DOG WHISPERER “How To Raise a Puppy” Season 6 Premiere

The DOG WHISPERER returns for an all new season tonight on the National Geographic Channel with a special episode “How To Raise a Puppy” airing at 9pm.

This episode accompanies Cesar Millan’s new book How to Raise the Perfect Dog: Through Puppyhood and Beyond (for which we’ll have a review on Daemon’s Books soon, so keep an eye out).

I am a huge fan of Dog Whisperer and this was one of my favorite episodes because it taught you so much about some of the things you need to do when you get a puppy. Plus seeing it in action is always better than simply reading about it. One of my friend actually just got a dog and I’m going to make sure she watches this episode, I think it’ll be really helpful and instructive.

And if you’re already a fan of the show, you’re definitely going to enjoy this episode. If nothing else, the puppies are adorable! And if you haven’t watched the show before, well this is definitely a great episode to start with.

So don’t forget to tune in tonight at 9pm on the National Geographic Channel and watch the Season 6 premiere of Dog Whisperer.

Check out a clip from “How To Raise a Puppy” below.

Synopsis: DOG WHISPERER “How To Raise a Puppy” – The season premiere begins with Junior, a pit bull pup Cesar hopes will someday assist him with his toughest cases now that his trusted right hand Daddy is nearing retirement. Daddy and Cesar have been a team since Daddy was four months old, and any fan of Dog Whisperer knows Daddy accompanies Cesar on many of his hardest cases — including a visit with Oprah! But with age come limitations. So, in order to ease Daddy into retirement, Cesar adopted the first young puppy for his puppy project — Junior. Daddy and Junior were instantly attracted to one another, and thus Junior joined Cesar’s pack. Next Cesar selects a Labrador pup to join the pack. Southern California Labrador Retriever Rescue brings two labs to Cesar’s Dog Psychology Center. Cesar is immediately drawn to the calm, submissive male, whom Cesar slowly introduces to the pack at the center. The pack mentality of all the dogs has never been clearer, as you can see firsthand how — with no human interaction — the pack slowly takes in the new puppy. Cesar eventually names this little guy Marley, after one of the world’s most famous bad dogs (the subject of last year’s hit movie “Marley & Me,” about the life of Cesar’s client and friend John Grogan).

By Sandie | October 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

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non-entity

I LOVE this show, I’m so glad to hear it’s coming back.
Cesar has taught me SO many useful things about my own dog that living with her has now become a dream. Before there were some “difficult times”, but Cesar knows his stuff and following his techniques have given me nothing but success.
Tallen

What a great episode..now go buy (or borrow from your local library) the book and learn even more info on raising a pup!! The book goes into even more detail on laying out a general plan/process for “Raising the Perfect Dog”. He covers everything from how to pick out a puppy that will fit into your family the best, bringing the pup home, setting up sleeping arrangements to minimize the stress of being in a new place with a new ‘pack’, setting rules so your pup grows up being well behaved, feeding time, play time, exercise and everything in between. The book also gets specific as he talks to two different breeders and trainers and a young man and his wife who adopted a puppy.

My favorite part of the episode and book was showing/explaining the different ways Cesar exercised each pup according to their breed (i.e. lab-water, terrier-digging/nose) and natural instincts but also the importance of helping the dog stay in tune with being a dog first, such as encouraging Mr. President the bulldog to use his nose rather than just his eyes, as bulldogs have a harder time using scent due to their flat faces and can thus become too overwhelming when just using their eyesight.

Made me want to go out and get a puppy…but I know it takes a lot of work and while I look forward to the challenge of raising the perfect dog someday, for now I’ll focus on my adult dog and ones I foster.