Typically, when a moron like Cesar Millan abuses a puppy like he does in the episode on Tobi and Riley, he doesn’t put it on video, where he might be liable for prosecution for animal abuse. He takes the dog to his “compound” and does the choking in private. I obviously underestimated his stupidity. He does this on film all the time. Most choke chain thugs like “The Dog Whisperer” are too stupid to understand anything else but brute force. But you’d think National Geographic wouldn’t be quite as stupid as their trainer?? Obviously, they have a fine legal team at natgeo.

Like most thug choke chain trainers, Cesar claims he only uses his abusive methods on “problem dogs” who will otherwise be euthanized if they aren’t trained. This is because that’s what it says in the 1962 book that Cesar Millan stole his whole method from. That book is called The Koehler Method of Dog Training. The Mein Kampf of dog training books.

Well….Riley the scared Saint Bernard puppy he is abusing in the video above is afraid to go up steps. Typical minor puppy problem and one that can easily be fixed without force by a two year old, much less a brilliant non idiot trainer such as Michael T. Patton aka “the General.” But the idiot Cesar Millan has no idea how to solve this issue without dragging and choking a 100 pound puppy by the throat. UnbeFreakingLievable!!

But this is good! Good for me anyway. It just opens up the door. Opens up the door, FOR ME. And if it wasn’t wide open anyway, I’d knock it down because there will be no stopping the advance of “The General” aka Michael T. Patton as he blows up and makes his mark on the dog and puppy training world in 2010.

Thank you Cesar. Thank you for being a moron. It is a great career move. For MY career. Thanks, bud.

I was at Walmart the other I wouldn’t be surprised if the average shopper tips  the scales about 60 lbs overweight. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but a recent study at the Research Center for Human-Animal Interaction at the University of Missouri tells society what dog owners already know. Dogs make people healthier, happier, fitter and they make people live longer.

There are several reasons for this. Number one, is the fact that dogs truly are man or woman’s best friend. They will have your back from the moment they are born until the day they die.  The social benefits of having friends like these are too numerous to mention.

When dogs want to go for a walk, they won't be denied

But the simple fact is that once you start taking dogs for walks and for runs, they simply won’t be denied. They will pressure you. They will lead you on. They will make suggestions. They will matriculate the ball down the field as it were by giving you looks, by recognizing cues, by knowing what time of day it is, when walks usually occur. And Jackie Brown will literally bring running shoes (I have several pair), one after the other and drop them on my chest if I’m kicked back on the computer or playing video games.

Sometimes it’s annoying, but let yourself go! Dogs will guide you to better health and I will guide you how to exercise with dogs by showing you the methods I use to control dogs, so that they and YOU can get more exercise and have more fun doing it. The dogs in the picture together outweigh me and this is one of the reasons I developed the “Fo Paws Tricknology” to control dogs on walks and runs without having to drag them around or be drug around by big strong dogs, the kind that I prefer.

Politicians take note. Stop making laws and policy restricting and banning dogs. Dogs are an essential part of society and are essential to humanity, in ways too numerous to mention, but not the least of which, are keeping people healthier and happier, mentally and physically.

You’ve found someone better. Smarter. Wiser. Faster. Stronger.

The United States has become a punitive society. We call ourselves the “Land of the Free” but we are really “the Home of the Jailed.” The United States of America incarcerates more people than any nation on earth. More than China, which has 4x the population. For whatever reason, we have become a punitive society. The most punitive nation in the history of the world. With ever more draconian punishment and correction because politicians are afraid of looking “soft on crime.”

Do we really have the most evil people in the world living in the United States? Or is there something evil about our criminal justice system?

What does this all have to do with dog training? A lot. Dog trainers and experts are not immune from the direction of society at large. It is no coincidence that during the right wing presidency of George W. Bush that a right wing dog expert like the Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan would arise with a message of tough love, correction, and no fun dog training and handling.

There is a price to pay with a heavy handed message of punishment and correction. Whether for dog or human, it creates severe side effects. As for the side effects on humans, we would need massive volumes and I’ll leave that to others to describe.

As for dogs, a punitive/corrective/confinement approach and philosophy leads simply to a diminished dog. Diminished in intelligence, curiosity, learning and creativity. And a more dangerous dog. A dog who may find no other option than to use his teeth in opposition to the methods employed against him.

Michael T. Patton aka “The General” is a Left Wing/Libertarian dog expert who is fully capable of using punishment and correction. But he eschews punishment and correction whenever possible. Or if he uses correction, he does it in a way that does not put the dog in a position of having to defend himself from the crazy human with the choke chain.

Want to know the main difference between a Right Wing dog expert like Cesar Millan and a Left Wing dog expert like Michael T. Patton? Besides Michael having a Biology degree and Cesar not having one, Right Wing dog experts have a lot of experience being bitten by dogs. They will brag about the number of times they have been bitten by dogs and they will proudly show you their scars.

Michael T. Patton aka, “The General” has never been bitten while training a dog, even though he has reformed dogs who were fighting to the death. Not only is he better, smarter and more talented. He is a real writer, so when Michael T. Patton gets a book deal (and he will) he will be able to write his own books!

2010 is going to be a good year!

michael t. patton and jackie brown of dogtv.com

Watch this video before accepting any training methodology

Before you get a puppy. Before you do anything else with a dog, before you buy into any training philosophy or methodology, you SIMPLY MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO. I was reading a story on MSNBC the other day about how more and more women are choosing to have babies in their own homes, without the presence of medical personnel because the medical establishment has turned pregnancy “into disease that must be managed.”  

The same thing has happened with Puppy Raising. Dog experts in the past 20-30 years have turned puppies into a disease, into a disaster that needs to be controlled, confined, contained and fixed. Not the birth of puppies, but the actual puppies themselves.

There’s nothing wrong with a puppy. A puppy is an opportunity, not a problem. An opportunity to change your life and to change the world. A puppy is a bundle of energy and optimism and enthusiasm. The only thing that can screw that up is you, or the dog trainer or the dog training book or methodology or ideology you are using.  All I’m asking you to do is to think twice before you implement any philosophy. Look at what I’ve done with almost no effort with a pit bull type puppy that went through two homes before she got to me.  And I did it effortlessly.

The entire story of Jackie’s first year (aka The American Puppy Project) will be available in a documentary format in 2010. Until then, stay tuned for more about her. Thanks for watching!

In this video, I not only confront the Dog Whisperer and explain why I’m better than him, but I confront, just about all of conventional dog training with an astounding display of offleash pit bull type dog training in the streets of Southern California. Shock collars, prong collars, choke collars, gentle leader and halti collars, illusion collar, michael makes a mockery of the ridiculous array of collars used to force and punish dogs by focusing on the most powerful tool of all. The Dog’s brilliant mind.