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Article: Shouts and whispers: we received a veritable salad of comments regarding Cesar Millan.(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- Whole Dog Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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You presented ("Don't Whisper," December 2006) some of the same observations I have made in viewing "The Dog Whisperer," but I believe that you failed to give him credit for two key points.
The first is his consistent emphasis on the importance of exercise. In almost every instance on his show, owners don't exercise their dogs and the dogs have behavioral problems. Second, he teaches people that dogs don't think like humans; acting as if they do can cause problems. As for the lack of depth and oversimplification of dog behaviors, blame it on the lack of time or space for depth that is evident in most television and magazines.
There is much to be learned ...