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Peque (PK)

Who Peque (PK) is

As the speakers describe her

A small shepherd-dachshund mix, full grown. Low to the ground; one trainer puts her at fifteen to twenty pounds. Two people independently remark that she has grown longer since the program.
On film

She's a shepherd dachshund mix. Yeah, so she's actually full grown.

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But with her, because she's low, I do like a four or six.

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pk is about this big she's a little doggy she's maybe like what 15 20 pounds something like that and she got adopted a little while ago

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And she got, I think she got longer almost and bigger.

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the funniest one we have right now is a shepherd a German shepherd mixed with a dachshund so it's like it looks it just looks like a german shepherd but

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A rescue with a hard start, as her program trainer tells it: probably born under a bridge, one of two surviving puppies of six, trouble with a first foster, adopted and returned. All of this is the trainer's belief or second-hand.

On film

i think she was born under a bridge and then she was so like two out of like the six that survived

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had trouble like we heard like there was trouble with the first foster oh yeah and then she was she was adopted or something like that and then returned so i heard

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Timid and defensive at the start: deemed not adoptable for timidity, closed off to people, growled and showed teeth when her kennel was opened. By the program's second week her handler says she has never reacted to her.
On film

she is accepting applications um for adoption she was actually deemed not not adoptable because she was just so timid she was scared

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we worked on and she's gotten she got like 100 better because she was even not she was like very closed off to other people too and when we were when we put her in a kennel we would try to open the kennel she would growl at us show her show us her teeth and everything

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great like she was great with kids but at the beginning she wasn't

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Social with people and interested in dogs. Her first obedience handler finds that she loves sniffing, people and watching dogs; Kelton says she plays with known dogs at the facility.
On film

with Oscar and he's a boy so we see that PK loves he's so interested in sniffing

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she's played with dogs at our house at the facility too

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Her problem, as every handler names it, is barking at and going for other dogs. In the program's first week the narrator's diagnosis is that she is the one who starts it.

On film

She has some reactivity to dogs.

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I wish I had had my camera a little earlier, because we just had the conversation that PK has needed to have with someone for a little bit now

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She's not unfriendly. She's a little reactive.

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Smart, and an escape artist. Kelton says she got out of her kennel into the main kennel area several times, once through a windowsill gap into another dog's kennel and once over a six-foot fence. The Hattie meet-and-greet tells the windowsill story too.

On film

one time i came in and i found her in another dog's kennel

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into the windowsill and squeezing through the windowsill to get in the other dog's kennel

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or she climbed a six foot fence yeah to get out of her kennel once

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Affectionate to a fault. The down she offered was a roll onto her side for belly rubs, which the program had to fix; after adoption she still wakes the family around half past two for belly rubs.
On film

PK. Down. We had to fix PK's down. She was, she was laying on her side and she was rolling around for belly rubs and that's not what down means.

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every morning about 2.30,

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The program, stage by stage

Before the program, off camera

Before mid-December 2025. Nothing filmed.

Everything here is told later, by her program trainer to her adopters, partly as rumour. A street-born puppy, a first foster that went badly, an adoption that ended in a return, and a rescue that had judged her unadoptable because she was so timid. The rescue connection itself is only in titles and in the adopters' remark that they found her on the rescue's listing; no recording says who referred her into the program.

On film

i think she was born under a bridge and then she was so like two out of like the six that survived

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she is accepting applications um for adoption she was actually deemed not not adoptable because she was just so timid she was scared

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found her on the U.S. Dog Coalition.

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The first week and a half: behaviour work, off camera

About mid-December 2025 to about 2025-12-28.

No footage survives or was identified. Three later statements describe it: 'behavioral issues' were worked first; Christian, named as the head trainer for behaviour modification, worked her reactivity; and early on she growled and bared her teeth when her kennel was opened. Kelton also refers to videos in which he punished her reactivity; none of the fifteen notes is such a video.

On film

reacted to me um of course i didn't fix those issues it was christian christian helped with her reactivity right mama he is the lead trainer or the head trainer for behavioral modification

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did you get to see any of the ones where um where i punished her reactivity

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Obedience begins: the happy walk and a new handler

About 2025-12-28/29. watch; watch unplaced nearby.

A handler's first day with her, spent deliberately on getting to know each other before asking for anything: laps of a walkway, sniffing, a ball she ignores, a new 26-foot flexi given on the theory that freedom buys recall. Heel is introduced the same day without the word and released the moment she turns with the handler. A second 'happy walk' on a strange trail, with water, mud and heel practice, shows the same handler switching her cue words to Kelton's because she sometimes trains his dogs.

On film

um this is the first day that i work with pk

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would you want instructions from someone you don't like right that's toxic work scenario

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giant flexi just great the longer the flexi the more freedom you give them the more leash

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used to it pk let's practice off our heel that we learned a little earlier in the day

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this is a happy not walk not a crazy walk

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Days three and four: the store, the 'conversation', and the collarTurning point

Obedience days three and four, about 2025-12-30/31. watch, watch.

The case's turning point happens off camera. At Tractor Supply she went off on a dog and got what the narrator calls the conversation she had needed for a while: a penalty, its nature unstated. The narrator predicts it may be the end of it or need one more. The next day, in a park, her handler lets her make the choice passing dogs walked by Christian and Connor, reads one of her gestures as wanting to play, and records that she did well with some little girls. The closing note explains the e-collar: she was not afraid of the 'nope', so the collar was brought in to charge it.

On film

I wish I had had my camera a little earlier, because we just had the conversation that PK has needed to have with someone for a little bit now

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I'm going to let her make the choice.

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You did so good with those little girls!

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so still trying to charge that nope um yeah pk was not afraid of the nope so we introduced the e-caller right pk

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Day six: the down taught from nothing, and a progress report

The handler reports recall much better and dog reactions still happening sometimes, and says she has been told her corrections are not firm enough. The down is taught from scratch: guided on the prong for the first two repetitions, named at the seventh, much less pressure by the eleventh, and, if watch is the same day, done without touching by about the sixteenth. Down form (side-lying) is deliberately left for later. Stay duration is announced as the next job. The handler also gives PK's background to camera. If the 'Focus Training at the Park' clips are the same day, this is Monday 5 January (year unspoken; 5 January 2026 was a Monday).

On film

this is pk sixth day of training obedience

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This is PK's sixth day of training.

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this is definitely day six of obedience training with me

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six of training pk for obedience and off leash pk has been with us for a couple of weeks

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but this is day six

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Second week: fixing the down, adding duration, and filming her for adoption

About 2026-01-03 to 2026-01-09. watch (day eight), watch, watch, watch, watch.

The work now looks like a finished obedience program being tidied for an unknown home. The down is fixed from a belly-up roll to paws in front. Sit duration is practised at a park, deliberately not to an hour because nobody knows what her future home will need. The handler says place and place duration are all she has left. At the same time she is being marketed: the handler says she is accepting applications, and a joke clip calls her a deadly creature over an adoption link. Two coaching clips show a colleague being taught to stop nagging her with small pops in heel and to give one big pop marked with 'nope', because she had learned to rely on the small ones to stay in position.

On film

PK. Down. We had to fix PK's down. She was, she was laying on her side and she was rolling around for belly rubs and that's not what down means.

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thing she needs to learn is the place command um and the place duration and that's about it

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obviously we're not gonna train her to go for an hour or two because we don't know what her life is going to be like in the future

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Look at these deadly creatures deadly look at how deadly PK is

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there was a slight disconnect because she was used

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so the only big thing is when you said heel she didn't like recognize she didn't look at you at all uh so like she probably understands it more pressure

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End of the program, an interim foster, and adoption: off cameraTurning point

About mid-January to February 2026.

The four weeks end. Between the trainer and the adopters was a foster the trainer calls 'the guy that was in the middle', and she does not know whether he kept up the corrections. He also did not pass on the e-collar remote. The adopters, a family with girls and no other pets who had lost an elderly Yorkie, found her through the rescue's listing. By their account she took three or four days to wag her tail and then came out of her shell.

On film

before you and after me, the guy that was in the middle, I'm not sure if he like corrected that because this is something that has to be constant.

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he didn't give you the remote really

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probably three or four days you know her she didn't really wag her tail much and she would just want you to love on her and be real still and then since then she has just really come out of her shell and she plays with the girls

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The home visit: re-equipping a family

About February 2026 (uploaded 2026-02-24/25). watch + watch.

Her program trainer visits the adopters. They report a happy dog at home who is reactive to dogs and some people on neighbourhood walks, pulls, jumps and has scratched someone, runs from the crate, and sits only sometimes. Most of the visit is handover that should have happened at adoption: a printed sheet of commands, markers and homework; a spare prong collar, which the adopters feel on their own arms first; the discovery that 'no' does not work but 'nope' does; the leash pop and its hand position; 'let's go' as the choice past a dog and a big pop if she lunges instead; the random-turn loose-leash walk; 'go home' for the crate and a raised cot for place; three homework sessions a day for a week. The trainer says the dog is 'a little rusty' and that four weeks cannot remove a habit, which is why follow-ups exist.

On film

anytime we go for a walk she's really reactive with other dogs in neighborhood and even some of the other people in the neighborhood

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i printed some stuff out so that you guys can have um so these are just like some scenarios that pk might want to do

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I did notice like, no doesn't work with her.

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So she's a little rusty because she hasn't had the, you know, continuing the training.

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her hair is like but then that's when you use the let's go and if she's choosing to lunge that's when you punish her the let's go is the choice uh-huh and when she chooses that that's the pop

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lost my train of thought you said over the next couple of days yes yes um like um three times a day i would put the prong collar on her

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Kelton's follow-up lesson: why she is better with us

About March 2026 (uploaded 2026-03-26). watch.

Kelton drops PK home after a day's training in which, he says, she walked past two to four dogs without reacting and met a young Malinois without incident. The family's one remaining problem is reactivity on walks, sometimes fine and sometimes not. His lesson answers the gap between trainer and home: dogs are contextual learners, and clarity of communication differs between handlers. Then the method, in owner terms: verbal cue before any movement or leash pressure; reward good passes with praise, a thrown ball or a short run; punish a reaction sufficiently, mark it with 'nope', look for the eye shift, let her sit in it, then reconcile; never get stuck on e-collar numbers and err high when punishing reactivity; record yourself on a phone. He advises against dog parks until the reactivity is under control.

On film

she didn't react to anything okay um i i couldn't get her deal we walked by like two three or four dogs

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it's the reactivity on the walks with with other dogs and there's there's sometimes she's fine and there's sometimes she's not fine

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with just clarity like uh of like communication in the training um that can sometimes be a difference maker

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verbal first PK come right recall with the voice first right so verbals always

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get the reactivity stuff with you under control

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The June refresher: calmer, hackles but no action

June 2026 (uploaded 2026-06-25). watch, watch.

A day-training refresher with two staff, one of whom trained her originally. The family's reports, relayed second-hand: jumping on the girls, bolting out of an unlatched front door, recall that fails only when she is running at a particular dog, bigger reactions to bigger dogs, trouble at barriers. What the staff see: a dog much calmer than at her first program; a good recall, sit and down; a place she leaves early without the release; one e-collar tap for a missed recall; hackles up near a dog but no action even when barked at; no bark from the last three dogs. The plan: a stronger conditioned 'uh-uh' for jumping, proofing recall toward dogs, meeting the family at a park, and an overnight stay on 1 to 6 July, with Christian's children to help on the jumping. Part 2 turns into the clearest statement in her file of the program's reactivity philosophy.

On film

she has some stuff with barriers yeah she does good gurdy they told me that um it's been a couple of times where the girls don't latch the door all the way and so she runs out through the front door

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She places, but she hops off of it.

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that right there she her hackles went up yeah so she was like her but she controlled it and didn't do anything yeah let's go come on even when the dog barked at her yeah she didn't do anything

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Yeah, she's calmed down a lot from when I first trained her.

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Because we didn't get any, we didn't even get a bark out of her.

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Afterwards, second-hand only

May to August 2026, in other dogs' recordings.

PK becomes a returning dog. By August a trainer (not named there; probably Kelton, from the same household details) says he sees her about every month and a half, whenever the family travels, for a refresher, most recently with a few hours a day at Lake Benson; she shared a kennel peacefully with Hattie. Another trainer says the family are maintaining her training really well. No recording of these later stays was identified.

On film

i see her every every month and a half or so

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she comes and hangs out um when they like anytime they go out of town or anything like that she'll come and we'll do like a refresher program last time she came we just we went to the lake benson for like a few hours every day

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know PK yeah totally fine with PK

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I think I trained PK to do that too, and they've been doing really good with PK, they've been maintaining her training really well

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Skills

Passing other dogs (the presenting problem)

At the startChristian worked it first, off camera.
By the endWith staff: passes dogs with raised hackles and no action, no bark from the last three dogs (June 2026). At home: sometimes fine and sometimes not, by the adopter's report (March 2026). Never filmed resolved in the family's hands.

How it was taught

A penalty at a real incident (the 'conversation' at Tractor Supply), then 'let's go' as a choice offered when she stares, with a pop for choosing the lunge. The e-collar was added to charge the 'nope'. For the family, rewards for good passes (praise, a ball, a run) and sufficient, marked punishment for reactions, followed by reconciliation. The refresher staff tolerate hackles and punish only action.

On film

I'm going to let her make the choice.

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see that was a non-negotiable so that that pop would be bigger

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that we use to to redirect so because she's used to lunging or barking at dogs we give her the option to make her own choice

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as soon as you see that she's been punished sufficiently i like to look for the eye shift

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hackles if they raise it's fine as long as they don't do anything

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Down

At the startOffered as a roll onto her side for belly rubs.
By the endA sphinx down with an implied stay on day eight, by the handler's account; still offering the side-down at home in February; 'down is good' in June, with 'all the way down' cued.

How it was taught

Physically helped to put her paws out in front; the criterion named aloud.

On film

PK. Down. We had to fix PK's down. She was, she was laying on her side and she was rolling around for belly rubs and that's not what down means.

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They're supposed to be like the sphinx down, but she does like the down on the side.

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And she wanted, she thought it was belly rubs time when I would say down. So I had to correct that.

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Heel

At the startUnknown to her on the first day of obedience.
By the endAt the end of the program described as something she does naturally when passing people; in June 'She matched my pace'.

How it was taught

First without the word, released when she turned with the handler. Then, when a colleague found she followed leash pressure rather than the word, a short standard lead instead of the flexi, a slow pace for her to match, short straight spurts, and one bigger pop marked with 'nope' in place of many small ones. Walk away between reps so she does not auto-heel. For the family: lock the flexi and pop back when she forges.

On film

doesn't know what heel means yet very hyper so i gave her the okay i released her as soon

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And I'll slow my pace way down.

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pops and then if I stay in position nothing happens right you didn't you never want to rely on pressure you want it to be avoid pressure to stay in position

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really good she's super smart so she doesn't need a lot of correction

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And then she naturally does it when we're walking past people.

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She matched my pace.

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Recall

At the startWorked on a 26-foot flexi from the first obedience day; 'still gotta work on her recall' on day four.
By the end'A little rusty' at the home visit; 'looks fine' in June, with one tap for a missed recall and a family report that it fails only when she is running at a particular dog.

How it was taught

Freedom on a long line on the theory that freedom buys the return; 'nope' then an e-collar tap if she still does not come; for the family, a front sit released with 'okay' and a locked-flexi pop if she ignores the call. The June plan is to proof it toward dogs.

On film

still gotta work on her recall

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and I did tap it because I said nope but she didn't come so I gave it a tap

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yeah and her recall is good but uh not when she's running straight towards a specific dog right

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We just need to proof it for that then.

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Place and duration

At the startNot taught in the first week; sit duration practised in week two.
By the endNamed on day eight as the one thing left to learn. At the home visit there is no cot in the house. In June she hops off place early without the release, then holds a sit on an unfamiliar object in Part 2.

How it was taught

Sit duration with 'nope' for breaks and the handler turning away. For the family, a raised cot, 'nope', a leash pop and back on. The overnight stay was booked partly for place.

On film

we're not here to play come on sit she did all right and she did better than the first time

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it helps the dog to um regulate its its emotions and like practice

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Like, fairly quickly, without me giving her the, okay.

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She put her on place, she just sits.

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Jumping on people

At the startNot mentioned during the program.
By the endAt home she jumps on the family's youngest and has scratched an adult. Corrected once on camera at the home visit. Still the family's first complaint in June.

How it was taught

Set up the jump and correct it: 'nope' and a pop, 'one, two, three pops' in the trainer's words, with homework sessions on the prong. In June the fix is named as a stronger conditioned 'uh-uh', which the staff do not think is charged.

On film

When she jumped with me, she kind of scratched me.

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And then I give them like a good one, one, two, three pops,

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this fix is identical it's just an uh-uh and if your uh-uh is strong because it's been backed up by something meaningful then they'll stop doing it

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i don't feel like it's that charged

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Crate

At the startAt home she runs from the crate and has to be lifted in.
By the end'Go home' introduced as the crate cue at the home visit. No later mention.

How it was taught

Only introduced. The trainer first checks that she was never punished in the crate.

On film

But we had to pick her up and put her in there because she runs.

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go home means you

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Recall

Update. This Short gives both, in the handler's words: one press at 33 after an ignored 'come' she knows, and a sit in front as the correct finish. The handler says the recall had been worked for seven days and was going well; if the Behavior Modification parts are one day, this is day eight (January 7th), joined by title only.
On film

pk come nope come press the e-caller at 33

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it once she felt it she ran towards me and she sat down in front of me like she's supposed to

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that is a recall that we've been working on for seven days she has been doing phenomenal

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Place and duration

Update. Day seven adds the next step on film: sit duration with 'nope' for each break, then the handler walking away as a first distance test. The result is not spoken.
On film

Nope. We're working on her sit duration. Nope. PK, sit. We're working on her sit duration.

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I'm going to place it. Nope. PK, sit. I'm going to walk away and see what she does.

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Heel

Update. A stated rule for when heel is used: whenever people or dogs are passed, because the retractable lead gives her up to 26 feet the rest of the time. This fits wave 1's 'heel near people, released to sniff'; it is the same handler's rule, now on a dated day.
On film

I make sure to put PK or any other dogs I'm with on heel when we're passing through

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my dog on heel which is a good thing because I have a flexi and this flexi goes up to 26 feet

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Passing other dogs (the presenting problem)

Update. The handler's read on day seven: no longer growling at people or dogs. On the Behavior Modification walk she wants to go to a dog and is moved on with 'let's go'; in part 2 a dog approaches and the audio does not say what she did. Handler's claims; no reaction or non-reaction is described in the audio itself.
On film

she is not growling at humans or dogs

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pk wants to go interact with that dog but we aren't doing that right now

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You're gonna try me, PK?

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Down

Update. The Shorts show the step before: on day six she 'still doesn't know' the command; the first two downs were pulled with the prong; the word was attached at the seventh; pressure was much less by the eleventh; about the sixteenth was done without touching, by the handler's account. That day the handler called side-versus-sphinx form 'not a big deal' for a dog about to be adopted, yet on day eight the form was fixed anyway. The last minute of the home visit adds the program trainer's own verdict that she 'wasn't the type' to down the right way.
On film

PK still doesn't know what that command is.

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that first and second time you know we got a pull down on on the prong collar and now I it was just

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pk down oh that was so much less pressure than one two and three

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down i'm not touching down oh you're such a smart girl

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she wasn't the type to really want it like down the right way

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Passing other dogs (the presenting problem)

Update. Adds footage from the penalty day itself, about an hour after the off-camera penalty: a deliberate test near a stranger's young dog with no pre-emptive pulling or calling away, framed as a 'choice point'. Adds a public pass in which the other dog pulled toward PK and no correction of her is heard. On day six the handler still reports reactions 'sometimes' and says her corrections were judged not firm enough. The same 'let's go' is used at birds: past geese on 5 January, and with no hands on the lead at ducks.
On film

We let her go look. She even walked towards the dog and we said nothing.

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So, I want you guys to notice, if you're watching, that that dog was pulling to go towards PK.

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she's getting a lot better with her recall um sometimes she still reacts to dogs but

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good girl she was ready she was ready to lunge at them but i gave her the let's go command

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Heel

Update. Also praised heeling next to another dog in a busy place.
On film

PK is currently on a heel. There are a lot of kids. Nope. Heel. Lots of distraction. Not locked.

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We encourage them to walk around, walk in front of us and sniff things like regular

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so much going on you did so good next to that dog

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Recall

Update. 'Getting a lot better' on day six, by the handler. Nothing is measured and there is still no off-leash footage.
On film

she's getting a lot better with her recall

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pk's first session with the long line

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Place and duration

Update. Place taught by the pattern used for the down: the behaviour first with only her name, then the word 'place' added, on a stated fourth session (day not given). A later indoor clip has her taking a place on her own. On day six stay duration is named as the day's work and described as implied by the position; the handler starts it after the down.
On film

i haven't said place yet just giving her the pk pk place pk place

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She got a place all on her own.

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as she needs it to be but today we're gonna work on down and stay duration

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now we need to practice her stay duration

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From the Shorts

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

An ignored recall, one tap, and a sit in front

On a walk past birds, the handler calls PK and she does not come. The handler explains that PK heard 'come', knows what it means and ignored it, so she pressed the e-collar once, at 33 on its scale; PK ran to her and sat in front of her, which is how the recall is meant to finish. The handler says the recall has been going very well. PK then wants to go and meet a dog, and is told not now.

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On film

pk come nope come press the e-caller at 33

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because she heard me say come she knows what that means and she ignored me so i clicked

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it once she felt it she ran towards me and she sat down in front of me like she's supposed to

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she has been doing phenomenal

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pk wants to go interact with that dog but we aren't doing that right now

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January 7th: heel whenever people or dogs pass

The handler gives the date, January 7th, and says it is PK's eighth day of obedience training, and that behaviour work on her reactions to people and dogs came before that. Her rule on walks: PK, or any dog she has, goes to heel whenever they pass people or dogs, because some people are wary of dogs or do not want their space invaded, and her retractable lead reaches 26 feet. PK is still looking for a home.

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On film

today is january 7th this is pk's eighth day of training obedience and

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she had some modification behavioral modification done before the obedience program started she was reacted to humans and dogs and all types of stuff

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I make sure to put PK or any other dogs I'm with on heel when we're passing through

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Some people are very weary of dogs and some people don't like their privacy,

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their personal space invaded by a dog or other humans so I avoid any conflict by just placing

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my dog on heel which is a good thing because I have a flexi and this flexi goes up to 26 feet

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pk is living her best life she is up for adoption right now she needs a forever home

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Day seven: a sit that has to last

On what the handler calls PK's seventh day, she says PK had shown aggression toward people and dogs, that this had already been worked on, and that PK is no longer growling at people or dogs. Then she works on how long PK holds a sit, saying 'nope' each time she gets up, and finally puts her in a sit and walks away to see what she does. The clip does not say how that went.

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Here we have PK, day seven of training, obedience, and off-leash recall.

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She showed some aggression towards humans before and dogs,

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and we've already worked on that, and she's been doing great.

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she is not growling at humans or dogs

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Nope. We're working on her sit duration. Nope. PK, sit. We're working on her sit duration.

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I'm going to place it. Nope. PK, sit. I'm going to walk away and see what she does.

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The four quadrants, in plain words

On an outing with staff, a trainer restates the four ways a consequence changes behaviour, avoiding the textbook names. Giving the dog access to something she wants (food, play, freedom) makes the behaviour more likely. Pressure that switches off when she does the right thing also makes it more likely: he pulls up on the lead until she sits, then lets the pressure off and gives her freedom. Adding a penalty, such as a lead pop or an e-collar tap, makes the behaviour less likely, and so does taking away something she wants. The dog used as the example is not named in the clip.

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dog training comes down to four quadrants now those four quadrants have official names and

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i hate them so i'm going to restate them in a way that's more understandable

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giving access right adding a benefit so you could give access to food you could give access to play

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so as an example say I pull up on it and then she

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sits okay good girl and now she's uh got freedom right so pressure off

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so adding a penalty uh we had to do earlier is when you uh add either like a leash collar pop or

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or an e-collar tap or something like that

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So if you remove access to something that she wants

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An hour after the penalty: the choice point

On the day of the Tractor Supply incident, the trainer tells a stranger that an hour earlier PK would have been barking at their young dog, that they corrected it, and that this is the test. Then, to camera, the trainer points out that nobody pulled her back or called her away when she saw the dog: she was allowed to look and even walk toward it, so the choice was hers. The clip ends on the question of what she did; she is praised just before.

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rescue dog and she's had some dog reactivity so we're just seeing how it goes we want to see if

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honestly like an hour ago she would have been like she would have been car car car car car car a whole bunch but we corrected it yeah so this is like the proofing yeah we did a penalty

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So, importantly, something I want you to notice here is that did we restrict PK's choices artificially before she did anything?

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We let her go look. She even walked towards the dog and we said nothing.

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so we gave her a choice she had a choice point and what did she do

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'Easy': a word that means relax

A trainer explains a cue the team was just starting to use. When people walk past, the trainer does not want to correct PK for looking, and 'let's go' or 'come' would be the wrong words while sitting still. So 'easy' is taught by saying it while giving her a massage, until the word alone makes her relax; the trainer calls it a conditioned relaxer and shows it on PK with a rub-down.

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we're teaching it to PK and Hema's learning more about how to teach the easy cue because it's a little bit newer introduction to the rest of our team

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you don't want to correct the dog for looking or for walking over towards it you want them to be interested in things

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currently stationary we're just sitting here so if we say let's go it's gonna connect kind of confuse them about the let's go cue

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it's what we call a conditioned relaxer

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how we're teaching pk is you just give them a massage and you say easy while you do it

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enough times then when you say easy they go where's my massage

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Teaching the down, one repetition at a time

On what the handler calls PK's sixth day of obedience training, she says PK does not yet know 'down'. The first two times she was guided down with the prong collar; at the seventh she adds the word; by the eleventh it takes much less pressure; at about the sixteenth the handler says she is not touching her at all. The handler adds that the exact shape of the down (lying on her side instead of upright) is not a priority for a dog about to be adopted.

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PK still doesn't know what that command is.

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This is going to be the seventh time that we work on this.

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And I'm going to give it the name.

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that first and second time you know we got a pull down on on the prong collar and now I it was just

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hopefully by number 15 to 18 she will be off the cue of the pop

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pk down oh that was so much less pressure than one two and three

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i think it's probably like the 16th time that we've done down

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down i'm not touching down oh you're such a smart girl

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because PK is a rescue dog and she's going to be adopted fixing the down from the Fink's position to the side one it's not a big deal she has other things she needs to work on before she goes home

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Ducks, with the handler's hands in her pockets

The handler puts her hands in her pockets and tucks the retractable lead under her arm so PK is free to do what she wants, and uses only spoken cues near ducks. By her account PK was ready to lunge, took 'let's go' instead, and held off again from a duck in a bush.

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Got my hands in my pocket.

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The Flexi is under my armpit.

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So, PK is able to do whatever she wants.

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I'm going to use verbal commands.

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good girl she was ready she was ready to lunge at them but i gave her the let's go command

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I know you was about to go over there but you did good girl

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Heel through a crowd, then free to sniff

In a park with a lot of children, the handler keeps PK at heel on a retractable lead that is not locked, so staying close is PK's own choice, and says 'nope' when she drifts. She explains that heel near people is for the dog's safety and for people who are scared of dogs, and that on 'okay' PK may leave heel: they want dogs to walk ahead, sniff and enjoy the walk, not stay at the handler's side the whole time. In a second clip PK is praised for heeling next to another dog in a busy place.

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PK is currently on a heel. There are a lot of kids. Nope. Heel. Lots of distraction. Not locked.

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Put them on a heel for their safety and for, nope, heel. And for other people's safety in regards of being scared.

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Piquet knows when to say okay, Piquet can go out of the heel.

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We want them to enjoy the walk and not just stand right beside us the whole time.

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PK is not in a locked flexi. Come on, heel. So PK gets to make her own decisions.

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so much going on you did so good next to that dog

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Walking past a dog that pulled toward her

Probably in a store, PK sits on her own and is walked past another dog. The trainer tells viewers to notice that it was the other dog pulling toward PK. No correction of PK is heard; she is praised and called back.

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Did you just sit? Why'd you sit? Alright, we're going to walk you by.

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So, I want you guys to notice, if you're watching, that that dog was pulling to go towards PK.

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So, I want you guys to notice, if you're watching, that that dog was pulling to go towards PK.

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Showing people how to meet her

PK once had trouble with people. In a park the handler says an encounter like this would earlier have frightened her, and that she once would not even have been in that park. She tells people not to run up to a dog to hug and kiss it, but to let the dog sniff them first and pet only if the dog is comfortable. In another clip she coaches a stranger the same way: hand out to sniff, then slowly on the head.

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pk had human reactivity so that would freak her out

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she wouldn't even be out here in this park she was super scared but she's doing much better

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approach a dog because you're not just gonna run up to it and try to hug it and kiss it and

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and you gotta let the dog get to know you first.

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Sniff you, and if he or she is okay with it,

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just put your hand out so she can sniff you first and then you can now you can go slow on her head

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good girl pk you did so good

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Her first time on a long line

The handler says this is PK's first session on a long line (a long lead that gives the dog room while the handler keeps hold) and that they are going to run. PK gets the zoomies; she is called 'this way, come on' and praised.

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pk's first session with the long line

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so now we're gonna make a run for it

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she gets the zoomies this way pk this way come on

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A report on her sixth day

The handler says her recall is getting a lot better, that she still sometimes reacts to dogs, and that she has been told her corrections need to be firmer than she has been giving. In the same series she holds PK to a real sit with repeated 'nope' and tells her they are training, not on a happy walk. In another clip she gives PK's background as she understands it: foster families had judged her not adoptable, and she had been reactive to dogs and people.

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this is pk sixth day of training obedience

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she's getting a lot better with her recall um sometimes she still reacts to dogs but

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we're working on that gotta give her a firmer um uh punishment apparently i'm not doing it as firm

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that's not a sit pk hey we're training right now we're not having we're not doing a happy walk

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pk had some behavioral issues yes mama she was actually deemed not adoptable by her foster families

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how many but this is day six she did have some reactivity towards dogs and people she was mean but um but now she's a sweetheart

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A dated walk past geese

On a walk where geese came at them, the handler tells PK not to chase them, uses 'let's go', and afterwards says PK did not go after them. She gives the date: 'today is January 5th it is a Monday'. It is the only calendar date spoken in any PK recording.

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Even though they were threatening us, P.K. didn't attack them.

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today is January 5th it is a Monday

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cuz I know there be some ducks in there. I don't want them to catch you out of nowhere.

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Place: the behaviour first, the word after

On what the handler says is PK's fourth place session (place means going to and staying on a raised bed or cot), she says she has not been saying 'place' yet, only PK's name, and starts adding the word. In a separate indoor clip someone remarks that PK went to a place all on her own.

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pk that's pk's fourth time training for the place command she is really smart

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i haven't said place yet just giving her the pk pk place pk place

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She got a place all on her own.

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Door manners

Two people have PK show her door manners in both directions. She waits at the doorway as if checking whether she is allowed, then comes in when invited; after one attempt that went wrong they reset it and try again. In another clip the handler has her sit before she is allowed to get in (what she is getting into is not said).

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show the door thing again.

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Yeah, door manners.

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Are you sure I'm allowed?

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Yeah, she came right in.

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We just, we reset it.

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you know you have to sit before sit good girl

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How the method adapted

PK is a small rescue with a defensive history and one real problem, dogs. What stands out in her file is not a special technique but how the program handled a dog nobody owned yet, and then a family who had not been taught how to handle her. The adaptations below are in rough order.

Behaviour first, obedience second, and the obedience handler's first day spent on getting to know her.

The handler's own reason: nobody takes instructions from someone they don't like. The sequence (behaviour work for a week and a half, then obedience) is stated rather than filmed.

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behavioral issues he had but now we are starting to work with obedience and command

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would you want instructions from someone you don't like right that's toxic work scenario

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The penalty was saved for a real incident rather than set up.

The narrator frames the Tractor Supply correction as the conversation she had needed 'for a little bit now' and predicts one more at most. The incident itself is off camera and its nature is never stated.

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I wish I had had my camera a little earlier, because we just had the conversation that PK has needed to have with someone for a little bit now

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The e-collar came in because the verbal marker had nothing behind it for her.

'PK was not afraid of the nope.' The same logic returns in June for the 'uh-uh' that would stop her jumping, and in Kelton's lesson as marking every punishment so the word carries it.

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still gotta reinforce the nope the nope the negative command the you better come here

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so still trying to charge that nope um yeah pk was not afraid of the nope so we introduced the e-caller right pk

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they mark it okay so because then you transfer the power of the punishment that you use to your voice

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Training criteria set for a home that did not exist yet.

Duration is kept short on purpose because her future life is unknown; the adopter would be taught to extend it. The camera was used to find that home.

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obviously we're not gonna train her to go for an hour or two because we don't know what her life is going to be like in the future

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because we wanted to get her adopted right mama we wanted to get you adopted yes you got adopted

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In heel, fewer and bigger corrections, because she had learned to lean on small ones.

The coach's diagnosis is that five or six small pops had become what held her in position, and the aim is for her to avoid pressure, not rely on it. The second coach's parallel diagnosis is that she was following the leash, not the word.

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One big pop.

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there was a slight disconnect because she was used

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didn't pop it really like i started moving and she thought about jumping forward and she suppressed herself a little bit.

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Equipment and a lead length chosen for a low dog.

A four- or six-foot lead for heel because she is low; a 26-foot flexi for freedom; a small collar she cannot back out of; a backup slip lead near dogs.

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But with her, because she's low, I do like a four or six.

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i want to get my uh my small collar

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After adoption, the follow-ups had to rebuild the handover. The family had no remote, had discarded a prong collar they did not know how to fit, and had found out on their own that 'no' did nothing and 'nope' did.

Four weeks, the trainer says, cannot remove a habit, and the interim foster may not have kept up the corrections. The home visit carries its own printed sheet and a spare prong collar.

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so did you receive the prong collar and the e-collar that came with her

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I did notice like, no doesn't work with her.

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something different and higher pitch.

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The family's reward was built on what they said she valued (a ball, running), not on food.

She is not food-motivated by the adopter's account, and the program rarely uses food anyway. Staff later say she ignores the ball; the plan was never revisited on camera.

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And she's not food-motivated at all.

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And if she walks by a dog and does a good job, chuck the ball.

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what i'll do is i'll be walking and she does a good job i'll be like good girl good job mama and then we'll just run for a little bit

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What the family was told

Words: name first, verbal first, 'nope' not 'no'

Yep, so I suggest you give say her name first, and then you say the command

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and so then in her mind me moving backwards means come right so then that

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first like i always think of it like okay i should be able to do it hands and pockets

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something different and higher pitch.

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Commands are not optional

Yeah, the command should be non-negotiable and you should follow through.

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in a simple version if your dog's not listening um it's very likely that um pressure isn't isn't

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and they got money pay five dollars all day there's no problem right if it fine never changes

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Passing dogs: the choice, the pop, the reward, the reconciliation

her hair is like but then that's when you use the let's go and if she's choosing to lunge that's when you punish her the let's go is the choice uh-huh and when she chooses that that's the pop

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And if she walks by a dog and does a good job, chuck the ball.

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you know it worked by what the dog does

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you let her sit in that for a second if you don't want her to do it again

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Equipment: prong on for walks, e-collar levels by response

take daily walks with her on a prong collar and a retractable leash

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that's on i can't play like this is we're going on a walk so then there's a time and place for

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So eventually she can graduate to like a regular flat.

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never get stuck on numbers right so like the number does not matter

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more cautious to have it higher than it lower it's better if you accidentally go too high

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Home: crate, place, jumping, homework

go home means you

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it helps the dog to um regulate its its emotions and like practice

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lost my train of thought you said over the next couple of days yes yes um like um three times a day i would put the prong collar on her

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Maintenance and the camera

because she was only with us for four weeks it's not enough to completely

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i mean she had it good with me but you know sometimes if you don't continue to put it in practice for sure she'll um she'll revert

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But the most useful dog training tool by a country mile is a tripod and a phone.

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get the reactivity stuff with you under control

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In the family's own words

They arrive with the reactivity already named, and with a fear that limits her life: they would like to take her to the park and are afraid to.

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anytime we go for a walk she's really reactive with other dogs in neighborhood and even some of the other people in the neighborhood

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we'd love to be able to take her to the park but we'd be afraid to because with other dogs

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They had worked out the marker on their own before anyone taught it.

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I did notice like, no doesn't work with her.

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Nope does.

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They describe partial compliance honestly, and by March the problem has narrowed to walks.

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So we sit, but sometimes sit is, sometimes yes, she does it, sometimes no.

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it's the reactivity on the walks with with other dogs and there's there's sometimes she's fine and there's sometimes she's not fine

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They say it has helped.

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she's a great dog yeah we really love her she's beautiful and smart and and nice and sweet

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Outcomes

What the trainers reported

Adopted. The program's goal, and it happened.

The program trainer at the home visit

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Oh, PK found a home.

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because we wanted to get her adopted right mama we wanted to get you adopted yes you got adopted

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Reactivity to dogs and people much reduced by the end of the program: '100 better'.

The program trainer, to the adopters, about February 2026

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we worked on and she's gotten she got like 100 better because she was even not she was like very closed off to other people too and when we were when we put her in a kennel we would try to open the kennel she would growl at us show her show us her teeth and everything

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Trained off leash, and by the end walking past ducks she used to lunge at.

The program trainer at the home visit

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we trained her to be off leash

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at the beginning I think she would lunge at them towards the end obviously you know she knew not to do that

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Learned faster than Lucia, who was trained alongside her.

The program trainer (February) and a refresher trainer (June)

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she was like this she was on it I think she I think she was picking it up a

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I think PK was actually she learned a lot more and faster

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No reaction to two to four dogs in a full day's training with Kelton, and a friendly meeting with a young Malinois.

Kelton, at the March drop-off

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she didn't react to anything okay um i i couldn't get her deal we walked by like two three or four dogs

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old belgian malinois that we're training um and i actually i just let them meet and say hello and and stuff like that and she did fine

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Much calmer than at her first program; hackles but no action; no bark from the last three dogs.

The two refresher staff, June 2026

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Yeah, she's calmed down a lot from when I first trained her.

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yeah so i didn't see any like straight reactivity there

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Because we didn't get any, we didn't even get a bark out of her.

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The family are keeping her training up.

A refresher trainer (June) and a trainer in the Piglet session (August)

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I think they're keeping up with her really well, too.

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I think I trained PK to do that too, and they've been doing really good with PK, they've been maintaining her training really well

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A dramatic change on the prong collar the moment the adopter walks her on it.

A voice at the home visit; speaker not separable

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a whole 180

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What the footage shows

Whether any rep succeeded is established only by the speaker's commentary.

They establish that PK passed dogs in the park on day four and in June while staff narrated her as calm or controlled; the barking, lunging and the Tractor Supply incident are reported, never heard.

They establish that she was adopted by a family with children and was still with them in March and June, and that she returned for day training and was booked for an overnight stay.

They establish that the adopters did not receive her e-collar remote and did not know how to fit a prong collar at the home visit, and that by March the adopter had an e-collar of her own.

How it ended. Angier K9 trained her and helped her get adopted after her program, and still does refreshers for her sometimes.

The ideas Peque (PK)'s case runs on