LCA and Cesar Milan
Expose Puppy Mills
The Dog Whisperer’s Cesar Millan Teams Up
with LCA
To Rescue and Rehabilitate Dogs from Puppy Mills!
Special Episode of The Dog Whisperer: Inside Puppy Mills
Airs Friday, September 18th, 2009 at 8pm PT/ET
Click HERE for info
Every year, more than one million
purebred and “designer” dogs are born and bred into puppy mills
― often packed in tiny wire cages, neglected, dehydrated, dirty
and chronically sick, with little or no human interaction or
affection ― and then sold legally to pet stores throughout the
country. Now, in a powerful new Dog Whisperer episode, Cesar
Millan goes undercover to witness the horrors of puppy mills
firsthand and works to rehabilitate dogs who have never known a
world outside their overcrowded cages, or learned how to
interact with humans.
Premiering Friday, May 8, at 9:00
p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel, Dog Whisperer:
Inside Puppy Mills exposes inhumane conditions at these
factory-like breeding operations, as Cesar joins an undercover
mission with the animal welfare organization Last Chance for
Animals (LCA). With hidden cameras, LCA operatives spot-check
several Los Angeles County kennels ― essentially dog-breeding
facilities that may be exceeding legal capacity limits. After
negotiating with the owners of one of these kennels, the team,
including Cesar, is able to rescue 11 dogs considered worthless
by breeders ― a small start in their hope to save as many dogs
as possible from these conditions. The team members then learn
from Cesar as he teaches them how to rehabilitate the
traumatized dogs from the moment they are taken out of their
cages. “We are from two different points of rescuing,” Cesar
says of LCA. “They do the physical rescue, I do the
psychological rescue. So together it’s a team, it’s a good
pack.” Entertainer Sharon Osbourne even adopts one of the
rescued pups!
Dogs bred at puppy mills can
typically exhibit hyper or nervous behavior, acting fearful,
obsessive or aggressive. Cesar has seen this behavior frequently
during his career, but he has never seen the factory-style
breeding grounds and caged conditions that cause it. For the
first time, he’ll find out what it’s like inside the kennel
facilities, how these dogs are living and who’s running the
operations.
“It takes of a lot of concentration
not to judge [puppy mill owners] when you know they’re doing
something wrong. But in order for me to help and influence them,
I have to see what they’re doing,” he says. “I saw a dog that
was blind. I saw many dogs in one kennel. I felt a lot of
frustration; I felt a lot of confusion … definitely aggression …
a lot of anxiety.”
LCA has done amazing work
investigating and uncovering overcrowding and deplorable
conditions at local breeding kennels. Earlier in the year, after
one of LCA’s investigations, World Kennels in Lancaster, Calif.,
was ordered to release 75 dogs and puppies to local shelters.
The following day, World Kennels agreed to discreetly release
another 40 dogs to LCA. Among these dogs were Sophie, a
5-year-old Pekingese, and Lovey, a 6-year-old Yorkshire terrier.
LCA volunteer Kim Sill offered to foster the two dogs but was
unprepared for the problems they displayed. Kim believed she was
the first human outside the kennels to have contact with Sophie.
From day one, Sophie has been aggressive to every person she
comes in contact with, except for Kim, to whom she is very
attached. Lovey, on the other hand, has no problems with people,
except that she obsessively licks them.
Cesar quickly identifies Sophie’s
aggression issues and corrects Kim’s response to them, showing
her how to improve Sophie’s behavior around strangers. Within
minutes, Sophie is calmer than Kim has ever seen. Then, Cesar
works with Lovey to teach her to calm her nonstop affection.
Lovey’s obsession might seem sweet at first, but it quickly
becomes burdensome. With Cesar’s help, LCA learns how they can
go one step further in their puppy mill rescue efforts and give
the dogs a normal, happy life.
“When you bring a dog into your
life, please do your homework and don’t buy a dog from a puppy
mill. Visit a local shelter or rescue group instead,” Cesar
says.
For more information and exclusive clips, visit
www.natgeotv.com/dogwhisperer.
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LCA team
members then learn from Cesar as he teaches them how to
rehabilitate
the traumatised dogs from the moment they are taken out of their
cages.
LCA's Special Investigation
Unit in the field with Cesar Milan
“We are from two different points of
rescuing,” Cesar says of LCA,
“They do the physical rescue, I do the psychological rescue.
So together it’s a team, it’s a good pack.”
Entertainer Sharon Osbourne even
adopts one of the rescued pups!
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