Some of the stories are so touching. The one that was my turning point that I had to at least TRY to work with these kinds of dogs was almost the very beginning - Coach. One of the ones who was going to be eithanized for his behavior because the family didnt know what else to do.

Their young son, who loved Coach so much asked them to take some of his fur and wanted him to be put asleep in the sons blanket so the dog would know how much he was loved inspite of being a neghborhood bad dog.

But the reason I am responding here, is that Cesar has never been paid by the clients of the Dog Whisperer show for his effort there. He is paid by the show which was purchased by Nat Geo Channel. He never closes a case until he is satisfied the owner can sustain the soution. There are several epsiodes where the comment was made that Cesar returned MONTHS later to follow up on the most challenging cases to make sure the effort needed for that problem solution was both solid and sustained.

You know, it is one thing to have the owners say how much the dog is changed, but when neighbors, co-workers, vets, evenunsuccessful trainers, etc say this when they were originally menaced for me is really an attention getter!