Who Josi is
As the trainers and owner describe her
A dachshund, said many times by trainers, and a littermate of Milo. The Astro trainer calls them twins. He came out short-haired and she came out long-haired.
On film
I love these little dachshunds.
yep he came out short she came out long-haired
i actually just had that happen i had uh that little dachshund and she has a twin brother um named milo josie milo
Tiny, short-legged and long-bodied, with a coat that needs work.
On film
nice slow walking for her because she's not the fastest doggy because she got these little legs
yeah yeah you can say hi she's headlocking her she's got a long body she's like a hot dog
Well, her bottom end has just started growing out in the last four months.
Openly friendly with people. Strangers pick her up and kiss her, and she lets them. In November she is the 'more temperate' of the two dogs.
On film
Hi baby. Good girl Josie. Friendly or no? Oh super friendly. Can I pet? Oh yeah. Josie say hi.
Some of the two I always found Josie to be the the more temperate temperate.
that face well everybody loves her initially and then she starts kissing them and they're like
lovers she's a little bitey bite they love hugs they love hugs
Her response to pressure she does not understand is to disengage: stand still, freeze, hide or leave. Three different handlers name a version of this. It is the thread that runs through her whole case.
On film
milo's like i'm sitting okay so what she's doing there is she's freezing up a little bit
of just like because like josie does that to you where she just stands there and it looks like she just doesn't care
getting caught good girl come on good girl so there she just kind of suppressed and decided she didn't want to come with me
okay when Josie as an example felt the e collar she ran the opposite direction
Scent pulls her away. Handlers put that down to breed. In the March stay the opposite problem appears: she and Milo will not leave the trainer at all. Neither handler reconciles the two.
On film
Sometimes on distractions a little bit more even if it's just sniffing stuff for her Her and Milo, they're breeds. They get on the trail of something.
My goal is that they walk away from me a few times.
see josie do it too she doesn't go as far most of the time in my experience so far
Treats do little for her with the March trainer. People and petting do the most. She plays, but not hard: she mouths a rope where Milo pulls on it.
On film
that honestly right now for them the biggest reinforcer for them is to just interact with somebody and get petted
get Milo to play with me separately like without too much issue but I couldn't get Josie to play with me separately very much
good so like getting her to play easy right getting josie to play hard hard
The program, stage by stage
An earlier program, never filmed
Between March 2025 (when the form says she was acquired) and November 2025. Date unknown.
The owner says so, the staff greet her in November as a returning dog, a trainer credits her release word to 'we worked with her on it', and the form lists Angier K9 as prior training (source: intake). She arrives at the November lesson already wearing an e-collar. Nothing else is known about that program: not its length, its trainer, what it taught or how the collar was introduced.
November 2025: her brother's lesson, and Josi as the easy one
14-15 November 2025. One lesson, uploaded as three parts. Josi is on camera only in part 3.
The lesson is about Milo, who had reacted to a small dog. Josi appears in the owner's stories in parts 1 and 2: rough play between the siblings that the owner calls normal, an episode in which Josi clamped Milo and he pinned her, and a walk on which Josi barked and went after a child. In part 3 she is fetched from the car. She has a prong fitted above her e-collar and works a stay with the owner, which the owner says is 'about the same'. The trainer says she is responding well to the release. The trainer describes her as the more temperate of the two, and less likely to need the correction Milo got.
On film
You'll probably get a chance to practice it with Josie if she does anything stupid, but she's less likely to do that.
but he flung Josie and like it stood on top of her and everybody was still
Would it be okay to grab Josie and see how she does with the pearl?
The intake form, off camera
Submitted 25 November 2025
The owner fills in the form for both dogs on the same day and asks for one week of training (source: intake). Her priorities for Josi are check-in, obedience and not running away. She wants Josi able to hike off leash and to be around children. She records barking and dashing as the problems, and she rates most cues as unknown. Two lines matter more than the rest: Josi seems afraid after the collar's vibration and lowest level, and she acts as though she does not understand her commands. None of this is mentioned on camera.
December 2025: the down in public, and a collar that was not touching her
In care by 1 December; uploads 1, 3 and 10 December 2025
A staff handler takes Josi into public places: a Sheetz while waiting for an order, and a Home Depot, the latter on the same trip as Milo. The current project, in his own words, is the down. It takes several cues and 'nope' marks per rep, one physical nudge, and he calls it 'doing good'. The heel needs many 'nope's, and twice he asks 'What's going on?' and does not say what she did. Once, during a recall in the store, he asks 'What's wrong?' and picks her up. On a late-night off-leash walk in downtown Angier, a missed recall leads him to turn the collar up. Then he finds the contact points are not touching her, tightens it, turns it back down, and tells the camera why fit matters. She then needs several stimulations, which he says she felt, before she comes. That is the first on-camera sign of the problem the March trainer will call poisoning. In December nobody frames it that way.
On film
how's your hand oh it's doing fine it's a little scratch yeah yeah we've been working with josie on down she's doing good
What's going on?
e-collar up just slightly because she did not respond to that. Josie, here. Here. Nope. Either that or it's not making contact. Yep, it's not making contact.
something it's just a reminder that it's important to make sure that your e-collar is on tight enough for the contact points to make contact because if they don't you can press it on any level you want and the dog feels nothing if it's not touching them
All right, I know she felt that one.
The December go-home lesson: hiding as learned escapeTurning point
Uploaded 15, 16 and 19 December 2025. One lesson in three parts, in a public place.
The handover. The trainer corrects Josi's attention-barking at passers-by until, in his words, she is 'done with it'. He tells the owner that a correction she does not care about is not a correction. On recall he says Josi is more likely than Milo to ignore it, and puts the tapped recall at 80 to 90 percent reliable for him. Then the owner describes the problem that defines this stage: at home, asked to sit, Josi walks under a covered chair and hides. The trainer says she has done the same to him under his truck. His diagnosis is about 90 percent learned escape and 10 percent confusion or fear: hiding worked, because the pressure stopped, so it became a habit. His prescription is to turn the pressure up, pull her out and have her finish. If something else is going on, he says, go back to the relationship and play first. In the last part he tells the owner to say 'nope' once, not repeatedly, because Josi will either ignore it or start to worry. And he tells her not to drill downs: drilled, Josi drops 'too fast' because 'she just thinks oh crap', which he takes as a sign of general suppression rather than learning. This is the point at which the two readings of her - stubborn or confused - are first set out, and the trainer chooses 'stubborn, mostly'.
On film
had to do until i saw that she cared right because that's all it is is if if you see she doesn't care well then you didn't correct her
way, which Josie is more likely to ignore it than Milo is, if they don't start coming
me and then walked underneath my chair and like it's covered um so you know but she can get under and you can't see her and so it's like i'd give her command and she'd run and go hide under the chair
Um, so here's the way that I kind of think about that, that scenario most of the time, and it's true of Josie. I happen to know that because of work, uh, is, um, there's two potential problems there and it can be like a kind of hybrid, uh, for her, it's about 90% one thing and about 10% the other thing.
the only reason that that would turn into a habit is if it worked
happened with her i don't think it's a lot of like a like a problem i think she has clarity but like in the wrong direction she has clarity that that works
trying to like when we're demonstrating stuff is then they she starts to go into that mode where she goes into it too fast right because she just thinks oh crap right so don't like drill like a whole bunch of them in a row
December to March: nothing filmed
About mid-December 2025 to about 10 March 2026
Nothing is filmed. The only trace of this period is a line from the March trainer to the owner: something 'that you had happen once', when Josi fled on feeling the e-collar. So at least once at home, the collar produced flight. Why the family came back for a second in-care stay is never said on camera.
On film
it flipped her she's she's flipped her response to it successfully so instead of doing that thing that you had happen once where she fled when she felt the e-collar she just responds to the come
March 2026, week one: place, and a checkpoint standard she is measured against
About 10-11 March 2026 (watch, uploaded 03-11, the same day as Milo's 'Training Session 1')
A different trainer runs her. He says he did the same session with Milo earlier that day, and states the plan for later days: fix the distinction between sit and down 'again', then recall. The session runs play, then loose-leash walking in named phases, slowed for her legs; at one point she 'suppressed' and he talks her out of it. Then place. First comes a run of short, happy repetitions, to make sure the cot is a place she likes and the release word is good. Then a few small taps of pressure until she is on, with the pressure off the instant she is. Then a 15-minute timed hold in a quiet yard. She breaks once, before the timer starts, and no correction is reported during the 15 minutes. While the timer runs, he explains a document he is writing for the in-care dogs: weekly checkpoints, each of which counts only if it is recorded. By the end of week two a dog must hold place for 15 minutes on a cot in a park beside a walking trail, with people passing with their dogs and no more than one correction; otherwise it is a fail. That is the standard Josi's own record should be measured against. See outcomes.
On film
just like we did with Milo good girl and then and then on another day we'll get started on doing a little bit of the position work again you see where she's at with that we're gonna fix the distinction between the set and the down
So, the important thing about teaching the place is that you might have a little bit of pressure until they get on and that pressure increases as they know the behavior better and then the pressure must turn off immediately as soon as they're on the place got
good come on come on please good place so I'm gonna have her stay up there a little bit longer we're gonna see if she can do 15 minutes and see how many mistakes she makes
or walking out of sight or doing other things like that and then by the end of week two they should be able to do it on a cot at the park next to a walking trail during a time of day where people are walking by with their dogs and the standard is that you can't do more than like one correction during the 15 minutes otherwise it's void
This is a weekly video checkpoint, so you can't just say, oh, yeah, I did that. It needs to be recorded for it to count, and then I'll review it at the end of every week.
The backyard session: a helper to leave, and a collar she stops running fromTurning point
Uploaded 15 March 2026 (watch), at the trainer's mother's house by his own later account
The turn in her case. The trainer's problem all month is that both dogs stay glued to him, so there is nothing to recall them from. He refuses to give Josi a formal recall while she has no collar or line on, because he could not enforce it. Then a helper holds each dog in turn, so the dog has somewhere it does not want to leave, and he recalls the dog away from her. He frames both dogs as choosing flight: running from the collar worked, because the pressure stopped and nobody could make them come. The fix he describes is to teach them how to escape the pressure, so they can later avoid it altogether by coming on the word. Josi vocalises on one recall ('you sound like we're torturing you'). On the last recall she comes without any stimulation at all, and the collar comes off. Every later upload refers back to this session. The trainer credits it with most of the recall improvement - 80 percent in one lesson, 60 percent in another.
On film
prong collar Josie what you doing and then very importantly here I'm not doing a formal recall because I don't have a way to obligate her I don't have a long line on her I don't have any collar on her
is they have to have a clear understanding of how to escape the pressure and get the pleasure
that leg is so muscular he does have muscly legs otherwise in this case both of them have a tendency they choose flight right so they'll run instead of obeying the command
come oh that's so dramatic that's so dramatic you sound like we're torturing you
oh that was so good and josie did not have to feel anything she got she avoided everything
quickly like to be honest with you probably 80% of the recall improvement that you see now with the two of them came from that one session
Proofing: the response flips, place holds with cars passing, and a recall away from a person
Outings built around getting the dogs away from the trainer. In a wet dog park Josi wears the only micro educator. For the first reps it turns out to be switched off. At the end the trainer says her response to the collar is now to come, not to run. A play session with no formal recall at all is, by his own account, meant to make them wander off. In a new neighbourhood she holds place on a cot in a parking area while he walks off with Milo to search the truck and cars pass. Christian then makes himself interesting, and she is recalled away from him: 'That's a nice recall ... Dachshunds are trainable.' In the Major session she may be the second dachshund used as a distraction; the audio does not say.
On film
Josie come Josie Josie come Josie come oh I never turned it on
Josie come come that's a much better response than before to the e-collar her response now instead of to run is to come good girl that's what we need
We got a few reps in of the recall. call and Josie responded properly to the pressure this time
there. We're gonna be able to walk away with Milo while Josie's on the place cat.
Josie has stayed.
That's a nice recall.
The owner lessons and the off-leash claim
Uploaded 31 March, 1 April and 2 April 2026 (watch with watch; watch; watch). The order of the last two is uncertain.
Lesson one teaches the owner the trainer's framework, demonstrated mostly on Milo. Josi's turn covers place, the sit-down distinction and the recall. Her sit problem is the December problem under another name: she downs when asked to sit. It has been fixed, he says, by calmly showing her the mistake, because she is plainly trying to comply. He explains her earlier flight as a poisoned collar, probably an accident by one of his trainers. With the owner watching, a tap at about 18 makes Josi speed up and come, and the owner's next call needs no tap. At home, the second lesson tightens both collars a notch, because they were sliding, and teaches a property boundary. Josi stops at the line on her own, then gets one collar correction the trainer says was more than needed, and then actively avoids that spot. He says that making a place aversive is normally wrong and justifies it as life or death. In a busy park, with leashes and lines off and collars on, both dogs are recalled away from the owner, people, kids and a football game. No stimulation on Josi is reported. She does a 'fake sit'. Separately, on 1 April, the trainer tells another client they are 'fully off leash now'.
On film
right because she was downing sometimes when you're asking her to sit right
because it's just a mistake right um she's obviously trying to comply why did she down
You'll see it later on the camera. Hopefully but I tapped the collar on like an 18 And she sped up and came to me right so it clarifies it
yeah so like one thing to remember is i think both of their e-collars they're about one notch too loose okay yeah just because they were sliding around and they're not going to make consistent contact
but let's see how it goes i'll turn it down a little bit from it was on like a 12.
Sit. Oh, she is sitting. Okay. Oops. She's not doing her normal sit. She's doing his fake sit.
she has a twin brother um named milo josie milo they're fully off leash now
Skills
Recall, and her response to the e-collar
How it was taught
Two stays, two frames. December: say 'here'; if she does not start back, tap the collar and pop the leash together, using the leash for direction. The fault found on camera is fit, not level. March: no formal recall unless it can be enforced. Create something she wants to leave: a helper, Christian, the owner. Cue, give her a chance, then light taps with a line for direction, off the instant she heads in, then cheerlead and let her go back. The explicit aim is escape first, then avoidance. The March trainer checks the collar is on and making contact, and adds informal calls for when he does not want to enforce.
On film
they seem to confused because they normally know like it's about 80 to 90 percent reliable for me right now that I can see that if I tap the e-collar
This is where the e-collar comes in and she recalls great on the flexi on the long line and she normally recalls perfectly well, but
right and that can happen when to be very frank with you it's not made clear to the dog what turns it off
if i go josie come good job and see she avoids the e-collar entirely
there they go milo josie come yeah beautiful that's good all right
Down, and the sit it keeps replacing
How it was taught
December: repeated cue with 'nope' for non-compliance, a leash pop down and forward for the owner, 'nope' once before any pop so that 'down' never comes to mean a pop, and few repetitions spread over an outing. March: for the sit, a calm 'uh-uh, not quite', help into position, pressure off, release. The explicit reason is that her error is a mistake, not a refusal.
On film
how that goes instead down down nope nope down nope nope josie down down down okay good girl
Okay down we'll work with the down she likes it better down down what
nope then if they don't then you can start yeah yeah say nope once you don't have to keep saying
right so i just go uh-uh not quite and then i just help her and she gets into the sit
I also tapped the e-collar a few times.
Place
How it was taught
Positive first: short, happy repetitions with a quick release to check the release word. Then small taps of pressure until she is on, with the pressure off the instant she is on, so the cot never becomes a bad place. Then duration in low distraction. Then distraction and distance, which the trainer calls more important than duration once 15 minutes is reached.
On film
good, good, good, good. Come on. Come on. Good job, mama. You did good. I'm just making sure that her release word, her release marker is good and that she actually enjoys going
up. Nope. Place. So one mistake there. Place. Good. No pressure on the play scott.
the funny thing is that like increasing duration in this setting is like it's fine and all but it's like if they can do 15 minutes they can do an hour right so what's more important is that I increased the other two D's
And so the video that we did, I did one with Josie and one with Milo. um with a pretty good deal of distractions around um for I think it was like 15 minutes each
Loose leash and heel
How it was taught
Named phases: U-turns with a tiny pop when she lags, sporadic changes of direction, then straight walking with pulling punished. Pace slowed for her legs.
On film
girl you did it you did a good job you got a little sticky on the turn there
good girl come on good girl a plus so she's just following me on all these turns now she's not really trying to get away from me
So with her, we're going to have to do that at the park because I have a feeling she's just going to walk with me just fine here.
they just default to walking beside beside you which is or at most like the other thing i noticed is like josie will walk like right here
Boundaries: the yard line
How it was taught
A treat thrown over the line as temptation, blocked with body language, a walk back and praise, repeated at three or four entry points. The criterion: she walks on with the handler without needing a release. Then a collar correction at the line, so the rule is attached to the ground and not the handler and holds when nobody is there.
On film
so there's so they have a German Shepherd that dog that's walking around that's the one that came in the yard and lured her that way
it's right there yeah good girl come on good job she did that one on her own
they're listening to me i want it to be like a thing where it's like associated with the ground
Public manners: barking and greeting
How it was taught
Excitement allowed and greetings nearly always permitted; inappropriate expression marked with 'nope' and corrected until the dog shows she cares, then 'okay' and move on.
On film
And the reason that I did a little bit more very great there at the end is because all I wanted was I wanted for
off leash right she she barks really loud at the dogs that have passed by um but she wasn't trying to like engage them in a negative way which is always him doing that
just feel like if i can have them like if i see people approaching like go hit them down yeah you can yeah or you can just put them in heel and walk by
Recall, and her response to the e-collar
On film
You know the proper response to the e-collars much more active off the leash
Down, and the sit it keeps replacing
On film
test a little bit of duration Josie Milo down Josie and all the way down Milo
Loose leash and heel
On film
Josie Milo heel good dogs
From the Shorts
Short clips posted from Josi's training. They are undated, so they sit beside the program rather than inside it.
Off leash with her brother, past other dogs
A handler takes Josi and Milo off leash together and walks them past an area with lots of dogs as a test. He cues both by name to sit, down, heel and 'let's go', and lists what they know: come, heel, sit, down, let's go, 'okay' to release, 'nope' to mean no, and place. He then puts them in a down and walks away to test how long they hold it; Josi needs a second prompt to go all the way down. He ends by saying they do really well and he is very happy.
On film
They're looking good. I'm just going to test them
I'm gonna walk by an area with lots of dogs
Josie Milo heel good dogs so you can see they know come they
know heel they know sit they know down Josie Milo let's go
test a little bit of duration Josie Milo down Josie and all the way down Milo
so I can create some distance and for some duration good job guys and they do really well
Free time with Milo and Major
Josi and her brother Milo are let loose with another dog in the program, Major. The handler says Josi and Milo are running all around while Major would rather sniff. In two companion clips the same three dogs come out together in the morning and explore a room with a cat tree; there the handler names only Milo and Major.
On film
josie and milo are running all around i love the way these doctors run
they are having the time of their lives
their paws are all wet from the the dew of the grass
How the method adapted
Most of the adaptations are made for her size, and are shared with Milo. The ones that are hers alone are about the leaving: what to do when she freezes, hides or runs. On that, the two stays adapted in opposite directions.
Hiding was answered with more pressure, not less (December).
The December trainer judged it about 90 percent learned escape: she hid because hiding had ended the pressure before. The only way to reverse that, he said, was for hiding to stop working. He made an explicit exception if something else was going on, in which case relationship and play come first.
On film
i actually turn pressure up when they hide uh from me like that unless there's something else going on but in this case there's not
right so then i'm gonna uh kind of be like nope nope nope you're not gonna do that that's not gonna work mister or that's not gonna work little girl like that and then i'm gonna like pull them them out of there and then make, make sure they still do it.
Running was answered with clarity, not pressure (March): a helper to leave, a line for direction, and relief the moment she turned.
The March trainer judged that she did not know what turned the collar off, so she tried fleeing, and fleeing worked. The fix was to make escape obvious and quick, so she could learn to avoid it. His stated limit is 'a little stressful', not 'extremely stressful'.
On film
good good dogs good job guys yeah and so if you teach this very clearly from the beginning it does not have to be extremely stressful just a little stressful
to the dog what turns it off right and so then they try other things because they have options what are their options to try to turn it off well they could come to you or they could flee or they could freeze and hunker down
Her wrong position was treated as a mistake, in a quiet voice.
Offering a down for a sit reads, to the March trainer, as trying to comply. So the correction is 'uh-uh, not quite' and help into position, not authority. In December the same default was met with firmer delivery and a 'cracked out' release to lift her out of looking suppressed.
On film
And you notice that like my tone is not like, like really authoritative and like, no, you did the wrong thing.
Right. Right. But the important part is is making the release command like as as like cracked out as possible.
No drilling. A few downs spread over an outing, not a run of them.
Drilled, she drops into the down fast out of worry. The December trainer reads that as learning to be suppressed in general, not learning the cue.
On film
just doesn't care um what will happen is if you keep doing keep doing keep doing it then she's going to start to go she's going to start to kind of like freak out a little bit like what's going on
Equipment and pace scaled to a tiny dog: micro educator, micro or mini prong, slower walking, collar fit checked twice.
Her body. A standard collar's contact points sit too far apart on a dog this small, and a loose collar slides off contact. The December fit failure and the April 'one notch too loose' are the same fault.
On film
gonna i think they thrive on a mini prong collar yeah the mini prong collar fits them a lot better and the micro educator is a lot better for them
nice slow walking for her because she's not the fastest doggy because she got these little legs
Never recalled formally when the recall could not be enforced.
An unenforceable 'come' that she ignores teaches her she can ignore it. When she wore nothing she was not called, and informal calls were used whenever the trainer did not intend to follow through.
On film
Josie and I'm just giving her an informal recall there so I don't have to reinforce if she doesn't come because I'm not trying to do a recall rep right now
Kept away from large dogs, and the owner told to think about the other dog's safety first.
Size. A meeting that would be harmless for a large dog could kill a small one.
On film
know like a situation that um I would encourage you to think more about the other dog yeah and whether or not they're safe for them than the reverse
I mean, even generally, you got dachshunds, I don't let dachshunds play with large dogs typically.
Reward chosen from what she actually wanted - people and petting - while play was built in parallel. The owner was told to get her excited in her own way.
She ignored treats, and she would not tug.
On film
the training yeah i can't just be like all right i played with your dogs for four weeks now they know how to play now we have to finish the training
No, yeah, get her amped up however you can and then play with her.
What the family was told
When she hides or leaves
i actually turn pressure up when they hide uh from me like that unless there's something else going on but in this case there's not
where like they're like yeah then i'm like okay we need to like change direction here and try some other things and get you more engaged with me and improve the relationship and play with you
Corrections have to land
had to do until i saw that she cared right because that's all it is is if if you see she doesn't care well then you didn't correct her
it most of the time and and for something like this it's just obedience i don't keep saying nope nope nope nope
The recall and the collar
So all that would mean is that you would say like here, and then if they didn't start coming back to you right away,
Yeah, just tell her eh eh again. Tell her to come.
yeah so like one thing to remember is i think both of their e-collars they're about one notch too loose
Yeah, put it up above the e-collar.
Place and the release
And come on place good. So then you see how that's negative reinforcement There was pressure, and the pressure went away as soon as she got up there.
Yeah, and so if they don't get off right away, I normally just encourage them. I'll just cheerlead for them.
Other dogs, people and children
know like a situation that um I would encourage you to think more about the other dog yeah and whether or not they're safe for them than the reverse
just feel like if i can have them like if i see people approaching like go hit them down yeah you can yeah or you can just put them in heel and walk by
Boundaries
so like think of it like this so if you walk that way and they stop and they go and then you walk back and you walk by them and they get up without you saying okay then that means they're seeing that as a border that they're not supposed to cross over
actively right she doesn't want anything to do with that area um and normally it's like hey we don't want that that's a bad thing you don't want to train dog that way right but in this case it's one of the few cases where it's like no
Play
No, yeah, get her amped up however you can and then play with her. And then just like ask her for obedience while you guys
Film your practice
why i like taking videos and i also recommend that
In the family's own words
The owner's account of Josi at home is the only evidence of the hiding, and she is candid about her own part in it.
On film
under the chair yeah and she would just like man i'm not doing this and then walk away
like you know reaching out to you like i don't know what she's like zero percent yeah and maybe she wasn't zero percent i was just user error
She tried to call Josi out of an excited state in public and could not. That was her question at the go-home lesson.
On film
played with them and walked off and i was like okay here josie here they were still in that mode
then i had to really like correct and she just did not care
In April her worry about off-leash freedom is not running away but losing sight of a dog this small.
On film
oh there you are they freak me out though when i'm when i have them off leash um not because i'm worried they're going to run off but because they're so small i can't tell where they're at
At home Josi plays best in her own way, and gives way to Milo over toys.
On film
Um, when Josie even would play at home, um. She's slightly more docile with it.
play fighting yeah i'll kind of get on my knees and make her noise and she will just come at me
Outcomes
What the trainers reported
The down was going well in December.
The December handler, to a shopper, Home Depot
On film
how's your hand oh it's doing fine it's a little scratch yeah yeah we've been working with josie on down she's doing good
The tapped recall was 80 to 90 percent reliable for the trainer, at the December handover - for both dogs, with Josi the more likely of the two to ignore it.
The December go-home trainer
On film
they seem to confused because they normally know like it's about 80 to 90 percent reliable for me right now
Her response to the collar has flipped from running to coming.
The March trainer, 03-19 and again to the owner on 03-31
On film
Josie come come that's a much better response than before to the e-collar her response now instead of to run is to come
it flipped her she's she's flipped her response to it successfully
Most of the recall improvement came from the one backyard session - 80 percent in one telling, 60 percent in another.
The March trainer, 03-31 and 04-01
On film
quickly like to be honest with you probably 80% of the recall improvement
was done in that session you saw in that in my mom's backyard like that was like probably 60 of the learning for the recall happened like in that session
Good duration on everything; close to being trusted off leash.
The March trainer, 03-31
On film
doing really great on her duration for everything
let's go find it yeah but she also is getting pretty close to the point where i'm gonna be okay having her off
Fully off leash.
The trainer, to another client in the Astro update evaluation, uploaded 2026-04-01
On film
she has a twin brother um named milo josie milo they're fully off leash now and i was off leash with them we were walking around
They recall about 95 percent of the time without the collar.
On film
of the time even 95% of time without the collar it's just the 5% that I worry
What the footage shows
A recall away from a helper, completed without any stimulation, after which the collar was taken off.
On film
oh that was so good and josie did not have to feel anything she got she avoided everything
A 15-minute place hold in a quiet yard, timed, with one break before the timer and none reported during it. Long stretches of the timed hold have no speech, so a silent break cannot be ruled out.
On film
She's been good. She's been up there for five and a half minutes
A place hold on a cot on pavement while the handler walks away with Milo and a car passes.
On film
A car cometh, a car goeth. Josie has stayed.
One tap at about 18 speeds up a slow recall in front of the owner; the owner's next call needs none.
On film
now yeah good girl good okay so go ahead and call her okay i didn't have to do it at all
Recalls with leashes and lines off and collars on, in a busy spring park. No stimulation on Josi is reported. A 'fake sit' near a football game.
On film
there they go milo josie come yeah beautiful that's good all right
She stops at the yard boundary on her own, at more than one entry point, before the collar is used there.
On film
walk across that whole area good and so you see there she stopped on her own
The ideas Josi's case runs on
- A border taught to the ground
- Another dog as helper, tester or draw
- Breed is a checklist, not a verdict
- Don't poison the command
- Drilling is what represses a dog
- Fit before level: check the tool before you judge the dog
- Help it or press it - read which
- Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground
- Pressure, release, reward
- Sticking close is not attachment
- Swapped commands: keep sit and down distinct
- The camera is part of the method
- The correction that did not work
- The flight-risk protocol, and the one command that matters
- The pair is the unit of training
- You have to be able to reward him at all