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Shorts · 2026 · page 1 of 9

Short teaching clips and moments from the Angier K9 channel.

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  1. What changes when Kodak starts moving? | Kodak & Rocko 23

  2. The home lesson still needs boundaries | Kodak & Rocko 25

  3. An invitation leaves room for hesitation | Kodak & Rocko 21

  4. Now the family holds the line | Kodak & Rocko 20

  5. An ordinary moment at home matters too | Kodak & Rocko 24

  6. The room changes the test | Kodak & Rocko 22

  7. The first walk together is a test of its own | Kodak & Rocko 18

  8. Requests, release and the life between them | Kodak & Rocko 15

  9. The family comes back to learn | Kodak & Rocko 14

  10. Keep the game worth coming back to | Kodak & Rocko 16

  11. Does 'out' also mean 'lie down'? | Kodak & Rocko 17

  12. Return to the household goal after a hard encounter | Kodak & Rocko 19

  13. What a difficult heel repetition actually looks like | Kodak & Rocko 8

  14. An invitation and a recall cue ask different things | Kodak & Rocko 9

  15. The recall ends. The trainer gives Kodak space. | Kodak & Rocko 10

  16. What happens when the ball becomes a distraction? | Kodak & Rocko 13

  17. Kodak's story includes this difficult encounter | Kodak & Rocko 12

  18. Change the pace, then make room for a break | Kodak & Rocko 11

  19. Getting down and staying there are different questions | Kodak & Rocko 6

  20. The last repetition includes deciding when to stop | Kodak & Rocko 7

  21. "It's not fully off leash with the heel" — what's still to do | Finn - Part 182

  22. Rocko & Kodak: Room for Each Other | Website Film

  23. A walk is a sensory experience for Finn. Let him have it | Finn - Part 183

  24. "We could probably bring Finn with us." | Finn - Part 184

  25. He comes off with any kind of pressure now | Part 170 of Finn's training

  26. Kodak and Rocko choose very different games | Kodak & Rocko 4

  27. The lesson gets harder outside | Kodak & Rocko 3

  28. It's been a long day, folks | Part 177 of Finn's training

    The start of a walk at the end of a long day.

    Session summary
  29. Somebody ran by, off leash, and he did nothing | Finn, fear and flight risk - Part 181

  30. He wants to play tug | Part 176 of Finn's training

  31. "Look — there's a bunch of deer. That's a baby one." And Finn watches | Part 178 of Finn's training

    The handler points out three deer to Finn, including a young one ('look finn look look look it's a baby one'), and admires them ('wow how beautiful they are finn'), then makes a closing aside about stopping (in the parent, the recording is switched off for a bathroom break).

    Session summary
  32. One successful repetition is a beginning | Kodak & Rocko 5

  33. "I won't lie, I've grown to love Finn." — "Hard not to" | Finn - Part 179

  34. What does Rocko already understand? | Kodak & Rocko 2

  35. 'Who are you? Should I be scared?' And now: 'Oh my god, it's you' | Finn - Part 180

  36. "We're back live with Finster" — fully off leash, again | Part 174 of Finn's training

  37. Heel, with nothing in hand | Part 175 of Finn's training

  38. Two dogs need a plan for living together | Kodak & Rocko 1

  39. They do know the difference between leash and no leash | Part 172 of Finn's training

  40. Cautious, since he has a flight risk in the past | Part 167 of Finn's training

    The handler explains why Finn is not off leash yet: he is being careful because Finn has been a flight risk, and wants to make sure he can handle it.

    Session summary
  41. When the pressure is on, what is his reaction now? | Part 165 of Finn's training

  42. "Constantly on edge, tweaked out, running from everything" — and lo… | Part 166 of Finn's training

  43. Hi, Duchess | Part 169 of Finn's training

  44. You have to trust the dog more to do that — which I am starting to … | Part 163 of Finn's training

  45. Finn is essentially free to do what he wants now | Part 171 of Finn's training

  46. The lighter the line, the less drag, the more freedom he feels | Part 164 of Finn's training

  47. Essentially equivalent to being fully off leash — because there's n… | Part 168 of Finn's training

  48. "Still working on his off-leash heel" — honest about what's left | Part 173 of Finn's training

  49. Are you scared?" — "He'll be better | Part 160 of Finn's training

  50. "Is that a chocolate lab?" — a stranger chats, and Finn stands there | Part 159 of Finn's training

  51. "One step closer to being fully off leash" — 50 feet down to 12 | Part 162 of Finn's training

  52. A weird coping mechanism, and where it's taking him | Part 161 of Finn's training

  53. Home Depot again. "Last time you came here with Connor... I think t… | Part 158 of Finn's training

  54. The experience we need for him to be reliable off the leash | Part 155 of Finn's training

  55. She's supposed to play with you, man | Part 150 of Finn's training

  56. Next: the store, on a flexi, and his heel | Part 157 of Finn's training

  57. Look at that tail wag | Part 152 of Finn's training

    The tail-wag moment from the Zuri play session.

    Session summary
  58. Does he recall on his own, without a hand on the line? | Part 154 of Finn's training

  59. You want this tug?" — "Let's play tug later at the house | Part 153 of Finn's training

  60. He's just as scared as you are, to be honest | Part 156 of Finn's training

  61. He wanted to sniff. "You thought about it. You did good" | Part 151 of Finn's training

  62. Is petting a dog a punishment or a reinforcement? | Part 142 of Finn's training

  63. "Okay" — a release, and a marker for anything good | Part 147 of Finn's training

  64. It's actually really fun to work with nervous dogs | Part 146 of Finn's training

  65. Nervous and excited at the same time — the risk in that | Part 144 of Finn's training

  66. Zuri desperately wants to play with him | Part 148 of Finn's training

  67. "Please sniff me. Just sniff me." No | Part 149 of Finn's training

  68. Let's go" is not "Come | Part 143 of Finn's training

  69. Keeping a dog like Finn in a good state of mind | Part 145 of Finn's training

  70. You've come a long way, Finn. You look happy and interested in the … | Part 135 of Finn's training

  71. Do whatever you want. You sniff everything, buddy | Part 134 of Finn's training

  72. Trying to go out the window at the lady with the puppy | Part 139 of Finn's training

  73. This is our first walk." — "You haven't been able to take him on?" … | Part 138 of Finn's training

  74. Hi, Raspberry. This is Finn | Part 136 of Finn's training

  75. Look at that happy tail | Part 137 of Finn's training

  76. Repress the dog and he looks calm — and is more terrified | Part 141 of Finn's training

  77. Semi shut down. I'm glad to see him excited, though | Part 140 of Finn's training

  78. Let me make sure you're double hooked | Part 126 of Finn's training

  79. "Here comes Deuce" — another dog, and Finn looks | Part 122 of Finn's training

  80. With Finn, it's two seconds of duration, and that's the session | Part 123 of Finn's training

  81. A stranger stops to talk. "It's a 50-foot line from Tractor Supply.… | Part 132 of Finn's training

  82. A positive mental state AND the correct behaviour. "You could go to… | Part 125 of Finn's training

  83. "I could get the result, but —" why not everything at once | Part 124 of Finn's training

  84. Long-line work and exploration — keeping the two separate | Part 130 of Finn's training

  85. He's getting to the point where he says, 'I will not take off' | Part 133 of Finn's training

  86. The top three things: environmental exploration — that's king | Part 129 of Finn's training

  87. The first time he met me, he was so scared his eyes got as big as s… | Part 131 of Finn's training

  88. Finn loves going for walkies now. You see how much different he is?… | Part 127 of Finn's training

  89. Making the come stronger, so the recall gets him to off-leash | Part 128 of Finn's training

  90. Kevin. "He walked by the person neutrally. He didn't panic or freeze" | Part 116 of Finn's training

  91. He's a really fearful doggy." "It's good that he at least walked by | Part 114 of Finn's training

  92. No need to panic | Part 121 of Finn's training

  93. Doing what I asked results in more freedom — complete relief | Part 108 of Finn's training

  94. You can't do that with a six-foot leash | Part 117 of Finn's training

  95. What a six-foot leash would have taken away here | Part 110 of Finn's training

  96. Waiting for distance so there's a recall to practise | Part 111 of Finn's training

  97. You escape the pressure by complying — and then confidence develops | Part 115 of Finn's training

  98. Prediction error: three things he tried, three that didn't work, an… | Part 109 of Finn's training

  99. Go sniff trees | Part 119 of Finn's training

  100. Finn from Finland, Finn the deer, good boy | Part 120 of Finn's training

  101. Because of that panic, it produces the inability to choose a good o… | Part 112 of Finn's training

  102. Rehabilitating severe fear reactions — what could happen next | Part 113 of Finn's training

  103. "You're double hooked" — a new place | Part 118 of Finn's training

  104. The most reliable test of learning is a second trial — but not yet | Part 107 of Finn's training

  105. When pressure hits, don't panic — do a thing | Part 83 of Finn's training

  106. Fifty feet out, and no line pressure yet | Part 98 of Finn's training

  107. "Better not to start really low" — if he doesn't get it, you creep u… | Part 88 of Finn's training

  108. He shouldn't be so scared of everything else | Part 90 of Finn's training

  109. If it was invented today, people would call it miraculous. But it's … | Part 92 of Finn's training

  110. "Now he's making a choice that makes no sense" — this is why we do … | Part 105 of Finn's training

  111. Natural exploration, and the long line is there to allow it | Part 96 of Finn's training

  112. It sounds like off leash is an important thing here | Part 82 of Finn's training

  113. Still hypervigilant — but better than earlier | Part 99 of Finn's training

  114. What the long line is for | Part 86 of Finn's training

  115. That's the primary road to recovery, right there | Part 103 of Finn's training

  116. The other S-tier option: physical exercise | Part 101 of Finn's training

  117. Ten emotional states, tracked every session | Part 75 of Finn's training

  118. Everything you've said is exactly what I thought it was | Part 85 of Finn's training

  119. "I don't trust him to be in a pen" — with us, 24/7 | Part 73 of Finn's training

  120. If you just think for a second about what I asked you to do, things … | Part 84 of Finn's training

  121. Hiding was not useful for him | Part 106 of Finn's training

  122. Space to retreat, and still required to come back and do the thing | Part 100 of Finn's training

  123. You guys are in Home Depot? Like, I could never | Part 74 of Finn's training

  124. "He would just eat whatever the penalty was" — the frozen dog absorb… | Part 93 of Finn's training

  125. "This is an e-collar. It is designed to deliver a low stimulus elect… | Part 91 of Finn's training

  126. "It's like boiling the frog" — start high so you never have to live … | Part 89 of Finn's training

  127. The flexi: he gets to the end of the range, stops, and checks back in | Part 87 of Finn's training

  128. "I finally figured out a way to reward him" — you have to open him u… | Part 76 of Finn's training

  129. In the middle of all this, I hurt my back. We had to stop going on w… | Part 79 of Finn's training

  130. Make sure he's hooked up securely to both lines | Part 95 of Finn's training

  131. "What do you want life to be like with Finn?" — fostered with his br… | Part 78 of Finn's training

  132. I want you to look like a dog when you see me, not like a deer | Part 80 of Finn's training

  133. I was looking at the emotional states over time and it wasn't improv… | Part 94 of Finn's training

  134. All the way up, for the water | Part 77 of Finn's training

  135. People walking. The doorbell. He would flip out | Part 72 of Finn's training

  136. He sat, he got a release. No harm done | Part 104 of Finn's training

  137. What kind of sniffing is this? | Part 97 of Finn's training

  138. Finley the fence. Finley from Finland. "I make up random stuff" | Part 81 of Finn's training

  139. Natural dog movement. Doggy things | Part 102 of Finn's training

  140. He's starting to sniff | Part 40 of Finn's training

  141. I'm going to be spending hours every day with Finn. He needs a speci… | Part 54 of Finn's training

  142. A little nervous, always, from the beginning | Part 71 of Finn's training

  143. "I'm going to see your tail untucked" — what to watch for | Part 56 of Finn's training

  144. Play drive, or fright? Reading which one is happening | Part 66 of Finn's training

  145. Two seconds of sit, then release. That's enough | Part 37 of Finn's training

  146. No e-collar that time, huh, buddy? You're smart | Part 60 of Finn's training

  147. I'm going to cry with joy later, because I believe in you | Part 55 of Finn's training

  148. He knows sit. He's freezing. And afterwards, you cannot ask again st… | Part 58 of Finn's training

  149. Over an hour, because what I need is for him to return to baseline | Part 59 of Finn's training

  150. Pupils dilated — reading the nerves from the eyes | Part 34 of Finn's training

  151. Food rewards are not for teaching calmness. They facilitate a state … | Part 63 of Finn's training

  152. He lets people pet him now — I wouldn't touch him from the back | Part 41 of Finn's training

  153. Running attached as the end of obedience — so he can take more press… | Part 67 of Finn's training

  154. No pressure needed at all. You did just fine with the sit | Part 25 of Finn's training

  155. 3.4 miles. Sniffing plants with thorns on them | Part 61 of Finn's training

  156. Under the overhang, in the rain | Part 24 of Finn's training

  157. Home Depot. "I don't ever expect Finn to be like 'people are my jam.… | Part 39 of Finn's training

  158. You know what I want? I want for Finn to just be a dog | Part 53 of Finn's training

  159. He's totally capable of coping. He's just being allowed to freeze | Part 32 of Finn's training

  160. "Much better on the sit than I thought" — next assignment | Part 28 of Finn's training

  161. Social pressure: pulling up to him and watching what he does | Part 44 of Finn's training

  162. Panting because he's nervous, or because that was too many commands? | Part 47 of Finn's training

  163. Look at that nice loose tail. It's not tucked | Part 62 of Finn's training

  164. "He looks like a prey animal" — learning to handle pressure instead … | Part 22 of Finn's training

  165. We even have a heel now. Only two left are down and sit | Part 49 of Finn's training

  166. Least pressure, always | Part 35 of Finn's training

  167. He did that on his own | Part 52 of Finn's training

  168. I was telling Connor, one of our other trainers, about this yesterday | Part 68 of Finn's training

  169. It opens up confidence in the dog — which Finn is desperately short of | Part 69 of Finn's training

  170. He freezes — helping him through the freeze, not around it | Part 31 of Finn's training

  171. "Pretty resilient to the e-collar" — finding the level honestly | Part 26 of Finn's training

  172. You look like a happy boy running. Deer like running, and so does Finn | Part 65 of Finn's training

  173. To test if he's shut down or just averse — Finn, heel | Part 48 of Finn's training

  174. I'm really scared to poison any command with him | Part 45 of Finn's training

  175. Give me those deer eyes | Part 51 of Finn's training

  176. Whatever noise your dog will freak out at, it's in Home Depot. "And … | Part 43 of Finn's training

  177. My goal really is just open the dude up | Part 33 of Finn's training

  178. He has reacted badly to any pressure at all — even slight | Part 21 of Finn's training

  179. Come get in the pool | Part 30 of Finn's training

  180. Too much mass to be panicking like that | Part 23 of Finn's training

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