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Donny

Who Donny is

As the trainers describe him

Breed guessed on camera, never known. Someone sees black on his tongue and guesses some chow; the trainer calls him 'more working line'. Both are guesses.
On film

It looks like he's got some chow in him. I would say he's got some black on his tongue.

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That he's definitely just more working line, right? And so his energy level's like really, really high with it.

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Very high energy, not nervous. He likes tug and ball but flits between them and distractions.
On film

But there's no nervousness.

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minute like a second basically right where it's just like and he's like vibrating and looking around he plays tug for a second he gets distracted plays tug for a second gets distracted right

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A problem-solver at the fence, which the trainer calls a working-dog problem.
On film

know things like that it's not necessarily like crazy fixation but he like pokes the bottom of it right he's like hey how can i get on the other side how can i he starts problem solving which is a it's a working dog problem where they start problem solving and then they get themselves into trouble right

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As the operator describes him

The initial fixation is the hardest thing, though he can be called away from it. Around food he will fight other dogs. This is the operator's report and was not observed.
On film

they go nuts yeah um so that's been the that's been the hardest thing with him i mean i can always pull him away from it yeah get him to come back but it's just the yeah the initial fixation

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And he just, around food, he'll go to fight.

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'Super fun', per an owner at the property the next day.
On film

That is Donnie. Donnie looks like he's like super fun to be frank.

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The program, stage by stage

Stage

Mid-March 2026.

The trainer reads Donny as a high-energy, possibly working-line dog with no nervousness, whose fixation comes from a brain 'running 100 miles a minute' rather than from fear. His plan is high-engagement play training. Give Donny the one thing to fixate on and let him get it out there, then do obedience, and play that game every day so he stops caring about everything else. No training of Donny is shown.

On film

and like i said the stuff that i'm seeing that can be dangerous yeah right like there's things they lead to things they're they're not dangerous in themselves but the after effects of things that can happen from there are dangerous

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into trouble right so just doing like for him doing more a high engagement like play type training to get that energy out and keep his fixation on something right where I teach him like this is what you fixate on you don't fixate on anything else

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Right. And then you just have to play that game every day.

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A sighting during Roman's visit

Uploaded 2026-03-19.

A dog introduced as Donnie is brought out. The owner tells how he found him at a stop sign and the dog got into his truck. The trainer remarks that dogs from bad situations are often desperate to play. Donnie is not worked.

On film

things about like dogs that are like in this kind of scenario is like they're normally like good desperate to play with you

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How the method adapted

A plan, not an adaptation that was carried out.

Fixation given a target: the game, then obedience.

His fixation comes from over-arousal and problem-solving, not nerves. A daily outlet removes the need to fixate elsewhere.

On film

Then you take it and you do the obedience.

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And then you don't really have the fixation problem other places because he gets it out somewhere else.

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What the family was told

Kennel routine can hide problems

And, like, some of it might be, again, some of them, they've gotten used to, like, the routines, right? So, some of the stuff could be masked by some of the routine.

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In the family's own words

None.

Outcomes

What the footage shows

An evaluation only: energy, tug and ball interest, fence fixation, no nervousness.

The ideas Donny's case runs on