Dog Psychology vs. Dog Training! (Cesar Millan Dog Tips)

But to me the most important thing is the connection, communication, relationship. And the way you achieve that is by you understanding energy, the psychology of a dog, and the activities that they like to do. Welcome to the DPC. For those who don't know this beautiful place, this is about dog psychology. It is a place where I like to teach people about the difference between dog training, which is something that we're being programmed to believe, programmed to think, actually I wanted to be the best dog trainer. When I came to America, it was my dream to become the best dog trainer in the world. Dog training is great, but what happens is most people skip energy, philosophy, and activities, which that allows you to achieve trust, respect, and love. So if you don't have trust, respect, and love, what you end up training is a dog that doesn't trust, a dog that does not respect, a dog that is not going to feel the pure, authentic love. Right, so that's why I focus more on training humans so they can rehabilitate a dog. So is rehabilitation something that I was looking forward to achieve? Not really. That wasn't my goal in life. Actually, I believe more in prevention. But my goal is to teach people the difference between dog training and dog psychology. I'd rather do human training. So they don't have to do rehabilitation. Dog training is, first of all, invented by humans for the needs of a human, the wants of the humans, and what the human envision a dog to do for them, meaning he's going to use the ears of a dog, the eyes of a dog, to create a memory so the dog can perform and actually understand the human because this is something that the human wants. But to me, the most important thing is the connection, communication, relationship. And the way you achieve that is by you understanding energy, the psychology of a dog, and the activities that they like to do. Dog training utilizes sound, words, commands, body gestures, a little bit of scent. Nah, there's not very big on much. They do a lot of, okay, come on, come on, come on. They do a lot of that. So dogs are born nose, eyes, ears. But dog training is ears, eyes, nose. So it changes the way the dog learns about the world in his natural way. I like to teach people natural, simple, profound. So when you change the way a dog learn in his own natural way of being, you're actually altering his reality. So now he has to hear a sound to come out with a conclusion, to come out with a behavior, to come out with an understanding. So it becomes very robotic. Now, I'm not saying dog training is bad. I'm just saying if you skip dog psychology and you move into dog training, that dog is going to develop antisocial behavior. That dog is not going to be able to connect with his own kind because humans have told him not to use nose, eyes, ears. Humans have told him to do ears, eyes, nose, which is how we learn. This is very human way of communicating. That's what dog training is invented by human for a human way of looking at the world, the human needs. The human is the one, the dog, to hear a sound and to give him a behavior, right? We're the one they named dogs. We're the one to say, sit, stay, come, heel, all of those things, roll over, all of those things. A dog will be able to do that without a sound, right? Which that's exactly what I do. Now, dog psychology is the same as the psychology of a whale, the psychology of a gorilla, the psychology of an elephant. So it only makes sense that if you want to connect with an elephant, you're not gonna think training the elephant. You're going to think training the human so he can connect with the elephant and eventually that human can train the elephant, you see? So you train the human so the human can connect with the elephant so eventually that relationship allows them, allows the human to train the elephant, right? So that would be the right order and most people would agree with me when it comes to an elephant. Dog psychology is the same. Dog psychology is understanding that before he's a dog, he's animal. Animal, specie dog. If somebody has a purebred breed and the last thing is name. So animal, specie, breed, name. In dog training, they go backwards. They do the name, the breed of a dog. They don't really practice dog psychology and they forget about instincts. They don't really practice animal understanding. So it's gonna create a big confusion. I have rehabilitated many dogs that are trained. Again, I'm not saying dog training is bad. That was not what it was invented for, right? I'm saying that if we skip energy, psychology, activities, we're not going to build trust, respect, love. So if we don't have trust, respect, love, what we have is an animal that is trained but you can't take him everywhere. You can't trust them around children. You can't trust them around dogs. You can't trust them around different species. You don't know how to help them, right? Because at the time that an animal is practicing fight, flight, avoidance, sound will not be able to influence calm surrender. And calm surrender is the most important state of mind that a dog needs to do without a sound. So this is about you projecting your calm confidence so the animal, in this case a dog, practice calm surrender. Think about it this way. Before a horse person is going to leash the horse, that person is calm, confident, does very little sound. See? So it's energy, body, language, and the last thing is sound for a horse. And the reason is because horse are flight animals. They're very big, so they don't want the horse to get a little spook, right? So they practice silence, which it is the right thing to do because it keeps the horse calm. But when people does hey, oh, sit, no, hey, it makes the brain excited or tense. And that's related. The reason why people do that is because most people have learned to talk to the ears of a dog because they want to train the dog. Again, so you want to do it right. You want to do dog psychology first and dog training first. Dog psychology means the human is well trained. Then the human can actually practice something unnatural that is called dog training. A dog doesn't go to school to become trained. The parents do everything. So in the dog world, the mom is the mom, the teacher, and the government. So everything is done. In our world, our mom gives birth, teach us some moral values, and religion, and politics, and all of that stuff. And then teachers, we have to go outside to learn, to develop our intellect, and then outside that, there is a government. So our pillars, there's three different pillars. In their world, their mom is everything. And the mom practice connection, communication, relationship. She doesn't train them. She nurtures their natural way of being. If our energy, our psychology, and our activities are good, we're going to have good energy. We're going to have good self-love, self-value, self-knowledge. Then we can go to school and get trained. So training is not the first thing we have to achieve as human beings. It's the second thing after we achieve self-love, self-knowledge, and self-value. The same thing is for a dog. The dog needs to stay connected to the true self. The animal in him is the one that's going to tell him about energy. The dog in him is the one that's going to tell him how to relate to things. Nose, eyes, ears. The breed in him is his skills. This is something completely separate from dog training. And then the last thing is the name. Remember, the name is something we humans like to give to animals, to parts of streets, to even boats, the Titanic. We name it a boat. Well, where can you practice dog psychology and dog training? Every time you reintroduce yourself back with your dog, always ask your dog to come surrender. This is what people call sit and stay. Before you put a leash on your dog and take him for a walk, make sure he practice come surrender or sit and stay. Before you feed your dog, practice come surrender or sit and stay. Before you ask him to come into the couch, come surrender or sit and stay. That's gonna give you so much connection, just gonna allow you to maintain the most beautiful gift we can have in a relationship, which is trust, respect, and love. Those activities is something that we do every single day. Also, I forgot to tell you about food, right? Before the dog gets fed, ask him for come surrender or sit and stay. Come surrender is dog psychology. Dog training is sit and stay. Watch what happens with that combination. Again, my goal in life is to help people understand that it's a natural way of being with animals, that it's a simple way of being with animals, and that it's a profound way of being with animals. That allows you to connect to spirit. That allows you to connect to instincts. That allows you to connect with heart before you connect to the mind. Understand that everybody wants to connect with the mind because this is what they wanna train. But I wanna teach you how to connect to the spirit of a dog, to the instincts of a dog, and to the heart of a dog before you think dog training. They're both very important, but dog psychology is number one. Guys, I hope you enjoyed the video. Make sure you like, subscribe, and comment, and join me on my mission of better humans, better planet.