Millan grew up in rural Culiacan, Mexico, where he was nicknamed “El Perrero,” slang for “the dog boy.” When he was 21, he crossed the border into California and lived on the streets of San Diego, surviving on hot dogs. He got a job as a dog groomer, moved to Los Angeles and started a freelance dog rehabilitation service where Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith discovered him in 1994.
"In reality, I’m just a guy with good common sense."
“It’s easier to work with five aggressive dogs who want to kill me than one fearful dog.”
"Bring the breed out in your dog."
“My job as a pack leader is to give direction. I’m not asking her to lay down, I’m thinking ‘Lay down.’ People want to convince a dog to do everything with sound: ‘Sit down. No. No. No. No,’”
“The more excited that you get, the more frustrated you get, the more you lose the dog.”
His mantra: calm, assertive energy.
Discipline rather than punishment.
