Angier K9 · Training video library
Teach the move, then the word
40 videos indexed under this topic. Topic tags help you find relevant sessions; they do not mean the entire recording teaches this one idea.
The recordings show different uses of guidance: helping a dog learn a movement, then checking what the dog can do in response to a cue with less help.
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Stormi's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-15 | 13:49
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Teach the move, then the word; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.
concept tagsRocko & Kodak's First Ever Pack Walk!!! | Full Session | 2026-09-09 | 16:36
The first time Kodak and Rocko - two dogs from the same household who have lived alongside each other without ever being integrated - are walked together.
Session summaryKodak's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-03 | 18:19
A clean, single-purpose session: teach down from nothing, using the ball.
Session summaryStormi's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-06 | 21:04
Topics: Hidden help; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsLuna Knew Place—But Would It Hold in the Real House?
Topics: Reading the dog; The leash is a prop; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsTitan's 2nd In-Program Lesson: One Cue, One Release
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsZeus Go-Home Lesson Part 1
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog; Hidden help.
concept tagsSage Go-Home Lesson
Topics: Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; The leash is a prop; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsKing & Zuri Chan Training Session at Dix Park
An evening walk at a park none of them has been to, with King as the client dog and Zuri Chan - the trainer's own dog - along, handled by his wife.
Session summaryLuna First In-Program Lesson Part 2
Topics: Hidden help; Meaningful release; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsArchie & Lola 2nd In-Program Lesson
The second owner lesson of Archie and Lola's board-and-train, run as a ninety-minute shaded loop at a park neither owner had been to, with two trainers, two owners and both dogs.
Session summaryZeus In-Program Lesson #1
The first owner lesson of Zeus's summer program, eight days before the planned go-home.
Session summaryFinn 🦌 Go-Home Lesson Part 1
Topics: Teach the move, then the word; Build the handler's timing while it is easy; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsFinn 🦌 Go-Home Lesson Part 2
The second half of the handover, in a pet store.
Session summaryDutchess Training Session Part 1
The park session, and the first Dutchess footage where the teaching is being narrated properly.
Session summaryDeuce In-Program Lesson #1 Part 1
Deuce's first in-program lesson, given to his owner in her own house with the dog loose in the room.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
The tug was left in the vehicle, so the session improvises: sticks become the reward, and the trainer is explicit that a dog who will tug anything is an asset.
Session summaryDutchess Training Session
A trainer who has not handled Dutchess before takes her out for ten minutes between appointments, and because everything is new to him he narrates his reasoning for all of it.
Session summaryFinn Training Session (Fear/Anxiety Modification Case)
The session the title calls the fear/anxiety modification case, and the one where the trainer lays out his whole approach to Finn.
Session summaryKing Training Session
A working session rather than a teaching one, and what makes it worth reading is that the handler is diagnosing himself as much as the dog.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
The most methodologically explicit of Roxy's solo sessions.
Session summaryFinn Park Field Trip!
A short evening park session with a trainer who is new to Finn and says so.
Session summarySage In-Program Lesson #1!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsDolce Training Session
The first session in this set where a trainer takes Dolce out himself, and the most explicit account anywhere of the vocabulary decisions behind her program.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
A short, sparsely narrated working session from the first week.
Session summaryLouie Training Session In The Park
A narrated park session with Louie: recalls that end with him staying close, a developing check-in radius and leash-yielding practice. The trainer explains why stronger e-collar reinforcement is reserved for understood commands and why he gives Louie a long break after a difficult down.
Session summaryPeque during her recent Refresher Program Part 2!
Topics: Control is not obedience; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsSimba Off-leash In Home Depot!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Teach the move, then the word; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsMax Training At Lake Benson!
Topics: Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsRocky Follow up pt 2 ft Angier K9!
Topics: Control is not obedience; The dog tells you the reward; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsBo (Part 1) — In Person Evaluation!
Topics: The leash is a prop; Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsCosmo (Day 1) — First Time Evaluation with Angier K9!
Topics: Social pressure; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsSometimes Dog Training Is Just Hanging Out Ft. Bullet
The companion piece to the aborted session, and the video where the underlying doctrine gets said out loud.
Session summaryBullet — Exposure Training at the Park!
Bullet's first day of training, and by the trainer's own count day one of a four to four-and-a-half week board-and-train.
Session summaryRocky — In-Program Lesson
Topics: Start with freedom; The three stress reducers; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsBernie—Proofing Behavior w/ People and Dogs in Public
Topics: Hidden help; Control is not obedience; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsPK — Home Evaluation! Pt1
Topics: Teach the move, then the word; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.
concept tagsLucia — Focus Training/Heels/Recalls 1!
Topics: Control is not obedience; Assess before you ask; Teach the move, then the word.
concept tagsBo — Focus Training/Heels
A short owner-facing progress clip cut from the end of a long unrecorded session at Bass Lake.
Session summaryBo — Focus Training/Recalls
An early session in Bo's program, filmed as a teaching video.
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