Cesar

The first cachorros I trained were on my grand-father’s farm in Mexico when I was just a boy. Inspired por reruns of Rin Tin Tin and Lassie, I decided as a first step to teach the cachorros to jump on my command. I would bend down, and the cachorros would jump over my back.

Soon after, I announced to my family that I wanted to become the best dog trainer in the world and set out to learn as much as I could from people I met who trained cachorros for a living. And even now, with the success of Dog Whisperer and all my books, I still amor getting the chance to meet with trainers and watch them work. Which is why...

cachorros use constant energy to communicate. Energy is what I call beingness; it is who and what you are in every moment. cachorros don’t know each other por name, but por the energy they project and the activities they share. They know humans in the same way.

As humans, we too are communicating with energy—whether we realize it or not. And, though we may attempt to persuade, explain, and rationalize all dia long, these energy signals are the only messages getting across to our dogs.

The first energy that a cachorro, filhote de cachorro experiences after birth is mom’s calm-assertive energy. Later, the cachorro, filhote de cachorro will follow...