Angier K9 · Training video library
He has to be allowed to get it wrong
100 videos indexed under this topic. Topic tags help you find relevant sessions; they do not mean the entire recording teaches this one idea.
A prepared test can reveal what an easy demonstration cannot, but creating an error is a case-specific method with explicit limits.
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Kali & Kane 1st In-Program Lesson Part 1 | Full Session | 2026-09-14 | 18:41
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Start with freedom; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsReaper's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-11 | 15:47
Topics: A life that gets smaller, and the bargain; The correction that did not work; Assess before you ask.
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 summarySofia's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-10 | 21:18
Topics: Hidden help; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsKane's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-08 | 17:09
Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsRocko's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-08 | 21:02
A deliberately light session: a walk through downtown Angier with Rocko, letting him sniff, practising things he already knows, and working on the one thing the trainer wants better, which is the heel.
Session summaryLuna's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-08-28 | 21:03
The long one, and the most substantial single session in Luna's footage.
Session summaryBun's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-08-28 | 15:18
Topics: Control is not obedience; Internal emotional change, not repression; Freedom is given in measured steps.
concept tagsBandit's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-03 | 14:11
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsRocko's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-03 | 18:45
Topics: Hidden help; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsLuna's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-02 | 16:48
A short long-line session the day before the handover, and the only file in this set with a second staff member in it, which turns the narration into a conversation rather than a monologue.
Session summaryLuna’s Training Walk | Full Session
A solo working walk, framed at the top as a catch-up session on a day the trainer does not normally work.
Session summaryBun's Walk, Part 2: When to Help—and When to Stop
Topics: Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsHow Bandit Learned Down in One Walk: 4 Decisions | Complete Session
Topics: He has to be allowed to get it wrong; Hidden help; Internal emotional change, not repression.
concept tagsCan Bun Stay Calm While the Trail Gets Busier? | Full Session
Topics: Control is not obedience; Internal emotional change, not repression; Freedom is given in measured steps.
concept tagsCan Rocko Ignore Another Dog? | Full Recall & Heel Session
Training footage: Rocko. Also discussed: Kodak and their shared training plan.
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; He has to be allowed to get it wrong; Control is not obedience.
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 summaryYour Dog Doesn't Know "Sit" the Way You Think | Bandit's Full Training Session
Topics: Reading the dog; Hidden help; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tags5 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 Down—So Why Did the New Surface Change Everything? | Full Session
A short night outing in downtown Angier whose single purpose is the down.
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 tagsBun Saw the Other Dog—Then Made This Choice
Topics: Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty; Social pressure.
concept tagsDog Reactivity to Cats: Piglet Learns to Walk Away | Full Training Lesson
Topics: He has to be allowed to get it wrong; Reading the dog; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsCalypso Learns a Real Heel | Full Great Dane Training Session
Topics: Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsTeaching Bun “Down”: How I Fade Help | Full Dog Training Session
Topics: Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsKing | From Safety Line to Family-Led Freedom
The last working session before King goes home, and by the end it turns into the owner lesson itself.
Session summaryThe Aggressive Choice, the Consequence, and What Happened Next | Zeus
Published as a single session on 08-21, but it is a cut of the same rushes as XXlQAQUTiZ4's longer assembly, and it ends mid-sentence at 37:19 exactly where that longer cut continues.
Session summaryKing | His Son Gave the Command — Then His Owner Took the Walk
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The three stress reducers; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.
concept tagsWhy King Earned Off-Leash Freedom
Topics: The three stress reducers; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsZeus | Foundation, Consequence, and the Dogs Waiting at Home
A long assembled video rather than one session, and the assembly is visible: at 05:17 two separate narrations are spliced mid-sentence, and the material from 02:45 onward is the same footage published as LgtaqFU0MiM, zG4zTGj9z8g, o0b_WoOMJ0A and C-te71IOKqA.
Session summaryRocko & Zuri Chan Training — Dog Reactivity
Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsPiglet First In-Program Lesson
Topics: Pressure, release, reward; The four windows, and calm liberty; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsZeus & Zuri Chan - Correcting Dog Aggression At The Big Field In Dix Park
The original footage of the Zeus dog-aggression test, and the source of the field material later re-cut into LgtaqFU0MiM and XXlQAQUTiZ4.
Session summaryZeus Go-Home Lesson Part 1
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog; Hidden help.
concept tagsZeus 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 summaryKing 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 summaryStormie Training Session
Topics: False reps: the dog reads the chain, not the word; He has to be allowed to get it wrong; Reading the dog.
concept tagsLola Training Session
A hot-weather working session whose entire point sits in ninety seconds in the middle.
Session summaryLola Training Session Part 2
Five minutes of debrief immediately after a bolt, and it is the most explicitly reasoned piece of teaching in Lola's record.
Session summaryLola Training Session Part 1
The longest and most explanatory Lola session in the set.
Session summaryKing Training Session
Topics: Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsZeus 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 tagsDutchess In-Program Lesson #2 Part 3
The last third of the same home visit, picked up immediately after the recorder hit its thirty-minute limit.
Session summaryFinn Training Session
The session that moves Finn one step closer to off leash.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
A morning session that doubles as the clearest account in this batch of how the program is run.
Session summaryFinn Training Session
A quiet 50-foot-line session whose stated purpose is to catch Finn failing.
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 tagsRoxy & Ramsey In-Program Lesson #2 Part 3
The third labeled part of the second owner lesson includes a discussion of trainer assistance during earlier owner handling, a door exercise with Roxy, and work with Ramsey around specific objects and a blind corner identified by the owners.
Session summaryRoxy & Ramsey Go-Home Lesson
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Control is not obedience; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsRoxy & Ramsey Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Say it bluntly or it will not land.
concept tagsFinn Training Session
The densest ordinary session in Finn's set, and effectively a lecture delivered while working the dog.
Session summaryFinn In-Program Lesson #1
Topics: Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; The level is not a number; Thinking is what makes it better.
concept tagsRoxy Long-Line Session
A long-line session in public whose stated purpose is proofing: Roxy already knows sit, down, come and the beginnings of heel, and the work is to make them hold while people and other dogs walk past.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
The most methodologically explicit of Roxy's solo sessions.
Session summarySage Training Session
An outdoor long-line session with Sage and another handler working Ramsey.
Session summaryRamsey Training Session
Ramsey practices around the facility pool while the handler discusses place, play and an anticipated departure home.
Session summaryLouie Training Session
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; Reliability is what you have not tested.
concept tagsFinn Training Session!
A short session in the facility's own training yard, and the one that names Finn's problem most precisely.
Session summaryLouie Training Session
A long, almost wordless working session of recall, down, sit, heel and place, broken once by the most useful minute and a half in Louie's file.
Session summaryRoxy Home Context Training
The trainer describes a goal of allowing Roxy to move around a living space and settle without always being sent to place.
Session summaryAt Agri Supply W/ Sage Part 2
A newer staff member takes Sage through Agri Supply on what he says is his first day handling her, narrating to the camera.
Session summaryPlace Cot & Home Context With Anna
Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsPeque during her recent Refresher Program Part 2!
Topics: Control is not obedience; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsOzzy Home Context Training Session!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsKing & 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.
Session summaryThor Refresher Program Pickup
Topics: The leash is a prop; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsMore Work With Dolce (All In German!)
A short, clean session very early in Dolce's program, and the first video in this reader's set to state the German policy outright: all her commands are in German, and the handler says plainly that this is not fun for him and that he still has to learn the words.
Session summaryFionita At The Park!
Topics: Control is not obedience; Pressure, release, reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsPart 2 Home Context Training With Louie!
A short, honest, and unusually explicit statement of intent.
Session summaryMax Go-Home Lesson Part 3!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help.
concept tagsExcellent Training Session, No Leash Needed At The Park. - BULLET!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Start with freedom; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsBullet Training Walk!
The most complete piece of teaching in Bullet's footage.
Session summaryThor (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.
concept tagsTraining Sesh W/Bullet!
The session where the trainer overreaches on purpose, watches it fail, and then says so.
Session summaryLuci pt4 — In Person Evaluation ft Angier K9!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty.
concept tags · Owner-corrected review label; original YouTube title preserved in source snapshotField Trip W/ Bullet To Michaels!
A store field trip built around down, heel and duration, with two teaching moments that matter more than the reps.
Session summaryTraining Sesh with Bullet at Angier K9!
A short, loose morning session in the yard that shows the program a few days past the play breakthrough.
Session summaryKalypso — Place Cot Learning with Angier K9!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Social pressure; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsAkira — In Public Focus Training with Angier K9!
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; Hidden help.
concept tagsBernie — Go Home Lesson #2!
Topics: Hidden help; Control is not obedience; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsDay 2 Full Training Sesh with Akira! 🔥
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsRocky — Day 1! He's learning so fast! All on a Flat Collar! ☺️
Topics: Start with freedom; Meaningful release; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAstro — Update Evaluation
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Social pressure; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAstro — Update Evaluation #3
Topics: Reading the dog; Hidden help; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsJosi and Milo — Downs and Recalls pt 1
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsMore Crate Work with Bo from a couple weeks ago
A short, efficient crate repetition with Connor, and the most explicit statement of the case anywhere in Bo's sessions: crate aggression and resource guarding, with the underlying problem named as Bo not wanting to give to pressure from someone who isn't the primary trainer.
Session summaryPenny at Tractor Supply!
Topics: Assess before you ask; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsLooking Dapper with Bo!
Twenty-one minutes of planned solo work, and the most instructional of Bo's sessions.
Session summaryAddressing Crate Aggression w/Bo.
A deliberately staged test of Bo's crate aggression, run with two staff handlers Bo has had trouble with.
Session summaryFiona — Go Home Lesson!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsBo — Follow Up Fine Tuning!
Topics: Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsPK — Public Training! pt3
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsBo — Focus Training/Heels/Recalls 11!
Mostly narration over brief footage: the trainer describes Bo checking out nearby people on a long line and moving on without an obedience cue, then explains why dogs need choices and how to respond when a choice goes wrong.
Session summaryDrago — Focus Training/Heels/Recalls 2!
Topics: He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsBo — Focus Training/Heels/Recalls 13!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; Internal emotional change, not repression.
concept tagsLucia — Focus Training/Heels/Recalls 8!
Topics: Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsLucia — Focus Training
Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.
concept tagsBo — Recalls/Heels
A seventeen-minute proofing walk at Bass Lake Park, and the single most informative Bo session in this set.
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