Cesar Millan's dog training philosophy and methods.

Ah I see. Yes I am against Cesar Millan's training techniques and philosophy, and yes all the points you lined up, are the exact points I want to debate. I'll go ahead and address them now under the pretense you're familiar with Millan's methodology and take on canine behavior. 1. Why it's outdated It's based off the premise that dogs behave like wolves and that wolves have a strict pack hierarchy kept in place by force and control from the alpha pair. Both of these ideas came from a study on captive wolves done in 1947. After that, a few more studies, saw the same harsh fighting, and the alpha pair using force and aggressive dominance to keep incessant control on lower members of the pack but these were all studies done on captive wolves, often from various places put in a zoo enclosure. More recent studies, observing in the wild find that wolf packs consist of a breeding pair and their pups from the past 1-3 years, and occasionally, multiple breeding pairs and past pups., and that fighting for dominance was extremely rare, and was highly situational, http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov... Cesar claims to have witnessed the aforementioned violent pack behavior in feral dogs around his home. Its now understood that feral dogs are solitary, or form a bonded pair, and have their own feeding territory, and spend most of their time alone. There is no evidence of an alpha in feral dogs. http://www.nonlineardogs.com... 2. Does the majority of scholarly community in animal behavior disagree Absolutely, and overwhelmingly so. The American Association of Pet Dog Trainers has disproved it and has taken a position against it. https://apdt.com... The Human-Animal Mutualism Division of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants is against it. http://beyondcesarmillan.weebly.com... The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior is against it http://behavior.vetmed.ucdavis.edu... The Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors is against it http://www.apbc.org.uk... 3. He has an ineffective and inefficient training method Of course if the harsh assertive dominance doesn't exist in wolves, and domestic dogs don't even have the pack mentality to have an alpha, there's no way to conclude a domestic dog's bad behavior is due to their owners lack of dominance and is a weak pack leader. Therefore, rolling the dog over to submit is pointless. You cannot force a dog back into a submissive role when they're not trying to step out if it in the first place. He often floods a dog with a stimuli that's causing the dog to react poorly, and when the dog "submits" to his "calm assertive energy" he claims he's fixing the behavior. In reality, the dog is entering learned helplessness, a common response to flooding. http://companionanimalsolutions.com... His other main training technique is positive punishment, a training technique that has a much higher risk of anxiety, fear, and aggression and statistically, dogs trained with positive reinforcement are more obedient. http://expeng.anr.msu.edu...(Hiby,_2004).pdf This study observes how punishment is met with a higher level of aggression or fear http://www.appliedanimalbehaviour.com...(08)00371-7/abstract