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Don't poison the command
51 videos indexed under this topic. Topic tags help you find relevant sessions; they do not mean the entire recording teaches this one idea.
A word acquires whatever reliably follows it, so a command can be spoiled by use - most often by correcting on the word itself, or by borrowing a trained word to mean 'stop that'.
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Coco's First In-Program Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-09-11 | 15:19
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsKodak's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-05 | 19:24
The trainer takes Kodak with him on an overnight family visit and trains him on the evening walk.
Session summaryStormie's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-02 | 14:30
The best-reasoned of Stormie's short sessions.
Session summaryStormie's Go-Home Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-09-03 | 18:54
Topics: Stop before you shut him down; The leash is a prop; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsStormy Came Home To Visit—But Would Her Training Still Hold?
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Pressure, release, reward; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsDon't Rush a Nervous Dog | Kodak's Full Recall & Sit Session
A genuine Kodak session and the densest teaching in this reader's set.
Session summary5 Rules for Training a Nervous Dog Outside (Without Rushing)
A direct continuation of the previous video, worked on the same nervous, hypervigilant dog but with one change announced at the top: more negative reinforcement this time.
Session summaryLuna 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 tagsStormy's Down Gets Clearer—But It Isn't Finished | Full Session
A working session eleven days after the owner lesson, with the program's remaining gaps named in the first minute: place is really good, sit is there, pulling is gone, and what is left is the down and the heel.
Session summaryThor Refresher Lesson
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.
concept tagsZeus Go-Home Lesson Part 1
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog; Hidden help.
concept tagsStormie First In-Program Lesson Part 3
The substantive first half of Stormie's owner lesson.
Session summaryZeus 2nd In-Program Lesson Part 1
The second of the in-program lessons, five days before Zeus goes home, held at the owner's house with the dog present.
Session summaryLuna First In-Program Lesson Part 2
Topics: Hidden help; Meaningful release; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsKing 2nd In-Program Lesson
The pivot point of King's program, and the one session where the whole case is stated out loud.
Session summaryArchie & 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 summaryLuna Training Session
A follow-up to the previous recall session, and mostly a session about equipment.
Session summaryArchie & Lola Go-Home Lesson Part 2
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsLola Training Session
A hot-weather working session whose entire point sits in ninety seconds in the middle.
Session summaryLola Training Session Part 1
The longest and most explanatory Lola session in the set.
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
Topics: Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsZeus Training Session
A short flexi walk that exists to introduce the heel, and the only place in this reader's set where the trainer lays out his teaching model for a skill as a numbered process before using it.
Session summaryDutchess Training Session
A tune-up session late in Dutchess's program, worked alone and narrated for the channel.
Session summaryArchie & Lola First In-Program Lesson
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsDeuce In-Program Lesson #1 Part 2
The second half of Deuce's first owner lesson.
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 summaryDutchess In-Program Lesson #1 Part 1
The first in-program lesson for Dutchess, delivered to both owners at a shaded, deliberately distracting outdoor spot.
Session summaryRoxy & Ramsey Go-Home Lesson
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Control is not obedience; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsFinn In-Program Lesson #2 (Partial)
Topics: 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending; Reading the dog; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsRamsey Off-Leash + Heel Training Session Part 1
Ramsey is worked individually on heel, recall, down and ranging distance.
Session summaryLola Training Session Part 1
Lola's first outing with this trainer, and by his count only her second or third time off the property.
Session summaryFinn Training Session Part 1
Eight minutes of Finn on a long line in a place he has never been.
Session summaryRoxy & Ramsey Off-Leash Training Session
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Pressure, release, reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsDeuce Training Session
The best methodological session in Deuce's batch, and the only one that shows two handlers thinking out loud together.
Session summarySpending The Evening With Finn. ❤️ Part 1
Topics: Stop before you shut him down; Don't poison the command; Internal emotional change, not repression.
concept tagsDolce Training Session
A long park walk on a 50-foot long line, the last one before the line gets shorter.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
The trainer's second training session with Deuce, filmed at a park in the rain with no owner present.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
The earliest dated Deuce video in the corpus and, by the trainer's own count, the third time he has worked this dog and the second time out with him.
Session summaryLola Training Session Part 1
Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsFinn Home Depot Field Trip
A public-access field trip that turns into the clearest filmed example of a trainer pushing a fear case too far and saying so on camera.
Session summaryFinn Park Field Trip!
A short evening park session with a trainer who is new to Finn and says so.
Session summaryDolce 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 summaryLouie Training Session
A walk session on recall and radius, and the most articulate short note in Louie's file.
Session summaryDolce Training Session
Topics: Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; Hidden help; Don't poison the command.
concept tagsLouie & Sage Training Session!
A park session with two dogs and two handlers, dated as Sage's third filmed session.
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 summaryClark Kent—Go Home Lesson: How to Use What He Has Learned
Topics: Reading the dog; The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help.
concept tagsBo—Public Access Training Pt. 2
Four minutes in a parking lot before a store visit, and the whole value of it is one honest minute.
Session summaryBo Learning In Home Depot!
Bo's first published store session, and the one that states most of his history.
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