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I’ll make an attempt to explain the differences between the methods and add my own, personal, commentary on the subject. I’m doing do as a professional dog trainer who has used methods similar to Cesar’s since the early 1980s (well before I knew he existed). I was also very much in the dog training realm when the “new and improved” methods were first introduced to dog owners. I actually learned about the methods before they were applied to dogs. My first job out of college put me in contact with the head dolphin trainer at Brookfield Zoo near Chicago. I visited with the dolphins on several occasions and he explained the methods that they used for their aquatic mammal training program (which become “click treat” when applied to dogs).

I don’t want to speak for Cesar, so I won’t refer to “Cesar’s method”. I don’t want to speak for the lady on “It’s me or the dog”, especially since her methods are not “ALL positive” or “only click-treat”, but she certainly has a prevailing strategy that falls into the “new age” methodologies. So, I will refer to the two methods as “correction for compliance” or “incentive + ignore”. I know that neither titles are perfect for describing the methods, but I needed to separate them the best that I could.

The two basic premises of the “Incentive + Ignore” method are “offer incentives” for desired behaviors and “ignore bad behavior” and it will go away. The folks who use these methods use “scientific research” to make you think that they have some new-found data to support their dog training strategies. I will simply say that most of those folks are not scientist themselves, and their ability to interpret data is, at times, a bit off kilter, in my opinion. I say that as a scientist, myself; a person who has a degree in science and worked in the field (designing and statistically interpreting experiments in a highly reviewed field) for over twenty years. But, I also speak as a dog expert who does not rely on science to train dogs because training dogs is more an art as it is a science. The “new age” folks will criticize Cesar because he isn’t a scientist and doesn’t have a degree. I’m here to say, as a scientist, that you don’t need a degree to train dogs. You need skills (both innate and learned through experience). Some people are just good at training dogs in the same way that some people are just very good at playing the piano. There is an innate aptitude that enhances learned skills that are acquired through experience. Cesar obviously has an innate ability, which could also be called a gift.

Incentives work for any animal. However, the method leaves the decision about whether the behavior will be presented wholly to the animal (and how much value the incentive has over the animal at any given time). So, it ignores one of the most profound and intriguing elements of domestic dog – the fact that it is not just *any* species. It is a species designed by man, in man’s image, with a keen genetic-based desire to subordinate to a human authority figure – which is derived from their wolf ancestor’s genetic based need to subordinate to a wolf authority figure.

An incentive method clearly works to create behaviors that are especially challenging to “describe” to the animal. Wild species, like dolphins, bears and parrots that have no genetic code that supports subordination to a leader, are often best or only served with this method. Incentive based training is also very useful to teach dogs to perform complex and non-compliance / non-respect based tasks, such as climbing a ladder, jumping through a hoop, dancing on two legs.