BRITNEY CESAR_MILLAN JUDY_HERNAND NARRATOR CESAR MILLAN This dog is so confused, it's like she has forgotten how to be a dog. NARRATOR Coming up, JUDY HERNAND That�s enough! NARRATOR Two dogs, BRITNEY Drop it! NARRATOR with bizarre fixations. NARRATOR A mini dachshund that eats everything she sees. BRITNEY A cigarette butt, chicken bones, a battery. At one point, I ended up having to take her to the emergency vet. CESAR MILLAN If I can trigger the fixation, then I can start teaching her what not to do. NARRATOR And an Australian Kelpie with an unusual obsession. JUDY HERNAND Bricks. Shadow, drop it. You're gonna break your teeth. CESAR MILLAN Holy moly. I�ve never seen that. NARRATOR It�s a special episode of Cesar Millan Better Human, Better Dog. JUDY HERNAND Hi, my name is Judy Hernand, and my dog's name is Shadow. And she's about a four-and-a-half-year old Australian Kelpie. JUDY HERNAND Shadow came into my life because I�d just retired. My neighbor goes, "This dog really needs a home, since you are now retired, you'll have a lot of time to devote to this animal." So we're walking up the sidewalk. The gentleman unleashed her, and she immediately just ran directly into my house, right past me, right into my bedroom, jumped on the bed and just laid there with a big smile on her face. And he said, "Oh, she's picked you." So, that was that. [laughs] JUDY HERNAND But, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. JUDY HERNAND No! JUDY HERNAND This dog is twenty-four seven. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. No! Shadow, enough! I can't lift so much poundage, and I can't have so much poundage pulling me. And she'll do this thing that they call �skating,� where she's like on her two hind legs and just hop hop hopping. I'm afraid when she starts lunging that she could actually really pull me over. JUDY HERNAND Before I retired, I thought, "Oh, I was gonna travel, wine tasting, enjoy my friends.� JUDY HERNAND During my retirement, I got very much involved into ballroom dancing and swing and Latin, so I'm a very big dancer. JUDY HERNAND But Shadow's not a really good match for my retirement life. JUDY HERNAND But I've bonded with Shadow, and I see that there's an exceptional dog in there. If she was be able to be part of my retirement dream, then I would be very, very happy. CESAR MILLAN There is the dog. JUDY HERNAND Cesar! CESAR MILLAN You know what I love about you already? JUDY HERNAND What? CESAR MILLAN That you dance. JUDY HERNAND Oh, yeah. We're gonna Salsa. CESAR MILLAN Come on. Listen, listen, the fact that you dance Salsa. JUDY HERNAND Oh, yeah. CESAR MILLAN That's a, oh, hey, hey, hey! JUDY HERNAND Oh, I've been dancing for quite a few years. CESAR MILLAN Oh, yeah? Wow. Listen, you have me. That's it. We've got it. So how can I help you? JUDY HERNAND I'm hoping that you can give me the tools that I need. CESAR MILLAN Yeah. JUDY HERNAND To work with this dog. CESAR MILLAN Yeah. JUDY HERNAND And so that we can be one. So I can go on to enjoy my retirement. CESAR MILLAN Congratulations, by the way. JUDY HERNAND Thank you. I like the life that she gives. CESAR MILLAN Yes. JUDY HERNAND And we're both very full of energy. CESAR MILLAN Yes. JUDY HERNAND It's just we can't quite get the Zen together. CESAR MILLAN When did you met her? How long ago? JUDY HERNAND I've had her now for about maybe three years? CESAR MILLAN What? JUDY HERNAND Yes. CESAR MILLAN So you've been struggling for three years? CESAR MILLAN Well, that's bad. You have to lead this dance, for sure. JUDY HERNAND I have to lead it. CESAR MILLAN Well, number one, I love dancing. Number two, I love dogs. And dogs and dancing is the same to me. JUDY HERNAND Yeah. If I can learn to dance, I know I can be trainable. CESAR MILLAN I like that attitude. Let's go meet her. JUDY HERNAND Great. Just meet me around the back. CESAR MILLAN Okay. Let's get this dance going! CESAR MILLAN You said you have some toys and stuff that you want me to see? JUDY HERNAND Yes. One toy that she absolutely loves. CESAR MILLAN Uh-hmm. JUDY HERNAND You ready? CESAR MILLAN Yeah. JUDY HERNAND Bricks. CESAR MILLAN Bricks? JUDY HERNAND Bricks. JUDY HERNAND Shadow, drop it. You're going to break your teeth. CESAR MILLAN I want to see this. Let me take my chair. JUDY HERNAND Okay. She's so obsessed with bricks. Once she sees that red brick come out, it's not just going at it. She wants to grab the brick and put it in her mouth. She'll do anything and everything to try and get to that brick to the point I have to hide all of my red bricks throughout my whole backyard. JUDY HERNAND No! JUDY HERNAND Down! CESAR MILLAN Holy moly. JUDY HERNAND Down! JUDY HERNAND No! CESAR MILLAN Tsch. Tsch. Tsch. See now she's not reacting, but when you grab the brick and you make this position, this language, you see it? You're asking her to follow you. That's a new dance you just taught her. JUDY HERNAND That's a new dance she started. CESAR MILLAN Yeah. And she's, she's doing this thing. JUDY HERNAND Why do you think she goes for the bricks? CESAR MILLAN I'm not sure. A lot of times, dogs go after things the human wants. You know what I mean? There's no explanation of why. CESAR MILLAN Fixation is obsession. And obsessed behavior is a dangerous behavior. There is no common sense and, especially, no regard for their owner. The mind is so focused on the object, in this case, a brick, which I have never seen before, that the dog will do anything to get it biting, lunging, and even attacking. JUDY HERNAND She really does get crazy. CESAR MILLAN Yeah. Oh, she does. This is actually pretty serious. NARRATOR Cesar wants to see if Shadow�s fixated behavior turns off when she�s out on a walk. JUDY HERNAND Wanna go for a walk? JUDY HERNAND Shadow. Shadow. No! She gets so excited. CESAR MILLAN You made her excited. You know that, right? JUDY HERNAND Pardon? CESAR MILLAN You made her excited. JUDY HERNAND So a lot of times when this happens, I just sort of stand, until she decides she wants to go for a walk. CESAR MILLAN Oh, wow. Well, the good thing is you're retired. [laughs] You got all the time in the world. CESAR MILLAN By observing from a distance, I'll get a better picture of their normal routine. If it looks like Judy's in danger, I'll step right in without hesitation. CESAR MILLAN Yeah, we've got to make that easier for her. JUDY HERNAND Leave it! No, no, no, no, no. No! CESAR MILLAN My first observation is this dog has no chill. Her mind is in overdrive. "Kill the ball. Attack the fence, fly across the yard." She doesn't even notice Judy, who's worn out just trying to put the leash on her. CESAR MILLAN It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. CESAR MILLAN This dog can have Judy on the floor. JUDY HERNAND That's enough! CESAR MILLAN Normally, what people are used to seeing is dogs that might hurt other dogs or people, but not the owner. JUDY HERNAND This way. Shadow! Shadow! CESAR MILLAN This dog can hurt the owner. JUDY HERNAND No! We're going in the driveway. CESAR MILLAN This is serious. JUDY HERNAND When she sees this stuff and she pulls, I don't want to fall. CESAR MILLAN That's actually my, my biggest worry, when I saw you doing it. JUDY HERNAND Yeah. CESAR MILLAN I need to figure out what's causing the over-excitement and the lunging, but right now, that's impossible. Shadow is an Australian Kelpie, who needs about two hours of exercise per day. But their usual walk is like a 10-minute tug of war. You know what I want to do, I want to see if I can channel a little bit of that energy. To burn it off, we need to kick this assessment into high gear. CESAR MILLAN I love rollerblades. They're great tools for burning off energy. It's all about the running. Come on, Shadow! Let's burn off some pent-up energy. Shht. Shht. Shht. What I'm doing with the rollerblades is testing if speed can help her, Shht, to focus on just moving forward. CESAR MILLAN She's pretty fast. CESAR MILLAN We need to make sure this girl calms down to Judy's level. CESAR MILLAN Tsch. Tsch. Girl, you are all over the place. Tsch, tsch, tsch. CESAR MILLAN It's not working. You know, so she's stuck. She's in constant, constant looking for things. After a couple miles, dogs normally go into a calmer, relaxed state. So it's concerning that her overactive mind never changed. She just couldn't turn it off. She couldn't focus on resting. She was just constantly looking around. JUDY HERNAND She's on 24/7. CESAR MILLAN That�s it. JUDY HERNAND I agree with you, and I don't how to bring her down into that calming state. CESAR MILLAN At first sight, this could be misinterpreted as a simple case of an energetic dog mismatched with a lower energy pet parent, but that is dead wrong. Shadow's over-excitement and fixation is a red zone behavior because she's not listening. She can't turn off her hyperactive mind, and she has no regard for Judy because the brick is more important. JUDY HERNAND You're gonna break your teeth. CESAR MILLAN She has forgotten what's essentially the cornerstone of a dog's common sense loyalty. That is a dangerous mindset that could lead to Judy being seriously injured, so I need her to understand how bad this situation really is. CESAR MILLAN The fact that I can't influence her, that's the part that worries me. CESAR MILLAN Even though she backed away from the brick, she was still desperate for it. JUDY HERNAND Okay. CESAR MILLAN Everything you do, even chasing the dog to put the leash on is making the brain this way. JUDY HERNAND Yeah. CESAR MILLAN You're keeping her in a zone where the dog can't hear you. They can't hear. They can't see. They can't smell. This, the brick means more than you. That's what I call red zone. JUDY HERNAND Yeah. CESAR MILLAN That means, her instincts are confused. A brick? That's not even in their DNA. There's no dog that was bred to go after bricks. JUDY HERNAND Initially when this whole process began, I kept thinking. We're just going to go for a couple of walks. He's going to see how I do the leash wrong and, you know, "boom, bang, thank you, ma'am." It's done and over, and my dog is gonna be fixed. And then when Cesar told me that she's constantly in this red zone, you know, it's like, "Whoa." Apparently, Shadow and I are not quite a quick fix for him at this point. CESAR MILLAN What I'm gonna help you with is the part where her mind calms down. JUDY HERNAND Okay. CESAR MILLAN And then you keep her in that state. CESAR MILLAN How do you feel about her staying with me at the ranch? JUDY HERNAND I don't want her to leave. CESAR MILLAN It's the only way. We can't do it here. She's too far gone. She's too fixated, and she knows every single place in the neighborhood. CESAR MILLAN Because Shadow is such a complicated case, we need to separate the dog and owner. I need to develop a relationship outside Judy's influence to start the rehabilitation process. JUDY HERNAND If that's what it's going to take to get the dog that I want and need. I'm, I'm good with that. JUDY HERNAND I'm not really happy about having to give up Shadow. JUDY HERNAND It makes me sad, but I have to look at the big picture. If this is what it takes for the long haul, then it's worth it. CESAR MILLAN Bye! JUDY HERNAND Bye! CESAR MILLAN You're about to have a gift from me, girl. NARRATOR Today is day one of Shadow�s work to overcome her extreme excitement and brick fixation. CESAR MILLAN Shadow is an Australian Kelpie, which means she's a working dog. She's born and bred to herd sheep. CESAR MILLAN Sheep-herding dog coming in! Every time I work with a dog like Shadow, I always bring them around the sheep so they can connect with their instinctual self. So they can just focus on the job they were bred for. And that actually slows the mind. CESAR MILLAN All right, girl, you ready to run it out? This is all about giving freedom to be a Kelpie, to do what you were bred for. NARRATOR Cesar uses a variety of different animals on his ranch to help rehabilitate dogs, including a flock of sheep used for herding. CESAR MILLAN Ready. NARRATOR Cesar, along with his ranch hand, Jaime, monitors the safety and well-being of the dog and the sheep. CESAR MILLAN Let's go! CESAR MILLAN In her environment, she wanted to go after every single dog, every single thing that was around her. CESAR MILLAN Huh. She's not chasing the sheep. CESAR MILLAN Her mind is so confused that she's not getting the message. She'd rather chase a brick. CESAR MILLAN It is shocking to see a sheep-herding dog not herd sheep. Tapping into a positive behavior didn't work, so now I'll try the opposite. If I can trigger the fixation, then I can start teaching her what not to do. CESAR MILLAN Come on. Let's go. CESAR MILLAN I definitely brought some bricks with me from Judy's house, because this is the number one thing Shadow fixates on. CESAR MILLAN I want her to see you, throwing the bricks. At home, we saw her grabbing the brick and just wanted to kill the brick. JUDY HERNAND Down! Agh! CESAR MILLAN We're purposely throwing the bricks, so we can entice her to get into that fixation, so I can start working on the excitement. CESAR MILLAN Well, uh she doesn't care about bricks right now. I'd rather have a dog exhibiting bad behavior from the beginning, so I get to work. You know, it's like taking a car to a mechanic and there's nothing wrong with the car when he arrives. So that is exactly what's happening here. For me, It's easier to rehabilitate an aggressive dog than a fixated dog. CESAR MILLAN We gave her bricks, and she didn't fixate. We offered her sheep herding that she's literally bred for, and she was clueless. It's like she has a blockage. This dog is so confused, it's like she's forgotten how to be a dog. So I need her to perform an activity that gives her sense of purpose, even if it feels drastic. CESAR MILLAN That's my girl. Let's go swimming. CESAR MILLAN Dogs her size know how to swim, instinctually. But the tricky part is getting the dog into the water. You're a little nervous, huh? Come on, girl. The biggest part is the entrance. We need to make sure she just willingly comes in. Because as soon as she lets go of the fear, she's gonna move forward and learn to become a dog again. Just be a dog. That's it. CESAR MILLAN You can do it. Come on, girl. You can do this! CESAR MILLAN Come on, let's go! CESAR MILLAN Shadow. CESAR MILLAN Come on, girl. Come on. Ha, ha, ha! Good girl! CESAR MILLAN She's doing great swimming, but she's still in her mind. Literally doing some laps just to remove some of that pent-up energy. CESAR MILLAN You still have a lot of energy! CESAR MILLAN That's why Judy couldn't get to her. CESAR MILLAN The excited energy, and the anxious energy. It's layers. It's layers. CESAR MILLAN Look, now she's following me. There we go. This is calming her down. Now we got the follower state versus the frantic state. Yes. My job is just to keep her focused. CESAR MILLAN This is exactly what Shadow needed! The instinctual act of swimming reminds her how to be a dog, so she's capable of following again. If she can follow a person, she should begin to listen as well. This is huge. NARRATOR While Shadow continues her rehabilitation at the DPC, there�s a new case needing Cesar�s help. BRITNEY Millie, I know you have no idea what's going on, but I for one am pretty excited about today. BRITNEY My name is Britney, and Millie is my puppy. Millie�s a short-haired miniature Dachshund. She just turned seven months. BRITNEY Let's go. Come on. BRITNEY I always knew that I wanted a dog. I just was never at the right place in my life to make that leap until this year in the middle of the pandemic. The second I saw her, I broke down in tears, and I knew she was exactly what I was looking for. BRITNEY From the second that I got Millie, she was the sweetest puppy, but every time we go out on a walk, this dog acts like she's never eaten before. BRITNEY Ow. Hey! BRITNEY If it's on the ground, she assumes that it's A For her. And B Food. BRITNEY On any given walk, she tries to eat fifteen to twenty things. Hey. What did you just eat right there? Salt and pepper packets, a cigarette butt, chicken bones, a battery. She wants them and does not want to drop them. Excuse me. Can I have this, please? Drop it. What did you get? Gross. It's a constant battle of me down on the ground trying to pry it out of her mouth. BRITNEY I literally walk down the street with my head down, staring to make sure she's not eating something. But her nose is so close to the ground that it's next to impossible for me to stop that. She is vacuuming up off the floor. Hey. Back on the sidewalk, please. Come on. BRITNEY At one point, I don't know what she got, but she was so sick and had vomited so many times that I ended up having to take her to the emergency vet, and they kept her overnight. BRITNEY That is such a scary feeling to have to think that I'm always on the verge of racing across town to drop a dog off because she swallowed something awful. BRITNEY The stress of walking her and that constant "What is she gonna get? What is she gonna eat?" It is physically and mentally exhausting to take this dog on a walk. I need her to stop. BRITNEY Are you ready to go on an adventure? BRITNEY Yeah, let's do that. BRITNEY This way please. Millie. This way. Come on. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Leave it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Millie what did you eat? CESAR MILLAN Welcome both of you. BRITNEY Thank you. Millie, stop it. CESAR MILLAN How are you doing, Millie? I built this place for you. BRITNEY Can you say thank you? CESAR MILLAN You're welcome. BRITNEY We brought some examples to show you, CESAR MILLAN Yeah. BRITNEY The kinds of hazards that she tries to eat around our neighborhood. CESAR MILLAN Yeah. BRITNEY So this is a good example of a regular occurrence on our walk. CESAR MILLAN Ew. BRITNEY And then this is a good example of something really bad. It's part of a broken beer bottle. CESAR MILLAN Wow. I've never seen that. CESAR MILLAN Now, that�s wild. That�s uhh, CESAR MILLAN You know, most dogs just follow or find just very particular things rocks, sticks. But Millie is just grabbing everything, including glass. CESAR MILLAN I've never seen that. CESAR MILLAN I've seen how you communicate, like "leave it" and stuff like that. That is good, but you have to bring something that has the incentive to create the same outcome. BRITNEY Sure. CESAR MILLAN Let me show you. CESAR MILLAN This seven-month-old Dachshund is smart. She has the ability to follow directions if she's led correctly, and the easiest way to do that for Britney is to use the halter leash, so she can guide Millie's nose away from harmful objects. CESAR MILLAN Just remind her to keep the nose and the eyes away from the ground. CESAR MILLAN How we humans learn is ears first, then eyes, then nose. But a dog's senses are opposite. CESAR MILLAN Come here, Spot. Let's show them. So people fail when they try to control a dog with the ears only. The most powerful sense a dog has is its nose. If you control the nose first, then the eyes, then the ears, then you're home free. Right, Mr. Spot? CESAR MILLAN The halter moves the nose away from the ground, and it keeps the eyes in one direction. CESAR MILLAN That's a good girl. CESAR MILLAN The halter is key because it addresses the nose, but to work properly, Britney must send the right energy through the leash. If she doesn't, Millie's instincts will continue to lead her into danger. CESAR MILLAN Let's get, Sophia! NARRATOR Cesar introduces Sophia, his most obedient pack member, so he and the dog can teach Britney the fundamentals of dog walking. CESAR MILLAN Here, Britney. You grab Sophia, so you can train yourself. Sophia is like your teacher, so you're gonna see how Sophia is gonna stay moving forward. Keep the leash relaxed. Slow it down. Slow it down. CESAR MILLAN Don't look at the ground. The ground is not gonna go anywhere. CESAR MILLAN Uh-uh. Don't, don't pull up. BRITNEY Oh! I did it. Okay. Loose. Got it. CESAR MILLAN Yeah. The only reason why she's pulling down is because you keep putting tension on the leash. You're doing this. BRITNEY Yeah. CESAR MILLAN So you're putting so much tension that you're asking her to pull in the ground. So the tension should last one second the most. CESAR MILLAN The leash sends a message to the dog. We keep the leash loose until it's time to communicate. One quick pull tells the dog "No." Then you relax the leash again. If Britney can't get that with my best dog, Sophia, then Millie is going to be in trouble. CESAR MILLAN Let's go back again. CESAR MILLAN Don't ask permission, just go. BRITNEY Let's go. All right. CESAR MILLAN Uh-uh. Don't let her touch the floor. BRITNEY Hey. Every time we start to walk, that's the first thing she wants to do. The second I even think, like, "Oh I could do this right with a dog who knows what to do," she immediately is going for the ground. BRITNEY Let's go. BRITNEY No. Nope. CESAR MILLAN Sophia! BRITNEY Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. CESAR MILLAN Don't teach my dog bad habits. BRITNEY Obviously, I, it's, like, the problem is me. CESAR MILLAN As soon as you grab the leash, your elbow goes this way. CESAR MILLAN 45 degrees. BRITNEY Yeah. CESAR MILLAN You're saying, "I'm tense." Just the way you hold the leash it tells what energy you normally practice. CESAR MILLAN Tension creates that reaction. And so the right way to hold the leash is relaxed, when it feels light. If a dog gets distracted, just a little bit of motion should keep a dog on track. BRITNEY Should be enough. CESAR MILLAN Forget about walking Millie, I'm not even going to let Britney look at her until she figures out how to walk Sophia, who is a super easy dog to walk with. She needs to keep the leash loose and relaxed, so Sophia will feel her confidence and follow her lead. CESAR MILLAN So I just want you to do at least one time going down and coming back, perfect. BRITNEY Okay. BRITNEY All right. [laughs] CESAR MILLAN [laughs] You're so tense here. BRITNEY All right. CESAR MILLAN All right. Let�s go. BRITNEY Let's go. CESAR MILLAN Don't hesitate. CESAR MILLAN Relax the hand. Yep, yep. Yes. Turn around, turn around. Yes. Shoulders high. Yes. Breathe. Yeah. Better, much better. BRITNEY Yes. It feels better. CESAR MILLAN Yes. Yes. Now it's time for your girl. BRITNEY Okay. CESAR MILLAN We waited for this moment. CESAR MILLAN All right. Let's switch. CESAR MILLAN Millie, be kind to your mom. CESAR MILLAN [laughs] Okay. Yes, yes. Relax the hand. CESAR MILLAN How's it feel? BRITNEY I feel like I, CESAR MILLAN No, no, no. Don't. BRITNEY need to look at the ground. CESAR MILLAN I know, I don't know why because it's not going anywhere. Unless it's an earthquake, I understand to look at the ground. Turn around slowly, slowly, slowly. Give a little bit more leash, a little bit more. CESAR MILLAN Yay. Keep going. BRITNEY Okay. CESAR MILLAN Relax the hand. Yes. CESAR MILLAN Remember, as soon as you finish that, your excitement has to go to a high level. CESAR MILLAN Yeah! BRITNEY Good girl! Good girl! CESAR MILLAN Yeah. BRITNEY Oh my gosh. I am so proud of Millie. Watching her just learning to walk forward without pulling has been wonderful. BRITNEY I feel successful. CESAR MILLAN Okay. Okay, that's good. BRITNEY And, like, even progress just from five minutes ago doing the same thing. CESAR MILLAN That's right. There we go. What you're saying to me is, "My confidence is going up." BRITNEY Yes. Absolutely. CESAR MILLAN So when my dog is following me perfectly fine, that means, BRITNEY I'm doing something right. CESAR MILLAN That's right. BRITNEY Yeah. CESAR MILLAN So if you don't start from calmness. BRITNEY No! CESAR MILLAN There you go. That's it. BRITNEY She spit it out. CESAR MILLAN Yep. That was a perfect correction. BRITNEY Love it. CESAR MILLAN Yep. There you go. CESAR MILLAN Millie is progressing fast. At one point she grabbed a rock. Britney didn't panic and dig around Millie's mouth. Instead, she used a gentle quick tug, and Millie understood that was a correction. And what did she do? She spit it out. So a dog with the right guidance is going to give you exactly what you want. CESAR MILLAN Right. Come on. BRITNEY Let's go. CESAR MILLAN Now relax the hand. There we go. NARRATOR Cesar sends Britney home to practice her new found confidence. NARRATOR But back at home, BRITNEY We're not going that way. NARRATOR Britney�s progress is slow. BRITNEY Like, she knows she's not supposed to do it, but she still tries to test her boundaries and see what she can get away with. Still has a tendency to pull on her leash quite a bit. She still sniffs everything. BRITNEY Come on. Let's go around, please. BRITNEY Millie, come on. Honey, settle. We're not going to run like that. You don't do that. BRITNEY She will just not stop. CESAR MILLAN Britney called feeling frustrated, saying the dog is eating trash, and she "can't walk the dog". But I know Britney can walk the dog. I've seen her walk Millie right. I've seen her walk Sophia right. CESAR MILLAN Yes! CESAR MILLAN Sometimes it takes more practice to earn the confidence, especially when we're surrounded by distractions. Whether it's loud cars, or in Millie's case, trash on the sidewalk. But I know just what to do. CESAR MILLAN Welcome to my dog football field. BRITNEY Oh wow! CESAR MILLAN I need to put Britney in the toughest situation she could ever imagine to show her if she can overcome this, she can overcome anything. CESAR MILLAN This is training you how to be in the streets. BRITNEY Okay. CESAR MILLAN So here, hold her. CESAR MILLAN Because Millie's always eating trash on the ground. You know, it's stressful to Britney. She's thinking that "My dog can die if she swallows something." So this is a combination of challenging Millie and challenging Britney. CESAR MILLAN The final challenge is a zigzag of obstacles. We put a little bit of everything. And most important is the zigzag part of it because if you do it in a straight line, it's a little bit too easy. CESAR MILLAN So every line that you see means calmness, okay? So then you're gonna, you're gonna, don't say a word because this is excitement. CESAR MILLAN You go around, you wait here, another trash here. Relax, you ask her to come here, and then here you celebrate. BRITNEY I'm looking at the obstacle course, and it's going through my head at this point that I don't think there's any way she'll do it with me. And right away, I know it's probably going to be a failure. CESAR MILLAN Don't say a word. Just gonna guide with energy body language. So you ready? BRITNEY I don't know that she's going to do that with me. That's not something that we, CESAR MILLAN Well then, let's make it happen. You gotta see it in your mind. I want you to remember that most important is that you're starting in calmness. It's more about you teaching yourself to be calm, to be patient. BRITNEY Yeah. CESAR MILLAN All right. Let's do it. BRITNEY All right. CESAR MILLAN All right. The calmness. Yep. BRITNEY Ready? BRITNEY Let's try this, Millie. BRITNEY Let's go. CESAR MILLAN Nice. Slowly. Just give a little more space. Not so much tension. BRITNEY We've talked about it. We've gone through it. So I'm aware of everything that I need to do. CESAR MILLAN Keep coming. BRITNEY But actually putting that into motion and keeping myself in a calm state, that's the thing that I'm actually most nervous about. CESAR MILLAN A little too close. That's the obstacle there she can't touch. Slow her down. BRITNEY It�s stressful to walk her. CESAR MILLAN Remember, with the leash, the tension should last one second, two seconds the most. BRITNEY Okay. CESAR MILLAN Right? It's just to direct or to stop. CESAR MILLAN Relax the hand. CESAR MILLAN Yes. Yes. And you have to remember to control the nose. You guide the nose and the dog will follow. CESAR MILLAN Keep coming. Walk in the park, walk in the park. Stop right there. CESAR MILLAN [laughs] Sit there. Yes. Beautiful. Right next to it. Yay, yay, yay, yay! She's doing it. She's doing it. Come on, keep coming. CESAR MILLAN Yep! There you go. CESAR MILLAN Mm-hmm. Yeah. CESAR MILLAN Yay! BRITNEY Yay! BRITNEY I felt like a proud mother. The first time this dog has ever attempted half of these things, and she just did it. Flabbergasted actually. CESAR MILLAN Yes. Oh, that's the best right there. BRITNEY That was a sloppy kiss. CESAR MILLAN That was a sloppy kiss. BRITNEY I feel pretty proud. BRITNEY Now I realize how much my stress and anxiety was really weighing on Millie, and that's such a simple change to get Millie to stop eating things off of the ground. And it makes me hopeful for where we can go from here. CESAR MILLAN So let's celebrate by, wait for me. BRITNEY Okay. CESAR MILLAN Because I really want to celebrate it the weenie way. BRITNEY Okay. CESAR MILLAN I've been waiting for this day. CESAR MILLAN This is the way you celebrate with a weenie dog. CESAR MILLAN That's right. I'm a Mexican hot dog. CESAR MILLAN What do you think, Millie? CESAR MILLAN This is actually the first time I've put on a costume for a dog by the way. And I think Millie deserves it because this case was pretty serious. We don't want bad weenies. CESAR MILLAN This is how people think of you by the way. The weenie dogs. BRITNEY Weenie dogs. BRITNEY Cesar, thank you for everything. I could not be more happy with the training that you gave us. I'm not afraid to walk her. We are absolutely leaving here today on the right path. CESAR MILLAN We did it! BRITNEY We did it! CESAR MILLAN Yup. Thank you. BRITNEY Thank you! CESAR MILLAN Let's go. BRITNEY All right. CESAR MILLAN Come on. NARRATOR Britney and Millie depart the DPC with their rehabilitation complete. NARRATOR Meanwhile, Judy harnesses her inner leader at home while Cesar works with Shadow at the DPC. JUDY HERNAND Rocky, you're going to let me walk you, aren't you? JUDY HERNAND Well, Cesar called, and he says I should practice with my neighbor's dog. JUDY HERNAND It will be a nice change to walk a quiet dog, but you know, Cesar's teaching the dog to walk with me not in front of me. And also, Cesar has asked me, during this time, to work on myself. JUDY HERNAND It's so nice to have a normal dog again to walk. Good boy, Rocky. JUDY HERNAND So I'm currently working on my yoga. I'm working on some mind meditation with some sound. JUDY HERNAND Cesar says I need to be more assertive. And Shadow needs to know I will be in charge of the brick, not her. And calming myself down has given me a better idea on how I can have more of a positive, assertive energy. So Shadow and I will be on the same page. JUDY HERNAND I'm really hoping all this work is gonna pay off, and I'll finally get to bring Shadow home to me. CESAR MILLAN With Judy away, my team and I have been working on Shadow's over-excitement by teaching her how to remain calm and slow down mentally. CESAR MILLAN Right now, we're not even letting her even smell the brick. CESAR MILLAN Even though Shadow's fixation is at its worst around Judy, we're still using the bricks to desensitize her. We want to curb the fixation and slow her mind. CESAR MILLAN Boom. If she can remain in that mindset, she'll be ready to follow Judy, but Judy must become more assertive and learn how to lead. NARRATOR After Cesar�s satisfied with Shadow�s progress, he asks Judy to visit them at the DPC. JUDY HERNAND I can�t wait to see my dog. JUDY HERNAND When I pulled up this morning to the Dog Psychology Center I was excited, I was nervous, I was apprehensive. I was a little scared because I didn�t know how Shadow was going to react to me. NARRATOR Now, Cesar must determine whether Judy can maintain an assertive mindset and prove the pair can reunite at home. JUDY HERNAND Hi, Cesar. CESAR MILLAN Hi, Judy. JUDY HERNAND Thank you. CESAR MILLAN Look at her. JUDY HERNAND I know. CESAR MILLAN Look at that. All right. It's a lot of mental things that people can do that allows the dog to be challenged, mentally. So, today, what I want to do is I want to put her on the treadmill. CESAR MILLAN A dog like Shadow, whose mind is going 100 miles <160 kilometers> an hour, needs a way to calm her mind. A treadmill combines a physical act with mental focus. Moving in place at a controlled speed allows the dog to reach a calm surrender state, where she'll be more likely to follow Judy. CESAR MILLAN Look, she's just super comfortable already. CESAR MILLAN Treadmill fast is, would be more for stamina. JUDY HERNAND Uh-hmm. CESAR MILLAN With her, treadmill slow will be more for the mind. JUDY HERNAND Okay. CESAR MILLAN Okay. JUDY HERNAND Wow. Look at that. CESAR MILLAN With a dog that we're working on excitement, try just to just bring calmness into it, slow is better. JUDY HERNAND Isn't that philosophy a tired dog is a good dog? CESAR MILLAN A tired dog, mentally. JUDY HERNAND Oh, okay. CESAR MILLAN Yeah, so it's not just physically. JUDY HERNAND I can't believe it's the same dog. She was so quiet on the treadmill. I thought she'd be all amped up and jumping all over the place, and she really wasn't. CESAR MILLAN For her, we know that in her backyard she, she goes around in circles. All of those things are physical activities, but at the same time, the mind is doing red zone behavior. JUDY HERNAND Ah. CESAR MILLAN Like, you know what I mean, it's too intense. JUDY HERNAND Yes. CESAR MILLAN So, in order for her to live with you, she has to slow down. JUDY HERNAND Yes. CESAR MILLAN This little whining thing is like for her to adjust from the, from the 100 miles <160 kilometers> an hour to the ten miles <16 kilometers> an hour zone. CESAR MILLAN Now Shadow is in the right mindset, she's calm, now let's try the bricks. JUDY HERNAND Ah, okay. CESAR MILLAN The treadmill helped Shadow settle into a calmer state, but that's just half of the battle. The other half is her brick fixation with Judy. Shadow loses all common sense, which affects all the other activities they do together. If we can overcome the brick, we have a breakthrough. If not, she shouldn't go home with Judy. CESAR MILLAN So we're going to take advantage of what is happening right now. She's not fixated on anything. Right now, she is in a follower state of mind, having fun, not so obsessed. She's excited but not obsessed. JUDY HERNAND Yes. CESAR MILLAN Now we're going to bring you in it. JUDY HERNAND Should I go walk away and see if she'll follow me with them? CESAR MILLAN Yep, yep. Yeah. JUDY HERNAND Nah! No! CESAR MILLAN Use your energy! Be confident. JUDY HERNAND No! Tsch! JUDY HERNAND No! Leave it! CESAR MILLAN Don't let her get worked up. JUDY HERNAND No! CESAR MILLAN I need you to be calm and confident. JUDY HERNAND Tsch! Nah, ah! CESAR MILLAN Careful! JUDY HERNAND No! Tsch! Tsch! CESAR MILLAN Oh, you all right? JUDY HERNAND We're doing the exercise and she started to go for the bricks. I slipped back into my old habits, and I used my hand to push her back. And that's when she scratched my hand with her nails. And I thought, "Two steps forward, one step back." JUDY HERNAND Thanks for all the medical help. CESAR MILLAN Grab the bricks. We're not done. JUDY HERNAND She's [inaudible]. Oh, I know. CESAR MILLAN Okay. All right. JUDY HERNAND I'm totally not done. Just baby steps. CESAR MILLAN If you get worked up, she'll get worked up. These are your bricks that you control. JUDY HERNAND Yes. CESAR MILLAN A little blood is not gonna stop someone like Judy. She's determined, she's tough, and she's resilient. CESAR MILLAN Calm confident. CESAR MILLAN I want her back on those bricks, because she needs to see that if she puts the right energy forward, Shadow will back off. CESAR MILLAN Yes. Give her affection. JUDY HERNAND Good girl. Good girl. JUDY HERNAND I was so excited when I put the bricks down, and Shadow absolutely ignored me, ignored the bricks. It was like, "Oh my gosh." I see that it can happen, and it's gonna happen. It just made me feel so good. CESAR MILLAN That's not bad. Grab it again. JUDY HERNAND Oh, my god. CESAR MILLAN Yep. JUDY HERNAND It's a miracle. CESAR MILLAN Nah, not yet. JUDY HERNAND Oh. CESAR MILLAN It's just one, one day. JUDY HERNAND I'm happy with baby steps. CESAR MILLAN Yes, me too. We're going to get to that perfect retirement. CESAR MILLAN This is the first common sense we've seen from Shadow so it's a huge step in the right direction. I do feel comfortable letting Judy take her dog home, but there's still more work to be done though. CESAR MILLAN Well, we're going to miss her. We're going to miss Shadow, but we do need you to practice whatever you learned. Practice the walk, practice the treadmill. Everything that I'm giving you is for the purpose of you having all these great tools. So, if you start putting those two together, then you are going to create calm surrender in moments before it gets red zone. JUDY HERNAND Yes, thank you. CESAR MILLAN I really want Judy to embrace these positive moments with Shadow and build upon them. CESAR MILLAN Thank you, ladies! Let's go. CESAR MILLAN They don't come easy, so Judy needs to put in the work every day. But I can't wait to see how she does. JUDY HERNAND I've been doing the homework assignments that Cesar has asked me to do. JUDY HERNAND It's a pretty day for a walk, Shadow. Ah, ah, ah. Chill. I know it's not just Shadow who needs work. That I also need work, and I recognize that. JUDY HERNAND As you can see, she's walking quite nicely. Good! Better! JUDY HERNAND Eventually, I will work my way up to the brick because it's a very big, big, trigger point. It's just a struggle. Sit. NARRATOR Two weeks later, Cesar challenges Judy and Shadow with a final set of tests. They must prove the once fixated, over-excited dog has transformed into a calm surrender, follower state. And Judy's peaceful retirement depends on proving she's ready to be the leader Shadow needs. JUDY HERNAND In a minute! CESAR MILLAN Good. She's lowering the intensity down, that's really good. CESAR MILLAN You can't skip even a day of rehab with Shadow, or she could revert to her old behavior. CESAR MILLAN For Judy to have the retirement she always wanted, having a calm dog is the key. JUDY HERNAND Cesar! CESAR MILLAN Really good. JUDY HERNAND Thank you for noticing that. CESAR MILLAN Yeah. JUDY HERNAND I'm glad you heard that. CESAR MILLAN Yeah. Today is the final challenge. JUDY HERNAND I'm excited. CESAR MILLAN Let's meet in the back. JUDY HERNAND Today is a big day. I'm really excited to show Cesar my successes I've had with Shadow, but I'm still a little nervous and anxious about the whole thing. Whatever ultimate test he's got for me, we're gonna give it our best shot. Stay. CESAR MILLAN I love the peace and quiet. JUDY HERNAND That's her chill pad. CESAR MILLAN Chill pad. I like it, very much. CESAR MILLAN When a dog comes to the ranch, it's great. You know, we're gonna influence with the land and the animals and myself, and that is my job. But the real job is when the dog goes back home. And then the human also gets to practice. JUDY HERNAND Transform. CESAR MILLAN That's the transformation. That's the part that is like, you're not always sure if it's going to happen. JUDY HERNAND We were originally mismatched, but we're working with it. Can I show you our treadmill? CESAR MILLAN Yes, of course. Let's see, let's see the treadmill. JUDY HERNAND Come on. Let's go. CESAR MILLAN Look at your transition. Oh, my god. A lot more calm. Every movement is very precise. CESAR MILLAN It's one thing for Shadow to master the treadmill at my ranch, but at home, she could easily slip back into her old ways. Incredible! Judy has done a lot of work with Shadow, so I'm excited to see how else she's changed. CESAR MILLAN It's perfection. CESAR MILLAN She really want this dog to succeed, to win. Not everybody buys a treadmill right after they see me put a dog on a treadmill. It's love. It's just pure love. JUDY HERNAND And I feel like she's quiet. I'm, I�m gonna take her off the leash. CESAR MILLAN As she's moving? JUDY HERNAND Well, yeah. CESAR MILLAN Wow. JUDY HERNAND Stay. CESAR MILLAN That's concentration right there. I'm in shock. I'm, I'm, I'm in shock completely. CESAR MILLAN This is very promising, but Judy's backyard has barely any distractions. The real test will be for Judy to keep Shadow in this state on a walk. CESAR MILLAN Let's just take this state of mind into the outside world. JUDY HERNAND Okay. CESAR MILLAN Let's do it. Come on. JUDY HERNAND All righty. CESAR MILLAN Great. CESAR MILLAN The first time I saw Judy walk, it was hard for me to watch. CESAR MILLAN It was pretty dangerous. Shadow pulling too fast, too hard. It can hurt someone her age. JUDY HERNAND Settle. CESAR MILLAN I like that "settle" thing you got going on. It's like the equivalent of my "tsch". So, you got your good words settle, chill, and the stay. Those are your good words. JUDY HERNAND They are? JUDY HERNAND Settle. CESAR MILLAN Okay, here's the real test for you. JUDY HERNAND Settle. CESAR MILLAN Shadow's a little excited. Very little. You know, from zero to ten, level two. But just to see Judy making the movements the right way, just pulling to the side, keeping Shadow right next to her. I never saw Judy sweating, worrying, losing control. CESAR MILLAN So, the energy you have is so incredible. You are feeling calm and confident. And that to me is, is my pay. That's what I get, you know. Can I help a human achieve calm confident, and I'm feeling it. JUDY HERNAND The walk went really good. We passed through a lot of the obstacles that I�ve been having issues with, and then when I said it was time to turn around, she did that perfectly. CESAR MILLAN It's night and day. From the chill mat, to the treadmill, to the walk. Perfection. Amazing. JUDY HERNAND That was so much fun. CESAR MILLAN Amazing, amazing. Now, the last thing we're going to do is the brick. CESAR MILLAN Seeing Shadow's improved walk tells me that her over-excitement is finally under control. CESAR MILLAN The brick was definitely the ultimate fixation, frantic. I mean, that's, JUDY HERNAND Frantic. CESAR MILLAN That's not even normal. CESAR MILLAN But her most dangerous behavior was her fixation with bricks. She had no common sense and zero regard for Judy. The only way these two can live a happy life together is by remaining completely in control, while Judy claims the bricks as her own. JUDY HERNAND Come on. Sit. Good! I try to get her into a little bit of a calm state to begin with I try to get her to get contact with me. To look at me. CESAR MILLAN Yeah. JUDY HERNAND It's mine. CESAR MILLAN It is yours. Without a doubt. CESAR MILLAN Oh, my god. This is so good. CESAR MILLAN [claps] That�s very, this is, this is perfection. JUDY HERNAND Okay. This is, to me, this is absolutely amazing. CESAR MILLAN This is, I know, it's incredible. CESAR MILLAN The calm surrender to you, because she's listening to you and avoiding the object that she used to attack. JUDY HERNAND I actually am starting to command respect. CESAR MILLAN Yay. JUDY HERNAND From Shadow. And that's what has been missing in our relationship. JUDY HERNAND Good girl. CESAR MILLAN You should be so proud of your mom. CESAR MILLAN Thank you so much for working so hard. CESAR MILLAN Judy and Shadow being on the same page, on the same energy level, is going to transform Judy's retirement. CESAR MILLAN Well, I am absolutely super proud of both of you. Now it's time to celebrate. It's time to dance! Let's go! CESAR MILLAN She can take Shadow wherever she goes, confident that Shadow will remain in this calm state. CESAR MILLAN Come on, girl. JUDY HERNAND Chill. CESAR MILLAN Chill pill. Perfect. CESAR MILLAN And best of all, Judy is in control. This transformation, to me, was incredibly rewarding. CESAR MILLAN Hey! Shadow! Hey! CESAR MILLAN I want to say this to the whole entire world. If a human being like Judy, at her age, is able to transform into a calm confident way of being with a dog like Shadow, anyone can. CESAR MILLAN Her relentlessness, her passion, her pursuit of happiness has led her to achieve pack leader status. Because what I'm feeling right now, the whole world should feel it. It's incredible how much the power of loving a dog has make out of Judy. I'm very proud of her. Judy, you're a pack leader, girl. You're a pack leader.