Who Piglet is
As the trainers describe her
The problem is prey drive, above all toward cats and small animals. Dog reactivity comes second. Christian's evaluation judged it extreme, and that judgement is why the case went to the head trainer.
On film
That is why the dog, uh, got assigned to me because I'm the head trainer.
stance she has yeah he said the prey drive is nuts
Some reactivity to dogs, I think, yeah.
There's a lot more prey drive. Yeah, she's been doing better.
She's got a little bit of prey drive.
Yeah, so smaller dogs, she wants to eat them sometimes.
Affectionate to the point of habit. She rolls over for belly rubs with anyone, strangers included. Belly rubs become her main reward and a problem to manage at the same time.
On film
And then that's all she wanted was belly rubs. Yeah, she kept doing that on the trail when people would walk by
she wants some belly rubs that's her favorite award nowadays
She's still been rolling over for everybody to get belly rubs.
Read as nervous by several people, in several ways: 'a nervous case' on day one, 'weirdly nervous' on the trail, 'nervy' in town, 'very sound sensitive', and looking as if she expects to be hit.
On film
I mean, I know she's a bit of a nervous case.
you get weirdly nervous for a dog that's got so much prey drive
She also just seems to be like a little nervy in this environment.
All the people. She's very sound sensitive.
why does she look like she's being abused
Sensitive to punishment and quick to keep its lesson, which the trainer calls the thing that makes his job easier.
On film
what i found is that she's pretty sensitive uh to being punished
Low stamina, especially in heat. She is tired after fourteen minutes at Dix Park, 'a lazy fart' and a 'house hippo', and the trainer builds shade, water and truck air conditioning into every outing.
On film
bully they get tired fast they do get tired fast you're being lazy pig pig
the first like week and a half. She's a lazy fart and she enjoys that.
yeah you gotta respect the heat with these doggies especially with bully breeds gotta give them plenty of rest
She will not play. She ignores a ball, and the trainer never gets 'hardcore play' from her, so running and belly rubs stand in for play as rewards and recovery.
On film
He does not care about the ball very much. At least not yet.
So if you're not able to get a dog to do hardcore play, which I haven't
A strong anticipator. She pre-offers down and tests whether she can avoid commands she already knows.
On film
little bit of an avoidance loop where i give her commands and she's like i'm just gonna lay down
skilled um anticipator right she anticipates and i don't want her working off of anticipation every time
The trainer's summary at handover: despite the cats, she was his easy dog.
On film
funny enough despite the cat thing um for this set uh pig was actually for the majority but she was my easy dog
As the family describes her
Before the program her life had shrunk: walks before dawn to avoid meeting anyone, and tethering in the house since the household started living with the cats.
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but we were walking her literally at like 4 35 in the morning to avoid having to run into anyone
Destructive when left alone, fixated on the cat, and muzzled and growling at the vet.
On film
She destroyed the frame around the front door. She chewed through an entire bedroom door. She chewed the remote in five minutes
The vet, it makes me put a muzzle on her,
Yeah, and she growls at the vet the entire time
She's a lover until she sees the cat.
Early in her time with the family, fear-driven enough that they did not trust her: she would turn and bite without warning when approached from behind. This is reported, and no filmed session shows it.
On film
so like fear-driven that I didn't trust her.
It's like she was just turn and bite.
The program, stage by stage
Before the program, off camera
Up to 2026-08-04. Nothing filmed.
A shelter rescue about eighteen months with the family (source: intake). In the owner's account she was removed from a previous home by animal control. She lived tethered, was walked before dawn, destroyed doors when left alone, chewed herself in a steel crate, was muzzled and growling at the vet, and was locked onto the household cats, who were shut away from her. The form asks for behaviour modification, first to stop her wanting to eat the cats and second to stop her growling at new people (source: intake). Christian's one-hour evaluation at the home, with a cat that 'came out right on cue', is known only from the owner's retelling: she reared on her back legs and did not take her eyes off the cat for about forty minutes.
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So animal control removed her,
get them and like it took like 40 minutes before she ever finally took her
get her not to eat my cat and not chew up my house and get her a little more confident and not, have to be walked in the darkness.
The first-week room: cot, basics, and a staff read
About 2026-08-04 to 2026-08-10. watch (published 2026-08-04), watch (2026-08-06), watch (2026-08-10); the two untranscribed 2026-08-12 uploads probably belong here.
Claudia's first-week rotation: place, sit, down and door manners in the room, Tuesday to Friday, with notes after every session. Her notes say Piglet learned quickly. The first recording is a cot session with staff noting dilated pupils and a 'nervous case'. The second is a sit/down check 'to see where we are'. By 2026-08-10 a new handler is guiding her onto place because she does not know it with him, and a senior staff member lays out the place ladder. With practice she stays on the cot with the handler out of the room for almost two minutes. A remark in Titan's session places her in the same room, not yet managing place-and-settle.
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And that's all anyone else has to do for their first time.
And she's actually, like the notes that I've seen for her up there, because she puts notes
every time she works with them, is that she learned really quickly.
look at her she's doing really good i left the room for like about like almost two minutes
Piglet didn't get it because Piglet's going to need a little bit more time.
Handed to the head trainer: first outings with Zuri-chan
About 2026-08-11 to 2026-08-18. watch (Dix Park, published 2026-08-18) and watch (Hillsborough Street, undated but referred to at the first lesson as recent). watch (a leash-yielding and recall outing) is unplaced and fits here only by content.
The trainer who will carry the case has 'only worked with her a couple times', because Claudia's week installed the basics. His part is proofing, heel, recall and client education. At Dix Park, alongside his own dog Zuri-chan, she tires in fourteen minutes in the heat. He uses her to teach a colleague the heel entry: taught apart from the heel in motion, then joined. He stops for the day because it was her first e-collar use that day and she was 'a little stressy-wessy'. On Hillsborough Street she downs and heels across crossings in a crowd. The handlers say both dogs stay closer in town because more is asked of them there. Here and on the leash-yielding outing, staff tell strangers she should not meet small dogs.
On film
doing now is one proofing all that stuff in different environments teaching
Because if you teach the heel entry and the heel in motion separately, then they'll know
It was the first time today that I used the e-collar.
I could tell she was a little stressy-wessy about it,
Yeah, they learn through context.
The first in-program lesson: the owner's story and the theoryTurning point
Probably 2026-08-18 (watch, undated).
The owner visits and tells her story: pre-dawn walks, tethering, destruction, the vet muzzle, three previous trainers, the medication. The trainer reports 'a condition of punishment', a few strong commands and more impulse control, and promises the vet situation will change. He explains why the program now has in-program lessons, then gives two frameworks: reinforcement and penalties, and the four windows. The warning attached to the second is aimed squarely at this dog: putting her on place whenever the cat comes out is a band-aid, not a calm liberty window. The argument for a clear, contingent, avoidable penalty is made on total welfare, because the alternatives for dogs like her are euthanasia or a life that keeps shrinking. The cat has not been tested yet; it is put off to lesson two. The owner sees the change already: relaxed on the walk instead of scanning.
On film
else, like, alright, so, like, she knows, like, she has a condition of punishment, right,
so the cat thing I haven't tested yet with the cat
they band-aid problems with the work window so they give commands and they use those commands as band-aids for problems
If it's easily avoidable, if they know exactly what to do to avoid it,
I have good news for you.
Yeah, we're gonna change all that for you.
Bass Lake: calm with dogs, and a new way to quitTurning point
Between the two lessons, about 2026-08-19 to 2026-08-24 (watch). The second lesson calls it 'the other day'.
An hour and a quarter on a public lake trail, chosen for dogs, people and waterfowl. By the trainer's reports: calm in a down while three dogs and two people came too close and sniffed her, 'zero reaction' to a small dog that 'in the past would have set her off like crazy', and a dachshund allowed to sniff her. On a slack flexi run out to 26 feet she immediately takes more space, and he concludes that even slight line tension had been keeping her close. He lays out his three phases of heel. Then something new: in the heel she flops and shuts down. He pressures her off it, reconciles with belly rubs or a run, and states the rule that there must be 'large swaths of time' with no pressure at all. Cats are planned 'later today'. No such session is identified.
On film
reaction was really good she stayed calm um and like i didn't have to use any kind of reinforced
reaction to that that smaller dog walking by which in the past would have set her off like crazy
extra freedom um and isn't staying close so it was definitely the tension on the line
command and then of course you saw afterwards and this is important we do it every time i try to do
in the prior videos that i've shot with her she wasn't doing that any uh at all she was not using
The second in-program lesson at home: the cat, the penalty, the walk-awayTurning point
About 2026-08-25 (watch, with the goodbye clip watch).
The turning point of the case. At the family home, with the old dog Gibbs and three cats, the trainer says he hopes she will go after a cat so it can be punished. Indoors she runs at Pumpkin and is penalised at a level he says is higher than usual, about 70, because this is the behaviour that would make her life small. He explains that after a penalty the dog is released to freedom and reconciled with. Out front she sees George, gets 'ramped', stops, makes eye contact and walks away. He names that as the whole goal: not cuddling cats, walking away from them. Back inside, she will not look at the cat. The second half is the e-collar handover: levels, tap every time for the first weeks, wear schedule, never show the remote. The family raise destruction when alone, which he says is management only, and the medication, which he says he will check. The family voice doubt whether a home without cats would suit her better. A goodbye clip at the door records the one-more-week and a door-manners exchange.
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all right we're doing her second in-program lesson
That's exactly what I wanted to happen because that's what I was expecting.
it's higher than you would typically use it because I want the penalty to be larger for that particular thing
oh i don't know where the kitty went that was good though because she got she got ramped but
Good girl! That's good! She walked away.
and so then instead of going after the cats maybe they don't cuddle with them
She does not want to look.
I probably would bring home her cause I feel like she would do better in a house
The last week: night heel, off leash, and the avoidance question
About 2026-08-26 to 2026-09-01. watch (title 2026-08-28 21:58; re-upload watch), watch, watch. The medication was being withdrawn over this same week by the go-home account.
In downtown Fuquay at night the work is the heel. He diagnoses her sad heel entry as possibly his own fault: his settled gaze has come to predict a request. He closes on 'she suppressed a lot more than I thought'. Off camera, getting out of the truck at the trainer's property with the collar already off, she tries to bite the outdoor cat Phil on the belly and is 'popped' on the snout. At Hilltop Needmore Park she goes fully off leash in public for the first time. She holds a down while he walks about 100 feet away, lets a small dog pass without reacting, checks in inside an 'invisible bubble', and is penalised once for not recalling from a shady spot. He diagnoses immobility as her way to stay out of trouble. On the long-line trail walk that becomes the bully 'avoidance loop'. His plan is to penalise only a blown-off command and otherwise give freedom, to treat recall as non-negotiable, and to alternate sit and down unpredictably so that she listens to the word rather than anticipating it.
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anticipation like that is just always based on prediction so the only way to get rid of
she almost got him actually she tried to chomp him so she tried to bite him like right on his belly
this is the the first video that's going to be uploaded where she's actually truly completely
maybe at least 100 feet i think
But for the recall, it is potentially a life or death issue for a dog, especially if you have any kind of off-leash experiences with her
like a suppression loop so i don't want that so i'm trying to break her out of that by doing a sickness match for her anticipation so she's getting a prediction error there
Go-home day: chickens, Willow, and the handover
About 2026-09-01. watch, watch, watch.
In the morning she is walked past chickens on the e-collar and ignores them 'for now'. The trainer says outright that he wants her to try something so he can penalise it; she does not. Then Willow, a cat who lives with dogs on the trainers' property, approaches her nose to nose on a slack line. She walks away, will not look, and lets the cat sniff her. He says the interest is still there and the choice has changed. At home that afternoon the family watch the Willow video but decline a live cat test, wanting to bathe and pamper her. The trainer finds that her medication was weaned over the past week, and he hands over with two instructions: reach out fast, and be harsher than you want about penalising cat behaviour.
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She's safely ignoring for now.
I'd like her to do something so I have a chance to penalize her for it like I did
although she's still very interested she doesn't want to snuggle with willow
she wants to eat willow but she's making better choices
Pig's like, I'm walking away from you.
you no we're ready just to pamper her and welcome her
you're good i hope so yeah and especially with the cats the main thing will be to be consistent
Skills
Cat and small-prey neutrality: walk away, not cuddle
How it was taught
Set up the choice with the cat present on a leash or flexi, then a slack line. Allow looking and excitement. Penalise the clear precursor (running at the cat) decisively and at a high level. Release to freedom and reconcile afterwards. Accept walking away as a complete answer. Chickens stand in for cats because they are easier to arrange.
On film
Because Big has attacked cats in the past, and so we want to see how it goes, and we're going to have another chance of penalizing, or if she's going to make good decisions.
pumpkin in the house while she started to be like i'm ready to go she ran at the cat
Good girl! That's good! She walked away.
is i'm going to do it with chickens because the chickens are like a good
She can see she still has predatory interest,
So you can see here, Willow is sniffing her actively, and Piglet's avoiding completely, and is kind of ignoring it.
Neutrality toward passing dogs, especially small ones
How it was taught
Walk dense public places. Down or keep moving as dogs pass. Be ready to punish a lunge. Praise the choice ('good choices'). Show the whole scene on camera so the owners can see the variables.
On film
And that she doesn't do well with other dogs.
Good job, Piglet, good choices.
pig had no reaction to it at all so that was beautiful good girl hello yeah she had zero
functionality for the owners and for me I'm gonna take that as a big win she didn't go after the dog
make sure to show pig pig doing a great job ignoring that uh doggie um but especially a small doggie that looks like prey
Place (cot), and staying without the cot
How it was taught
Guide her on for the feel of it, then climb a ladder: handler sits, walks around, throws a toy, moves faster, opens a door, leaves through the blue door and watches through its hole, goes straight back in on the first sign of her getting up, and adds time only once she stays. The stated end state is sent by word or point, holding while you eat lunch.
On film
So right now I'm just guiding Piglet because I don't think she knows it so I'm just going from the teacher, the feeling of it.
a few times until you can leave out that door and they don't get up and then I
And then you can leave the room and go eat your lunch.
Okay, I wasn't super optimistic about you being able to go through the door with a non-place stay function, so you did really good.
Down: position, duration, distance
How it was taught
Cue, leash pressure released the instant she complies (demonstrated for the owner), then distance and duration as 'two of the three Ds'. At crossings: down, wait, release, countdown, heel.
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Down. Piglet. Alright you know what whatever. You look goofy so I'll let it go.
she's doing it right on cue right away every time very smooth
All right, so here I'm just testing the distance duration part of her down here. Two of the three Ds.
4, 3, 2, 1
Sit versus down: listening to the word, not anticipating
How it was taught
Ask the one she is not expecting. 'Nope' or 'eh-eh' for the wrong one. Reset and give her a moment to process. Stated as a prediction error that also helps break the avoidance loop.
On film
I don't care if you're down, honestly.
good girl you see there she does know the command is fine right it's all verbal only i don't have to do anything to get her to do it
So you see there, I'm just kind of resetting and then allowing her a moment to process, right?
Heel: entry and motion, then off leash
How it was taught
Teach the entry and the motion separately, then join them. Guide with the leash and step back so she comes forward into position. Three phases: show the position, make holding it her responsibility, then try to shake her. 'Eh-eh' markers. Reward the moment she comes off leash pressure. The e-collar receiver sits on the left of the neck so that a stim pushes her toward the handler.
On film
I'm still in the beginning stages of teaching my heel so
And if you move, then the position moves, and it's their responsibility to fix that, right?
um only because if you want to ask her to heal then if it's on the left side of her neck if she feels that it will push her towards you
the heel in motion and then i really need to work on the um the heel entry i've worked on it several times before but um she's been having a somewhat hard time with it
But she's still having a little bit of trouble with the full 180 turns going to the right.
Recall, and off-leash freedom
How it was taught
Flexi, then a ten-foot drag line, then no line, then a 50-foot line with the end in hand. Freedom without micromanaging. Penalise only a blown-off recall and re-proof it with negative reinforcement. Belly rubs on arrival.
On film
that. It's no bueno. Recall is super important.
invisible bubble around me even off leash where she doesn't go but so far so she's not taking off and going far
call right away there because she she finally found a shady spot she wanted to stay in but she still need to recall
she recalled a little bit better there that time. She's still doing the avoidance waddle,
and i did get to take her off leash um at a couple
Doorways
How it was taught
A sit or down a couple of feet back at every door, including the crate door, then a release.
On film
i always tell her to wait because she's so strong
You've never done that before there you go. She's literally that's the first time she's done that good girl piggy
How the method adapted
Almost everything filmed after the first week is one trainer adjusting to one dog: the most severe presenting problem he has (cats), a low-stamina bully who will not play, and a dog whose compliance keeps sliding into lying down. The adaptations below are the ones he names aloud.
The penalty was scaled to the stakes, not to the dog's sensitivity. About 70 on the cat, and 70-80 as the family's setting around cats, against 15-20 for basic commands. 'One severe punishment' was preferred to many weak ones.
Because the cat behaviour is the one that would make her life small, and because the owner's own home is the test. He said this in front of the owner as he did it.
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can't live with that that's true it will make her life really small right and so
At home when we're around the cats, 70 to 80.
punish them very severely it wasn't a big enough deal though that's all it is um because like i would rather one severe punishment
The line was slackened so that avoidance would be hers. The flexi was run out to 26 feet on the trail, 'using up the line' with Willow, and the leash loosened after the first nose-to-nose.
Because even slight tension had been keeping her close, and a walk-away produced by the leash proves nothing.
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bit more space so i think that maybe what's happening with her and what happens with a lot of dogs is they feel that little bit of like tension and it keeps them closer to you
we're using up the line so there's not pressure on the line
And so I actually loosen the leash after this.
Rewards and recovery were built from what she does want: belly rubs and a short run. Play was not used, because she will not play.
Every pressure has to end in reconciliation, and for her the currency is touch. The run is his stated substitute for the play she will not do.
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reconciliation some other kind of freedom and in this case right now what pig is choosing is
So a lot of times if they have, if they get a little uncomfortable because they've had some pressure doing a little run, running afterwards is a great recovery option for them.
On the first day with the e-collar outdoors he stopped instead of finishing the plan.
She was 'a little stressy-wessy' about a new tool while learning a new skill.
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So I don't want to pile in any more commands on.
When her heel entry looked sad, he looked at himself first. His gaze may have become a predictor of work, so he would look at her without asking for anything.
His criterion for the command is her general disposition, a happy dog, not bare compliance.
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I want her actually to be comfortable and happy when she hears that command.
every time right so maybe maybe i made that predicted too often that like when i when i
Then, days later, the same slowness was treated as avoidance. Pressure applied only when she blows off a known command, recall made non-negotiable, and everything else left as freedom.
His stated bully-breed pattern: learn a command, then test whether it can be avoided. It is judged by total outcome, not by momentary affect.
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for us to work through that and my plan is to do that in two ways one is to not let her do it right and then so like i'm going to penalize it if she does that um not randomly but only if she avoids commands
Because very often you get a cycle with dogs like Pig
this in a graphic, right? That is interpolated in the video, right? And that's that my concern is total outcome, not how they feel at that specific moment, any given moment, right?
The one penalty he did not choose was a hand on her snout, with the collar already off. He called it not his go-to method.
It was the only chance he had at a real bite attempt, and he would not let it pass unpunished.
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that's not my go-to method,
and then now we can see like the result is the next cat she met she left it alone she avoided
Heat budget. Shade routes, gum checks, the truck air conditioning between legs, walks cut short.
Stated for bully breeds generally and seen in her specifically.
On film
yeah you gotta respect the heat with these doggies especially with bully breeds gotta give them plenty of rest
What the family was told
Why in-program lessons, and what each is for
thing because like a long time ago we used to just do the one go-home lesson to
people have trouble after the dog goes home not because the dog didn't learn
Reinforcement, pressure and penalties
Yeah, but as simple as that, right? So the pressure all must go away immediately.
And you only know how much is enough by the reaction of the dog, right?
unclear, that's the biggest faux pas, right. Is if you make it unclear, if they don't know why it
The four windows, and not band-aiding the cat with place
two things that I see most people are missing and what you're missing is calm
they band-aid problems with the work window so they give commands and they use those commands as band-aids for problems
Choice points, and why the dog must have the chance to be wrong
better choice right but if i immediately manage and prevent her from even having the opportunity
because uh kind of like what we were talking about um a little bit ago is that in order for them to learn they have to have the opportunity to make the choice
Total welfare: why a penalty, and why a yelp can be acceptable
Yeah, there are some circumstances where I'm totally fine if a dog yelps, to be very frank with you.
That's one thing the second thing is a less like horrible outcome than euthanasia
minor discomfort choose the minor discomfort right um so you always choose the least aversive option
Medication versus training (the trainer's view)
don't try to train them first using all of the avenues you have available why medicate them yes
shrug the dog so they don't act like a dog i don't want that it just it just suppresses them
The cat goal and the cat rules
That's not the goal, but that's not the ball right, but I can make them not choose to go after the cat
she made a good choice so why would i right i don't there's nothing wrong with looking at the
The first thing that needs to happen is they need to be free again. You got to release them back to freedom
We want you to keep that at home, and so you're going to have to maintain it and punish it if the opportunity avails itself if she does go after cats again.
about you know being for sure harsher than you want to about penalizing that
Operating the e-collar
However, for the first week or two, at least, that she's home, in that kind of scenario, I would want you to, every time, you say, eh-eh, tap the e-collar.
It generalizes to you.
The second reason is so that you end up with muscle memory.
first while um i would have her wear it around the house during the day um for like the first
20, yeah.
general underlying principle for the level that you use with the e-collar is the dog will tell you, right?
put it on and then i did the thing again and you put it on every day for a while yeah just leave
Destruction when alone: management only
alone, no supervision, is not a lot to do about that, unfortunately, yeah, because that's going to be pure management, there's not a lot of training that can happen there, other than doing something that I wouldn't do for you, because I think it's unethical,
Recall is non-negotiable; push through slight avoidance elsewhere (via video)
But for the recall, it is potentially a life or death issue for a dog, especially if you have any kind of off-leash experiences with her
Follow through, and reach out fast
thing will be like for you to be successful with this um will be you being willing to do the things
Yeah, because it needs to generalize, right?
the faster we're going to help you the easier everything is for everybody
In the family's own words
What they want is coexistence, not friendship.
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i need everybody just to coexist you don't have to love everybody they just coexist you know
They say they let things slide at home, so she blows them off: the owner's own diagnosis of the handler side.
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don't do what what i'm the issue we didn't do what i'm telling you to do quite fully is the problem we let stuff go too much and so she ends up blowing us off sometimes
At the second lesson they wonder aloud whether she would be better off in a home without cats. The trainer answers that it can be done if they maintain it.
On film
I probably would bring home her cause I feel like she would do better in a house
because i know her biggest trigger is cats right yeah i definitely think you can do it
They report a second walk-away from their own cat, and they want to see her do it without the trainer there. He agrees that it has to generalise.
On film
And the second time I brought Pumpkin out here,
I want to see her interact with the cat without the funny hand.
At go-home they hold him to the medication question, and they decline a live cat test.
On film
You said you were going to check with that technician last time.
cleaned up yeah you gotta be home do you want to test anything out with the cats here today or are
Outcomes
What the trainers reported
A 'condition of punishment', a few strong commands, more impulse control. Halfway, before the cat was tested.
The head trainer to the owner, first lesson
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which I'll explain what that is, and she has a few commands that she's doing really, really
No reaction to a small dog that would once have set her off; calm while three dogs sniffed her.
The trainer to camera and to his editors, Bass Lake
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which was really, really beautiful
because she struggled with reactivity in the past,
'On our way to getting her fully livable, fully manageable', with a good communication system.
The trainer, Hilltop Needmore Park
The cat outcome: the next cat she met after the penalty, she left alone.
The trainer to the family at go-home
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and then now we can see like the result is the next cat she met she left it alone she avoided
This is the trainer's own limit on his claim, made the same morning.
The trainer, chicken test
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She can see she still has predatory interest,
but she's making better decisions while i'm around
Pretty happy with what she learned, and she did well off leash in a couple of parks.
The trainer at go-home
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of parts and she did well okay yeah so overall i mean i'm pretty happy with what she learned
A changed demeanour on walks: relaxed rather than scanning.
The owner, first lesson
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I mean her temperament just out and about is good she's not like dragging like before
What the footage shows
A penalised run at a cat in her own home, followed within minutes by a walk-away from the outdoor cat she 'hates', with no penalty needed. Both are narrated as they happen, with the family in the room.
On film
Don't do that.
made eye contact.
Good girl! That's good! She walked away.
Willow sniffs her and she avoids the cat on a slack line. The cat's relaxation is read as the measure.
On film
Yeah, Willow's chilling, not viewing Piglet as a threat at all, and that's what we want to see is Piglet's not even really threatening to the cat anymore.
Fully off leash in a public park with a down held at distance and check-ins. It is also the session where she has to be penalised for not recalling.
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nice thing is here she slowed up right she's waiting for me she checked in and she's waiting which is exactly what I want to see
almost there come on good girl so i can definitely understand why she didn't really want to recall
The shutdowns are shown as well as the successes: flopping in the heel, dragging, the 'avoidance waddle'.
On film
a chance to use it for any of the commands, very rarely. Except for like, she started
she recalled a little bit better there that time. She's still doing the avoidance waddle,
The ideas Piglet's case runs on
- Build the handler's timing while it is easy
- Close the other door: the escape hatch
- Contingent, avoidable, and the right size
- Control is not obedience
- False reps: the dog reads the chain, not the word
- Heel entry versus heel in motion
- Hidden help
- Prediction error
- Pressure, release, reward
- Proof place against what really happens at home
- The four windows, and calm liberty
- The stakes set the severity
- The standard is set by the job