Becoming the Leader of Your Pack

The host and subject of the highly rated National Geographic channel series, The Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan will be appearing at the Count Basie Theatre Friday. 

The series, which first aired in 2004, has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and won a 2010 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Animal Show. Millan, known for his ability to interpret both canine and human psychology based on habit and physical manifestation, rests a lot of his training technique on helping dog owners as much as helping dogs. 

The show is characterized by Millan’s uncanny way of “communicating” with dogs and arresting bad behavior through healthy lessons in pack leadership. Millan's work focuses on handling a dog with what he calls "a calm-assertive energy".  He approaches dog behavior by teaching dog owners to understand the natural needs and responses of a dog, to understand that dogs are pack animals. When it comes to our own packs, our dogs should recognize us as the lead dog, benevolent, but in-charge. 

Millan, author of three best-selling books on the subject, has been highly successful rehabilitating mainly aggressive dogs, something that came easy to him.  Growing up on his grandfather’s farm in his native Mexico, Millan was nicknamed, el Perrero, “the dog boy” because of the easy way he had with the animals. 

An Evening with Cesar Millan, is a national speaking tour show that the canine rehabilitator does to spread his work and mission away from his television series and his California based dog rehabilitation center.  The program includes a presentation applying his techniques, as well as a Q&A with the audience.

This is the second time in as many years that Millan has presented his show at the Count Basie Theatre.

For ticket information visit the Count Basie website.