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Angier K9’s recorded lessons generally teach a position to continue until its release cue, rather than adding a separate stay cue.
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Answer
In the system described in these lessons, a separate stay cue is generally not used. The trainer explains in Bo’s handover that the position continues until the release signal (Rse9I-CW35g, 28:01–28:45). This is a description of the cue system being taught, not a claim that a dog trained with a separate stay cue cannot learn reliably.
The distinction makes the ending important. In another owner lesson, the trainer compares the request with a window that closes on release (nAUPrDuZN6I, 11:08–11:41). Watch which word begins the request, what feedback occurs while the position continues, and what ends it. Praise during the task and permission to leave may mean different things in that dog’s training.
The broader concept record includes examples of building duration and discussing early movement out of position. Those passages belong to particular stages of learning. A filmed explanation of how a trainer responds is not enough to establish what assistance, distance or duration is appropriate for every reader’s dog.
For an owner, the useful question is consistency: do all household handlers understand the cue and release being taught? A clear lesson should show the complete sequence and give you a chance to practise it with feedback. The archive documents this program’s approach; it does not provide a controlled comparison proving it superior to every other cue system.
Owner takeaway
Ask which cue starts the task, what feedback can be given during it, and which word ends it for your dog. Practise the sequence as taught in your lesson and ask what to do if the dog leaves early. When watching examples, do not assume a praise word and a release word have the same job.
Across the cases
bo
Bo’s handover states that the program does not use a separate stay cue (Rse9I-CW35g, 28:01), then explains a response to movement before release (28:45). A trail-session explanation also describes sit continuing until okay (xRUUJeou5Y0, 10:33). Together they show the convention being explained in two settings. They do not measure the effect of repeated cues or establish how Bo performs throughout the full collection.
You don't have to say stay ever. I don't know if you noticed that, but we don't use stay.
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right and if he gets up before the release word it's important that you do that you tell him n-o-p-e tell him to like go and then if he goes back into it great okay good boy
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Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
Roxy
Roxy’s lesson explicitly extends the convention to moving heel (z5Wm7r2lSCI, 30:18). The trainer uses a dinner-party example to explain why repeated reminders can be inconvenient (30:33) and discusses duration in place (31:51). The useful teaching point is the defined end of the task. The illustrative story is not a measured comparison of dogs taught with different cue systems.
Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
Luna
Luna’s lessons draw attention to the release signal. One trainer states the no-separate-stay convention (trspGmYuPAw, 19:55) and reports her moving after good girl (43:30). Another passage explains the aim of distinguishing the release word from the handler’s excited movement (ZkhsyS5Hf9A, 08:15). These observations make cue consistency worth reviewing; they do not establish a single cause of an early departure or a distraction exercise appropriate for every dog.
Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
so basically what I'm doing here is I'm making sure that she knows that like it it is that word it's not emotions you can't get hype and you're like time to go because that's sometimes what happens right is the dog will come in and then they see you like run they're like oh cool this is like my cue i'm gonna go run with my person
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Zeus
Two cited Zeus lessons describe okay as the release word: zG4zTGj9z8g (5:11) and KSAgYFERu-E (10:03). Both explain that a separate stay cue is not used. This documents consistency in the spoken convention; the excerpts alone do not verify handler independence, duration or reliability in other settings. This case remains separate from the owner-confirmed March 2026 Zeus.
so come and then his release word is okay. So anything that he's doing, you never have to say stay. for you to keep him close to you or ask him to do anything else, instead you just don't say the release word. And then as soon as you say the release word, which is okay, then he knows, okay, that's his cue that he can go back to doing what he wants to do, he can go back to freedom
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we don't use stay it's implied so if I sit down I don't have to say stay I just sit down and then he stays in the down until he hears the word okay and if he hears okay then he knows okay I can get up right and then I'm free
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Zeus — March record
This is the separate, owner-confirmed Cane Corso case filed as zeus-march-2026. At the opening of the owner lesson, the trainer says the program uses an implied stay and a command to release the dog (num40v7anxo, 00:26). The passage supplies another explanation of the convention without merging this dog’s evidence with the other Zeus.
Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
Dolce
Dolce’s public exercise includes a short implied-stay sequence with break as the release word (_JOxnYAn3-s, 02:33). The owner lesson describes the desired automatic stay until okay (PuJEmBXARms, 13:14). Keep that stated goal distinct from a measured outcome. The difference in vocabulary is worth clarifying with the trainer; it does not by itself show a mistake, a completed progression or permission to approach people in any setting.
starting a little implied stay, uh-uh, increase that impulse control first, uh-uh, so a couple steps, good, break, break, good
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okay good until we release her right so then once we release her then she can do whatever she wants to do it doesn't matter
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Louie
The park-session narration describes Louie holding a requested position without a treat being shown (4X3HDmXy-B0, 01:26), names the implied stay (01:40), and frames release as an opportunity to explore (01:49). This is a compact source sequence for studying cue, position and release. Assess the assistance and duration from the complete footage rather than assuming the narration establishes performance throughout the session.
there he wanted to kind of get up and check something out, but I told him to sit, so we're doing an implied stay.
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They've gotten away from having to show a treat or anything like that for the the command. He's willing to stay in those positions.
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Okay. Good boy. And then a nice release to being able to explore again.
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Dutchess
The trainer identifies implied stay as a remaining focus in this session (lUcKg-GNhII, 01:20), describes a rule at 02:49, and states an intended response to another departure at 02:53. A stated intention is not evidence that the action or an improvement subsequently occurred. The transcript says implied state and uses negative reinforcement; preserve those source words while examining the actual sequence before classifying the procedure.
only thing is her implied state, which I think I'm just going to have to use negative reinforcement to bring that out.
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That's the rules with her. It's just the rule.
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She She gets up again, I'm going to like immediately hit her with it.
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Source excerpts
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You don't have to say stay ever. I don't know if you noticed that, but we don't use stay.
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It's an implied stay. So he knows that he's supposed to keep doing whatever it is you asked him to do until you give him the release word.
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So it eliminates a very annoying problem, which is having to say stay a thousand times because people say, stay, stay, stay, stay, stay. And it's very confusing to the dog actually most of the time because they hear stay a hundred times and they're like, so how many times do they have to say stay for me to know that I have to keep staying right um so we just eliminate that
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Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
so come and then his release word is okay. So anything that he's doing, you never have to say stay. for you to keep him close to you or ask him to do anything else, instead you just don't say the release word. And then as soon as you say the release word, which is okay, then he knows, okay, that's his cue that he can go back to doing what he wants to do, he can go back to freedom
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we don't use stay it's implied so if I sit down I don't have to say stay I just sit down and then he stays in the down until he hears the word okay and if he hears okay then he knows okay I can get up right and then I'm free
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starting a little implied stay, uh-uh, increase that impulse control first, uh-uh, so a couple steps, good, break, break, good
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there he wanted to kind of get up and check something out, but I told him to sit, so we're doing an implied stay.
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So, what we have is the implied stay. So, Luna knows that she's not supposed to get up until I release her.
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you said the word release. That's not the release word, though. That's why.
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only thing is her implied state, which I think I'm just going to have to use negative reinforcement to bring that out.
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How the trainers explain it
The recorded lessons describe a cue convention: the request begins a task and the release ends it. Roxy’s lesson uses a window comparison (z5Wm7r2lSCI, 30:50) and explicitly includes moving heel (30:18–31:15). Bo’s handover presents this as a way to avoid repeated stay cues (Rse9I-CW35g, 28:01–28:10). These are explanations of the program’s teaching system.
The trainers also offer reasons they believe repetition can be confusing, including the claim that repeated cues make a position seem temporary (z5Wm7r2lSCI, 31:35). The cited passages do not contain a controlled comparison of cue systems or isolate repetition as the cause of a dog leaving position. Consistent explanations across lessons document a shared convention; they do not by themselves measure learning or transfer.
For source review, separate the spoken rule from the sequence visible in the demonstration: starting cue, behavior, assistance or feedback, duration and release. Assessing whether a dog reliably follows that sequence requires reviewing the complete relevant footage, not just the explanation.
Differences to review
Different descriptions of responding to movement before release
First perspective
Bo’s handover describes a verbal response and return to position. Dolce’s owner lesson explains a correction marker; Dutchess’s trainer states a planned response to another departure. Each belongs to its own lesson.
right and if he gets up before the release word it's important that you do that you tell him n-o-p-e tell him to like go and then if he goes back into it great okay good boy
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She She gets up again, I'm going to like immediately hit her with it.
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what we're doing is basically we've already assigned like the uh as her correction right so that's her correction cue uh marker and then okay is her release marker so if she if we say it's okay she can if not if she like goes to move before that she get that and then she's she's supposed to settle back to the position right
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Second perspective
Luna’s trainer describes moving her out and back in this situation. Dolce’s public-session narrator describes assistance with leash pressure. These are descriptions of the help proposed or used in those contexts.
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so she's learning, you know, there's a lot of detractors going on, so having to assist her a little bit and add just a little weak pressure up to correct and kind of put her back into sit, and we just want her to succeed and stay in there
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How to read this comparison
The excerpts do not establish a universal nervous-versus-testing rule or explain every difference in handling. Compare the dog’s learning history, task and complete sequence before treating the examples as conflicting protocols or choosing an approach for another dog.
Advice about repetition alongside a reported recall sequence
First perspective
The owner lessons discourage repeated heel cues and recommend an audible first cue with time to respond. This is coaching about cue delivery, not proof that any repetition destroys learning.
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the easiest way to avoid needing to repeat the command is to say it loud the first, like say it loud enough, right? And that's going to depend on how far they are from you and how distracted they are. Say it loud enough the first time. Uh, you don't have to shout at your dogs. Um, uh, and then to allow time for them to process and do the thing, right?
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Second perspective
In a later passage, the trainer recounts using come more than once and describes the dog approaching without stopping in the intended area. This is a reported sequence; the quotation alone does not show the complete repetition or a successful finished recall.
she went, like, all the way over there, and I wasn't done, like, commanding her, and I said, eh, come, and she, like, looked back i was like come and she slowly came up and then she like she didn't stop by my area which you know the whole point of coming is like you come and you stay in my circle
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How to read this comparison
The passages concern different tasks and contexts. Review the original footage and the related should-i-repeat-the-command concept before concluding there is a contradiction. Preserve the distinction between general lesson advice and a trainer’s account of one attempt.
Questions and answers
So how do I tell my dog to stay?
In the cue system demonstrated here, the original position cue includes remaining there until release. Zeus’s lesson explains an implied stay in a down, ending with the release word (KSAgYFERu-E, 10:03). Luna’s trainer summarizes the same convention (trspGmYuPAw, 19:55). You therefore do not add a repeated stay cue for that job in this program. Learning the duration and release is still part of the training; silence alone does not teach a dog a behavior it has not learned.
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we don't use stay it's implied so if I sit down I don't have to say stay I just sit down and then he stays in the down until he hears the word okay and if he hears okay then he knows okay I can get up right and then I'm free
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What do I do if he gets up before I release him?
Bo’s handover describes a marker and return to position within that lesson (Rse9I-CW35g, 28:45). Luna’s trainer explains a different response in the cited situation (trspGmYuPAw, 43:53). These are case-specific instructions, not enough to select a correction or reset procedure for another dog. Ask your trainer what to do after early movement, what help to provide, and when to reduce or pause the task. A reset should not be assumed to have no effect beyond time.
right and if he gets up before the release word it's important that you do that you tell him n-o-p-e tell him to like go and then if he goes back into it great okay good boy
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Does this really apply to heel as well, or only to sit, down and place?
The Roxy lesson explicitly applies the convention to heel as well as stationary tasks: the requested behavior continues until release (z5Wm7r2lSCI, 30:18 and 31:15). Heel still has a position relative to the moving handler. The lesson describes the intended cue system; it does not mean every dog already understands its duration or that a repeated cue alone establishes what the dog has learned.
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What if I accidentally say something else and he gets up - is that his fault?
Review what the dog has been taught and the whole sequence before assigning a cause or blame. Luna’s lessons discuss the release word actually used (trspGmYuPAw, 43:36) and a moment when an owner uses a different word (ldFe0hOs5NQ, 17:54). Agree on the release signal and distinguish it from praise in your lesson. A dog moving after another word does not by itself prove that word caused the movement or has become a learned release.
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you said the word release. That's not the release word, though. That's why.
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My dog already knows stay. Do I have to untrain it?
This page does not establish a transition plan for a dog already trained with a separate stay cue. The examples explain the convention used in these lessons; they do not compare retraining options. Tell your trainer which cues and releases your dog currently understands and ask whether any change is needed. Simply dropping a familiar cue should not be presented as a source-supported retraining procedure.
Teaching outline
Explain the cue-and-release convention in the recorded lessons, identify the complete sequence, and clarify how it relates to the plan already taught for your dog.
28:01
The rule delivered to a client at the handover, with the owner-habit argument and the break protocol in the same passage.
30:18
The window model, the heel as a held command, and the dinner-party illustration.
02:33
The rule being built from nothing in a shop: sit, two steps, a few seconds, release.
17:45
An owner's wrong release word caught live, with the dog still in position.
Watch a linked owner lesson and record the starting cue, the behavior requested, any feedback or assistance during it, and the signal that ends it. Compare the moving heel explanation (z5Wm7r2lSCI, 30:18–31:15) with the position example in Bo’s handover (Rse9I-CW35g, 28:01–28:45). In your own lesson, explain your agreed cues back to the trainer and ask them to observe a suitable short task. Confirm the help, current duration, distance and response to early movement before practicing independently. Do not add surprise distractions or change an existing cue system solely from this reading exercise.
Assuming silence teaches an unlearned duration requirement.
Changing cues without checking what the dog and other household handlers already understand.
Assigning blame or a learned association from one early departure.
Using different release words without recognizing the inconsistency in the lesson.
Copying distance, duration or distraction steps from another dog’s exercise.
Forgetting that the cited convention includes moving tasks such as heel.
Your dog moves after you say good boy during a down. What should you review? Record the taught release signal, previous cue use, body movement, assistance and what happened before the departure. Ask your trainer to observe the sequence; the short description alone does not identify the cause or whose mistake it was.
Common mistakes
Repeating a cue without reviewing whether it was heard, understood and followed. The cited trainer explanation describes why this program avoids repeated stay reminders; it does not measure their effect in every dog.
So it eliminates a very annoying problem, which is having to say stay a thousand times because people say, stay, stay, stay, stay, stay. And it's very confusing to the dog actually most of the time because they hear stay a hundred times and they're like, so how many times do they have to say stay for me to know that I have to keep staying right um so we just eliminate that
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Assuming a praise word and a release word have the same function. Luna’s passages make vocabulary worth checking, but do not prove the cause of every departure.
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you said the word release. That's not the release word, though. That's why.
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Overlooking body movement while studying a release sequence. The trainer describes an aim of separating movement from the release word; observe the actual sequence before concluding that a particular association was learned.
so basically what I'm doing here is I'm making sure that she knows that like it it is that word it's not emotions you can't get hype and you're like time to go because that's sometimes what happens right is the dog will come in and then they see you like run they're like oh cool this is like my cue i'm gonna go run with my person
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Using cue words inconsistently. The trainer describes this happening on some follow-ups, not its frequency among all owners.
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Responding to early movement without knowing the plan taught for this dog. Bo’s handover describes one response; the excerpt does not show that giving another cue necessarily rewards departure.
right and if he gets up before the release word it's important that you do that you tell him n-o-p-e tell him to like go and then if he goes back into it great okay good boy
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What to notice
You catch yourself saying stay repeatedly - at the door, at dinner, whenever guests are over - and he still gets up within a few seconds.
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He holds the position perfectly while you stand still and breaks the moment you move away, or the moment you get excited.
so basically what I'm doing here is I'm making sure that she knows that like it it is that word it's not emotions you can't get hype and you're like time to go because that's sometimes what happens right is the dog will come in and then they see you like run they're like oh cool this is like my cue i'm gonna go run with my person
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He releases himself when you praise him, so a good boy ends the command as reliably as the release word does.
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He is fine in a sit but slides into a down after a few seconds, and you do not know whether that counts as breaking.
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He does a command you ask for and then wanders off, and you had assumed that was the end of it - there is no moment in your routine that means the job is over.
okay good until we release her right so then once we release her then she can do whatever she wants to do it doesn't matter
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Trainer notes
Teach owners the cue and release sequence that applies to their dog, and observe their practice. The window comparison in z5Wm7r2lSCI (30:50) and moving heel explanation (31:15) are useful teaching references. Dolce’s short exercise (_JOxnYAn3-s, 02:33) illustrates one early practice context; it does not establish a fixed progression for every dog.
The recorded lessons describe different responses to early movement. Preserve each explanation with its dog, stage and context rather than turning the collection into an escalation menu. Luna’s position tolerances and discussion of resetting belong to that lesson, not an adopted house-wide standard. Likewise, the handler-motion exercise in ZkhsyS5Hf9A (08:15) states a training aim; it is not a reason to add unexpected distractions to any owner’s practice.
Check the household’s actual cue vocabulary. Luna’s lesson discusses movement after praise (trspGmYuPAw, 43:30), and Connor corrects a release-word choice (ldFe0hOs5NQ, 17:54). Review the full sequence before assigning a cause. Where the transcript uses a technical label such as negative reinforcement, distinguish the speaker’s terminology from an analysis of the actual contingency; the short quotation alone does not settle that classification.
By trainer
Connor
Connor names the implied stay in Luna’s lesson (ldFe0hOs5NQ, 17:38) and corrects the owner’s release-word choice at 17:54. These excerpts support a focus on making the release signal explicit. The separate in-home lesson is attributed to an unnamed trainer in this record and should not be assigned to Connor without further identification.
So, what we have is the implied stay. So, Luna knows that she's not supposed to get up until I release her.
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you said the word release. That's not the release word, though. That's why.
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Kelton
The passages attributed to Kelton describe the program’s implied-stay convention in owner lessons. Roxy’s explanation includes moving heel, and Bo’s handover explicitly says a separate stay cue is not used. These attributions retain the underlying notes’ uncertainty: Roxy’s introduction is transcribed as Calton, Zeus’s introduction is low confidence, and Bo’s voice is matched to a named session. The excerpts document the explanations given, not comparative evidence that other cue systems cannot work.
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we don't use stay it's implied so if I sit down I don't have to say stay I just sit down and then he stays in the down until he hears the word okay and if he hears okay then he knows okay I can get up right and then I'm free
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You don't have to say stay ever. I don't know if you noticed that, but we don't use stay.
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Equipment context
E-collar
Dolce’s trainer describes using the e-collar if a verbal correction is ignored (PuJEmBXARms, 13:57). Dutchess’s excerpt concerns collar fit (lUcKg-GNhII, 01:48). These are separate contexts; neither short excerpt establishes reliability at distance, the cause of a response, or an equipment instruction suitable for another dog.
and then if she was to ignore um like the correction then that's when i use my e-collar so the e-collar is just if she like ignores right because their dogs like dogs will try things sometimes and be like oh maybe if i do this i don't have to do this
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No, your collar's not on tight enough. All right. Well, oh yeah, that was way too loose. We'll try this again.
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Prong collar and leash
During Dolce’s public exercise, the trainer describes assisting her back into sit with leash pressure (_JOxnYAn3-s, 03:47). Keep that description tied to this exercise. The excerpt does not establish a general equipment requirement or distinguish every aspect of the procedure without viewing the sequence.
so she's learning, you know, there's a lot of detractors going on, so having to assist her a little bit and add just a little weak pressure up to correct and kind of put her back into sit, and we just want her to succeed and stay in there
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Settings
bo
a public trail at Bass Lake Park in Fuquay, explaining the system to a member of the public who asked
10:33
Dutchess
Jack Marley Park, on a session run as a dress rehearsal for go-home day
01:20
Luna
the family's own home in the evening, with the family's own place cot
43:30
Louie
a wide-open public park with water and birds, chosen for the distraction
01:40
Zeus — March record
a park with a car showroom across the street, on the owner lesson in the final week
00:26
Zeus
the training facility, half an hour of seated theory before the dog comes out
10:03
Owner accounts
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Candidate clips
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You don't have to say stay ever. I don't know if you noticed that, but we don't use stay.
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we don't use stay it's implied so if I sit down I don't have to say stay I just sit down and then he stays in the down until he hears the word okay and if he hears okay then he knows okay I can get up right and then I'm free
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there he wanted to kind of get up and check something out, but I told him to sit, so we're doing an implied stay.
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Source moments
Case story beats
bo
A handover in the failing light. The trainer has run the whole command list and is nearly done when he stops to tell the client about a word he will never need - and then explains that the reason is not the dog, it is him. The client's one stated worry, recorded a minute later, was whether the dog would do the commands for him at all.
You don't have to say stay ever. I don't know if you noticed that, but we don't use stay.
Watch at 28:01 ↗ · Current transcript match · Audio confirmation pending
he can get up when you say okay so that was your original thing that's the only thing you really said you were worried about at all which is um that he does the commands with you and he will
Watch at 28:55 ↗ · Current transcript match · Audio confirmation pending
Roxy
Two trainers, two dogs from one household, and a park lesson that turns into a comedy routine about somebody else's dinner party - the dog fighting demons under the table while his owner says stay every ten seconds. The laugh is on the tape, and the theory arrives in the same breath as the joke.
Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
Quotation held: its full wording does not match the current transcript. Preserved-track provenance is recorded in the private audit.
Luna
Connor explains Luna’s implied stay and then clarifies that the word release is not her release cue (ldFe0hOs5NQ, 17:38–17:54). This is a useful owner-teaching moment about vocabulary. The cited words alone do not establish whether she moved, remained in position or understood a different signal; those details require the accompanying footage.
So, what we have is the implied stay. So, Luna knows that she's not supposed to get up until I release her.
Watch at 17:38 ↗ · Current transcript match · Audio confirmation pending
you said the word release. That's not the release word, though. That's why.
Watch at 17:54 ↗ · Current transcript match · Audio confirmation pending
Questions for intake
Which cues does your dog already know, and which signal ends each task?
What happens when you ask for a position to continue? Describe the words, timing, assistance and movement in one recent example.
Which praise words do you use during practice, and which words do you use when the task ends?
Who else practices with your dog, and are the cue and release words consistent between handlers?
Has your dog learned a separate stay cue previously? What instructions have you been given about retaining or changing that system?
Where would continuing a position be useful in daily life, and what can your dog currently do comfortably in those settings?
Still to establish
Review the remaining dedicated implied-stay footage identified in Bo’s collection, reconcile its current analysis status, and compare complete demonstrations with these lesson explanations.
Confirm unresolved speaker identities from audiovisual evidence or Kelton’s identification; retain attribution uncertainty until then.
Find or record guidance for owners whose dogs already know a separate stay cue, without assuming the present excerpts describe that transition.
Clarify why handling differs across these examples, using each dog’s learning stage and complete sequence rather than a presumed nervous-versus-testing distinction.
Review the actual contingency in Dutchess’s footage before interpreting the speaker’s negative reinforcement terminology.
Clarify the intended release vocabulary across Dolce’s cited sessions and whether the difference was deliberate.
Source limitations
Speaker identity is unrecoverable in most of these files. Where a 'who' is given above it is a role plus the exclusions the Tier 1 note could establish, not a name. Two exceptions: Connor names himself in ldFe0hOs5NQ at 12:17, and KSAgYFERu-E opens with a low-confidence '~Hi, I'm Kelton'.
num40v7anxo is not this corpus's Zeus. The March 2026 material is a different Cane Corso of the same name from a different household, owner-confirmed after the intake comparison, and now filed under zeus-march-2026. It is counted here as a separate dog, which is why this page covers eight dogs where the dossier lists seven.
Luna's trspGmYuPAw runs on the en-US caption track, which came from an earlier Whisper pipeline rather than from a human. Its capitalisation is erratic and its line breaks fall mid-sentence; quotes are reproduced exactly as the track has them, including the mid-sentence capitals.
lUcKg-GNhII renders 'implied stay' as 'implied state' at 01:20. The reading is this reader's; the transcript's word is quoted as it stands.
_JOxnYAn3-s renders the German sit cue as 'zits' throughout and 'distractions' as 'detractors' at 03:47. Both are quoted as the transcript has them.
PuJEmBXARms carries a published date of 2026-09-10 and a shoot date of 2026-07-28 in its own title. The date used here is the published date, per protocol, so the span given in the counts is wider than the training actually was.
Nine of the fifteen cited sessions carry no publication date at all, so the date range below is the range of the six that do.
Connected library collections
These links follow eligible video assignments in the reviewed library. A source can feature more than one animal; the older research-folder name is not used to merge identities.