Gladwell explores the encounters of Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer who non-verbally communicated with the dogs and mastered his expertise to tame the dogs. Cesar is described as a young short man who plays soccer.
He is Mexican and loves working with dogs. Although not formally trained, Cesar Millan has the potential of taming even the stubborn canines through mutual understanding. He achieved this through observing and studying dogs’ behaviors as gladwell compares his physical tactics to political and dancing, teaching where students behaved even with no strict rules through making a presence.
Cesar aids the Forman residence to tame their canine, sugar to become a lovable dog. The dog is violent and tears carpets and clothes, biting, and scratching even its owner. Cesar hilariously enquires of the behavior of the dog, its tracking and discipline. On seeing Cesar, Sugar sniffed his shoes and in turn he presented him with newspaper, plastic as well as television remote, which the dog was used to destroying. The dog is tamed through inflicting discipline and rules, exercise as well as affection.
Cesar Milan owns a Dog Psychology Centre filled with dogs being integrated in the pack. He trains them to walk as an exercise and later rewarded with food. Out of forty seven canines he owns, many had been wild having showed aggression towards people and chaotic but are all contained in a sought of prison yard, remaining calm and submissive, which is a relaxing state of mind just like what humans required. He played with the dogs through careful rules for 10-15 minutes.
He is able to tame JonBee claiming that he likes dealing with aggressive dogs through fighting but eventually are able to learn human movements. Although primates detects cues especially from man, a fellow primate, dogs are more attentive interested, with people’s reaction and movements. Therefore, one has to be organized where posture, gesture and communicative intentions should harmonize as Cesar did. Phrasing requires versatility such as that of bill Clinton but unlike and this is essential to impose authenticity.
Cesar remains symmetrical and lowers the center of gravity to stabilize and convey calm where proper timing and language of movement is important, as JonBee responds by being relieved. JonBee was tensed and aggressive, which complicated things through reacting by throwing tantrums.
Gladwell describes Cesar as an egocentric, who compromise his family for the sake of dogs. However, Cesar had to cultivate love, discipline and affection just as dogs demanded. He required a people’s whisperer for him to understand women psychology, to cooperate and maintain good family relationship (Gladwell, 2006).
Cesar Millan helps to portray the human thoughts and feelings, with self-esteem as well as potential to popularize ideas. Through dogs, he indicates the possibility of self-invention. The author has a clear prose, arguments and researched claims, which awards the reader with quite a new perspective of thinking.
He provokes conventional wisdom while offering a challenge to the predetermined perceptions. He has a fascinating and intriguing viewpoint and a story telling potential in relation to daily encounters that often go unnoticed. This way, he makes the reader to have a wide and a different thinking perspective through natural interpretation and indefatigably curiosity by observing things through others’ eyes.
Reference
Gladwell, M. (2006). WHAT THE DOG SAW. New Yorker, 82(14), 48-57. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.