What breed of dog is Bella?

I would like to drop a quick note to those responsible for the programming of the National Geographic’s HD channel. One of my favorite shows on TV is the Dog Whisperer. I am a 32 year old male with a wife and 2 year old son. I also have two dogs who are important members of our pack. We truly enjoy this show. I wanted to let NGHD know they have 3 very loyal watchers. My mother and father are also fans of the show. I am encouraging my family and friends to tune into this show. So far the reviews have been excellent. Not only does Cesar teach pet owner how to train there dogs but he more importantly teaches humans how to training themselves.

Thank you,

Chris

Any tips for the loss of a pet Cesar? My sister just lost her beloved pit bull Thai to a car accident......it was so horrendous she had to see him all mangled up.........we have cried for days........how can she not feel guilty about what happened?

I have a 4 year old male poodle that goes the bathroom in the house,tried the crate but he pooped in there..any suggestions..he is in good health and a great dog..ty

HELP!!! I just adopted a very scared and submissive dog from a rescue and he won't go to the bathroom outside. I know that my anxiety and fear that I will do something to further traumatize this sad and broken little guy is not helping, I just don't know what else to do. He has been with me 48 hours, we have gone for 6 walks and just tonight, about 30 minutes after we returned from yet another walk with no results, he lifted his leg on the front door/mat (for the very first time). Interestingly, my clapping and yelling NO resulted in his first ever tail wag. He still runs from me when I approach. I am overwhelmed and crying a lot out of frustration. I want to do this right and I am so lost! Please, help, anyone?
Concerned in Connecticut

When I rescued my dogs, I started giving them treats whenever they used the bathroom outside. It didn't take long for them to realize that if they used the bathroom outside, as soon as they got back inside, they got a treat!

I read a book on Yorkies 12 years ago when I got my Amanda that small dogs don’t necessarily need to be walked as they get plenty of exercise just running around the house. So I have never really walked Manda. When I do, even on a 5 minute walk, she stops 12 times to smell every speck along the way. It’s so annoying to me, I stopped walking her. I gather from Ceasar that I need to be assertive and make her walk right along with me without stopping so much.

I have been wondering if not walking her has caused some of Manda’s long-time behavior issues: freaking out when someone walks in the door (even if they’ve been gone 30 seconds) by jumping up and down for 5 minutes. And heaven forbid the UPS Man rings the doorbell. She looses her mind barking to the point I have to put her in the bathroom just to sign for my package.

Other behavior problems include peeing in her crate every time she goes in it (which I have to actually place her in myself), peeing on her towels I supply when I take her to be boarded, attacking other dogs if they come near her (she attacked a pit bull at a boarding facility I used to use who wasn’t supposed to let her be around other dogs, and nearly got herself killed - 15 stitches and a chunk of ear missing later, she seems to have the illusion she is a great dane!), and shaking uncontrollably and whining the entire time she is in the car. She also usually throws up. It doesn’t matter if I hold her or put her in a crate in the car. Same result.

I had always just accepted these behaviors as Manda just being herself - until I started watching the Dog Whisperer. I have sought advice from her vet and a dog training facility in my area but they have all just shrugged their shoulders and offered no help.

What can I do different to help my old woman be happier her last few years with us?

On a side note as it pertains to the topic of this episode, I have to share about my 12 pound cat Skitty who outweighs Manda by at least 4 pounds: Skitty is the dominent one in our pack. When she gets in a playful mood, she will whop Manda on the head with her paw. Manda immediate cowers down like she's being beaten. If for some reason Manda is feeling frisky, she will playfully fight back and the girls will take off chasing one another. If Skitty continues this play for too long, she gets rough and will grab ahold of Manda with her clawless strong paws and give her a little nip. We find this behavior hilarious that a cat controls our dog and don't see any problems with it. Are we wrong in our thinking?

Julie

Hi, I have a 8 month old Schnauzer mix and I have read all the information I can and see that walking your dog is the key to training him, but I live where sometimes the weather is not fit for human or dog! Our winter here has been horribly wet and windy, is there anyway to compensate for not walking? My Oliver even hates to go out to Potty if it is raining, I litteraly have to push him outside to go. Thankfully for me he will go or hold it until he can not anymore.

I am desperate for a solution that will work for us, that does not involve moving to CA or AZ.

All wet in Washington.

In desperate need of HELP!!!! My 11 year old lab Nala suddenly will no longer go up the (6 carpeted) stairs inside our home. She loses her footing at times & you can see she's very uncomfortable. I think it's a mental thing because she goes up & down our outside concrete porch steps with no problem. She still runs & jumps around so she's still healthy & not in any pain. When she comes in from the outside she goes down the stairs (carpeted 6 steps) with no problem. We always bring her with on on vacation to our condo which has 8 wooden steps to go up & down. What do we do? We feel terrible she's downstairs all by herself.

We adopted a small dog from the humane society and have been training it Cesars way. We take it for walks and keep the leash short for control. This little dog thinks he's the king of the jungle when he meets a larger dog. We know from previous shows that dogs feed off others energy. Most times if the larger dog is calm then ours is too. Our problem is when we try to get him under control and the other person can't seem to get their dog controlled. My question is how can we fix this problem if the other person can't fix theirs?

We adopted a three year old lab, Sam, from the shelter 2 months ago. Up until this week he has been very well behaved. We exercise him 3-4 hours a day and established ourselves as pack leaders (we thought). This week he attacked our neighbor's cat in their front yard. My boyfriend had him on a leash but Sam bolted so quickly and forcefully after the cat that he pulled the leash out of his hand. Sam had the cat by the neck and was trying to kill him, Sam went into the Red Zone. He did not respond to my boyfriend's commands. The three of them were on the ground with my boyfriend (who is 220 lbs) trying to overpower Sam and unclench his jaws from the cat's neck. Sam did not feel the punches or kicks, completely impervious to pain. Finally he was able to free the cat from Sam and luckily the cat was OK. My boyfriend had multiple bites on his hand and had to go to the hospital. This is a dog that is normally so mellow, loves all other dogs, adults and children. What can be done to prevent this bazaar behavior?

Hello Cesar,
Thank you for your demonstration of human inspiration. Thank you for your demonstration of human/animal behavior interventions.

Although your focus is on dogs, I have applied your philosophy and behavioral interventions with myself and my rescue cats. Your methods of human training can also rehabilitate cats! I have been successful on a one-to-one basis. I am still working on cat pride metality. If feral cats can get along in the County shelter, there must be some way to get along at home.
-Ruth-

we recently introduced a 4 1/2 yellow lab mix named Katja into our home where we already have 4 cats. in the month she has been with us she has shown absolutely NO interest in the cats and the cats after the initial shock are starting be accepting of her. they are even starting to hang around the same room with us when the dog is present. we did, however, had what we consider a terrifying incident last nite. Katja came up to see me all excited and wagging her tail while our oldest cast Faith was on my wifes lap in the chair next to mine. Katja's tail accidently smacked Faith in the face. this led to Faith responding in a defensive mode by hissing and attempting to paw Katja. Katja responded with a low but deep growl (something we have never had seen from her). I immediately pulled on her collar and reprimanded her. She than resumed her normal attitute of ignoring the cat. Our fear is of what could happen if we were not home. Should we set up safe zones in which some are dog free and other cat free? Or should we try to make them coexist more directly? Please help ! We love all our animals and dont want to give up one for the other.

Thanks in advance
Pablo and Tiffany

I have a 1 year old female pitbull that hates cats. We have 5 dogs and the others are fine with the cat. The pitbull has killed one of our cats and come close to killing the only one we have left. We can not bring her in the house because of the cat but we let the other dogs in the house and feel bad because she has to stay outside. IF anyone has any advice for me on how to make my dog and cat get along I would greatly appreciate it.

I have a 130lb 3 yr old St. Bernard that is a BIG powerful baby. He demands to be fed he demands to be pet he doesn't like to come when he is called he likes to pull when he goes for a walk and he loves to jump on people when they come over. I need help my biggest problem is that my hbusband and I need to be on the same page and train him the same way but that is a little hard to do since Mark trained him for the first 2 yrs and did not disapline the dog when he did something wrong and now me my 7 yr old daughter are paying for it. I need to learn how to communicate with the dog any suggestions and have that energy that I am the pack leader I don't know how to do that.

Aimee

Hello,
I have a Mini Poodle he is a good puppy? My Question is this my puppy will bite another dog if they come close to me we are in puppy class he does it big time the trainner says put Bitter bite spray in his face. dumb answer thats not what will fix it? Plus I am the Leader of the pack. I told my Husband he is my boy friend cause a nother dog cant get close to me> Please some one Help me? Thank you all.

NGC get all the way down with the DW. I love it and learn stuff from Cesar every episode. He is helping me keep my pack in line and stable as I just got a new puppy (Collie) in February. It was harder than I thought. I just thought my other 2 Collie's would accept her and we would be one happy family. I have feeding problems and barking problems but with the help of every episode of DW I am able to deal with these ok. I have problem with my pool and the oldest male Collie and the new puppy femle running around stressed out with people in it. It is my goal to correct this this year with Cesar's help. I do not miss one episode and DVR every episode be it rerun or not. It never helps to get reminders of bad behavior and corrections. Thanks to Cesar, we love ya.

I have started to watch this program on Cable TV. I live in Melbourne Australia and I think Cesar is amazing. I have a female Staffy Cross which I got 8 years ago from an animal shelter when she was about 1 year old. I had 2 cats at the time and it took about 3 months before I was confident to leave them all together in the house if I was not home. What I did was to train the dog not to chase by restraining her when the cats were about. This in turn stopped the cats from running. At first I would have her outside when the cats were in and vice versa but eventually allowed them to be all together nevertheless watching their behaviour. I never had any problems since. My dog is not aggressive and is a great dog. She is right now lying in front of the heater with one of the cats.

I have had my rescued siamese cat Mushu Mumao(she was found in cardboard box with her brothers and sisters, which had been left in an alleyway behind a local grocery store) since Christmas eve 1999 and have kept her indoors almost exclusively, with only a handful of times where she wore a leash and harness as the exception. I took a great deal of time with the process of finding the "right dog" for myself, and knew that I'd found her when I went to a local county shelter - her name is Molly, and she's a 1 year old chihuahua-miniature pinscher mix. The problem I'm having with my dog and cat, is that the process of training molly is causing the cat to have anxiety-related excessive grooming, which has been aggravated by her allergies to a type of tree growing in my neighborhood - I'm worried she'll be completely bald by the end of the summer. The cat and dog sleep together at night, they have adjusted to the other one being in the house too, and the dog is litter-trained with her own potty area; I live in a very small studio-loft condo with only a cement poured back patio. The dog has problems with listening, and being stern and authoritative, particularly with regards to tone of voice and body language (the latter only when the cat is facing me while sitting behind the dog) causes anxiety for the cat. Is there any way to humanely discipline and train a dog that's silent?

I am a single woman in my 40s and have an 11-year-old American Eskimo/Golden Retriever mix and two one-year-old cats. My roommate recently moved in to my home (unfenced 1-acre yard is the setting) with a five-year-old German Shepard/Rottweiler mix. This dog seems absolutely great in all ways but for the fact she has a history of having severely injured a cat.

We have kept the animals separated thus far, too fearful of even the introduction process as the rottie is large and powerful and I am not sure we could even prevent her from "bowling" us over if she goes after one of the cats.

I just adopted a third cat (kitten) and am wondering if there is an opportunity here to acclimate the dog with the cat, thereby creating a peaceful pack of two dogs and three cats. The 11-year-old dog and all the cats are buddies.

We surely want to keep the rottweiler in the "family" but a mauling is clearly unacceptable. Does anyone have any advice? Thank you.

Wow. I wish that I had seen this episode. It seems to address our current needs. We have two dogs. They were found abandoned as puppies. The biggest problem is our boy attacking other animals. Cats, dogs, rabbits, whatever. On her own, my little girl dog seems to be friendlier. However, when she sees Dan go chasing she gets excited and will participate in the hunt. They are both very good with people. Very gentle with my kids. We just got chickens and plan on getting goats in the future. I'm becoming rather anxious about what will happen. I really believe they can be trained to leave the other animals alone. I just don't know how. I've never really had dogs until now. My husband is rather attached to Dan, so my original plan of finding a new home will not work. Are ALL dogs trainable? Can I teach the dog to not kill every creature?

I have two female pitbulls,one is 4 and the other is 2. They are both loving dogs and show alot of affection towards humans an each other. However, every once in awhile, the two dogs will get into a scuffle. These scuffles happen randomly without any warnings, and can get brutal. If you have any suggestions on reversing this behavior I would greatly appreciate it.

Love the Dog Whisperer series but thus far have not seen a problem quite like mine. Lucy, a heeler mix, is too smart for our own good! How do you stop the dog from doing things like getting on the furniture when your not home? She knows she is not suppose to be on the sofa and does not go there when we're home, but the minute we are out the door, she's there!! Other little things just like this. HELP. What can I read or how do I handle this problem. She is still a pup of 8 month old.

I just started watching episodes of Dog Whisperer and I absoultely love it!! Thank you NGC for putting Cesar on the air. He is amazing. I am looking forward to the upcoming new episodes.
Love A Great Fan in Tenn!!

I have a 7yr. old yorkie. About the middle of Sept. this year he started to bark at people,cars,bikes,& other dogs. Most of the time he sits looking out the window and barks so long and hard that he is Panting by the time he is finished. He gets almost to the point of snapping sometimes when I take his harness off. He was never like this at all before. I was wondering if it is because he is getting older? No other animals in the house. He really was my husbands dog but my husband passed away 2 yrs. ago. What can I do?????

I have three dogs,a 4 year old chihuahua/mix named cushy,a 2 year old chihuahua named scrappy, and a 7 month old pitbull named coco. they are all great dogs, but cushy trys to bit people when they walk out of the house and if he has something like candy he will not let us take it way from him and he runs way and he barks at anyone or trucks that pass by the house. Scrappy trys to bit if someone is on a bed and you try and touch the person and he runs way too. Coco jumps on everyone that goes to the backyard and she has never bit anyone but when she is playing and we want to stop she will bit your clothes and will not let go. what can I do with all this dogs!!! Please help because I don't want to have to give the dogs away but my family is getting tried of all of it. So PLEASE HELP!!!

hi i am staying with a person who runs a no kill animal rescue mostly cat and kittens but a few dogs and puppies
i am the only one who does bottle feeding of puppies which come from shelters
on march 8 i was called about a litter of 6 puppies who needed to either be put down or have a bottle feeder i jumped at the chance to bottle feed them the mama dog was put down for aggressive behavior i later found out
she was a shepherd mix maybe
today one the litter is with the dog coorkinator a female named roxey and i have a male named peter
both of these have issues with cage /toy and food aggression issues roxey has actually had 2 other adoptive homes and been brought back peter has always been with me
if you can help me in any way to stop the aggresive behavior in these two dogs please do
we are a no kill rescue but if the agressive behavior cannot be stopped they will have to be killed to protect others
i dont want to think about that and know there has to be something i am doing wrong -like wrong energy -commands are wrong something
you are the last hope for these two dogs
i hope you can help even if it is telling us what to do with them to solve the agressive behavior before it is too late

carole rogers

I have a Kelpie named Jagger that's always getting in the trash can when I'm not home. How do I stop him from getting in the trash can.

I have a 5 month old female shih tzu puppy that we've had since she was 2 months old. She is a very smart and lovable dog but her big problem is that she eats her own poop. I have tried putting the powder "Forbid"in her food that is suppose to make it taste awful, tried putting hot sauce on her poop after she goes which works but the one time I don't do it she goes after it. She also eats other dogs poop in the neighborhood. When we go for a walk or just to visit my neighbor who has 3 dogs. It doesn't matter. The only thing I can do right now is just clean it up as soon as she goes which is sometimes a race between me and her. What else can I do? Her dog food is called Natures Balance. The vet told me to try to change her diet but don't know what else to try. Please help.

i have 2 dogs one is a black lab she thinks she the alpha female.my other dog is a brown labrodoodle.the black dog tries to attack any dog she sees.the brown one follows her lead and barks really loud. i don't know what to do.