Angier K9 · Training video library
Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest
86 videos indexed under this topic. Topic tags help you find relevant sessions; they do not mean the entire recording teaches this one idea.
Play is the payment, and play means a possession contest you let him win - the out is a bell rather than a telling-off, and the command is how the dog turns the game back on.
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Stormi's First In-Program Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-09-13 | 09:46
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help.
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 | 2026-09-06 | 09:48
A long walk-and-play session, mid-program, that doubles as the clearest statement in this set of what the trainer is actually trying to buy for Kodak.
Session summaryKodak Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-01 | 13:51
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.
concept tagsDolce's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-06 | 19:10
A play and grip session that doubles as obedience proofing.
Session summaryKodak'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 summaryDolce's 3rd In-Program Owner Lesson| Full Session | 2026-09-02 | 12:25
Topics: Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; Go and look at the scary thing; Build the handler's timing while it is easy.
concept tagsKodak's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-03 | 18:19
A clean, single-purpose session: teach down from nothing, using the ball.
Session summaryRocko'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 tagsKodak's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-06 | 21:55
A short, mostly silent working session with Kodak in a field: down, heel with turns, and ball play, with long unrecorded stretches between reps.
Session summaryRocko Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-06 | 22:20
Training footage: Rocko.
Topics: Hidden help; Start with freedom; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.
concept tagsZeus Go-Home Lesson Part 1
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog; Hidden help.
concept tagsZeus Go-Home Lesson Part 2
The tail of the go-home visit, published as a separate three-minute clip.
Session summaryKing Go-Home Lesson
The last appointment of King's program: the trainer drives him home, hands him over, and spends the time making sure the owner can run the dog rather than re-training the dog.
Session summaryZeus Training Session Part 2
Explicitly the second half of a session whose first part is a separate video.
Session summaryReaper Wolf Training Session Part 2
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.
concept tagsDeath Sentence Denied. Handsome Lad Louie Deserves The Best. Part 7 ❤️ — Angier K9 Dog Rescue
The shortest part, and the one that closes the plan Part 1 opened.
Session summaryDeath Sentence Denied. Handsome Lad Louie Deserves The Best. Part 5 ❤️ — Angier K9 Dog Rescue
The second half of the placement-day meal, and the part that answers the series title.
Session summaryKing Training Session
A tight proofing session built around one idea: King's payment is the ball, so the ball is what his positions get tested against.
Session summaryKing In-Program Lesson #1
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; The dog tells you the reward; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsDutchess In-Program Lesson #2 Part 2
The second in-program owner lesson, at the owners' house, in the last week of Dutchess's board-and-train.
Session summaryDolce Training Session
A working park walk with no narration to speak of.
Session summaryArchie Training Session
Topics: Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog.
concept tagsDeuce Training Session
A morning session that doubles as the clearest account in this batch of how the program is run.
Session summaryDolce — Sleeve
Short but one of the most useful clips in the Dolce set, because it states the criterion and the contingency for sleeve work.
Session summaryZeus (TUG MONSTER!) Long-Line + Obedience Session ❤️
Early-program work, and the clearest record in the Zeus material of how the down was actually built.
Session summaryZeus — Possession Games
Sixteen minutes of down-and-tug, with almost no narration and one very good sentence in it.
Session summaryDeuce In-Program Lesson #2 Part 1
The second in-program owner lesson, filmed in one continuous take until the recorder's limit cut it at twenty-nine minutes.
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 Training Session
The first session in this batch where the heel is actually taught, and the first at a named public venue.
Session summaryDolce Drive-Building Session
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.
concept tagsDeuce 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 summaryZeus Training Session! 💪🏻
Twelve days into the board-and-train, a mostly wordless session whose few spoken lines are the trainer's assessment of Zeus as a play dog and a short progress report for the owner.
Session summaryRamsey & Roxy First In-Program Lesson
The first in-program lesson for two dogs from one home.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.
concept tagsDeuce Training Session
This note is mostly a record that the file is nearly empty, which is the honest thing to say about it.
Session summaryFinn MAKES A HUMAN FRIEND at the park!!!!
Three and a half weeks into the program, this is the session that shows the change rather than teaching it.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
The best methodological session in Deuce's batch, and the only one that shows two handlers thinking out loud together.
Session summaryZeus Training Session
An early session, and the source of a narration block that later turns up in two compilation videos.
Session summaryAddressing Phobias In Dog Training. King, working through Fan-Phobia in Lowes.
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsFinn 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 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 Training Session
Thirteen minutes of tug play with Roxy, interleaved with short obedience inserts.
Session summaryTraining Session With Finn - State Park
An hour-long hike at a state park with one job: open Finn up.
Session summaryKing Training Session
A routine working session, two weeks after the first park trip.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
The most methodologically explicit of Roxy's solo sessions.
Session summaryDolce Training Session Park
Topics: Meaningful release; Build the handler's timing while it is easy; The three stress reducers.
concept tagsKing Training Session Part 1
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; Start with freedom.
concept tagsKing Training Session Part 2
Topics: Stop before you shut him down; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; Meaningful release.
concept tagsRamsey Training Session
Ramsey practices around the facility pool while the handler discusses place, play and an anticipated departure home.
Session summaryKing Training Session
Almost all lecture, with King as the demonstration.
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 tagsLouie Training Session
A short, light session in the training yard: pool, ball, some recall reps on a shortened tab leash, and a down.
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 summaryDolce Training Session
Topics: Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; Hidden help; Don't poison the command.
concept tagsKing Training Session
Three minutes in a backyard, undated, with a handler who has not worked with King before and wants a few quick reps to see what he has.
Session summaryDolce Training Session
A heel session that turns into a teaching session for the handler.
Session summaryDolce Training Session
Probably Dolce's first heel session, and the handler says so twice while hedging that another trainer may have done some already.
Session summaryGroup 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.
Session summaryDolce Training Session!
Topics: Assess before you ask; The dog tells you the reward; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.
concept tagsBullet - 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.
Session summaryBullet Training Walk!
The most complete piece of teaching in Bullet's footage.
Session summaryPlay & 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.
Session summaryCosmo — Focus Learning and Heels ft Angier K9!
Topics: 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.
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 tagsTraining Sesh w/The Legend: BULLET!
A short, affectionate, single-purpose session.
Session summaryTraining Sesh With Bullet!
The third take of day six, recorded right after the tug breakthrough in the previous take, and the video where the trainer says what the breakthrough is worth.
Session summaryTraining Sesh With Bullet!
Seven minutes of play, and the session where the thing the trainer has been hunting for since day one finally happens: Bullet takes a toy in his mouth.
Session summaryLevi #3 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!
Topics: Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.
concept tagsDay 3 Play & Train w/Bullet At Angier K9!
A play-and-train session in the yard, and the first time Bullet is worked at the facility rather than out on walks.
Session summaryWorking Heel, Play, Etc, with Bullet At Angier K9! (Sorry for the Audio Issues!)
A daily play session at the facility that doubles as the channel's explainer on heel.
Session summaryOzzy! Day 1 - Chilling on the Couch, Playing Outside! Getting Comfy!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Pressure, release, reward; Reading the dog.
concept tagsAkira #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.
concept tagsBernie — Go Home Lesson #1!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Reading the dog.
concept tagsApollo — Go Home Lesson pt2!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The leash is a prop; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsLooking Dapper with Bo!
Twenty-one minutes of planned solo work, and the most instructional of Bo's sessions.
Session summaryBo — Heels and Uppies!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; Meaningful release.
concept tagsTraining Session - Loose-Leash, Sit, Place, Down, Heel Entry, Heel, Come, etc. w/Bo
The fullest and most explicit of Bo's sessions, and the one that reads most like a curriculum.
Session summaryThumper — School Training!
Topics: Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between.
concept tagsClark 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 — Follow Up Fine Tuning!
Topics: Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsOscar — Implied Stays/Recalls
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.
concept tagsBo — Focus Training/Recalls
An early session in Bo's program, filmed as a teaching video.
Session summaryBo Recalls/Heels pt. 2
Mostly a trail conversation, with brief down practice and a look at Bo's limited interest in the ball. The trainer explains that he is trying to build that interest and discusses how play can support motivation and engagement.
Session summaryBo — Recalls/Heels
A seventeen-minute proofing walk at Bass Lake Park, and the single most informative Bo session in this set.
Session summaryBo at the Park—Training and Play
Topics: Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
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