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  1. Roxy Training Session

    The handler describes teaching the sit movement with leash guidance before adding the spoken cue.

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  2. King Training Session

    A short session, undated, in which a handler works with King for the first time.

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  3. Louie Training Session

    A short progress check rather than a teaching session.

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  4. Group Training Session! Daisy, Anna, Sage

    A group session on a hot trail: at least three handlers each work a dog while a senior trainer moves between them.

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  5. Roxy — Before Training Video

    The handler introduces this as Roxy's first official training-day baseline, intended for comparison with later footage.

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  6. Dolce In Home Depot!

    Dolce's first outing in public, framed explicitly as a test rather than a lesson.

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  7. Place Cot & Home Context with Sage!

    A coached place session that starts from the dog's emotional state rather than the cot.

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  8. Place Cot & Home Context With Anna

    Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; Show what not to do, allow everything else.

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  9. Sage, Working On The Place Command

    A narrated place-training recording with staff teaching.

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  10. Peque during her recent Refresher Program Part 2!

    Topics: Control is not obedience; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  11. Peque during her recent Refresher Program Part 1!

    Topics: Assess before you ask.

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  12. Luna Chanelle Training At Lake Benson Part 1

    Topics: The leash is a prop; Pressure, release, reward; Assess before you ask.

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  13. Apollo Go-Home Lesson Part 1

    Topics: False reps: the dog reads the chain, not the word; Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward.

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  14. Dolce Training Session!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; The dog tells you the reward; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.

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  15. Baxter & Tyson Private Lesson Part 3

    Topics: Assess before you ask.

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  16. Baxter Private Lesson Part 1

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Thinking is what makes it better.

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  17. Apollo Go-Home Lesson Part 2

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  18. Baxter & Tyson Private Lesson Part 2

    Topics: Hidden help; The leash is a prop; Start with freedom.

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  19. Louie, Home Context Training

    A home-context session in which a visiting senior trainer audits where Louie has got to and pushes him one step further: off leash, in a house, on place and down.

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  20. King & Zuri Chan Training Session!

    King's earliest substantial session on record, and almost entirely one exercise: hold place for thirty minutes while people make it harder.

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  21. Baxter Private Lesson Part 5

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask.

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  22. Ozzy In-Program Lesson #1, Part 2

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.

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  23. Training Session With Fiona

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Control is not obedience; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.

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  24. Session With Simba!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.

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  25. Anna Training Session

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.

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  26. Ozzy In-Program Lesson #1, Part 1

    Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Reading the dog; Assess before you ask.

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  27. Thor Refresher Program Pickup

    Topics: The leash is a prop; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  28. Sage, Place & Settle

    Topics: Assess before you ask.

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  29. Anna & Cosmo!

    Topics: Social pressure; Assess before you ask; Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between.

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  30. Ozzy Part 1 - Older Video (Found it on One Of Our Cameras!) With Momiji & Ozzy!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between.

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  31. Quick Session With Louie, Getting To Know Each Other

    A handler meeting Louie for the first time and trying, unsuccessfully, to find a game he wants.

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  32. Kalypso - Abbreviated Go-Home Lesson!

    Topics: The leash is a prop; The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help.

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  33. Part 3 Home Context Training With Louie!

    Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; Reading the dog.

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  34. Place Cot Training With Daisy!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.

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  35. Apollo In-Program Lesson #2 Part 1!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.

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  36. Part 2 Ozzie In-Program Lesson #1!

    Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; The dog tells you the reward; Social pressure.

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  37. Max Go-Home Lesson Part 3!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help.

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  38. Bullet - Field Trip To Home Depot!

    Topics: Social pressure; Assess before you ask; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.

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  39. Bullet - Walk Training w/Zuri & Gemma! Great Helpers!

    A long evening walk at a park with two handlers and two dogs, which looks casual and is doing three deliberate things.

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  40. Thor — Focus Learning at the Bass Pro Shop ft Angier K9!

    Topics: Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward; Assess before you ask.

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  41. Thor (Pt 1) — Go Home Lesson ft Angier K9!

    Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The three stress reducers.

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  42. Max — Go Home Lesson ft Angier K9

    Topics: Reading the dog; Start with freedom; Assess before you ask.

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  43. Bullet pt2 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!

    The second half of the owner visit, and the most informative Bullet material about the case itself.

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  44. Levi—Follow Up, Part 1

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; Social pressure.

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  45. Play & Training w/Bullet & Zuri!

    A session whose stated purpose has nothing to do with obedience: Bullet's emotional state is too low for the training the handler wants, so the handler brings in his own dog Zuri - chosen because she is reliably dog-friendly and takes the lead - to lift him before anything is asked.

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  46. Luci pt2 — In Person Evaluation ft Angier K9!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Pressure, release, reward; Social pressure.

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  47. Rocky Follow Up pt 3 ft Angier K9!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; The dog tells you the reward.

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  48. Rocky Follow up pt 2 ft Angier K9!

    Topics: Control is not obedience; The dog tells you the reward; The leash is a prop.

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  49. Day 2, Part 1, Bullet—Learning at the Park

    Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  50. Max's Go Home Lesson Part 1!

    Topics: The leash is a prop; Assess before you ask.

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  51. Bo (Part 1) — In Person Evaluation!

    Topics: The leash is a prop; Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward.

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  52. Baxter — First Private Training Session Part 1

    Topics: Social pressure; Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward.

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  53. Max #3 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!

    Topics: Start with freedom; Assess before you ask.

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  54. Neo In-Program Lesson #2!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.

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  55. Working On Everything With Max! Smart Boy! Solid Training Session.

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; Start with freedom.

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  56. Home Context Training With Fiona Part 2!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.

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  57. Getting Ozzy Comfortable Part 2

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  58. Getting Ozzy Comfortable Part 4

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.

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  59. Bullet — 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.

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  60. Astro Part 2 — Go Home Lesson, Dog Aggression Success with Angier K9!

    Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help.

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  61. Astro Part 1 — Go Home Lesson, Dog Aggression Success with Angier K9!

    Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward.

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  62. Max #2 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.

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  63. Hattie at Spring Fling Pier Fair

    Topics: Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty; Social pressure.

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  64. Akira #1 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Don't heel grind.

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  65. Astro Part 2 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!

    Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  66. Astro Part 1 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Show what not to do, allow everything else; Freeze, flee or fight.

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  67. Madam — Go Home Lesson!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  68. Louie — In-Program Lesson with His Owner, Part 1

    Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; Show what not to do, allow everything else.

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  69. Egg — Play and Engagement

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  70. Levi — Private Lesson #1!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.

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  71. Part 2 — Jack, Exposure Therapy with a Nervous Dog

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; Start with freedom.

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  72. Rocky — In Program Lesson #3

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Don't heel grind.

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  73. Sampson — Heel Work and Recalls!

    Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between.

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  74. Angier K9 Reviews — Apollo The Sharkie!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  75. Jack — Establishing Trust with Nervous Dog #2

    Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  76. Rocky — In-Program Lesson

    Topics: Start with freedom; The three stress reducers; The leash is a prop.

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  77. Angus — Out in Public!

    Topics: Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask.

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  78. Rocky — Go Home Lesson!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help.

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  79. Bernie — Go Home Lesson #2!

    Topics: Hidden help; Control is not obedience; Show what not to do, allow everything else.

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  80. Bernie — Go Home Lesson #1!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Reading the dog.

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  81. Handsome Man Bernie Going To Tractor Supply! Part 2!

    Topics: Start with freedom; Assess before you ask.

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  82. Dory — Place Duration & Home Context Training!

    Topics: Assess before you ask.

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  83. Teddy! Off-Leash Hike, Play, & Learning!

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask.

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  84. Angus — Heel Work and Recalls #1

    Topics: Assess before you ask.

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  85. Day 2 Full Training Sesh with Akira! 🔥

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; The leash is a prop.

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  86. Day 2, Part 2! Training Sesh with Handsome Boy Rocky!

    Topics: Hidden help; Meaningful release; Pressure, release, reward.

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  87. The EGGLAD. Is Learning TONS! 🔥🔥🔥

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop; Hidden help.

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  88. Callie — Go Home Lesson #2

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.

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  89. Irwin — Introduction and Walkies! (Part 1)

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Start with freedom; Freeze, flee or fight.

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  90. Callie — Heel Work and Recalls!

    Topics: Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between; Assess before you ask; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.

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  91. Major — Walk Obedience

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.

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  92. Major Evaluation

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  93. Thumper — Follow Up

    Topics: Assess before you ask.

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  94. Josi and Milo — Private Lesson #2

    Topics: The leash is a prop; Reading the dog; Hidden help.

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  95. Astro — Update Evaluation

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Social pressure; The dog tells you the reward.

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  96. Major — Correcting Corrections

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Reading the dog.

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  97. Astro — Update Evaluation #3

    Topics: Reading the dog; Hidden help; Control is not obedience.

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  98. Astro — Update Evaluation #2

    Topics: Don't heel grind; Assess before you ask.

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  99. Josi and Milo — Downs and Recalls pt 2!

    Topics: Reading the dog; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.

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  100. Zeus — In-Program Lesson #1

    An owner lesson given on a walk in a park, about a week before the dog goes home, by a trainer who is not the trainer of the August lesson.

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  101. Major — Private Lesson!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Build the handler's timing while it is easy.

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  102. Kalypso — Private Lesson #3 (pt2)

    Topics: Control is not obedience; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.

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  103. Madam — Heel Work and Recalls!

    Topics: Assess before you ask.

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  104. Roman — Evaluation Time!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The leash is a prop; Pressure, release, reward.

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  105. Milo and Josi — Recalls and Place Work!

    Topics: Hidden help; Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between; The leash is a prop.

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  106. Bane — Protection Training!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Internal emotional change, not repression; Pressure, release, reward.

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  107. Penny — Go Home Lesson!

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Social pressure.

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  108. Penny — Heels and Recalls!

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop; Go and look at the scary thing.

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  109. Major — Long Duration Place Work!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.

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  110. Phoebe — Go Home Lesson!

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.

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  111. Penny at Tractor Supply!

    Topics: Assess before you ask; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.

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  112. Apollo — Go Home Lesson pt2!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The leash is a prop; Control is not obedience.

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  113. Bane — Protection Training!

    Topics: Reading the dog; Social pressure; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.

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  114. Penny Heel Work and Downs!

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Pressure, release, reward; Assess before you ask.

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  115. Bane — Protection Dog Training!

    Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask.

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  116. Thumper — Downs and Recalls!

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop; The dog tells you the reward.

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  117. Stormy — Private Lesson 1

    Topics: Start with freedom; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.

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  118. Fiona — Walks and Place Work!

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Start with freedom; Assess before you ask.

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  119. Stormy — Private Lesson 2

    Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight.

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  120. Thumper — Go Home Lesson pt1!

    Topics: Assess before you ask.

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  121. Apollo — Heel Work and Play!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop.

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  122. Apollo — Focus Training!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Pressure, release, reward; Assess before you ask.

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  123. Apollo — Place Duration!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.

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  124. Addressing Crate Aggression w/Bo.

    A deliberately staged test of Bo's crate aggression, run with two staff handlers Bo has had trouble with.

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  125. Phoebe — Place Work!

    Topics: Assess before you ask.

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  126. Penny — Place Work! (Session #2)

    Topics: Pressure, release, reward; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.

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  127. Phoebe — Loose Leash Training!

    Topics: Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward; The dog tells you the reward.

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  128. Thumper! Play & Train Session. Worked on lots of stuff 😎😁

    Topics: Hidden help; The leash is a prop; Pressure, release, reward.

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  129. Phoebe — School Training Lesson!

    Topics: Hidden help; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward.

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  130. Bubba [family name withheld] — Go Home Lesson

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Don't heel grind; The leash is a prop.

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  131. Clark Kent — Heels!

    Topics: Assess before you ask.

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  132. Clark Kent — Downs and Heels!

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.

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  133. Murphy — Go Home Lesson! Aggression Check

    Topics: Control is not obedience; Reading the dog; The dog tells you the reward.

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  134. Private Lesson with 3 dogs having problems in the household. Ft. Sputnik, Bear, & Astra

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog; Social pressure.

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  135. Drago—Go Home Lesson

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The four windows, and calm liberty; Reading the dog.

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  136. Murphy — Heels/Focus Training! pt 1

    Topics: The leash is a prop; Assess before you ask.

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  137. Josephine—Full Go Home Lesson With Client!

    Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty.

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  138. Oscar! — Full Go Home Lesson With Client! 👨‍🎓🐶😭

    Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty.

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