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I finally got video on demand and have watched several of the Cesar Milan short videos. Honestly, I am astonished and appalled that they put his show on TV. Everything that I've read and heard about him is certainly true. In my opinion Cesar is by no means rehabilitating dogs as he claims. He trains by force, abuse, punishment, fear, and intimidation. He is also still espousing the alpha dominance theory which has largely been debunked by dog trainers and wolf biologists that finally understand that the aggressive and domineering behavior of captive wolves which is what the alpha dominance training theory is based on is not replicated in the wild. My recommendation is that you google two dog trainers and read their web blogs and training articles. These two guys are Lee Charles Kelley and Sam Malatesta. They both train using the similar philosophy that you need to harness the dogs energy and drives to reduce their internal anxiety and get him to focus his attention on you. Neither of them are clicker or positive reinforcement trainers or dominance theory trainers. Just read what they have to say. Just a couple of other points of view. Again they are similar in their methods but not the same.