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Bane

Who Bane is

As the trainers describe him

Very large, and described by weight more than by anything else. The owner estimates at least 170, up from 150 before a growth spurt; the coaching trainer calls him about 180; the September recollection puts him at 120 to 140. All three are estimates, and the owner says she has not taken him to the vet in a while.

On film

I'm probably guessing like at least 170 at this point.

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Because he was 150 before he had his growth spurt.

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he's like 180 pounds right right and

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african mastiff that we had he was i think he was around 140 pounds of pure muscle like at least 120

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Once a frightened dog. During an earlier stay with the company he ran from the trainer and lay on the ground to hide; before training, by the owner's account, he growled at visitors and turned his back on them. The trainer's reading is that the fear is probably still there and that protection training gave him a different answer to it.

On film

like me walking behind him made him like like scatter like a little bunny rabbit

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literally he would like lay on the ground and hide from me

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on who it was um but yeah he would growl he never he would growl and like turn his back so he would go into like an ignoring state um he because before he was afraid yes

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He's probably still afraid a little bit.

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But he learned a different solution.

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Now forward and threatening, and read as a much more confident dog - which the trainer names as part of why he is harder to control, not only as progress.
On film

And very, he's much more threatening now, too.

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He's not like just hiding behind you.

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especially now that he's very like a much more confident dog right than he was before

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Startles at fast movement, even from someone he has accepted. The owner reports it; the trainer calls it normal for his breed and says that for protection purposes it may never go away.
On film

Like, he's always been, if you make a fast movement, even if you're petting him and he's liked you for 10 minutes, he's growling or he's shifting or he's, yeah.

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So that's very normal for his breed.

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But for protection purposes, realistically, we might not have that go away, right?

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Takes the e-collar lightly. The coaching trainer says Bane takes an 80 the way other dogs he trains take the bottom of the dial, and compares him with a highly aroused Belgian Malinois who has never needed more than 60. On the trainer's own stronger collar the owner saw a twitch she had never seen before; normally he 'shrugged it off'.

On film

the e-collar on an 80 that I just saw, looks like one of the dogs I'm training takes the

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i've only had to use it the highest i ever used it with him was a 60

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well on tuesday you were like oh i haven't actually seen him respond to the e-car ever that way yeah um because normally he just kind of shrugged it off a lot

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Sensitive to who the visitor is and how he behaves. The trainer suspects Bane reacts to him specifically; the owner reports that an ex-police neighbour who ignored the growling got a calm dog while a nervous courier did not.

On film

I think he knows it's you. He's usually not comfortable.

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i could see how like obviously with the amazon guy it wasn't as smooth but also the amazon guy guy acted suspicious

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he didn't listen as well but my neighbor perfectly and my neighbor my neighbor's an ex-cop

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As the owner describes him

Never asked to hold himself with visitors, because he was always crated when people came in - which she now sees as incompatible with wanting a guard dog.
On film

i've always just been one like i put my dogs in the crate and let people come in that way so i haven't he hasn't really had to do this where he's holding it

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it and then now i'm like well the whole point of him being a guard dog like it would be too much

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Takes his cues from the other household dog, Storm: he would not go near Christian at first, and let Christian pet him after seeing Storm do so.
On film

And typically like when, um, Christian was here the first time, Bane wouldn't come anywhere near Christian.

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and then Bane all of a sudden started letting Christian pet him.

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Reliable at low and medium distraction, unreliable when chasing wildlife with the other dog and when passing other dogs on heel; uneasy when he cannot see the family. These are her reports, summarised back to her by the trainer.

On film

right um it's just like a distractions thing right so he's perfectly well behaved uh listens to everything off leash fully uh under like low to medium distractions

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wildlife together with your other dog your other dog's chasing wildlife or looking at wildlife

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he gets distracted by other dogs

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Three years old - his birthday was the day before the 2026-03-12 visit, by her account.
On film

His birthday was yesterday, so he just turned three.

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The program, stage by stage

Before: crated for visitors, and afraid

Before the program. Owner-reported; not filmed.

By the owner's account, when people came to the house Bane was put in his crate. He growled at visitors and turned his back on them, which the trainer and owner agree was fear. The owner's own framing, in March, is that this left him with no practice at holding himself around people, and that a guard dog who has to be let out of a crate to act is not much of a guard dog. Nothing here is filmed.

On film

people coming over typically we would just left we would just leave him in the crate yeah with

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i've always just been one like i put my dogs in the crate and let people come in that way

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The earlier stay: a dog who hid

Undated; before March 2026. Spoken of, not filmed in anything read.

Bane 'kind of stayed with' the company at some point, and the coaching trainer remembers him scattering at a person walking behind him and lying flat to hide. Whether this stay was a board-and-train, how long it was, and whether any of the six unread playlist entries show it are all unknown.

On film

i remember like when he kind of stayed with us yeah this that's he was definitely afraid yeah

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want to bite anybody in the beginning which was unfortunate because he was a protection program

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this dog like we specifically trained him to become more like protective and he was

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Turning it onTurning point

Probably winter 2025-26. The three wordless clips (uploaded 2025-12-31, 2026-01-21 and 2026-02-07) are placed here by upload date and content only.

The drive was built before it was controlled. The trainer says so looking back: first they taught Bane that driving the person off was how to solve the problem, and the first helpers pushed too fast and with too much pressure until he himself backed off and went slowly. By 2026-03-10 the trainer describes the result in one line - his first solution was to hide, his solution now is 'if you don't leave, I'll make you leave' - and adds 'which was what we wanted'.

On film

Shh, we're gonna get one growl.

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I'm gonna run, and then you walk back.

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We're doing Bane. That was so good. So much stronger out. He just ran me off. He ran at me.

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at first when the guys were coming when when evan christian they moved too fast right like they pushed into um uh trying to like have too much pressure on him

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right and it's like but then when i started coming it was like all right let's like back way off right and let's do this really slow

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His first solution was, I'm going to hide.

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If you don't leave, I'll make you leave.

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The on/off switch, at the front doorTurning point

Probably late February or early March 2026. watch, uploaded 2026-03-07.

The work moves to the house and changes direction. The trainer names the phase - an on and off switch - and the places it will be generalised to: the door, the vehicle, the windows. Lighting up at the door is declared a good thing, because that is where a protection dog is needed, provided the owner can tell him everything is fine and he switches off. The first scripted threat is run: a friendly knock, 'is he friendly', then 'I'm a threat' with a sleeve on, and the owner cueing watch and then attack. The owner is told to give a stronger, more authoritative out and to pop him if he does not settle completely. Bane stays amped at this trainer in particular, and the trainer plans to bring somebody else, or to come disguised, to find out whether the dog is keying on him.

On film

kind of starts to chill out which will get him where he can do a better and better on and off switch even with me

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a bad thing it does light up at the door right because if you think about it you kind of want them to be on alert right because that's where the scenarios are

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i'll say i'm a threat i'll come forward you say watch watch and then you say attack

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And then if he doesn't out right away, like if he doesn't like chill out completely, pop him and tell him, no, dude, dude.

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I want to see how he reacts when it's just a regular person and then when we have them neutral

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The threshold, the bite on her word, and an out that only pausesTurning point

Probably the week before 2026-03-10. watch, uploaded 2026-03-11. watch, unplaced, is described here because it is the same kind of door work.

With a decoy at the door (possibly Christian), the session maps what sets Bane off: not a person turning his back, but a person stepping over the threshold, in either direction. A threat rep follows, built on the idea that a real threat may be someone standing still, so the response should come from the owner's word; Bane bites through the sleeve, and the trainer calls it the hardest he has ever been, and good because he did it when she told him to. Then the other half fails. The owner outs him with the collar tapped at 80, a leash pop and social pressure, and he stiffens and stops for a second while still watching, panting and growling. The trainer's verdict is that this collar cannot make a correction big enough for a dog of about 180 pounds who takes an 80 like a 1, and he recommends a stronger, hands-free model. He states why the out has to be total: the dog that stops a home invader has to stand down when police arrive. He closes on the case in one sentence - the engine is there, what is missing is a stronger off switch. In the unplaced watch a returning decoy runs the same pattern at the door - pleasant until he reaches for the sleeve, a mock charge to the door frame, never entering the house - and finds the dog much more barky than last time.

On film

Yeah, because this seems like the biggest trigger, just stepping over the other.

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And then this time, that's the hardest he's ever been, for sure, by a long shot, which is good, because he did it when you told him to.

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i want to avoid it because i think this is like enough for him to be like oh yeah i'll stop for a second but not enough for him to be like oh i don't want that to happen again

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but then the cops might be showing up. Right. So he'll have to settle and, like, back off and, like, leave it alone

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we have the engine there ready like revved up we just need to be able to turn it down and turn it just basically have a stronger off switch

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going to be all nice and casual up until i reach for the sleeve

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Tuesday: a stronger collar, a minimum standard, and a change of planTurning point

Tuesday 2026-03-10. watch.

The visitor finds a different dog - bigger, making eye contact, no longer hiding behind the owner, shaking less than last time - and Connor's earlier visit drew less reaction than before. The trainer's own, stronger collar is on him; turned to the top, it sends Bane into his crate, which the trainer accepts as a workable outcome. The level is justified with rattlesnake avoidance: life-or-death stakes justify a stimulation he would never use for a sit or a heel. Then the case is reframed. The owner asks whether a dog of his breed can ever truly chill; the trainer answers that the fear is probably still there, that Bane found a new solution to it, and that the job now is to make whether that solution happens the owner's decision. He sets a minimum standard in place of the gold standard: out, then crate with the door left open, where Bane settles and ideally sleeps, but can come out if she is actually attacked. The mechanism is named as competing motivators - defence against the negative reinforcement of out and crate. And mid-conversation he changes his plan: no more threats for the next several visits, only ordinary ones, so Bane learns that not everybody is a threat.

On film

dude he's doing a lot better this time than last time oh yeah did he show more or less with connor this time uh definitely less

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and he doesn't out right away, and you stim him like that, and his reaction is to go in the crate?

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You would never use this to like reinforce a sit. Right. Right. Yeah, or a heel or something.

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But now we need to teach him that, like, whether that happens or not is up to you.

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him crate and he goes in there and chills out that's a minimum standard right because then

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I changed my mind about that while we were having this conversation.

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Thursday at 9.

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Thursday: the neutral visit as the lessonTurning point

Thursday 2026-03-12, morning. watch.

Bane fronts the trainer, amped, back legs shaking, then settles within minutes: not looking at him, breathing normally, sniffing about. The trainer had meant to test whether the threat response could be switched back on, and decides on the read not to - he does not want to confirm to Bane that everyone is a problem and that the owner was wrong every time. He stays, talks, and leaves with his back turned, and Bane watches without acting, which he calls the guard dog statue. The owner brings two off-camera reports from the day before: a delivery driver at whom Bane growled, who got a dog that ran to her rather than sitting when she used the collar, and an ex-police neighbour who ignored the growling and got a calm dog. The trainer's diagnosis of the courier failure is distraction level, not relationship or knowledge, and his prescription is a long line or unlocked flexi for direction plus more negative reinforcement than her collar can give. The rest of the visit is obedience under a proofing doctrine: prove known commands at an avoidance level, never teach at one; a strong down-stay as an emergency immobiliser; exaggerate the heel mistake before correcting it; say the recall word first and then use the body. The threat comes back next week; Gemma will schedule.

On film

his back legs aren't shaking anymore he's breathing normally he's not panting this all looks great yeah

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She was wrong every time. Yeah. So, yeah, that's kind of where my head's at, is that I want him to have like a bunch of like ones where you were right, where it was neutral.

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guard dog statue you see in somebody's yard

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Because, um, like it's not a relationship problem, right?

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different if they don't know a thing you can't teach them that way at avoidance levels but you can proof it at avoidance levels

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i'll probably just leave it like this okay let him have this really like calm neutral experience and then next week when i come we'll do that we'll we'll start out this way okay briefly and i'm gonna come at him

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Afterward: a story told to another family

2026-09-05, by title. watch (Titan's go-home lesson).

It is a vivid second-hand anecdote told to make a point about another dog. It is recorded here as a claim about Bane's later state and not as evidence of it.

On film

his name was bane he didn't bark

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rim so like now if you pull up to his house he'll like have like blood mixed with his saliva and

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Skills

The out (stand down from a threat or a bite, completely)

At the startIn the first home session the owner outs him and he calms, with repeated cues; the owner reports that he outs and then goes 'right back in' when charged up.
By the endOn 2026-03-12 he outs and stays chilled through a long neutral visit and watches the trainer leave without acting. Against a real threat followed by an out, the switch was last seen producing a pause rather than a stop (watch), and the stronger collar the trainer wanted for it had not been bought. The out after a threat was never filmed again.

How it was taught

Owner says out; any continuation gets a leash pop, a tap of the e-collar and social pressure; the level is raised until the correction is something he wants to avoid rather than something he notices; from 2026-03-10 a growl after the out gets 'no' followed immediately by the stim. Growling in his head is allowed; acting on it after the out is not. The justification is the stakes: a very large protection dog whose out has to mean done.

On film

And if he does anything at all, tell him out, hop the collar a little bit, and tap that e-collar.

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And then do just a little bit of social pressure and tell him to get out, seriously.

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where it's like dude when we tell you that you gotta stop yeah like it's forever right

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so in this case it's also high stakes yeah because he's a very large animal and he's a protection dog yeah and so his out has to be like strongly negatively reinforced

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Yeah, basically, it's okay if he's doing it mentally, but if he keeps doing it when you're out, then that's the problem.

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So next time, if he growls at me again, tell him no. And then just follow up with the shock immediately

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Crate with the door open (the minimum standard)

At the startThe crate had been where he was shut away from visitors. The cue 'crate' exists.
By the endGoes in on cue, reluctantly at first; stays in while the trainer sits in the room, standing and watching 'like a hawk' but not coming out. Falling asleep in it with a visitor present - the stated minimum - is not shown.

How it was taught

Say crate; standing and watching is fine; a foot outside, forward motion or a growl is corrected; the visitor's boldness rises only as control is proven - shaking hands, walking around, pretending to work on the television.

On film

Usually just crate.

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This is good. He's not fully chilled out. Yeah. But he's not coming out of his crate trying to eat me either.

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is that we need to get him to where you can tell him to go to the crate, and he goes in there and falls asleep.

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So if he tries to come out of the crate, if he stands up, fine. But if he decides to put one foot outside of the crate,

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So we're just going to take the bar and keep raising it.

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Threat on the owner's cue (watch, then attack)

At the startScripted for the first time in the read sessions in watch: 'I'm a threat', a sleeve, and the owner's watch/attack.
By the endBit through the sleeve on the owner's word in watch, 'the hardest he's ever been'. Not run again in the read sessions after the plan change of 2026-03-10; promised for the week after 2026-03-12. Targets the sleeve every time, by the owner's account.

How it was taught

A visitor is friendly, then declares himself a threat; the owner says watch and, if he lights up, attack; a threat can be a person who is doing nothing, so the trigger is her word. After a bite the same person comes back neutral so the bite is not tied to him.

On film

as soon as I say I'm a threat, you're going to go

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good boy bit through there you bit through there

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by a long shot, which is good, because he did it when you told him to.

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every time he does go he's going for the sleeve anyway

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Switching back on after an out

At the startStated as the goal on 2026-03-10: out him, then charge him back up within the same encounter.
By the endDeliberately not tested. On 2026-03-12 the trainer decides the neutral lesson is not yet installed and defers it.

How it was taught

Not taught on camera.

On film

right um what you need to be able to do though is like all right like you should be able to out him like this and then afterwards charge it back up right even within the same thing

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because then the only thing that we need is that he can turn it turn it back on that you can turn it back on for him

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Neutral visitors

At the startSuspicious of the trainer at the door and needing repeated outs to settle (watch).
By the endA long neutral visit on 2026-03-12 ends with Bane sniffing about and letting the trainer leave with his back turned. Owner reports a calm response to a neighbour and a poor one to a nervous courier the day before.

How it was taught

Visits in which nothing happens: the visitor talks, hangs out, goes in and out; the owner outs him; the out is reinforced. The count matters to the trainer - two of those last week and two yesterday - because the dog needs many occasions on which the owner was right.

On film

This is a little better. He's still a little suspicious, but he's just chillin'.

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to see, okay, not everybody's a threat, that person's not always a threat, I have to chill

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yeah um because we had one we had two of those last week yes and then we had two yesterday really

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just leave this okay because this is like a really like powerful learning experience for him

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Down and down-stay (as an emergency immobiliser)

At the startKnown; his preferred position, partly because he slides out of a sit on the house floors; stays being practised in the garage.
By the endInstruction only: proof the down-stay at an avoidance level in the yard, off leash.

How it was taught

Put him back when he breaks; raise the level to what makes him avoid breaking, not merely escape the stim; use it rarely.

On film

okay so use uh and um not like what it's on now but probably more like on like a like a 50 or 60

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Like, because then you can, like, if you strongly reinforce that, then you can utilize that as a way to immobilize him temporarily if you need to.

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Yeah. Yeah. We don't want to use it all the time.

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Recall

At the startOwner raised a recall problem before watch; the trainer hopes the stronger collar helps.
By the endRecalls on repeated cues in watch; on 2026-03-12 the owner uses 90 three times and the trainer calls the reinforcement not strong enough. Coached on body language.

How it was taught

Verbal first, then steps backward and a leg pat.

On film

it might also help with some of the stuff you were telling me about like with the recall

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They didn't come. They didn't come. Nope. Come. Good boy.

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he's just like the reinforcement's not quite strong enough for him yeah is that was that on a 90

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it's been come come on buddy good dog yeah always verbal first

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Heel past other dogs

At the startOwner reports he leaves the heel to sniff other dogs, especially females; walked on a locked flexi.
By the endMethod explained, not practised on camera.

How it was taught

When he drifts, sidestep big so he is plainly out of place, 'ah ah', re-cue heel, strong negative reinforcement; e-collar on the left.

On film

yeah what you do is you exaggerate the mistake you exaggerate the mistake and

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does this you sidestep to the right now he's like way the hell out of place right

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um is to uh have the e-collar on the left

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Threat on the owner's cue (watch, then attack)

Update. The decoy's report is improvement over the previous week. Nothing about a cue from the owner, a bite or an out is audible.
On film

So that we could get him super confident and then generalize to other areas

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Really good way better than last week

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Threat on the owner's cue (watch, then attack)

Update. A threat rep in which the person on the leash is told to hold it short while a decoy shouts. Who holds the leash (owner or staff) is not said, and nothing about the cue or the dog's response is audible.
On film

Yeah, hold leash short! Hold that leash short! Yeah!

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From the Shorts

Short clips posted from Bane's training. They are undated, so they sit beside the program rather than inside it.

Confidence built in one spot first

The person playing the threat hides behind a corner and calls out as Bane is brought around it, several times on a countdown. Between reps he explains that they are building Bane's confidence in this one spot so he becomes very confident here, and will then take it to other places. He says Bane is still looking for him, that he investigated, that he gave him an easy success on purpose, and that he is doing much better than the week before.

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On film

Bane is coming up. You can see him coming around the corner. So I'm gonna duck down

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We are continuing to amp him up in this spot

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We're building confidence in this area

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So that we could get him super confident and then generalize to other areas

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he's still looking for me, that's

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he was investigating that time, which looks good, alright, I gave

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him a quick win there

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Really good way better than last week

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A staged home intrusion

A person playing an intruder announces 'home invasion time' and approaches, saying he can hear Bane. The audio does not describe Bane's response; the clip ends with the intruder joking that the home invasion 'did not go well'.

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On film

In time home invasion time, baby

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See how it goes. I hear the beast

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that home invasion did not go well, y'all.

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How the method adapted

Almost every adaptation below is about the second half, and several are the trainer changing his own plan on camera.

The fear was not treated; it was given a new outlet, and then that outlet was handed to the owner.

By the trainer's account, the dog's first solution to visitors was to hide and the new one is to make them leave. That was the intended result. What remains is making whether it happens her decision rather than his.

On film

His solution now is to get out of here.

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So, which was what we wanted.

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But now we need to teach him that, like, whether that happens or not is up to you.

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The collar level was set by the job and by the dog, and the trainer said out loud where he would never go that high.

A very large protection dog who takes an 80 like other dogs take the bottom of the dial, with life-or-death stakes on the out. The rattlesnake-avoidance comparison is the justification and the limit at once: not for a sit, not for a heel. A stronger collar was recommended because the owner's could not reach a level he would avoid.

On film

this e-collar model just doesn't go up high enough for this particular application we need to be able to make it a big enough correction where he's like oh crap don't do that again like at all

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But like most cases I don't ever turn the collar up like this

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this is one of those few times where it's like no no like this needs to be like really serious

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The standard was lowered on purpose, from the gold standard to a stated minimum.

The trainer judges that a breed-typical startle may never go away, so the family should be given a standard they can actually hold: out, crate, door open, settle - which also keeps the dog available if she is attacked. The owner's own test case is a workman in the house with the crate open.

On film

what's a good enough yeah right where's the minimum we need to get into and in

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if somebody attacks you he'd come right out of that great

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crazy and all that I'm like ideally I would love that guy to be able to do what he did with the crate open

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The threat was withdrawn twice, both times on a read of the dog rather than on a schedule.

On 2026-03-10 the trainer changes his mind mid-conversation and cancels threats for the next several visits; on 2026-03-12 he had planned to test switching back on and decides, watching Bane settle, that doing so would confirm that everyone is a threat and the owner is always wrong. His stated reference point is his own correction of the early helpers who moved too fast.

On film

Um, uh, the next couple of times I'm not going to run anybody in.

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um i'm wondering if in this case i was trying to read him like do we go i don't want to go do that

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same thing where he doesn't fully like learn the lesson that like hey not everybody's a threat

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The trainer treated himself as a variable.

Because Bane may be reacting to him specifically - his hat, backpack, camera, sleeve and smell - he plans to bring somebody else, or to come disguised, so the response can be tied to the neutral or threat picture rather than to one man. Other staff do appear as visitors (Connor; a returning decoy in watch), but the disguise is never filmed.

On film

to make myself less sketchy so I could like not have a hat not have a backpack not have a camera

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have Connor do it

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Obedience failures under arousal were diagnosed as a distraction level, and the answer was mechanical: a line for direction and more pressure.

Bane knows his commands and has a good relationship with the owner; what breaks them is wildlife, other dogs or a nervous stranger. The e-collar cannot tell him where to go, so a long line or unlocked flexi gives direction for a while, and the level is raised to proofing strength - possibly beyond her collar.

On film

It's not a knowledge problem.

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kind of snap him out of it because the e-collar it doesn't provide direction on where or what to do right the leash does and so you'll probably do that very temporarily right

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that he wants to avoid might just be more than that e-collar does right

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The owner, not the trainer or the decoy, gives every protection cue.

The bite is wanted on her word, and the out is hers. Every threat scenario scripts her watch, attack and out, and the best bite of the read sessions is praised precisely because it came when she told him.

On film

i'll say i'm a threat i'll come forward you say watch watch and then you say attack

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know between here and the door you can tell him you know watch or you know attack or whatever commands you're working on

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by a long shot, which is good, because he did it when you told him to.

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What the family was told

The goal: a dog who alerts, then takes 'no' and becomes a pet

you actually like okay now you're a house dog you're a pet dog now you're a happy pet dog

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so happy i like seeing that because like i want to see like happy bane when things are okay

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Why the out must be total

but then the cops might be showing up. Right. So he'll have to settle and, like, back off and, like, leave it alone

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Because if you guys have somebody over, you need to be able to do chill. Seriously, like actually.

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Lighting up at the door is fine; switching off is her job

a bad thing it does light up at the door right because if you think about it you kind of want them to be on alert right because that's where the scenarios are

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But yeah, in this case, what I want you to do is give him a little stronger out.

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The e-collar: level, model, and what it does

I think that the model I would have you get probably is called the dog truck hands-free 1900 X it's the stronger e-collar that doctor makes for

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right so it's hands-free so I don't have to have the cop like the especially like this kind of scenario that would be pretty useful because you don't have to like fumble around you can get the timing right

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because the numbers don't mean anything they're fluid right

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so the e-collar actually is designed identically to a tens unit

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you gotta get that other e-collar

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Out and crate, and what counts as a breach

Because right now he hasn't been released. Right.

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So yeah. Correct any kind of like forward motion essentially.

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So next time, if he growls at me again, tell him no.

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Proofing, not teaching

don't get stuck on the number just like whatever like works for him to be avoidance because like all of his stuff is proofing he knows everything

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different if they don't know a thing you can't teach them that way at avoidance levels but you can proof it at avoidance levels

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High-arousal failures: line plus collar

either a long line or or like one of the nice flexes

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Increase the negative reinforcement level, right?

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Heel and recall handling

yeah what you do is you exaggerate the mistake you exaggerate the mistake and

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so if you go bane come just even just taking a few steps backwards

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Leave no command unenforced

yeah so what I want you to do is go ahead and tell him that he can get up

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In the family's own words

The owner's plan, stated before any instruction: practise every door arrival so he does not learn that every visit ends in a fight ('white' is almost certainly 'fight').

On film

eyes every time somebody comes to the door we're just gonna have to do like exactly just practice it over and over so he also doesn't learn every attraction is gonna end with a white

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The owner's question that produced the minimum standard.

On film

where he would ever like truly chill out considering his breed

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The owner's request to take protection practice off leash, now that his outlook is better.

On film

could we start practicing all of it like like this off leash

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Outcomes

What the trainers reported

The hardest bite he has ever given, and on the owner's word.

The coaching trainer, watch (probably early March 2026)

On film

And then this time, that's the hardest he's ever been, for sure, by a long shot, which is good, because he did it when you told him to.

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Come full circle from the dog who hid.

The coaching trainer, watch

On film

hide from me yeah and now he's like so we've kind of come full circle on that one

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A whole other dog, doing a lot better than last time, with less reaction to Connor.

Speakers at watch (2026-03-10); turn attribution uncertain

On film

to chill out yeah he's like a whole nother dog now

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He's not shaking as much this time.

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A much better psychological state of mind by the end of the Tuesday session.

The lead trainer, 2026-03-10

On film

This is a much better psychological state of mind for him.

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Perfectly well behaved off leash at low to medium distraction; failures only under high arousal.

The lead trainer, 2026-03-12, summarising the owner's reports and his own observation

On film

right um it's just like a distractions thing right so he's perfectly well behaved uh listens to everything off leash fully uh under like low to medium distractions

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A great session, and proof that negative reinforcement and punishment work.

The lead trainer, 2026-03-12

On film

it just shows I don't know to me all it does is it just shows that you know negative reinforcement punishment has its place in dog training works

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A calm response to an ex-police neighbour walking about the garage.

The owner, 2026-03-12, reporting the day before

On film

he was in the garage when my neighbor was here

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Months later, a dog who meets visitors with blood in his saliva.

A trainer of another dog, 2026-09-05, second-hand and possibly figurative

On film

rim so like now if you pull up to his house he'll like have like blood mixed with his saliva and

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What the footage shows

A threshold trigger, found by test: a person crossing the door frame in either direction drew the response, a person turning his back did not.

On film

necessarily like turning my back but just stepping over yeah

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Whether I'm going in or out, he cares a little bit about that.

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A bite on the sleeve on the owner's cue in a home scenario.

On film

to wait for him to do it as well okay should I do that now well yeah I'm gonna try watch him watch

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An out that pauses rather than stops, on the owner's collar at 80, read live by the trainer.

On film

see how like he stiffens up that I yeah I hit it twice

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Crate on cue under a visitor's presence, and staying in while vigilant; at the top of the stronger collar he went to the crate on his own.

On film

Yep, that one was a little bit bigger for him. I had to call it turned all the way up.

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And so that's the kind of thing he's being, he's really hyper-vigilant with it.

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A settled dog through a long neutral visit, and a trainer allowed to walk away with his back turned.

On film

this looks great because he's like so much chiller he's not even looking at me

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paying attention but he's not doing anything because it's not an active threat

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Recall to the owner needing repeated cues under a visitor's presence.

On film

They didn't come. They didn't come. Nope. Come. Good boy.

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How it ended. Bane went home.

The ideas Bane's case runs on