Delta and ***-***

NARRATOR: Do not attempt the techniques you are about to see without consulting a professional. On this episode of Dog Whisperer... LYNNE HAINES: You never know when somebody's gonna walk by the outside and she's gonna explode at the, at the window. SHERREL GRABLER: She goes into this crazy frenzy, I'm going to get you before you get me. LYNNE HAINES: When we're out walking with her, and another dog would approach us, she would go into her aggressive frenzy. She's knocked me on the ground before... if I fall the right way again, I could end up being paralyzed and in the chair permanently. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: He was really sweet and shy. He saw the chair in the living room and he ran into that chair and parked himself there. And he just won't go out. He sees a leash coming, and he's already fearful. *** *** will come to the door and look outside, but then run back in the chair. NARRATOR: When good dogs go bad, there's one man who's their best friend... Cesar Millan. CESAR MILLAN: No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs. I train people. I am the Dog Whisperer. NARRATOR: When Lynne Haines and Sherrel Grabler visited a local shelter, they had no idea they'd be returning home with a pet. But, a beautiful Rottweiler mix named Delta won their hearts. LYNNE HAINES: We were on our way to drop off donations at the SPCA and we looked over and saw this beautiful dog. I mean, she just grabbed me. SHERREL GRABLER: To notice how she was in her kennel, very, very timid, very fearful. We knew that she was gonna be a lot of work, but there was something about her that touched both of our hearts. LYNNE HAINES: And then she looked in my eyes and said, You can help me and there was that connection. My thought was, we're home a lot, so she, we could give her the time that she needed to rebuild and rehab. NARRATOR: Lynne believes that caring for Delta played a critical part in rebuilding her own life after suffering through a serious car accident and several surgeries. LYNNE HAINES: I owe Delta my ability to walk in a lot of ways; there were a lot of days I didn't wanna get out of bed. There were days where the pain was really bad. I'm sorry. But she needed to go out and I had promised to take care of her. Delta loves belly rubs. She is just a love bug. When she's in a playful mode, she makes you laugh, so she's very easy going once she's accepted you into her clan NARRATOR: But now Delta is overly protective of her home and family. SHERREL GRABLER: She goes into this crazy frenzy of, I'm going to get you before you get me, attacking the front door, attacking the sliding glass door LYNNE HAINES: You never know when somebody's gonna walk by the outside and she's gonna explode at the, at the window. We were afraid that she would go right through the windows. SHERREL GRABLER: So when the opportunity presented itself to put in dual pane windows, we did. NARRATOR: After biting a handyman, Lynne and Sherrel kept Delta on a short leash. Even so, she lunged and barked at any two or four legged creature in her path. LYNNE HAINES: When we're out walking with her, and someone would approach us, or another dog would approach us she would go into her aggressive frenzy, and that would cause me more pain. SHERREL GRABLER: The power wheelchair we were hoping would be a blessing, because it would allow Lynne to take Delta for longer walks. But if Delta pulls and goes into her frenzy, that sets Lynne back, she can often end up in bed as a result. LYNNE HAINES: She's knocked me on the ground before, and if I fall the right way again, I could end up being paralyzed and in a chair permanently. SHERREL GRABLER: Lynne does do primarily all the care taking for Delta, and so my walks oftentimes can be kind of challenging. I, I realize that some of it has to do with, am I allowing myself to be the one in control, versus Delta? I am most afraid of Delta attacking someone, and biting them with the ultimate effect being that we have to put her down. Because she is such an incredible, loving part of our family that that is always in the back of my mind. LYNNE HAINES: When she knows that she's hurt me, she totally just like shuts down and is very upset about it. I can't afford to get hurt anymore, and she deserves to be calm and, and enjoy life. CESAR MILLAN: How can I help you? LYNNE HAINES: You can tame the third side of Delta. SHERREL GRABLER: Or help us Okay. to do that. CESAR MILLAN: Yeah. What does that mean to you, third side? LYNNE HAINES: She's kind of got her three sides - her loving side, her fun side and then the fear, aggressive side, and that's the part that... CESAR MILLAN:It's an interesting way of looking at it. LYNNE HAINES: She doesn't need to be trying to break through the window to get to people, or trying to pull us down the street to attack someone. CESAR MILLAN: Somebody as dog, or somebody human? SHERREL GRABLER: Both. LYNNE HAINES: Both. CESAR MILLAN: No way! LYNNE HAINES: Yeah. She's trainable, definitely Yeah., it's just that when she goes into that mode, she's just out of her mind for a few minutes. 'Cause she can be asleep and boom, she's at the window. CESAR MILLAN: She's a hypersensitive? LYNNE HAINES: She is. SHERREL GRABLER: Hype...yeah, she is. LYNNE HAINES: I was in a car accident four years ago, and I've got herniated discs in my neck and back, and if I fall incorrectly again, I could end up being paralyzed. Yeah. CESAR MILLAN: So she in a way has to become service dog. LYNNE HAINES: Yes, Right? that would be awesome. I mean, she's a very beautiful dog, people wanna come up and pet her all the time, but you have to like, no, don't. She's predictably unpredictable. CESAR MILLAN: Predictably unpredictable. SHERREL GRABLER: That's a, that's a good analogy. CESAR MILLAN: Yeah, I mean, she's coming out with a book already. It's like the third eye. You know what I mean? That's pretty good. I gotta meet her then. Oh, they got Christmas lights. It was an aggressive bark with a fear essence, you know, and there's a deep, strong bark. Okay, so what we need to do is to let them express how they feel, and not to make them wrong about how they feel, because they're gonna tell you their reality. The rhythm, it was a really, really fast like, BARKS. So, that tells me the intensity of her fear, and now what we have is a silent conversation, which is pretty much what we always aim for. See the yawning is very, very good, so she was able to express herself, be with herself, and then start declining. And that's when you got to see the, the glare. Now you see the other side of Miss Delta, which is unsure, but she also has a sweet eye contact to it. The closed mouth, it, it shows you that she's still not 100 percent relaxed, but she's not 100 percent tense. And at the same time, she's very quiet, so that's really good. That's right. So, now we get to see a dog that is curious, yeah, surrendering. She's not afraid of us whatsoever, you know, for her to lay down, facing us with the head in front, is a very good sign. She doesn't know what to do next, you know, but we definitely change from the moment we walk into the room to the moment we open the gate. So casually relax enjoying her house. I'm, I, I'm, I'm leaving a vibe behind me. If I just walk really fast, then I leave that vibe behind me. So, almost like I'm in a museum where I'm enjoying everything, and being calm about it, coming that way. So, that's when I asked the crew to move away, give her space, and then she will come out. And sooner or later, she just came out, no less than 10 seconds after that. Let's have a meeting here. I want to see who she gravitates. Where did she go? She actually went towards me, but she went all the way to feeling me, you know, she'd put her head and then lick my hand, and that's gratitude. Because I allowed her to be herself, she trusted me, because I, I told that I know who she was, who she really was, she felt grateful. And then I reinforced. I don't always touch a dog, 'cause most of the time they just come and smell me, you know. Most of the time they just stood there. See this one came in and, and said, Be with me. She is fearful dominant, that's why she's moving forward okay. That makes her at the top. The way she behaved is a therapy dog quality. You know, the hypersensitive thing that she is going through, that's why if we give her an outlet like sheepherding, in 15 minutes, she's gonna just let it out, it's like screaming AAAHHH! It's therapy, or crying becomes therapy. Or running becomes therapy, you know, anything that you can just let it out, at least for that day, you know Yeah., yeah. So, it, it just feels good, and allows her to go back to who she really is, this hypersensitive is what she became, but who she is, is that therapy dog. LYNNE HAINES: So, she's..instead of herding the window, she's gonna herd sheep. NARRATOR: Next, Delta's neighborhood nemesis makes a house call. Lynne Haines and Sherrel Grabler can't stop Rottweiler mix Delta from lashing out at people and other dogs. Since Delta frequently targets the neighborhood dog named Sadie, Cesar asked Sadie and her owner, Taylor, to wait outside while Sherrel opens the door to temptation. CESAR MILLAN: Will she knock that thing down? LYNNE HAINES: Uh, that's a brand new screen. CESAR MILLAN: Oh, okay, alright. LYNNE HAINES: So, it's supposed to be dog proof. CESAR MILLAN: Alert. Recognizing something. Do I wanna stop that now? Not yet. I can, but I wanna catch her at a higher intensity for me to convey my authority figure position. In a way I'm allowing her to be, and then I'm gonna tell her how to be. Tsst. First I want her to feel me. Tsst. I'm just...it's slowly claiming... SHERREL GRABLER: I could just see her energy just move. CESAR MILLAN: Tsst. So, that's step number one. As powerful as you might see her, she's also...tsst...very sensitive. That's good, ears back, I'm okay with that. Ears forward, tail fast, I disagree with that Right., so I'm not removing her from the window, but I'm definitely saying, this is my window now. If I remove the body, the mind will never learn the whole point LYNNE HAINES: And that's...we were always making her go to her bed. CESAR MILLAN: To the bed... and again, she's a sensitive girl, you know, so I can't treat her... They don't feel that... Tsst. For the most part they didn't utilize silence and they didn't utilize patience. That's why I felt in this case, this is what I needed to offer, this is what I needed to show how this is a powerful concept. Tsst, there we go, that's right there. Can you bring her right here in front? There you go. There, right there. Tsst. Tsst. Tsst. Right. Tsst. Right there. Good. You saw the switch? Yeah. Yeah. They just tell you, I go through this process, and then at the end I end up with the sweet face, and she will, because she has done it on the window, she has done it on the kennel, she has done it all those areas. So there's no tension on, on the leash. There you go, that's a beautiful experience. LYNNE HAINES: To see her lay at the door while her enemy, that she thought, is standing 10 feet away from her and she's just laying there like, okay, whatever, is just like wow. CESAR MILLAN: So you pass by every day Yeah., and you get to hear that every day. TAYLOR: Yes. SHERREL GRABLER: I don't think I would've ever expected this. CESAR MILLAN: Sherrel was a more fearful source of energy. Lynne was a little bit more frustrated source of energy. Between Lynne and Delta was a bond already, you know, and, and so I needed to create a bond with Sherrel. What do you do for a living, anyway? SHERREL GRABLER: I'm a body worker. CESAR MILLAN: A body worker? Like bike shop? SHERREL GRABLER: No, massage therapy, energy work. CESAR MILLAN: That's good stuff. SHERREL GRABLER: It's very good yeah, so that's why this is very interesting hearing you and the relationship with people and dogs. I kind of had an ah-ha moment is that's what I try to do with my clients, being very focused, very present, giving them that calm, that facilitator. And I haven't consistently been doing this with Delta, out of my own fear of what has happened. CESAR MILLAN: I think, um, dog psychology is the same thing. SHERREL GRABLER: Okay, I can get that. CESAR MILLAN: It's just your client is not on a bed. Your client is moving. SHERREL GRABLER: Previously I just accepted that Delta was Lynne's dog and Lynne was Delta's person, so I was definitely secondary, or third in this, this life. So, I'm realizing that I really need to change that perception and that it's important for me to have my own unique bond with Delta, and that we can become a unit, all three of us. CESAR MILLAN: Slow down. And the pull, not so jerking, you know, it's... Just up. That's right, okay that's right. Yeah, this, this is sort of like Tai Chi, like moving energy, you know, it's not karate. SHERREL GRABLER: I'm not even sure I still believe that it really happened. It was so surreal and un, unrealistic to me to walk with Taylor and Sadie with Delta, but so wonderful in the same way. CESAR MILLAN: The more physical or sound energy we use, the more we bring the other side of her, the fast side of her. SHERREL GRABLER: That we don't want to. CESAR MILLAN: Not right now. We can use that in the sheepherding thing that we're about to do Okay.. SHERREL GRABLER: Alright. CESAR MILLAN: Okay. Don't leave yet. You're gonna ask her, you open the door. Okay. Don't leave yet. And bring her in. Stop. Now with this hand, you're gonna move it here, then move here, so you always have control, and then that hand you're gonna ask her to sit down. There we go. Now relax, see this in front of her. Drop the leash. SHERREL GRABLER: Drop the leash? Yes. Completely? CESAR MILLAN: Yes. Surrender and trust. Tsst. Now come out. SHERREL GRABLER: Okay. Good girl. Oh, not supposed to do that yet. CESAR MILLAN: That's alright. You're just saying stay Stay., and you go over there and say thank you. SHERREL GRABLER: Thank you, Sadie, yes. CESAR MILLAN: Tsst, so I'm gonna move to...so...that is ritual. SHERREL GRABLER: That's amazing. CESAR MILLAN: And that's gratitude right there. NARRATOR: Since Rottweilers are herding dogs, Cesar finishes the day by taking the group to meet an old friend. Jerome Stewart owns All-Breed Herding, a sheep ranch in Long Beach where Delta can burn off her excess energy. JEROME STEWART: Okay, what you're gonna do is you're gonna go over to that cone right there. SHERREL GRABLER: That one, okay. JEROME STEWART: And I'm gonna go, go join sheep. Okay. When I join the sheep, I'm gonna ask you to let her go. Got it? SHERREL GRABLER: Got it. JEROME STEWART: Easier said than done, right? CESAR MILLAN: He knows how to read dogs, he gained the trust of Delta right away, he saw that she was a little shy, he recognized that, he let her be, then he brought her in, and so that's why we go with Jerome. JEROME STEWART: Okay, let Delta go. SHERREL GRABLER: Wait. Good, go. JEROME STEWART: That a girl. Good, honey. Now just stay with me. Okay. Real normal This is a new environment, so she's gonna check it out first, which is perfectly okay. Cause what happens, when she goes, she's gonna flat go. Here she comes, whoo hoo, there you go, honey. Thata girl. SHERREL GRABLER: There we go. JEROME STEWART: Whoo hoo. SHERREL GRABLER: Oh wow. LYNNE HAINES I got what you want now. CESAR MILLAN: Oh yes. JEROME STEWART: Good SHERREL GRABLER: Oh wow, look at that. That was amazing. LYNNE HAINES: She's awesome. SHERREL:Sheepherding was amazing LYNNE HAINES: We just stuck her in this ring with these things, and she was like, Cool, let me play. CESAR MILLAN: She was playing with the sheep. That was fantastic. We have brought other clients to do sheep herding, but this is the first time we've seen a dog playing with the sheep. JEROME STEWART: Thata girl. CESAR MILLAN: She's so sweet. SHERREL GRABLER: Good girl, good girl. CESAR MILLAN: She did amazing, huh? LYNNE HAINES: She wasn't ready to leave, she wanted to go back, she said, okay, I got some water, I'm ready to go some more, so I think it'll help drain a lot of energy that we're not able to drain for her, and who knows, maybe someday we'll be in competitions with her. CESAR MILLAN: So now you're talking about bonding time. SHERREL GRABLER: I can take her here. CESAR MILLAN: Oh yes. JEROME STEWART: Yes, as you saw she loves her work. The work becomes very, very important to her, so you help enrich the work, you're a team member, Okay. you become more important. Okay, there's actually a use for you now. SHERREL GRABLER: Oh, wow! CESAR MILLAN: Lynne had an accident, then Delta took it upon herself to really help her through her recovery. So, that became her job. She had an issue prior to that, but it, it intensified after she find herself without a job. So, that's why I felt that doing sheep herding can channel that energy into something constructive, which she did fantastic today. Let's see how far you go on your own and how silence helps you, and keep me posted. SHERREL GRABLER: Thank you, we will. LYNNE HAINES: Silence is golden in this case. CESAR MILLAN: Silence is golden in this case. Alright, Delta, keep them busy. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Come on sweetie. Wanna treat? NARRATOR: When Dog Whisperer continues, a black border collie mix from Taiwan can't seem to adjust to his new American home. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: Come on let's go. Wanna come home. You wanna go? NARRATOR: America's shelters overflow with millions of dogs waiting for a chance at a loving home. Many will never get there. And for one group in particular, the outlook seems especially grim. KAT EDMAN: We discovered that big black dogs linger in shelters longer, and because of that, unfortunately they are the first to be euthanized, last to be adopted, and the first to be euthanized in shelters that are already really, really overwhelmed. NARRATOR: The discrimination against black dogs is known as Black Dog Syndrome. Kat Edman, president of Paws of the Planet, a non-profit charity in Newport Beach, California, has dealt with the issue herself. KAT EDMAN: We found that big black dogs don't show up well behind bars. If you have a golden retriever and a, a collie over here, and then you have Rupert in the middle, probably look at them before you look at his beautiful face. And also, when photographs, more and more people are going to the web to find the animals they want to adopt. Sometimes you just don't see their beautiful features in a photograph. CESAR MILLAN: While the validity of black dog syndrome is still being debated in the US, there's no denying that black dogs in many parts of the world stand almost no chance at all. One such place is the island of Taiwan. ARDIS BRAUN: In Taiwan there is not enough room for big dogs. Black dogs in Taiwan are considered black luck, and if they have white feet, that's even worse luck, it means death. So there are a lot of big dogs there that have nowhere to be adopted and to live. So the rescue coordinator Johanna Quinn started to do a lot of outreach with rescue groups like us. NARRATOR: One of the rescues they came upon was a black border collie mix named *** ***. JOHANNA QUINN: I started volunteering at TUAPA and I saw him in the playground. So I asked Ardis with Dobies and Little Paws if she could help us take him in and try to find him a home, cause he just, he wouldn't have a chance in Taiwan. ARDIS BRAUN: So *** *** came in to LAX. He had big round eyes, he was terrified. He was full of wonderment, confusion, he didn't know what was happening in his life. So we brought him here and we put him in with the more confident dog. NARRATOR: At Dobies and Little Paws Rescue, one of *** ***'s walkers was volunteer Rhonda Scarborough. She was still grieving over the death of her dog of 14 years. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: When I saw him I fell in love with him cause he reminded me sort of of my dog Grizzly Bear. And, and he was really sweet and shy. So I just decided I'm gonna get *** ***. He deserves it, he's come a long way to find a good home. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: We actually rescued him from a life that we don't know a whole lot about. There's a possibility that he might have been a feral dog, might have been born on the streets in Taiwan. We don't know for sure. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: He saw the chair in the living room and he ran into that chair and parked himself there. And he just won't go out. Here we go. I got your food. You hungry? I got your food. Come on. *** *** will come to the door and look outside, but then run back in the chair. Come on. Come here, boy And I tried to get *** *** to go out further, you know, but he doesn't want to. Come on; Let's go. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: Then we started trying to coax him out of the chair, but about the only thing that'll do that is food. You wanna treat? We can coax him out a little bit with food, even that's, you know, not a sure thing. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Get your treat. Go on, get your treat. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: Let me get out of here, if I move out of the way. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: *** *** likes to be invisible. He sees a leash coming, Come on. and he's already fearful. His eyes get really big and he can tell he doesn't like it. I was thinking maybe it could be he thinks when the leash is put on him that it represents someone taking him away again. He's so scared. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, he's so scared. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: If *** *** doesn't ever want to go for a walk, or in the car, or anything else, and he would prefer to stay in the chair all the time, then, you know, that's okay with me, because I don't want to stress *** *** out any more than he's been stressed out. But I think there's a lot more fun *** *** could have if he only knew it. Like we could go to the doggie park. And, or we could go for walks. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: We watch basically every show that comes on, and I think Cesar's up to the task of solving *** ***'s problems. I want him to bark and growl and sniff and play and run and chase balls and sticks and all of those great things that dogs do. I really think that it would possibly be not as big of a challenge to correct an aggressive dog. I think a dog that is this fearful, that is a real challenge. And so when she brought him home. We don't want to damage him. Right, and so when she... RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: I have that fear of doing, it, you know, being too aggressive would, would be the wrong thing, CESAR MILLAN: It is the wrong thing. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: It could set him back. So I've been going slowly with him, but then I, sometimes I feel like I'm not making any progress, not with the leash I'm not. CESAR MILLAN: And you're right about rehabilitating aggressive dog. Why? Because he's coming forward, he's already in a forward state. With an aggressive dog, what you want to gain is respect. With this fearful dog, what you want to gain is trust. Right. At the end, you must gain both. Now, when that dog is at that high level of fear, what is your feeling? RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Sad. Yeah. I'm sad for him. CESAR MILLAN: That's why that source, that human who, who rescued him physically can't rescue him psychologically or emotionally. A sad human and a fearful dog trying to help each other, they can't. That makes sense. So what I'm gonna do for you is to help him unlock himself because he's way, way, way, way in the hole. Like rock bottom. Right? So, rock bottom, they'd rather drown at this point if you don't help them. You know, we want to put him in a place where he wants to go back to surface. Well, *** *** knows he's not in Taiwan any more. So, geographically speaking, he already moved on. But psychologically and emotionally he's still in the same place. You know, the couch uh, uh, it represents safe. But at the same time the couch nurtures fear. NARRATOR: Still to come, convincing *** *** to leave the seat of safety. NARRATOR: Rhonda and Rennie Scarborough called in Cesar to help with *** ***, their fearful border collie mix from Taiwan. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Look it. I got a treat. CESAR MILLAN: All right, so come, I'm gonna, I'm gonna show you, first we're gonna introduce ourself as scent The camera guys are, have to stay within a certain distance because he's already saying I'm not comfortable. If you see the eyes, you can see how the eyebrows in a way go in a triangle. So it's, that's like a concerned look. See, he's reacting, Okay, he, that guy who's talking so much is concerning me. NARRATOR: Cesar keeps Rhonda and Rennie out of the living room until he can get *** *** into a more positive state of mind. For the first and most challenging step, he takes out a handful of lunch meat. CESAR MILLAN: So, we're gonna see how much can we attract. Very good, that's what we want. So just a little bit of that. So I'm presenting a scent, and then the brain moves forward. That's what I want him to relate to us. So, let's present the leash to see, that's a behavior right there. So what he just said right now is, I'm going to avoid that, that tool. Now, so when I went and put the leash on, you saw how the brain went back. And I move, the brain move forward. So the food has created a positive state, this is one of the reasons why he has stayed alive, because he managed to eat. But we need to feed him calm, assertive energy. So we're gonna have a little bit of resistance here. But it's how, it's how you give up. There you go. Every time he moves, even if he doesn't move forward, just, just the fact that he's moving up, you're gonna see me releasing the tension on the leash. So I'm just teaching the brain, look, how you get rid of this tension in your mind is by you relaxing. So... There you go. See it? Very good. That's good. Believe it or not, this is almost like pushups, you know, for the brain. That's better. That's good. So you see a little bit more active brain, right? Brain who tries to pull himself away, trying that's more, than the passive brain that he is, and more like in a depressive state. So he knows, every time he moves up or he gives me another language, or another position, I relax the tension. So changing that. Great work. Right here. Very good. There you go. And so, we don't want him to go for a walk yet. We just want him to jump, him to jump out, out of the couch. So all this is very typical. There we go. We're gonna bring him to the couch. So. As much as the leash is, is telling him to get out of the couch, the leash is also going to bring him back into the couch. So we wait for that moment. Then we got him back into the couch. He can't run into the couch. So, otherwise, we were, we will be answering to flight. Always the first time is the biggest fight. Second time is less. Third time is less. There you go. Third time, much easier. Fourth time is less. Right there. Fifth time he just moved in. because that, the brain realize, Okay, this is what he wants, he wants to give me relaxation. That's what I want. That's when I right away called the owners and let them experience that moment, 'cause I wanted them to be related to that moment. The exercise is, we're gonna tell you when to go to the couch We want to give him the couch, but we don't want to give it to him when he's afraid. Right. Right. Right? Because every time he is in the couch, when he's afraid, that's what he's doing. He is nurturing his fear. So, bring him back. So, so now, this is the sixth time, by the way. Wow. Amazing. So that's why, to me, it doesn't matter what happen to them, because what they want is, How can I achieve balance with you? Perfect. I'm not gonna worry about the people in Taiwan, I want to focus on you, cause that's all I have. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: He was resisting me so much lately, *** *** that I actually had almost given up on ever trying again, because I just thought I, he would hate me. And I, I figured he didn't need any more stress. CESAR MILLAN: Don't forget to breathe. There you go. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: Good boy. CESAR MILLAN: There you go. So use, use him to calm yourself down. See, imagine if he gets this message, or he gets this energy every single day, he master it. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: It's a complete different animal right now. Right now. I feel like he's part of the family now. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, you like it, don't you? Great. CESAR MILLAN: Okay, so we want this. Don't think it, just be it. There you go. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: I, I'm amazed, Cesar, I, you know, yesterday he wouldn't let me come up to him like this while he's out of that chair. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: I'm so glad. RENNIE: Can you give me five.... .....giving up on him... yeah, that's a good boy... RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: That's what I've been longing for, missing my dog, you know, that's what I missed or something, you know, is that moments like that, that is just an understanding and you're not really saying anything. CESAR MILLAN: To Mr. Rennie and Miss Rhonda, just the fact that he come out of the couch, that was big enough. But then they say, you know, I can't wait for one day to walk with him. And, and I say, Well, let's go. Beautiful. Fulfill that space, that's what he, he's taking you over there. Okay. Beautiful, good. Now the reason why he is moving you out of the way is you're not claiming that space that you're stepping on. You, you want, you need help? You want help? RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, I don't know how to stop him from crossing in front of me. CESAR MILLAN: All right, so right now we're just gonna let him satisfy that need, okay, cause we don't, we don't want to fight that 'cause that, that builds confidence, that builds self esteem. Exactly. Knowing the world. Right? RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: When Cesar first gave me the leash, he said, you have to take control and you have to give him a little slack. And then I noticed that as I let the leash just go loose in my hand, he wasn't trying to pull away from me or anything. He just got right in step with me, and it was really a good feeling. CESAR MILLAN: So my friend from Taiwan is ready to visit Oxnard. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Looks like he's enjoying it. CESAR MILLAN: Yeah, well he's not focusing on the camera guys, I mean, he should be overwhelmed by the Dog Whisperer crew. He's not focusing on it, he's actually being with them. So, so his pack right now is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: He did. I could tell he feels... CESAR MILLAN: All of us are very present into his mind. Yeah. And what we have in common then is that we all are in the same state. Cause we all, we all want to document your, your, your experience, but at the same time we want to support your transformation. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Thank you, yeah. See it? Yeah, yes. CESAR MILLAN: So we're really here for you, we're here for him, for you, and for everybody who's going to learn, it doesn't just happen in Taiwan, it happens in America to a country that loves dogs, but it has a but sometimes. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: Because they, they have that, that stigma about black dogs black dogs being unlucky or something? CESAR MILLAN: Yeah, black dog is bad luck. That's, that's a myth. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, like the black sheep in the family or something like that. CESAR MILLAN: Yeah. Then two kids came towards us, they just went by. What do we gotta tell the human who doesn't know he comes from Taiwan? They don't know he's been in a kennel for six years. They don't know the story. They just know it's a dog in the street. But, and that's actually perfect. The kids did exactly what they're supposed to do: no touch, no talk, no eye contact. See how they actually, I didn't have to tell them what to do, they just coming in, they're curious. So at the same time, our boy here is getting the benefit of the experience. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, he is. CESAR MILLAN: They don't have to know the drama, they don't have to know the story. They just have to know how can they help *** *** in America? NARRATOR: As he ventures further and further from home, *** *** seems to enjoy the world beyond his living room couch. But there's still work to be don e, and this time, the focus will be on *** ***'s owners. Coming up, Cesar hopes that a canine pal will help *** *** come out of his shell. After spending a day working with the frightened *** ***, Cesar returns with a four-legged assistant CESAR MILLAN: When I left, I knew that they were going to have an obstacle. I, I just didn't know where, you know, but now the obstacle was in the couch. So the couch represented I feel sorry for you. NARRATOR: To assist him, Cesar brings along Maury, a new member of his pack. A mix of undetermined breeds, Maury will be working his very first case. CESAR MILLAN: That energy that you're seeing here, this is a very high level energy. He came to the center around 14 hours ago. And already we are putting him into some of the jobs that he needs to do. The walks are doing great. It's just the part where they invite *** *** from the furniture to the outside world. That little piece still have not been accomplished by *** ***'s owners, and that's what we're doing here, and we are using his energy to see if we can wake up a little bit more *** ***. Come on. Hi guys, how are you? Hi. Good to see you. Hi, Cesar. I just want to make sure these guys get to know each other Okay, great. before anything else. Good I want to see his reaction here. No, no, not the water. This is the first time for him to come in, you see how quick he became comfortable while being here? Uh huh. So curious, very excited. So he's curious. I like it, see the nose, very nice. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: He seems okay with it. CESAR MILLAN: Tsst. He growled, which is normal. He did? Yeah. Oh, my god. I never heard him growl. Well, it's normal, this is his home, and he's just asking just to be a little bit calmer. Yeah. You know, but the good thing is he's waking up curiosity. Right. Now, based on that, we can remove him out of here. Thank you, Todd. All right, so now, let's do it. Okay. Grab the leash. You're gonna put the leash on his neck. Let me see how, let me see. All right, don't fight it. Hold on, let's do it again, let's do it again. Sit over here so you can see. Okay. I'm gonna guide you through it, all right? So, because you want to do the ritual, in a way where you're very helpful to him, right, so this is what we're going to avoid. For him not to get hurt by your actions. And I know that's your main concern, right. Yeah. So, if a dog is doing... don't follow him. Okay. Stop. Okay. And then once he gives his, his position to another area, then you slowly go that way. Yes. You see it? Okay. So if he follows you, and then you can invite to trust. Okay, so let me show you how. Alright. So here... Good energy, see where my guy is. See, if I can keep that state of mind, that's fantastic. You know? That, that's the goal. So the, the state of mind is not dancing around. So if he moves his head that way, that's where the leash goes. There we go. And then move here. See, I'm not gonna trap him. He's gonna surrender to the point that he stops moving the head. Because his brain has learned to move the head, move the head, move the head. That's all he knows. So right now what I'm teaching him is, I'm just gonna present the leash, doesn't mean I'm gonna put it on you, I just want you to relax. Yes. So here we go. Very nice. That's good. I want the look right here, I want, I want this connection, I want to, see it, so not because the leash is there, it's gonna be put on him. What is my other choices? You can look at me. And I can reassure you then, you know, that my intention is good. But he's following me, if you notice. I'm leading this dance. That's better. See it? That's better. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Great, yeah, he was relaxed there. CESAR MILLAN: Well he right away, instead of moving away from the leash, he looked at me. Now we're going to the next step. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: Perfect. CESAR MILLAN: You see what I mean? RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: That was quick. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: It' perfect. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: The techniques Cesar taught me are simple, but they're subtle. That really is kind of the technique, I, I guess. To not concentrate too *** it. To just be relaxed about it, you know, and let it flow. I didn't have a lot of practice at that, I guess. CESAR MILLAN: Go grab the leash and just get him out. Okay. Right. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: See if we can get him to follow us this time instead of us following him. CESAR MILLAN: What happened here, watch this, hold on. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Okay wait, this came loose, this... CESAR MILLAN: No, it doesn't matter. Let me, let me help you. What happened there was a little too much of the physical energy, look. He got stuck right now. Let me just unstuck him again. There you go. See it? So when you, when she went and grabbed him it was first calm energy, and then assertive energy, so you went and just... So you right away gave tense energy, all right? When I'm working with a dog that has an issue, and the human has not been able to help the dog, they're both have an issue. And they both are going to go through the same experience, which is shutting down, don't know how to move forward. All right, so another state of mind that can empowers you before you touch the leash, or breathing. Fantastic, fantastic. I like it. Beautiful. At the moment Miss Rhonda understood the meaning of unlocking his brain, she, on her own, unlocked her own brain. 'Cause now she became clear. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: The best part, I think, is I feel so much freer now knowing that I'm not hurting him, I'm not... That's good. gonna reverse any progress we've made, it's not, you know what I mean? I was so afraid of that, I think, yes that I was gonna do something wrong and make him worse. And, but I, I really feel confident now yes about it all, I don't have to worry about that any more. Yee haw! So that, I think that's what's helping a lot. CESAR MILLAN: Love it. Love it That's right. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: Yes, I do believe I was locked up, and that was the big revelation mostly, was me getting unlocked. Then it allowed the energy to flow to *** ***. NARRATOR: Five months after being adopted by the Scarboroughs, *** *** returns to Dobies and Little Paws to be reunited with the women who rescued him. JOHANNA QUINN: *** ***! *** ***! Taiwan is a really small island. People don't have yards, it's not really a suitable place to have a big dog. If children would see a dog on the street and want to pet it, their parents would tell them, No, it's dirty, it will bite! So fear is embedded into the children when they're very, very small. ARDIS BRAUN: *** ***! Oh my God! It's like the miracle ending for every rescuer's dream. To take a dog from a little cage in Taiwan where he has no chance of having a home, to sleeping on somebody's sofa, going for walks and being in a warm, comfortable home where he's loved. Isn't that amazing? ARDIS BRAUN: Thank you! JOHANNA QUINN: You're amazing. ARDIS BRAUN: We don't do this for appreciation, we do this cause we love the dogs. But it's so cool that somebody actually thinks to appreciate us CESAR MILLAN: Adopting a pet, no matter what its color, can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. Choose a pet that fits your lifestyle, and you will enjoy the love and loyalty of a friend for life. CREW: Three, two, one, say *** ***! ALL: *** ***! CESAR MILLAN: Whenever a dog is out of balance, there's almost always an out of balance human involved in that dog's life. RENNIE SCARBOROUGH: Hey Cesar, it's Rennie and Rhonda. It's been about 4 months since we saw you the last time. *** *** seems to have settled into the fact that this is his home and that he can trust us. RHONDA SCARBOROUGH: He's doing really good on the leash and he's actually enjoying the walk. Getting him out of the chair isn't a problem at all, any more. We're just really grateful; for everything you've done and it's really made a big difference. Thanks again, Cesar! CESAR MILLAN: Lynne and Sherrel still needed a little extra help with Delta so I sent my colleague Cheri Lucas for some follow-up sessions. SHERREL GRABLER: It's been about 8 months since your first visit, and we've had a lot of progress as well as a few steps backward, but I think that's all part of the process. Ultimately, we had to explore the option of a remote collar and that's been a tremendous help. So thank you so much. We are forever grateful. LYNNE HAINES: Thank you for all of your help and we'll be in touch. CESAR MILLAN: Are you a calm, assertive pack leader? Your dog looks to you for protection and direction. Remember, a balanced relationship begins with you.