César Millán

At 54 years old, César Millán has this physical status:

César Felipe Millán Favela (Spanish: [sesa migran]; born August 27, 1969) is a Mexican-American dog trainer. Cesar Millan's Emmy-nominated television series Dog Whisperer, which was broadcast in more than 80 countries around the world, is well-known.

Millan, a New York Times best-selling author, has a line of dog books and instructional DVDs and is a producer for the New York Times. Millan, a pioneering dog breeder, concentrated on rehabilitating severely injured dogs and established the Dog Psychology Center in South Los Angeles (2002–2008).

Millan's first three books, including Cesar's Way, have collectively sold two million copies in the United States and are also available in 14 other countries.

He founded the Millan Foundation with Ilusión Millan, his ex wife, and later renamed the Cesar Millan Foundation, which is now known as the Cesar Millan PACK Project. The foundation was established in order to help animal rescues, rehabilitation, and re-homing of injured and abandoned animals as well as funding spay/neuter programs.

Early life

Millan was born in rural Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, on August 27, 1969. He was married to Felipe Millán Guillen and Mara Teresa Favela. Millan grew up on the farm in Sinaloa, where his grandfather, Teodoro Millán ngulo, was a tenant farmer. He was nicknamed el Perrero, "the dog herder" because of his natural way with dogs. The family later moved to Mazatlán, Mexico.

Millan illegally crossed the US-Mexico border when he was 21 years old, speaking no English and receiving only US$100. Millan told his harrowing journey in an interview with longtime friend Jada Pinkett Smith in July 2018.

Personal life

Millan became a United States citizen in 2009 and became a permanent resident of the United States. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

He married Ilusión Wilson in 1994, with whom he has two sons. Millan attempted suicide in May 2010, after his dog Daddy died in February and learned of his wife's plan to divorce him. Ilusión Millan filed for divorce in June 2010.

He began working with Jahira Dar, an actress and former stylist and wardrobe consultant, in August 2010. In April 2016, the couple announced their engagement.

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Career

Millan's first job in the United States was at a dog grooming store. He later founded the Pacific Point Canine Academy. When Jada Pinkett Smith began serving as a limousine driver and coach, he became one of Millan's first clients and supporters, providing him with an English tutor for a year. Millan developed the Dog Psychology Center, a two-acre (0.81 ha) facility in South Los Angeles, specializing in working with large breed dogs. The Dog Psychology Center in 2009 migrated to Santa Clarita, California, in 2009. Millan also opened an East Coast clinic at the Country Inn Pet Resort in Davie, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.

Millan began working with MPH Entertainment, Inc. in 2002, producing a television pilot for Dog Whisperer, a reality television show that follows Millan while he works in the field of dog rehabilitation. On the National Geographic Channel, the series premiered on September 13, 2004, and since then moved to the Nat Geo WILD channel. The show is expected to be the No. 1 in National Geographic magazine. During its first season, 1 show was broadcast in more than eighty countries around the world. On September 15, 2012, the final episode of the show was broadcast in the United States.

Millan introduced Cesar's Way, a monthly magazine produced in association with IMG, in 2009, with The Wall Street Journal noting that half of American consumers knew Millan at that time. Millan's advice was mixed with research about the relationship between dogs and humans in the magazine. After the issue's publication in November/December 2014, the magazine ceased publication.

On the Nat Geo Wild channel, Cesar Millan's Leader of the Pack was an American documentary television series that aired from January 5, 2013 to March 26, 2013. On the Nat Geo WILD channel, the premiere of Millan's latest series, Cesar 911, was broadcast; in non-American markets, it is called Cesar to the Rescue. In 2015, he teamed up with children's television veterans Sid and Marty Krofft to produce Mutt & Stuff, a Nickelodeon channel preschool television program. Calvin, Millan's son, appears in the film. Millan and his older son Andre appeared in a new series Cesar Millan's Dog Country, which ran for one season from March 3.

"Cesar Millan Live!"

Millan's methodical and philosophical analysis from his television shows and books in front of a live audience is included in this international touring dog training lecture and stage performance where he shares his tips and insights from his television shows and books. The display consists of a one-half lecture and a one-half demonstration with local shelter dogs, in which the show's leader uses his pack-leader training methods to change negative habits.

Millan's work focuses on how to handle a dog with what he describes as "calm-assertive energy." According to him, dog owners should be able to function as calm pack leaders. Dogs have three primary needs, including exercise, discipline, and affection in that order, according to Millan. In other words, it is the owner's responsibility to satisfy the dog's energy levels by demanding exercise, but then it will be clear defined rules, boundaries, and limits, and, finally, provide affection.

According to Millan, a common pitfall for American dog owners is to have a lot of love but not so much exercise or discipline. He advises owners to keep their good looks, internal emotions, and physical postures, in order to project optimism that is calm.

Millan's television shows are centered on dog rehabilitation, while Millan simultaneously educates the dog owners in his dog-handling philosophy. Most owners' discussions revolve around his belief: that healthy, balanced dogs need strong "pack leadership" from their owners, while Millan explains how owners can develop and maintain a leadership role with their dogs.

Millan takes dogs with severe behavioral problems to his Dog Psychology Center for a lengthy period of more intensive therapy. The services are not meant to be a dog training manual, and each episode includes repeated warnings that viewers should not attempt behavior change techniques at home without the help of a professional.

Millan uses vocal phrases such as tsch, gestures, and body language to connect with dogs rather than simply the dog's name or voice. Millan encourages owners to produce their own unique sound that suits them. Dogs, according to him, sense, comprehend, and respond to a person's mood more readily than their words.

"I'm trying to rehabilitate dogs and teaching people so that we have harmonious relationships between humans and canines," Millan said. Millan's success was attributed to his personal sense of balance, according to the New York Times in 2009, "a sort of overbalanced mien" describes his match.

Millan's methods are outdated, incomplete, and "unscientific and inhumane," according to an article published in the Indian scientific journal Current Science in January 2007. Millan's detractors have argued that what Millan calls "calm submission" is really a state of helplessness as a result of adverse dog training methods. Critics were reacting to Millan's "highly edited" version of his teachings, according to Malcolm Gladwell, who was based in The New Yorker.

Millan appeared on The Alan Titchmarsh Show in October 2012. Titchmarsh described his techniques as "cruel" and "unnecessary," quoting a video in which Millan punched a dog in the throat, according to Titchmarsh. Millan called it a touch, not a punch. "Adverse training techniques that have been shown to be used by Cesar Millan can cause pain and anxiety for dogs and may exacerbate their behavioral difficulties," Titchmarsh said.

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