broke my
finger doing this.

But he let her go.

And then I just had to
clean up all the blood.

And I, I don't ever
wanna experience that again.

I was afraid he
was gonna k*ll her.

(barking)

And just last night,
Izzy and Tricky got into it,

and I had to pull them apart,

separate them and
get them in the crates.

So now I've got three dogs that can't
be left alone or together.

Nobody's getting what they need.

Can't walk them together.

Dogs are with me 24/7.

Can't have family and
friends freely come over.

(barking)

I, I just don't want anybody,
a dog, a human to get hurt.

I love these dogs,
but this can't continue.

If things don't change soon,
my sanity is at stake.

I've gotta get this fixed so
that my pack can be at peace

because right now I
live my life worried

and it's just
not good for anybody.

I desperately need help.

(knocking)

Hello.

CESAR: Susie.
SUSIE: Come on in.

CESAR: How are you?
Nice to meet you.

SUSIE: Nice to meet you.
CESAR: Nice to meet you. Ooh.

(barking)

SUSIE: Down.
CESAR: Okay.

(barking)

SUSIE: I'm living
in controlled chaos.

CESAR: It's pretty,
pretty strong.

The energy in the
house is really strong.

I just walk in and I feel a,

a boulder, a mountain
of pressure, you know?

Like this
aspiration of I need help.

How long you've
been like, like this?

SUSIE: So, I'd say about two years ago,
Izzy and Kane began fighting.

And now with Tricky here,
it's just getting worse.

CESAR: This pack's energy
even when they're quiet,

it's like an expl*si*n ready to
go off with the slightest spark.

My own energy has to be perfect.

Tell me about the fights.

SUSIE: The Kane
fights are just awful.

CESAR: These two fight?

SUSIE: These two
Izzy and Tricky,

they got into a fight
just last night, actually.

CESAR: Okay.
What are their triggers?

SUSIE: With Izzy and Tricky,
if I'm giving one attention,

the other one wants the
attention and they go at it.

Then when they get
riled up, Kane gets riled up

and will bust through anything.

Whenever there's excitement,

if he hears something,
he's gotta regulate.

CESAR: Okay.

SUSIE: Anyone, a human
or dog gets agitated, Kane,

he's gotta get in there and he's always
gotta regulate the energy.

Kane is the problem
because he's just so big

and he will overcorrect
and hurt somebody.

He will grab the dogs,
shake 'em around, pin 'em down,

and they've gone
to the hospital.

They've gotten infections.

I've gotten bit
in the middle of it.

CESAR: Okay. And
do you got any help?

SUSIE: I have gone through five trainers
and I still can't stop the fights.

CESAR: It's alarming to
learn that Susie worked with

five trainers and the
chaos is only getting worse.

SUSIE: I can't live like this.

So, I mean, I would love
to be able to make this work.

But three dogs are in this constant chaos
and it's not sustainable.

CESAR: Susie is right.
This is not sustainable

because one of these
dogs is going to get k*lled

or Susie is going to
end up in the hospital.

It's a pressure cooker in there,
just waiting to explode.

Bringing Kane into this energy
will just pour fuel on the fire.

So, I need to keep him separate while I
evaluate Tricky and Izzy.

And this excitement,
is it normal to you?

SUSIE: That's normal.
They're happy to see me.

CESAR: Oh.
SUSIE: It's kind of like...

CESAR: That's
your interpretation?

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: Okay.

She's allowing excitement,
you know?

Excitement does
not equal happiness.

Excited dogs can get
into fight, calm dogs don't.

SUSIE: Right. Usually
when they get excited

is when something happens.

Tricky gets in Izzy's space,
Izzy doesn't like it,

and then it starts something.

CESAR: That's how a lot of dog lovers
get into trouble, right?

They see excitement
as a way of happiness

and the dogs they see excitement
as a way of challenging each other.

Now, when they're excited,

how do you bring
that energy back down?

Do you do anything about it?
Like take the, the toy away?

SUSIE: Yeah.
CESAR: Can I see that?

SUSIE: Tricky, come here. Sit.

(growls)

No. Tricky, come here. Sit.

Let me have it.
Leave it. Uh-uh.

Isabella. It's a
fight waiting to happen.

CESAR: Mm-hmm.
Just to avoid fights, just...

Izzy twice tried to
take the toy from Tricky.

Tricky challenged
her right back.

SUSIE: Uh-uh.

CESAR: And Izzy
growl in her face.

SUSIE: She's not
gonna give it up.

CESAR: She's not?
SUSIE: No.

She's not gonna give it up.

CESAR: Susie needs to step in and give
discipline to deescalate,

but instead she backs down.

When I say discipline,
I mean, she needs to guide

the dogs to obey rules and respect
boundaries, as showing leadership.

You need to show Tricky leadership, but
you give up too quickly.

SUSIE: Yeah.
CESAR: Right?

And, and so, but look
how the pupils get dilated.

This energy isn't playful.
Tricky is challenging me.

The more the pupils get dilated, the more
they bring this energy.

Dilated pupils like that
are a sign Tricky thinks

she's fighting over prey,
not playing with a toy.

When a dog hunts, his nervous system
will flood with adrenaline,

which increases her
chance of securing her prey.

But in this case, it's
totally inappropriate.

It tells me for Tricky,
this isn't play.

The more you fight with them or the more
you invite them to fight you back,

the more their brain
goes into this excited way.

And it's more difficult
for them to calm down.

(barks)

That's what excites,
that's what excites her.

Tsch.

Tsch. Shh.

Susie gives up too
quickly instead of

following through
enforcing rules.

So Tricky has learned if she waits it out,
she gets to keep the toy.

So your dogs don't respect you.

We need to establish rules so they
know what is not allowed.

Tsch.

Right now, she
can't touch any toys.

It is like being referee.

The referee tells LeBron James
when that ball moves.

Tsch. Look, she ignored my correction and
went and got another toy.

He's k*lling it.

Look at the eyes, film the eyes.

That's pretty dangerous.
They, they go like this.

Well, that's exactly what
happen when they k*ll an animal.

SUSIE: Oh.

CESAR: They're somewhere
else k*lling the thing.

Again, Tricky's eyes are
telling me the whole story.

Right now, her mind is totally
focused on k*lling the toy.

This is extremely dangerous.

Especially since Susie hasn't showed
Tricky to respect rules or boundaries.

Tsch, tsch.

I'm gonna take it away from her.

SUSIE: But she can't chew on it.

CESAR: She can't chew. No.
SUSIE: Okay.

I was shocked to learn
that the way Tricky was playing

with the toy could be correlated
to her k*lling an animal.

I thought she was
soothing herself by chewing.

It is scary to think I've
been encouraging a behavior

that actually could have led to
something dangerous happening.

(growling)

CESAR: Tsch. Hey.
SUSIE: Isabella.

CESAR: Hey. Tsch.

Tricky's excitement
has made Izzy tense,

but we address the same way by following
through with consequences.

I just want her to have
some kind of consequence

for the growl 'cause when
she growls, I opened the door.

She wanted to come out. Mm-hmm.

You're not coming
out after that growl.

Tsch.

SUSIE: She does
that a lot in the crate.

CESAR: Because nobody has told her that's
not a way to communicate.

You're allowing a
lot of primal behavior.

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: Literally you have like
Jurassic Park inside your house.

SUSIE: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

(imitates growl)

CESAR: So those are
Jurassic Park sounds.

When I say primal, I mean
these are the kinds of sounds

and behaviors
found in wild dogs.

They hunt to eat and
survive on instincts.

When a wild pack
encounters another wild pack,

sometimes it's
k*ll or be k*lled.

That is a super dangerous
energy to have inside a house.

SUSIE: There was no, if there was no human
here and these two dogs...

CESAR: No.
They'd k*ll each other.

SUSIE: Met themselves
in the wild...

CESAR: They'd k*ll each other.

I'm really worried about what
I seen with Tricky and Izzy.

But now, it's time
for me to evaluate Kane.

(barking)

CESAR: Go get Kane.
SUSIE: Okay.

CESAR: While Susie leashes up Kane, I step
out to re-center myself.

My energy has to
be perfect because

I can hear Kane is
already in a violent state.

(barking)

I'm waiting and I hear
that sound is like, oh, my God.

(barking)

That sound says everything.

SUSIE: Come on.

CESAR: When I started,
I was in South Central.

Unfortunately, there was a lot of people
there that will fight dogs

and you can hear the sound before they
actually go hurt each other.

SUSIE: Tsch, Tricky.

Come on in.

(barking)

CESAR: See, that's the sound.
That's a k*lling sound.

(barking)

CESAR: Will somebody
take care of that one?

SUSIE: Tricks.

CESAR: I need to, go over.

I can tell a lot from a dog's bark
based on the pitch, energy, and intent.

With Kane, the
combination of the high pitch,

frustrated energy,
and aggressive intent,

tell me that he could attack
if he's given the chance.

A hazard of Izzy
who's already tense,

and Tricky, the
overexcited young Pit Bull.

To prevent the fight, my handler Jaime
will take Tricky to a different room.

That should dial down
the pressure a little.

So at least we deal
with one bark at a time.

SUSIE: Yeah. Uh-uh.

CESAR: That's all right.
Yeah, it's too late.

Pass me the leash. Yeah.

Now, you go back and breathe.

(barks)

Tsch. Tsch.

There you go.

So, I used the leash just to remind him to
go to calm surrender.

SUSIE: Wow. That
was kind of amazing.

CESAR: Right?

SUSIE: Kane got really calm with Cesar
in the first minute or so.

This gives me a glimmer of hope.

CESAR: Kane went from that
high pitch, dangerous bark.

(barking)

to lying down in calm surrender
after a single correction.

Susie said that he
often plays the enforcer,

but at heart, he
seems like a gentle giant.

Provided, he gets the right discipline
from Susie and the right energy.

It's really about calm
energy with confidence.

SUSIE: Okay.

CESAR: I use the right energy.

That's why he
surrendered so fast.

That's why he gave
up the control to me.

SUSIE: Right.

CESAR: Our job is to make sure that the
energy gets stabilized ASAP.

SUSIE: Okay.

CESAR: But it's hard for you to give
the calm, healthy energy in this space.

Your house is heavy, uh,
it's heavy, the energy.

I feel pressure in my chest.

SUSIE: Me too.

CESAR: You see what I mean?
SUSIE: It's mine. I'm sorry.

I guess I've gotten
so comfortable in chaos.

CESAR: Yeah.
SUSIE: That's my, that's normal.

CESAR: Yeah. But I'm
feeling something else.

So, in order for
me to help your pack,

we need to find out where
this energy's coming from.

I'm not just here to see a dog.

I need to see everything
because everything matters.

What I have found is
it's important for us humans

to have someone to share
with where we feel safe.

What's the biggest
energy you are feeling?

The negative one?

SUSIE: Isolation. Yeah.
CESAR: Yeah.

SUSIE: I don't talk
about these things.

CESAR: Right.

SUSIE: I don't
have anyone to talk to.

I lost my mom in 2016,
and shortly after that,

my daughter was
in a mass sh**ting.

Sorry.

CESAR: Mh-hmm.

SUSIE: She was in the Las Vegas
sh**ting and she called me

in the middle of the sh**ting.

She made it out okay.

I got through the
mass sh**ting situation and,

you know, in the middle of all this,
my husband had severe combat PTSD,

and was severely
triggered and hurt me.

CESAR: Mm-hmm.
SUSIE: And we split.

That re-traumatized
me all over again,

and I didn't have
anybody there for me.

And I'm starting to realize that,
you know, all of this trauma compounds,

compounds, compounds, compounds.

And so, I'm here already
and it's just with Izzy here

and then Kane gets here,
and then Tricky comes.

And it's too much.

CESAR: Yeah.

SUSIE: I was just so completely
emotionally overwhelmed and shaken,

and I'm exhausted because I'm
trying to survive all the time.

CESAR: Because you're, you,
you're running on empty.

SUSIE: 100%.
CESAR: Yeah.

SUSIE: Yeah. I've been
on empty for a long time.

CESAR: Yeah. And they sense it
that you're running an empty.

Susie has faced more trauma
in the past seven years

than anyone should
ever have to bear.

And she admits it's left
her emotionally exhausted.

That leads to feelings of isolation
and lack of motivation.

Susie needs to address that
exhaustion as soon as possible

because it's led to her abandoning the
leadership of her pack.

And the result is total chaos.

Each dog has their own issues.

Tricky is overexcited,
Izzy is tense,

and Kane aggressively
corrects the other two.

But if Susie gave them calm,
confident leadership

and provided rules,
boundaries, and limitations,

each dog will be
able to stay calm

and the fights will
be a thing of the past.

Instead, Susie has given up.

SUSIE: She's not
gonna give it up.

CESAR: She's not?
SUSIE: No.

She's not gonna give it up.

CESAR: She thinks bad behavior
is unavoidable and backs down.

And so, the pack has
resorted to instinct.

Communicating and
playing in primal ways,

and fighting over everything.

These are big,
powerful dogs without limits.

The next fight could
potentially end in a dog's death

or send her to the hospital.

I need to get the dogs and her to the DPC
to begin work immediately.

You need help.

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: So, I want to
invite you to the DPC.

Come to my ranch, it's
43 acres, it's beautiful.

And I will guide you and support
you along with my team, right.

So, you're not
going to be isolated.

You are not alone.
We will do it together.

At the same time, they
get rehabilitated right away.

SUSIE: Okay.
CESAR: Is that okay?

SUSIE: Yup.

I cannot wait to
get my life back.

Spending my energy,
enjoying things instead

of managing chaos.

Thank you.

CESAR: We got you.

NARRATOR: The following morning.

SUSIE: Okay. Take a deep breath.

NARRATOR: Susie heads to the
DPC with Kane, Izzy, and Tricky.

SUSIE: All right, guys.
We're off to Cesar's.

You make me nervous.

You need to learn how
to be new dogs together.

CESAR: There they are.

Today's going to
be an intense day,

not just for
Susie and this pack,

but for me and my team as well.

All right, guys,
this is a red zone case.

I wanted you guys
to be super safe.

Three dogs, that's just a
lot of dog. Follow my lead.

I have got to make sure
we all have the right energy

and move slowly
and deliberately.

I will not allow
anyone to get hurt.

Get ready.

SUSIE: Isabella, Tricky,
Kane, we're at the DPC.

NARRATOR: Susie arrives
at the ranch with her pack.

Tense bulldog Izzy,
overexcited pit mix Tricky,

and Kane, the
aggressive enforcer.

Due to emotional exhaustion
after a series of life traumas.

SUSIE: I'm exhausted because I'm
trying to survive all the time.

CESAR: Right.

NARRATOR: Susie has abandoned
her role as pack leader,

and the result is increasingly
vicious pack fights.

CESAR: How are you? Do you want to
open it, so they have some air?

SUSIE: Yes.
CESAR: Yeah.

So, how's it going?

SUSIE: Last night, the situation with Izzy
and Tricky is escalating.

And I mean zero to 100.

They're just
constantly going at it.

I am over my limit
already with Izzy and Kane.

And now Izzy and
Tricky are getting in fights.

It's happening multiple times.

I don't know what I'm
dealing with, with those girls.

CESAR: Who starts it?
SUSIE: Uh, this one.

Izzy starts growling,
and hissing, and biting,

and scratching.

And I don't understand
why she's doing it.

CESAR: Okay.

So right now,
they're doing good.

(barks)

Well, she was doing good.

(whimpering)

Oh, wow. Tricky wants to fight.

SUSIE: Okay.
CESAR: That's a bark of fight.

SUSIE: It is. Okay.

CESAR: Packs should get
along like a happy family.

A pack that fights like this is abnormal,
and it happens because

Susie is not giving discipline
or calm, confident leadership.

But it's also because Susie doesn't
recognize the signs a fight is brewing.

SUSIE: So, when Cesar says that
sound could trigger a fight,

my stomach just sinks.

All of the little things
that I've been experiencing

all actually have a
really big meaning.

And I was, I've been
missing it all this time.

CESAR: A pack walk is
usually where the pack bonds.

SUSIE: Okay.

CESAR: What has it been
like when you walk them?

SUSIE: I haven't
even tried to take Kane

and Izzy on a walk together
since the last big fight.

And I can't let all
three of them walk together.

CESAR: No.

None of the dogs have
bonded on walks recently.

It's a huge part
of why they fight.

(barking)

The ultimate goal will be turning these
dogs back into a true pack.

But for now, we must
work with them one on one.

Let's get him out first.

Susie said that Kane
plays the enforcer with

the other two dogs when
they get tense or overexcited.

Now that Tricky is barking,
he's getting Kane worked up.

Susie needs to
calm him back down.

Before you get
him out, we have to,

we have to remove
him from that sound.

That sound means he's
getting excited and anxious.

SUSIE: Okay, tsch, back.
Kane. Wait.

CESAR: Let me see.

(exhales)

He's super tense.

Let's all stay calm so we
don't feed the aggression.

Don't get him out yet, okay?

She, he needs to be
total calm surrender.

SUSIE: Okay.

CESAR: If you don't have calmness,
safe goes out the way.

He reacts to the
tension you give him.

SUSIE: Yeah. Uh-uh.

CESAR: And he
can get aggressive.

SUSIE: Kane, sit. Wait.

CESAR: He's patient,
but he's not calm.

You have to learn the difference between
quiet tense versus quiet calm.

SUSIE: Right.

CESAR: Be patient.
Let him figure it out.

That's the boundary,
that's the rule.

You wait until he comes
down and then he can move.

That's calm. Bring him out.

SUSIE: Ready to go. Okay. Come.

CESAR: So here, yeah,
put them over there.

Stay calm.

All right. This is promising.

Susie was able to get
Kane into calm surrender.

It's the first time I've seen her follow
through with discipline.

Usually her emotional exhaustion
leads her to just giving up.

SUSIE: She's not
gonna give it up.

CESAR: So, this is progress.

And because Kane is now calm,
I'm going to have Susie nurture

that calmness by letting him
play with her in the Serengeti.

Connecting with Kane one-on-one in a
playful way will help

Susie reset her
tense energy as well.

Yeah, you can go through this...

SUSIE: Okay.

CESAR: Easy door right here.
SUSIE: Over here. Come on.

(growling)

CESAR: That's bad. That's bad.

NARRATOR: The
overexcited pit mix, Tricky,

begins to make the
high aggressive growl that

Cesar heard
yesterday at Susie's house.

CESAR: That's a fighting sound.
It's a k*lling sound.

NARRATOR: The sound tells Cesar it's not
safe for Tricky to be around other dogs,

especially her
tense packmate, Izzy.

CESAR: Jaime, come here.

CESAR: I need to safely
get Tricky out of her crate

and burn up some of her excess
energy before I work with her.

CESAR: Open it.

CESAR: Because Jaime will be assisting me
with Tricky's rehabilitation,

and he's an
experienced handler,

I'm going to have him take the lead
with her while I work with Izzy.

He needs to move extra carefully
to not provoke aggression.

(whines)

He's getting a little excited.
This excitement is unhealthy.

But right now, I want to, I
want to make sure that Jaimeto

practice everything he knows,
assessing and evaluating.

Yes. Calm confident.
There you go.

She's coming down
because Jaime's calm.

Next, I like Jaime
to remove the muzzle.

Tricky has calmed down a little,
so it's safe to do this.

But Jaime has to move
carefully to keep Tricky

from getting back into
an aggressive mindset.

The hand has to be
done in the right place.

The leash has to be done in the right
place because we can't make a mistake.

Take the muzzle off.

CESAR: Okay. How did she feel?

JAIME: Oh, she's a little alert.

CESAR: Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, take it off.

NARRATOR: Overexcited pit mix Tricky
along with her tense pack mate Izzy,

and playful enforcer Kane
constantly trigger fights

with each other because
emotionally exhausted

pet mom Susie doesn't
follow through with leadership.

SUSIE: Uh-uh.

CESAR: Tricky's
overexcited aggressiveness

could easily trigger
her pack mate Izzy,

just like it was getting Kane
worked up a few moments ago.

I need my handler Jaime to
get her out of her crate slowly

to keep things from escalating.

So, every movement that Jaimeto is making
I'm right here supervising.

Yeah. We, we have
no room for error.

JAIME: Here baby...
CESAR: That was beautiful.

We're gonna need the bike.

Jaime was fully calm confident,
so Tricky allow him

to remove the muzzle
without becoming aggressive,

and her high pitched
violent growl has stopped.

(growls)

That's bad.

Because the pack fights
prevent Susie from walking them,

Tricky is bursting
with pent up energy

that must be burned off before she's
allowed near any other dog.

Just not the right
moment for her to meet dogs

and now is the right moment
for her to run that energy out.

And then you can just,
you're just gonna let her rip.

JAIME: Wanna get on?
CESAR: Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Slowly. Slowly.
There you go.

Let's get Izzy.

NARRATOR: Izzy, the seven year old
bulldog gets tense easily.

CESAR: Slow.

NARRATOR: So Cesar must be cautious to
avoid triggering aggression.

CESAR: Right now, she's calm.

You know. There you go.

Okay. Uh-oh.

She got tense.

Look, look, when she gets tense,
she gets really still.

Uh-oh. So, her being tense
can lead that to aggression.

Yeah, you have to be very careful
'cause they can snap on you.

Susie never leads or follows
through with consequences.

So, Izzy is not used to
somebody telling her what to do.

She's calm, but
totally confused.

She has no idea where she is.

She sees Susie
up there with Kane.

Look at that. Kane is being
so happy go lucky. I love it.

SUSIE: Come on, Kaners.

Let's go!

(laughs)

CESAR: This is a strange new
place for Izzy, so I want to see

how she reacts when she
sees Kane's familiar face.

SUSIE: Go see your friend, Kane.

CESAR: Look at Izzy, look how
tense she gets at the fence.

Look, Kane was happy go lucky with Susie,
now he's excited from Izzy's tension.

They're supposed to be
happy seeing each other.

That's what pack mates
should do. They're family.

They should be happy
go lucky, greeting each other,

or calm surrender greeting each other,
not dominant or tense.

They had a lot of
fights over the years,

but dogs don't
usually hold onto that.

Izzy shouldn't be so tense around Kane,
her oldest pack mate.

I'm going to introduce her
to a pack of my calmest dogs

so I can teach her how to
relax instead of tensing up.

Susie?

SUSIE: Yes, sir.

CESAR: I want Lisa to take Kane.
SUSIE: Okay.

CESAR: And then we can
focus on bringing my pack

so I can get to see her a
lot more with different dogs.

SUSIE: Okay.

CESAR: I'm going to have Izzy
meet Sophia, Lucio, and Blue,

three of my most
well-balanced dogs.

It should be impossible
for her to stay tense

around these three dogs.

SUSIE: This will be interesting.

I really don't have any
idea which way it's gonna go.

I'm hoping that Izzy gets
along with the other dogs,

but I also want everybody
to see what I'm seeing.

CESAR: The reason why we're bringing her
around in my pack is because, you know,

this is a new pack, so instincts have to
surrender to a new pack.

SUSIE: Okay.
CESAR: Yeah.

So it's like
going to a new school.

SUSIE: Yeah, you
have to assimilate.

CESAR: You have to, like, yeah.
SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: You have to
cue off the other dogs

not just follow her
old aggressive habits.

Hold on.

See that? Holy moly.
Look at her. See?

She went and peed on top of that, it just
shows you how dominant she is.

This is actually pretty serious.

Dogs use pee to mark territory or even
just to say hello to other dogs.

But Izzy marking the spot
that Lucio just marked is

a direct challenge to him.

She just met
these playful new dogs

and her instinct is to show
dominance because she's used to

the dog eat dog environment
that Susie allowed at home.

And it's going to potentially lead to
a fight here too, unless I stop it.

Tsch.

So, after she went and peed, she went,
she got really c*ck about it.

SUSIE: Yeah.
CESAR: Because he's...

So, I went in and
snap her out of it.

I have to let her know that she can't
just do whatever she wants.

SUSIE: So, I should
correct that behavior?

CESAR: At one point.
SUSIE: I see.

CESAR: You're supposed to tell
the dog, this is off limits.

SUSIE: Right.
CESAR: This is the rules.

This is, you know,
the boundaries.

I can see now that it's
not that Susie has given up

teaching her dogs
how to obey rules.

She doesn't know when
or how to do it correctly.

So, in addition to recharging
her emotional batteries

so she can move
on from her trauma,

she also needs to learn
how to read these dogs

so she can anticipate
fights before they arise.

SUSIE: What I noticed
with Izzy is it's, she's okay

with other dogs until I
start giving them affection.

CESAR: Let me see that part.
SUSIE: Okay.

CESAR: And then you,
and then you move in.

SUSIE: Okay.
CESAR: So, you can trigger it.

SUSIE: There he is.

CESAR: Here's Blue coming.
Give affection to Blue.

SUSIE: Hey, Blue. Hi, Blue.

Oh, now, you are jealous.

CESAR: Hold on.
She's getting tense.

She was about to
jump on him. Tsch.

(growling)

CESAR: See how I
cut him in the moment?

SUSIE: Yes.

CESAR: You saw how, ta, ta, ta.

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: So, she was
about to do that to him.

SUSIE: Mm-hmm.

CESAR: And then she
just redirects the anger.

SUSIE: She does that, she,
kind of, air snaps.

CESAR: Air snap.
Like Pac-Man, you know?

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: Obviously, it's
important to follow through.

So, if you don't do anything
about it, Izzy never learns

that she needs to
stay calm in situations

that usually makes her tense.

I'm going to pet Blue
and she has to stay calm.

Tsch.

Tach!

Then, she can't walk away
because then, if she walks away,

she doesn't learn anything.

Now, Izzy is trying to
avoid a tense situation

by walking away
instead of calming down.

Usually, Susie lets the dog avoid
consequences to her misbehavior

but I won't allow it or else,

she'll never learn how to
get calm when she's stressed.

Tsch. Tsch.

She can't get calm.

She doesn't know
how to calm surrender.

Instead of calmness,
she's gonna keep pacing.

SUSIE: Yeah, she's not...
CESAR: You know what I mean?

SUSIE: Sat down
or laid down once.

CESAR: That's,
that's not normal.

SUSIE: She's like
that at home too.

CESAR: Oh, she paces?
SUSIE: All the time.

CESAR: Then she's anxious because you
never gave calm confident discipline.

So, your dog's getting anxious because
nobody is giving them direction.

SUSIE: Right.

I had no idea
that Izzy's pacing was

because of my
lack of leadership.

She's been doing this her
whole life. I felt awful.

I feel so guilty because I feel,
like, I did this to her.

CESAR: This is not for, like,
a beginner rehabilitator.

Izzy needs much more work.

But now, I wanna work with
Tricky to lower her excitement

which is like a call to
aggression for her pack mates.

Let's do a switch, Jaimeto.

I saw yesterday how overexcited and primal
Tricky gets while playing.

So today, I'm gonna
use a game of fetch with

my pack to trigger excitement

so I can correct it before
it turns into aggression.

I have, I have ba*ls.

That will teach her the proper level of
excitement during play

and teach Susie
the signs to look for

that Tricky is
getting out of control.

Look at the distance.
Look at her distance.

SUSIE: Yeah,
she's right up in you.

CESAR: That's right.

In the dog world, giving space is a
way of giving respect.

When you get too close,
other dogs interpret

that as a challenge
and you will get a fight.

But just pay attention to
how she acts around the ball.

Remember her eyes yesterday,
when she was chewing on her toy?

She can go into a primal mode.

When she plays
'cause she's too excited.

SUSIE: Oh, really?

CESAR: Yeah, that's how wild
dogs hunt and k*ll their prey.

It's very instinctual.

And we have to snap her out
of it anytime she's doing that.

SUSIE: See now, she
hasn't put the ball down.

CESAR: So, we correct that.

Tsch, tsch. The dog is
not respecting discipline.

She's waiting it out like
she does with you, Susie.

Tsch, tsch.

Good.

Tricky's slow to
release the ball

because she doesn't
respect discipline.

That's because Susie
never showed her any.

For the first time in her life, Tricky is
learning there are rules.

No fight, no competition.

That's what I'm
saying right now.

As soon as somebody how, look.

Too excited, too fast.
She needs the leash again.

We have to let her
calm down. See that?

She's crowding again. Hey.

She has no respect
to intimate space.

SUSIE: None.
CESAR: Tsch.

She's not backing down.

Tsch.

Tsch.

Tsch.

Okay. I finally got
her to at least sit down.

I did that because she came...

SUSIE: Right. Right up
in your face. Exactly.

CESAR: So, there's too
much intensity, right?

But the more disturbing thing, she isn't
reacting to my corrections.

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: Look how long it took for her,
just to put one foot down.

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: Just one knee down.
One knee down.

She's not feeling the touch.
She's ignoring it.

When I was touching,
she was like.

SUSIE: Yeah. You wanna go?

CESAR: Yeah. To me?
SUSIE: Yeah.

Producer: You're saying she's
not feeling your corrections?

CESAR: She's not feeling it.

Producer: Cesar, I've never heard you say
that a dog's not taking your corrections.

CESAR: Well, there's
always a first time.

When I work with a dog, the goal
is to actually touch the dog

as few times as possible.

Most dogs, all it takes is
one to two touch corrections

and they quickly learn.

More difficult cases, you
have to touch a few more times.

Tsch, tsch...

But Tricky is the first dog
I've seen who does not respond

to corrections at all. She's so
overexcited that she doesn't even feel it.

It's very dangerous. You know,
she gets stronger and stronger.

SUSIE: It's only
gonna get, yeah.

CESAR: That's right.
SUSIE: Oh, yeah.

It's intense to see Tricky
kind of square off with Cesar.

Or like, "Do what you want.
I'm gonna do what I want.

You don't faze me."

40 pounds of that
in another six months,

with some bad attitude, that's
an ER visit waiting to happen.

My situation is far worse
than I thought it was gonna be.

CESAR: We got to
come up with a plan.

I wanna sit down with Susie and
the dogs and explain just what

an expl*sive situation she has
and how can we start to fix it.

SUSIE: There's my guys.

CESAR: This is a pack where each dog
can incite a fight with the other two.

So, I have my full team of handlers on
standby to keep things safe.

You have three powerful ones.

Him alone is powerful enough.

SUSIE: Mm-hmm.

CESAR: Kane to me is,
is a happy go lucky guy.

He's powerful, yet
he's not aggressive behavior.

SUSIE: Yeah.
CESAR: All of that stuff.

He's always ready
to jump into a fight

or correct the other two
which shouldn't be his role.

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: Izzy over here,
that's your ticking b*mb.

Always tense, ready to explode.

SUSIE: Mm-hmm.
CESAR: Right?

Tricky, she's disrespectful
and intense and excited.

She could trigger a fight.

SUSIE: Right.

CESAR: So, your dogs,
they have different problems.

But they're going to create
the same outcome, fights.

And that's because you don't see the signs
they're becoming aggressive.

SUSIE: Mm-hmm.
CESAR: They don't have rules.

That combine and then your tension,
you know, and running on, on empty,

you actually became
the back of the pack.

SUSIE: Right. Yeah.

CESAR: You're the person, you're,
you're a roommate, right?

But you are not
leading the pack.

And since, there is no leader,
there is no discipline.

And they just
fight over everything.

Toys, food, getting
close to you. And so...

(barking)

(growling)

CESAR: Be quiet. Stay calm.

(panting)

(sighs)

Tsch.

Yeah, good?

SUSIE: Like a
flash of lightning.

Izzy and Tricky
are going at it again.

It's awful.

I'm terrified that
Izzy or Tricky is gonna get

one or the other's neck and I
was terrified that even though

he's tied down, Kane is
gonna break through that.

And he's gonna do
something to intervene in

the fight with Izzy and Tricky.

And to see the reaction of
everybody around, I was frozen.

And that shakes me up.

CESAR: They got too close, yeah.

But I felt the end of, like,
I felt it under my butt.

As I was talking with Susie on the couch,
Tricky went under my legs.

Izzy noticed and
muscled herself in.

That triggered a fight because
neither knows how back down.

And then, Kane came in
to correct the situation.

It's the same behavior I've seen
over and over since yesterday.

And here you saw how they combine in this
expl*sive way when they are all together.

This is what happens when
the pet parent doesn't lead.

Tsch, listen it took all
of us to stop the fight,

at your home, that
would've gotten bloody.

Two of your dogs, Izzy and
Tricky don't have an off switch.

That's not safe
for you and the pack.

SUSIE: I'm just completely
overwhelmed with these dogs.

I can handle Kane on his own.

I can handle Izzy on her own.

I thought, I could handle
Tricky on her own but even now,

I'm like, I
can't even handle her.

CESAR: Mm-hmm.

SUSIE: I have no idea
how to make this work now.

CESAR: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SUSIE: It's overwhelming.
CESAR: Yeah, without a doubt.

SUSIE: I'm not feeling very confident
that I can handle my pack.

You know, you think about Cesar
talking about rules, boundaries,

and limitations and I feel,
like, I'm beyond my boundaries.

CESAR: I mean, this
requires a lot of me.

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: I have to have Jaimito
to help me with this one.

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: Even me,
I need extra help.

That fight shows what a
desperate situation this is.

Two of the dogs, Izzy
and Tricky are simply unable

to get calm despite
repeated corrections.

Which means, a fight
is possible at all times.

And Kane goes from calm
to combat in an instant.

Susie needs to learn
leadership but, in this case,

it's much bigger than that.

These dogs require
radical intervention.

I would like, um, to at least,
keep the bulldog, Izzy,

for two weeks
starting right now.

SUSIE: Yeah, okay.

CESAR: You continue
with Kane at home.

Keep working on getting
him to calm surrender

and get him out on walks every
day so he gets more exercise.

SUSIE: Okay.
CESAR: This is plenty for you.

SUSIE: Yes.

CESAR: I know, you're working
and your life, you know?

And replenish that part
that is, you know, empty.

SUSIE: Yeah.

CESAR: While I'm working
with Izzy here at the ranch,

Susie is gonna practice
getting Kane to calm surrender

because he's a quick learner and
he's calm as long as he's not provoked.

And with a break
from the full pack,

Susie can focus on her own work,

addressing her own emotional exhaustion
from the traumas she has suffered.

SUSIE: And you think that
if I continue with him while

she's away then they'll be
able to come back together?

CESAR: Yes!
SUSIE: Okay.

CESAR: Yes, because I'm going to
give you a calm surrender girl.

A girl with a switch.

SUSIE: Okay. Okay.
CESAR: You don't have that.

SUSIE: Okay. So, you're
gonna keep Izzy for two weeks

and I'm gonna
work on Kane at home.

What about Tricky?
What's the plan for her?

CESAR: Now comes
the hard part, Tricky.

At just ten months old, she's
growing and learning every day

how to be in a
pack and in the world.

And what she has learned from this pack is
violence and primal aggression.

(growling)

So, the question is,
even with a full rehab,

can Tricky really
be happy in this pack?

After everything I
seen yesterday and today,

I know what the answer is.

I need to ask Susie a
very difficult question.

I know you have three dogs and your heart
is so big but at the same time,

I just, I have to
tell you the truth.

I think your, you took more
than what you can at this point.

It's too much.
It's just too much.

And so, what I would
like to do for Tricky is,

is offer her, like,
a fresh start.

How do you feel about the
idea of offering Tricky rehab

and she will stay with me?

So, I can work with her until she is
ready to go to a new home.

SUSIE: So, I, I, I don't, I
can't give her what she needs.

But I feel guilty because
I signed up to help her.

It's really tough because I'm sitting here
feeling like a failure.

I, I don't know what to do.