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Dog Expert Says Women Often Place Dogs Above Husbands Creating Behavioral Problems

Huberman Lab · Raising a Dog & Mastering Calm Assertive Energy | Cesar Millan · July 6, 2026
Dog Expert Says Women Often Place Dogs Above Husbands Creating Behavioral Problems
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Raising a Dog & Mastering Calm Assertive Energy | Cesar Millan
"80% of my clients are women. When I go to their home because I like to assess and evaluate the dynamics inside the house. The dog is in the front, wife is number two, kids are number three, husband is in the back, back of the pack. Why the dog is in the front? She puts him there. Why? Because she only practice affection. And why the husband is in the back? Because she practiced rules, boundaries, limitations with him."
Milan reveals that in 80% of his cases involving women clients in the United States, the household hierarchy places the dog at the top, followed by the wife, then children, with the husband relegated to the bottom. He explains this occurs because women practice only affection with dogs but enforce rules with their husbands, inadvertently giving dogs inappropriate pack leadership that creates behavioral problems.
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