22 Facts About Cesar Millan

Cesar Millan has his own line of dog products and instructional DVDs.

Cesar Millan was born on August 27,1969, to Felipe Cesar Millan Guillen and Maria Teresa Favela in rural Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Cesar Millan grew up working with animals on the farm in Sinaloa where his grandfather, Teodoro Cesar Millan Angulo, was a tenant farmer.

Cesar Millan illegally crossed the border into the United States when he was 21 years old, speaking no English and with only US$100, in what he has described as a harrowing journey.

Cesar Millan befriended Jada Pinkett Smith shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, and she set him up with one of her friends to learn English.

Subsequently, Cesar Millan created the Dog Psychology Center, a two-acre facility in South Los Angeles, specializing in working with large breed dogs.

Cesar Millan opened an East Coast clinic at the Country Inn Pet Resort in Davie, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.

In 2002, after a profile in the Los Angeles Times, Cesar Millan worked with MPH Entertainment, Inc developing a television pilot for Dog Whisperer, a reality television series that follows Cesar Millan as he works in the field of dog rehabilitation.

In 2009, in conjunction with IMG, Millan introduced a monthly magazine titled Cesar's Way, with The Wall Street Journal reporting at that time that half of American consumers recognized Millan.

Cesar Millan's work focuses on handling a dog with what he calls "calm-assertive energy".

Cesar Millan believes that dog owners should establish their role as calm-assertive pack leaders.

In some cases, Cesar Millan takes dogs with severe behavioral problems to his Dog Psychology Center for an extended period of more intensive rehabilitation.

Cesar Millan encourages owners to create their own unique sound that works for them.

Cesar Millan believes that dogs sense, understand, and respond to a person's energy more easily than their speech.

One of Cesar Millan's dogs, Daddy, was an American Pit Bull Terrier integral to Cesar Millan's work and his television series, The Dog Whisperer.

Malcolm Gladwell, writing in The New Yorker, said that critics were responding to the "highly edited" version of Cesar Millan's approach shown on television, which exaggerates the frequency and intensity that he uses when he disciplines the dogs.

In October 2012, Cesar Millan appeared on The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

Titchmarsh called his methods "cruel" and "unnecessary", citing a video in which, Titchmarsh said, Cesar Millan punched a dog in the throat.

In 2006, Cesar Millan was sued by a television producer who alleged his dog was choked and forced to run on a treadmill at Cesar Millan's Dog Psychology Center.

In 2015, Cesar Millan was sued by a Florida nurse after she was attacked by a dog that Cesar Millan had released from his Dog Psychology Center earlier that week.

Cesar Millan became a permanent resident of the United States in 2000, and became a United States citizen in 2009.

Cesar Millan married Ilusion Wilson in 1994, with whom he has two sons.