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Titan

Who Titan is

As the trainers describe him

Physically, the strongest dog anyone mentions. The word 'bodybuilder' is used by three handlers in four recordings, and the stories are about force: a leash pulled out of a hand, a leash yanked out of a pocket, a trainer knocked over by his head, twenty minutes of pulling without tiring.

On film

He's very strong walking around for a second and He's already made me put some muscle and he barely is even trying so this should be fun

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like lean all muscle no fat um and when i first got out with him he pulled on me like so hard he

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like yanked the leash out of my hand because that's how strong he is and i like grabbed it

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learned I can't have leash like this because he just yanked a leash out my

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button i just turn it up how old is he i think he's actually only like 10 months okay he's just

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Strong is not the point; tough is. The trainer draws the distinction himself, and it is the reason the collar goes higher on Titan than on any other dog in the set.
On film

but he's not just strong he's tough so the thing with him is if he's really fixated on the radius

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he will not like give in unless it's on high he's just like tough as nails

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tolerance so like i've not had to crank any color up that high on any other dog and it's not kind

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A fixator. Named on his first recorded day, named again as the thing the trainer was not prepared for, and named after he left as what the program spent its time on.
On film

It seems that your boy is very easily distracted by other dogs especially.

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intellectually how to train a bully I was not ready for the amount of fixating

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and Titan was a fixate kinda guy.

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so we spent a lot of time making sure

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An avoider - and the lead trainer's summary of the whole program is that it was about avoidance, not commands. Titan knew the commands; the work was showing him he could not pretend otherwise or outlast the trainer. In another dog's handover he is the extreme example, and in Coco's session afterwards he is the model of 'double down' avoidance as against panic.

On film

blowing you off slash avoidance which that's not good that's a lot of what titan's program was

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hands and then for a minute showing him like hey i know you know it you're not gonna trick me to

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gonna be as bad as like a bully that I'm working with his name is Titan yeah he

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avoids like crazy like the past week is just just teaching him not to avoid me

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tell him down he'd like stay there you'd have to like hold like pull down on him

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Dramatic about the collar from the first day to the last - a leap, a yelp, a cry in public - and the lead trainer came to read it as deliberate. Two handlers independently call him a drama king or dramatic.
On film

Also, I've never seen a dog react to the e collar that way

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very reactive to the collar like he first time I worked with him he jumped

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that he was doing it on purpose you know he is yeah I tried to give you guys a

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and he'll like whine and when people walk around he'll he'll yelp and cry and try to make people

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walk by though and I would hit the e-collar he would go like twice as loud

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Friendly with people, by every account, and with no mischief in him. Nobody on film describes a bite, a growl or a threat toward a person; the one person-directed incident is a loud bark at a stranger coming into the house, reported by the owners.

On film

friendly we've had titan around like babies and everything yeah no issue he's a friendly dog if

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he doesn't like wake up with like mischief in his heart or anything he just i think titan wakes up

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their property and the loud the volume yeah that's how titan is um when we had someone

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Heat-limited. Almost every outdoor session is cut short by it, and two handlers give the same number: about fifteen minutes.
On film

So he tires out in the heat really, really quickly.

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not gonna lie he overheats easy his eyes are like already getting red so I don't

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i mean he's very sensitive to the heat yeah so like i get like 15 minutes out of him

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Age and breed on film

Age is spoken four times and is low every time except the last. The first lesson has him at about nine months, which the trainer later says came from the owner; Connor guesses nine months on 2026-08-31; the Stormie handover says about ten months; at the go-home the owner corrects the trainer: he will be a year next month. The intake's date of birth, 10/5/2025 (source: intake), makes him ten months at arrival and eleven at the handover, so the owner's last answer is the right one. Breed is 'bully' in every handler's mouth: 'a bully mix' (Stormie home session), 'a full-on like american bully' (Luna handover), 'the first bully I've ever trained' (Connor). The intake says unknown/pit mix (source: intake). Nobody on film claims to know.

The program, stage by stage

Intake, off camera

Form submitted 7/30/2026; pickup requested 8/3/2026.

An adolescent, intact, 45-50 lb bully-type dog from a sanctuary, living in a household that crates him when out and leaves him loose when home (source: intake). What the family wrote down was obedience with anxiety: pulling, jumping, barking, whining; attention-seeking; a dog who slips his collar and jumps fences; distress when left; car sickness. They wanted him to listen the first time, to stop pulling, to eat at his place, to be safe around a young child, to go off leash on outings, and to be trusted loose in the house - and they wrote that they did not want a drill sergeant. He had the basic words at low distraction and nothing else: no place, no heel, no markers, never an e-collar (source: intake). None of this is on camera, and nobody on camera refers to the form.

First week with Claudia: place, a tug test, and the door

About 2026-08-04 to 2026-08-10. watch (published 08-04), watch (08-05), watch (08-06), watch (08-08); watch and watch undated but early by content.

Two near-silent place holds, the kind rule 13 attributes to Claudia. A tug session that fails because barking dogs pull all his attention, which the handler calls diagnostic and turns into a plan: build play somewhere quiet first. The next day, by a colleague's report, he again would not tug; that handler tries balls, is hit in the face, judges him coping and moves him up to place-and-settle, then stops on an impressive rep rather than risk it. Door work begins - his excitement coming in through a door - in a room full of staff talk. A noisy room in which he takes sit and down for praise and is told he needs to get used to something before going out and about. The dog in this week is excited, strong, sweet and distractible, and already being asked to hold place.

On film

It seems that your boy is very easily distracted by other dogs especially.

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Okay. Now, here, because you're doing really good, I'm going to go next level with you. Okay? You're not struggling too much. I want to see if you can place and settle.

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Well, I think you've done great today. We're just going to do that for a bit because that last thing was, like, super duper impressive. And I don't want to put too much pressure on you to do more. And risk putting the work backwards, you know?

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We're going to work on his excitement when he comes in the door.

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Tighten place. Sit. Take a sit.

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Second week: new hands, a guided cue, and the first parkTurning point

About 2026-08-10 to 2026-08-13. watch (undated; 'he just got here last week'), watch (published 08-11), watch with watch (08-13).

A handler returning to training after a break starts him from zero with a guided cue, 'please' - lead him to the spot until he stops fighting and settles, then 'okay' with every bit of tension dropped - and finds he already knows sit and down. The lead trainer takes him to a park for the first time and gets the reaction that defines the collar for the rest of the program: a jump so big the handler says he has never seen one, the level turned down from 12 to 10, and freedom to explore used as the reward. He pulls hard enough to take the leash out of the trainer's hand (as told later), but by four minutes in there is less yanking. On 2026-08-13 the door comes back as the named problem - a colleague goes out and in so his impulse control can be worked - and the 'please' cue reappears, followed by a long place hold with a television on.

On film

I don't know, he just got here last week so I'm going to have to start from zero with him.

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So like, when you say okay, you release all tension and you guide them away.

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Turn that down clearly that was way too high for him Titan

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All right, so we're not getting so much of a yank now, that's really good, very nice.

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actually i could use your help for something real quick could you just like go out one of the doors and then come back in like really like we need to work on like his

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The middle weeks: cot work, and the first owner lesson

About 2026-08-14 to 2026-08-29, almost entirely undated. watch (group room, with Kodak, who arrived mid-August); watch (about 2026-08-18 to 08-22). Luna's 2026-08-28 session and the Short published 2026-08-29 are the only fixed points.

The least-filmed stretch. In a room of dogs on cots, his place, sit and down on the cot are praised as quick and vocal-only, and the named gap is the same behaviour off the cot, worked as holding a position until the next command with Kodak nearby. The first owner lesson is almost all theory for the owner - quadrants, the two markers, the order of command, marker, then collar, 'let's go' for fixation, prediction error, the first week at home - with one command shown, the implied stay, and a live 'let's go' in which Titan fixes on a dog, is reinforced twice, and chooses to back off. The trainer says the fixation is much better than when he started, and that the dog is not yet trustworthy at a distance. By 2026-08-28 the set trainer reports that Titan has started on the skills he will need off leash.

On film

Your command, vocal command only.

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Now, it's your off cut that we gotta work on.

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still working on it a little bit with him but it's a lot better than when i first started with him

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go good job there we go see so like right there he got a little fixated and i just like reinforced it twice and he kind of he backed off really quick too so and i like gave him a moment to make a choice and he chose

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Took all three of them out. And, uh, Titan Titan did really good. We were

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Late August: the down becomes the whole fightTurning point

In heat that gives about fifteen minutes, the trainer states the plan to camera before getting him out - implied stay with sit, leash yielding, a down - and finds him fighting the down harder than expected, which he reads as pushing after a good session. 'Let's go' is called done. At the second owner lesson, at home, the owner takes the leash and remote; he stops jumping on people during it, tests whether the house is a collar-free zone, and offers down for sit; the trainer's summary is that the commands come fast and impulse control is the real work. Then the 2026-08-31 walk: Connor working radius control on a flexi with Bun in view, turning the collar up because Titan fixates on Bun, and saying on camera that Titan is the first bully he has trained and he was not ready for the fixation. The down is forced under distraction with the collar above 20 - higher than he has gone in months - until Titan 'gave in finally'.

On film

my plan but he's fighting a little more on this it than I originally thought he

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Like that one pretty much is Let's Go is already done.

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he's not he stopped jumping on everybody I don't know if you notice that or not yeah

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so that was forcing him into it even though in the distraction which he really needed

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I haven't gotten this high on an e-collar in a long time. Like a long time. I haven't gone over 20 in probably

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He gave in finally, woo, yeah so we still got some work

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The last week: collar only, in public, and 'he avoids like crazy'

2026-09-01 (Home Depot 11:55, store 14:29), 2026-09-02 (park 11:31), 2026-09-04 (geese 13:52).

The leash is retired as a source of pressure: at Home Depot the flexi is 'a security thing' and the collar does everything; in the afternoon store session he relies only on the collar because leash pressure cannot exist off leash. He breaks a down in public and 'played me', cries louder when corrected near shoppers, and soils the floor, which the trainer says he does every time they come into the store. The late-program criterion is a choice: the trainer lets him decide whether to listen on a down and he decides to. At the park on 2026-09-02 he tests and complies, holds an implied stay while the trainer talks and waves, and jumps into the vehicle crate on his own. On 2026-09-04 he walks past geese without fixating, tries once to run off rather than down, and the trainer gives his summary of the program: avoidance, not commands. In another dog's handover the same evening he describes the last week as teaching Titan not to avoid him.

On film

we're gonna go over here he broke right as I was he played me

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I'm pretty much relying only on decolor pressure now, because if we're going to get a good

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down, let him decide if he was going to listen, he decided that he was, which is what I'm looking for, he's thinking about it,

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thing around my hands in the air whatever and he's cool he knows until I

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where he kind of tried to run away and was like i'm not gonna do what you say

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blowing you off slash avoidance which that's not good that's a lot of what titan's program was

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2026-09-05: go-homeTurning point

watch, titled 2026-09-05 17:24, at the family's home.

No new training - it was his go-home day and he is tired. Both owners put him in a down; the trainer recaps charging the markers, strong tone, rewards, the collar fit on his thick neck, and the window model of the implied stay, which he holds for an owner with one half-rise. On place, on a new cot, he turns his back and resists; the collar goes on high, 'like a hundred', and turns out to have been a little loose. The rules for the first weeks: rely about 95 percent on the collar rather than the leash; keep a leash on in the house for a week or two because a bully's instinct on feeling the collar is to avoid and run; no off-leash until he listens about 99 percent of the time on leash; 'let's go' when passing people and dogs. The owners report two weeks of crate soiling when left for work, the 'dramatics' he used on the owner, and the bark at a stranger. The trainer's verdict is personal rather than numerical: a happy dog with no mischief in him who, in his view, does not have a bite in him unless he truly reads danger. A transfer document is mentioned and not pursued.

On film

more you use that word and follow it up with the e-collar the more power it has

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he like elevated for a half second then went back i think he was like thinking about it yeah he was

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on high like a hundred yeah yeah he was mad about it he could feel it

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to build that authority because if they don't listen and like a bully the

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time if you can't make the dog listen like 99 of the time with you on leash yeah don't move

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Afterwards, in other dogs' sessions

2026-09-06 (Chunk), 2026-09-16 (Coco, Mazi).

He survives as a reference case: the fixator the trainer spent the program on 'by the time we went home'; the model of double-down avoidance, who had to be pulled into the down with the collar on; and a kick in the groin at the truck. The last is probably the incident heard on the Bun camera at the end of the 2026-08-31 walk, but that is not shown.

On film

he did not do that by the time we went home.

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hit the e-collar and you can finally do it

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I mean I got kicked in the groin by Titan when I brought him up to the truck.

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Skills

Down

At the startKnown at low distraction (source: intake), and done for a new handler in his second week.
By the endDone on the cue with an owner handling at go-home, and held in an implied stay; but fought to the end - forced under distraction on 2026-08-31, broken in public on 2026-09-01, run from on 2026-09-04. It is the command every late session is about, and the one the trainers used the highest collar levels to get.

How it was taught

It is a known command that he refuses when it costs him something - near another dog, in a store, in heat, on a cold floor - and the late-program method is to hold the pressure until he complies and not to give in. Form is sometimes let go ('I'm not gonna harass him about that'), sometimes demanded ('the right form'). The trainers' words for what he does are 'fight', 'testing', 'thinking about it' and 'played me'. In the Stormie session a trainer says Titan does not like down and will do it anyway.

On film

don't give in no don't do it come on don't do it down so i'm not gonna let i'm not gonna give

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but I'm working with the Titan like he does not like down I'll do it but he's

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hey down see so that's that's what i want to see from him okay good job buddy good job come here

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but I'm not gonna like harass him about that

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ain't you gotta do it come on no hey come on you gotta do the right form

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yeah titan's big thing is he just gets down

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'Let's go' past a fixation

At the startUsually reliable at low distraction (source: intake); on film, zoned in on barking dogs so completely that play fails (first week).
By the endCalled 'pretty much done' in late August; he no longer goes after geese or people with the trainer at go-home; still fixating on Bun on 2026-08-31 until the collar was turned up.

How it was taught

The cue and a walk away, with the collar reinforcing the cue rather than punishing the sight of the dog - so that, in the trainer's words, the dog learns 'I did not listen' rather than 'the other dog did that to me'. After the reinforcement, a moment for the dog to choose. Levels were raised incrementally on the walk where he fixated.

On film

Instead, what I do is I use let's go. So let's go conditions a dog.

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tight hey sit ain't say it ain't tight hey tighten let's go good job so he's too fixated right now so don't wait for that

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like incrementally turning up the collar because he fixates like crazy i can't get bro let's go

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job so he is interested in stuff but he's not fixating which that's the big

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he does but it looks like it and the reason i'm saying that is use the let's go when you walk

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Implied stay (no stay word; the command is a window)

At the start'Stay' usually reliable at low distraction (source: intake). The program does not use the word.
By the endHeld while the trainer talks and moves his hands (2026-09-02); held for about 15 seconds while an owner walked away, with one half-rise and a return (go-home).

How it was taught

Put him in a position and it holds until 'okay'. If he moves, put him back where he was, or the whole idea is void. Distance added slowly: at the first lesson the trainer would not yet leave him across the field; in late August, 15 seconds at a little distance; in the group room, a hold while the trainer walks to the board with Kodak nearby.

On film

the command and then you release them when you want yeah right now do i trust that i can put him over there and like walk all the way over here i don't think so he's still too distracted

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so I didn't back it up quick enough that was my hair sit and that time we did get it we're at 15 seconds this time

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It's a window so that you start the window by saying the command.

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and make him stay there for like maybe 15 seconds and if he gets up use that marker and then i'm

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Place (and the door)

At the start'Doesn't know at all' (source: intake).
By the endCot work 'phenomenal' and vocal-only by the middle weeks; long holds throughout; at go-home, on a new cot in a new setting, he turned his back and needed the collar on high.

How it was taught

Mostly by duration: place holds in the first weeks with a television on, place-and-settle tested once he was coping. The trainer says at go-home they did a lot of place work because he wanted to get up. The door, the family's own list item, appears only in the first two weeks as excitement at entry, worked with sit, leave it and a helper going out and in.

On film

Your cut work, phenomenal.

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Place. Leave it. Set.

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this walk thing i'm like you can't get up yeah yeah we did a ton of place work with him too

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so like he's specifically turned his back to you to me so what does that mean it means he's being

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Leash pressure, then no leash pressure: the radius and off-leash readiness

At the startPulling was the family's first priority (source: intake); on film, strong enough to take the leash out of a trainer's hand.
By the endOff leash with the trainer by the go-home account; with the owners, on leash until he is about 99 percent reliable. No off-leash footage with anyone.

How it was taught

First yielding to leash pressure, on a fixed length, from the first outing. Then a radius on a flexi, kept by the collar. Then, in the last week, the leash kept only for safety and every correction by collar, because leash pressure and off leash cannot coexist. The 40-foot long-line recall test the trainer planned for the last session is not on film.

On film

So I'm just gonna get him at least release pressure

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get tired so i had to like really work on him with that he's not doing it anymore but uh i'm saying

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That way his off leash is looking good, so I'm just kind of creating this radius

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So, I'm ready to be off-leash, just kind of with my test run on the Flexi first with the e-collar, and I'm really not putting any least pressure on, it's just more of a security thing at this point, I'm doing pretty much e-collar pressure for all of it now

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95% of the time on the e-collar and the reason that I'm saying that is if you

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Recall with a finishing sit

At the start'Come' usually reliable at low distraction (source: intake).
By the end'All right' with more focus wanted (late August); he deliberates and then sits (2026-09-02). The last-session recall work that was promised is not filmed.

How it was taught

From the first park outing: come, and the trainer does not move until he sits, to condition the sit at the end of every recall.

On film

all right titan sit so he's not basically i'm just not gonna i'm not going anywhere unless unless he goes for the sit

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His recall is all right.

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thinking about it see if he actually does it he might get up y'all all right that was good

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Heel

At the start'Doesn't know at all' (source: intake). Deliberately not taught on the first outing.
By the endWorked in two sessions in the last week: sit, not down, when he stops; match my speed. Promised for the last session with the owners; not on film.

How it was taught

Late, and briefly on camera. The collar's side is set to push him toward the handler's leg.

On film

Um, I'm not going to try to take it, teach him a heel on the first time he's been out to the park, just testing out the recall, leech pressure, and then like the sit command

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you got to sit up though for the heel because that's how the heel works buddy

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you gotta match my speed

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'Let's go' past a fixation

Update. The day-one statement of the goal behind this skill: the fixation named on arrival is on small animals on walks, and the aim stated is a recall that works through it.
On film

chase stuff and stuff like that so he's just here for standard obedience and off-leash with

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From the Shorts

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

Day one: why he is here

On his first day a trainer says Titan gets over-excited and fixes on small animals on walks. There are no behaviour problems to fix; the goals are off-leash training in public, better focus, and a recall that works even when he has locked on to something like a squirrel. The trainer calls his chase drive normal for a bully breed, not extreme.

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On film

There you go, over-excitement and like he'll fixate on small animals like on walks, things

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No, no like behavioral issues or behavioral modification or anything like that, just off-leash

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recall him if he sees like a squirrel or something like that being able to like

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recall him even if he's fixated on the little small animal just because he has

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like standard prey drive for like bully breeds not extreme but like he likes to

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The plan: tug to burn energy, and gentler play

The trainer says he likes tug, so they will build a couple of tug games to burn his energy. He also grabs arms with his mouth when he gets excited and wants to play rough; the trainer says that will be worked on and stresses there is no aggression in it.

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On film

hi handsome you're so handsome we're gonna build a couple tug games because he likes to play tug

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so we'll build a couple tug games to burn his energy stuff like that um and then make sure

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and he does like the mat of the arms so we'll work on that like if he gets really excited he'll

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work on that or like the habit issues but no aggression with it he just likes

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How the method adapted

Titan is not a fear case, a bite case or a dog who does not know his commands. His case is what the program does with a strong adolescent who knows exactly what is wanted and has decided to make it expensive. The adaptations below are the ones the trainers name for him.

The collar level was made dynamic, and a second number was added for him: a resting level to correct him, and a higher avoidance level for when he digs in.

Because one stable level, which most dogs have, did not exist for him - what worked in a room was not enough outdoors, and what worked calm was not enough fixated. The trainer holds the specifics back from the public videos for the owner at drop-off.

On film

dynamic because what the level is for him like in a room is way different for him than if

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like resting level to just correct him um his avoidance level for the e-collar is a little bit

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that like I don't really cover in the videos just because like the majority of people watching this

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The drama was read as strategy, not pain, and the level was not lowered for it after the first day. The one time it was, it was lowered on day one because the jump was genuinely outsized.

The trainer came to believe the early jumping was deliberate, and at go-home explains the crying near shoppers as an attempt to make the handler look bad. The same trainer, in another dog's handover, starts low and turns up only while holding the button - and says Titan is the rare dog who goes to high.

On film

like he kept jumping I was like and I kept turning it down and then I learned

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he tried to make me look bad in front of people

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listen he'll fight me like really hard and i will actually have to turn the e-collar all the way up

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to high for him to listen to me that's really rare but i'll i start low and i just hold the

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He is trained at peak arousal on purpose.

Because he can hold commands to about a seven out of ten and arrives home at a nine. A dog trained to listen at seven fails at eight, so the trainer keeps him 'crazy' with the collar on and names the last two points of excitement as what stands between him and off leash.

On film

That was I like to keep him crazy that way like when the e-collar is on they feel it at their max

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can maintain it up until maybe like, like a seven out of 10, but if we had like an eight,

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That's how he does anything ahead of a 10, right? So we're trying to get that last like 2 out of 10 really in there

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Reward was chosen from what he wanted, which turned out not to be the toy: freedom to explore, and being loved on.

Tug failed three times in ten days. The handler switched to release to freedom on the first outing because he 'really wants to just be exploring'; by go-home the owners are told he mostly wants to be loved on, and that a bully trained only on treats stops working when the treats run out.

On film

okay so i'm doing a release to freedom with him because he really wants to just be exploring doing all his things

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It's not like you know make his life miserable or anything

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treats what happens is yeah they'll look at you you run out of treats at the

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Sessions were cut to what the heat allowed, and the trainers broke his work into short blocks through the day.

Two trainers put his limit at about fifteen minutes in the sun; his eyes redden. The trainer says he does not work dogs to exhaustion, and the owners are given the same number for home.

On film

I might get a couple more minutes before he starts being like, all right, I'm tired.

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only get like 15 minutes out of them so i have to break up all the sessions throughout the day

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The leash was kept in the owners' house after go-home, the reverse of the program's direction everywhere else.

Because, in the trainer's reading of bullies, the instinct on feeling the collar is to avoid and run; a leash in the house for the first week or two stops a chase and builds authority while the owners' markers are being charged.

On film

so I tell people like don't be scared to use a leash in the house for like the

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immediate reaction is to avoid and run away when they feel the e-collar so if

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Personality was protected explicitly, which matches the family's own request.

The trainer says perfect impulse control in a week is possible but not humane because it takes the dog's personality away. The family had written that they wanted a better listener, not a drill sergeant (source: intake). Nobody on camera links the two.

On film

like perfect impulse control in a week but it's also like not humane i'm not like about yeah because you also have to like take away their personality to do it

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What the family was told

The chain: command, marker, then collar - never the collar alone

you have to really make sure that the chain of like how the e-collar is used is exactly like in order so you you tell dog you know dog is commanded to do a behavior doesn't listen you use one of your markers depending on what it is

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And then the e-collar, always after.

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But it should never be at the same time.

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a behavior you want to get rid of okay so you have to ask yourself why am I using this marker

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Charging the markers, and the first week home

you use any formal commands or markers the reason is you have like that first week you got to follow it up you know i mean it's like if a parent tells the kid like hey if you do this this is going to be the consequence

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more you use that word and follow it up with the e-collar the more power it has

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with the if it's like a strong like a strong tone but i would say for the first week or two

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No stay word; say the command once

Don't sit-sit repeatedly,

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you want to bring him right back to where he was.

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I kind of think that, like, the word is where you open the window and then the window closes with the release cue.

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Sit may drift into down; down may never become sit

my only rule is that if i say down he can't go into a sit okay

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Collar fit, side and handling

you have your fingers like this and if you can do this it's too much but if you can fit two fingers in

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have the e-collar on this side if you feel any kind of uncomfortable sensation your instinct is to back away from the direction that it came from

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to do this specific command, I need to see the hand go on the controller.

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by just like yelling at him or just pulling on a flat collar he's way too

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One language in the household

So cool. Okay. So the biggest one with that is just making sure that all of you guys speak

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Leash in the house, and off leash only at 99 percent

so I tell people like don't be scared to use a leash in the house for like the

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time if you can't make the dog listen like 99 of the time with you on leash yeah don't move

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so when you have 40 feet of leash you can just grab it he's like oh crap yeah

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Do not give in: to the noise, to the sad face, to being tired

and you know what's funny they make that noise because that's the noise they make when they're

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yeah so around uh sometimes around two dogs will actually become more uh independent and stubborn

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After a correction, warmth

don't need to get like this, like, completely mad at you. Like, actually, the way we do

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In the family's own words

The owner works in behaviour herself and says so; she takes the theory quickly and says it is about practice and timing.

On film

i take a lot of what you guys do within your training i do within my job

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They report the crate protest at home as anger at being left, and the owner's own handling of it: clean it, say nothing, put him back.

On film

that you want what i do i'm gonna clean your cage i'm not even gonna say nothing to you

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You're mad because I have to go off to work.

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They correct his age, and the partner says he will follow the owner's lead.

On film

i got you and you said he he's around like nine months ish right so no he'll be a year next month

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Outcomes

What the trainers reported

'Let's go' is pretty much done.

The lead trainer, late August

On film

Like that one pretty much is Let's Go is already done.

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Cot work is phenomenal and needs no guidance.

The trainer running the group room, middle weeks

On film

You don't need no guide to release nothing.

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He stopped jumping on everybody during the second lesson.

The lead trainer, at the owners' home

On film

he's not he stopped jumping on everybody I don't know if you notice that or not yeah

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He no longer pulls as he did at first.

The set trainer, in a Luna owner lesson

On film

get tired so i had to like really work on him with that he's not doing it anymore but uh i'm saying

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He will be ready to go home on time.

Connor, 2026-08-31

On film

very confident he'll be ready to go home on time he's just him i don't want to say that any other

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He no longer yelps at the tree corrections he yelped at early on.

The trainer at go-home

On film

But he, like, yelped a couple times.

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The fixation was worked out before he went home.

Chunk's trainer, 2026-09-06, retrospectively

On film

so we spent a lot of time making sure

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He is calmer than before the program.

The owner at the first lesson, and the trainer at the second

On film

i've wanted from him would chill he's a lot more chill like apart from like being in here he's

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What the footage shows

On the first lesson, a live fixation on a dog broken by 'let's go', two reinforcements and a moment to choose.

On film

go good job there we go see so like right there he got a little fixated and i just like reinforced it twice and he kind of he backed off really quick too so and i like gave him a moment to make a choice and he chose

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On 2026-08-31, a down forced under the pull of another dog - repeated cues, the collar above 20 - until he gave in.

On film

He gave in finally, woo, yeah so we still got some work

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In public on 2026-09-01, a broken down and a soiled floor; the collar doing the work on a slack flexi.

On film

Why do you poop every time we come in the store?

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At go-home, the implied stay held for an owner with one half-rise; place on a new cot resisted until the collar went on high.

On film

he like elevated for a half second then went back i think he was like thinking about it yeah he was

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on high like a hundred yeah yeah he was mad about it he could feel it

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How it ended. Titan went home.

The ideas Titan's case runs on