In 2007, Dog Whisperer César Millan moved his Dog Psychology Center to a 43-acre California ranch; the facility works with dogs that could otherwise face euthanasia

The Santa Clarita Valley lies north of Los Angeles. One of the properties there is the Dog Psychology Center, the working base of Cesar Millan, a dog behavior specialist who hosted Dog Whisperer on the National Geographic Channel and later fronted other television series. The center has served as a location in his shows. Millan’s own website also describes owner-training programs held at the site, which are separate from the rehabilitation work done with dogs. The rehabilitation of dogs that owners and shelters have trouble placing and that might otherwise be euthanized is, according to Millan, the purpose of the center. The center grew out of an earlier facility in Los Angeles, which was relocated north to Santa Clarita. The foundation’s own pages and a small number of secondary sources are the main record of that history.The 1998 South Central Los Angeles center and the reported move to Santa ClaritaThe GuideStar profile of the Cesar Millan Foundation states that Millan established his Dog Psychology Center in South Central Los Angeles in 1998, and Newsmakers, a biographical reference, gives the same year. The sources reviewed do not provide any information about the acquisition of the Santa Clarita property. BroadwayWorld described César Millán’s first Dog Psychology Center as a two-acre facility in South Los Angeles that housed 30 to 40 dogs considered “un-adoptable” and abandoned. It also mentions that the move to the Santa Clarita Valley was made in order to expand the facility and update its facilities.The sources reviewed date the move to 2007 or 2009 and none of them settles the question. A 2007 San Fernando Valley Business Journal report described Millan as still considering Santa Clarita at that time, and noted that the Santa Clarita Valley Film Office had counted 387 production days in the first six months of 2006.The 43-acre site and the reported size of its packCesar Millan’s official website describes the Dog Psychology Center in Santa Clarita as a 43-acre facility with roads and walking trails, a swimming pool, spacious kennels, and farm animals. Pet Life Radio adds that the center has air-conditioned kennels, a sheep herding area and an obstacle course. Newsmakers describes the site as a 40-acre compound, slightly smaller than the 43 acres on Millan’s website.Newsmakers, a biographical reference, notes that Millan keeps a revolving pack of as many as 50 dogs at one time, some of them temporary guests and others unwanted dogs once slated for euthanasia. The Cesar Millan Foundation’s website describes the Santa Clarita center as a 43-acre facility that rehabilitates dogs, but it does not specify how many are housed there, so the figure of 50 comes from a biographical reference and not from an independent count.How the Cesar Millan Foundation frames the anti-euthanasia missionThe website of the foundation claims that its mission is to ensure that none of the dogs is starving, gets sick, or is euthanized. The Cesar Millan Foundation describes the Dog Psychology Center as a ranch-like environment where dogs can recover, learn, and thrive. This is what the foundation claims as its mission statement, and there is no other source verifying these claims independently. There are no statistics on the number of rehabilitated or adopted dogs currently available.What the available records establish about the Dog PsychologyThe records reviewed establish a limited picture. The center moved from South Los Angeles to a 43-acre location in Santa Clarita, a move the sources date to 2007 or 2009. Newsmakers says the center keeps a revolving pack of as many as 50 dogs, some of them unwanted dogs once slated for euthanasia, while the foundation states an anti-euthanasia mission that no independent source verifies.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.