Hi, I'm Cesar Milan.

And I'm Calvin Milan.

And you're watching Young Hollywood.

Hey guys, Erica Ross here for Young Hollywood. I am at Caesar Milan Inc. I'm going to talk to the man himself and his son Calvin about the dos and don'ts of being a pack leader. All right, Calvin, tell us about this pack of yours.

Well, this is Coco. This is Taco and this is Alfie. And that's Junior over there laying in the sun.

All right. Now, I know that in the beginning, you had a little bit of of trouble with Coco.

Coco was brought to me from Newport Beach as a dog who would attack anybody, especially kids. And so Calvin comes in and he just go straight to Coco and lift them up. You know, like it's just like and Coco just relaxed in his arms and from that point on, they just bonded. It's just Calvin was five years old when he met Coco. So I was very impressed with his determination as he saw something that I didn't see, obviously. And uh, he was able to gain trust in a second. When the lady came, I show Calvin to to to demonstrate how great Coco was doing. And the first words that came out of Calvin was, can I keep him? He was like, this is my dog now. She had some tears and and she said, you of course you can.

Calvin, you have a shared affinity for dogs like your dad. Where did that come from?

The first time I saw dogs was I was very young. My first pack of dogs that I saw was Rottweilers. I don't know something just snapped and it was like, wow, dogs are like cool.

All right, now let's talk about leader of the pack. You go to Europe and you rehabilitate rescue dogs that need a second chance. So, what is the most common problem that rescue dogs have?

The most common problem is a human who doesn't give them a chance. The human abandoned them in the first place. That's why they're in the shelter. That's why they end up in the streets, right? So what that says to me is we're not as committed as we think we are. So that's why I felt the need to do a show that helped me save lives and and really teach people about compatibility, because a lot of people when they rescue a dog, they rescue a dogs for two things. They're cute or the person feel sorry for the dog. So both ways are not going to benefit the dog.

And now you film the show in Europe. Do Europeans take to dogs a little bit differently than Americans do?

Side effects are side effects, right? So we have aggression, we have abandonment, we have anxiety, we have the same symptoms. Uh, some countries are are more have more tendency to walk, you know, so for a long period of time. So they're going to have less aggression, but they still have anxiety.

But do do owners like coddle their their animals more than Is that universal? Is that one of the reasons you opened the dog psychology center?

Well, my goal when I came to America was to be the best dog trainer in the world. But then I realized that I shouldn't be training dogs, I should be training people.

Talk about the Cesar Milan Foundation that you have. I know that you you work with nonprofit rescue organizations.

Well, the goal with the foundation is education first and foremost. And so Yale University and I partnered up uh to create a curriculum and that curriculum is being given already by around 2,000 schools in America. That's number one. Number two is the campaigns of Spay neuter. In America, we kill four to five, four to five million dogs due to overpopulation. So if we become more educated about the importance and the need of Spay neuter campaigns, and then we will all participate as a country. The third thing we focus in the foundation is to educate um the rescuers. Because the rescuers are the people that have the biggest heart in the world, but they don't understand or know how to rehabilitate a dog or how to partner the dog with the right human. So we don't have a problem with breeds. We have a problem with education. So we must start an education from an early start, preschoolers and then educate everybody that is already involved with dogs.

So do you always suggest to adopt before you purchase an animal?

Well, the the advantage you have when you adopt a dog is the dog has been abandoned. Therefore, he has a need to belong. That's why a lot of people in the say, when I rescue a dog, they're so grateful. That's that's because they're looking to to be part of a family.

Of course, of course. Now your book, short guide to a happy dog. What what inspired this book?

Uh it was a need for me now that the people understand the philosophy, you know, Caesar's way, be the pack leader, you know, I raised the perfect dog. All of that is philosophy and understanding in fundamentals. So here is the practicality.

Now, let's talk about some common mistakes that owners make. To crate or not to crate.

A house is a crate. It's a big crate. A room is a crate, right? But when you don't trust that you're that your dog is going to use the bathroom in the area that you want, that's what you shouldn't do. The size of the space. So the less he moves, the more he holds, right? So, but every four hours, you have to take the dog to an area where you want him to relieve the bowel movement or you want him to relieve the the bladder. Cause that's the program every four hours.

Is it a no-no for your dog to sleep in bed with you?

For me, he's too cute for me, you know.

I agree. As long as he's clean, yes. Is it okay to sometimes feed your dog scraps?

We do that. Yeah, we do that. Yeah, especially when we're having a barbecue at the ranch. We do that at the ranch. We don't do it at home. So we're very specific where we do that so they don't think it's everywhere.

Should you correct your dog if they beg?

If the dog comes and asks you for food, and because they don't rationalize, they don't know when do you not going to want to have this behavior. So it's best if you tell them when to beg, right? So, you know, that's the whole point of tricks, right? They teach a dog to beg, right? And the dog looks cute. But they're doing it when they when the human is telling them to do it.

Is it okay to give your dog lots and lots of affection? Calvin, you can step in here.

Uh no.

No. But I do it anyways. You have to see it this way. Affection is energy given. Exercise is energy taken away. So exercise is going to do what? It's going to calm the mind down. So you can actually make a dog aggressive by only providing affection.

Well, thank you guys so much. It was great sitting down with both of you. You're amazing, the new puppy whisperer.

Thank you.

Dad's proud of that.

I am very proud of that.

That means the mission continues.

You got some big shoes to fill.

Oh, yeah. His feet are bigger than mine now. Look at that, he's only 14.