Angier K9 · Training video library
Start with freedom
159 videos indexed under this topic. Topic tags help you find relevant sessions; they do not mean the entire recording teaches this one idea.
The first minutes of a session belong to the dog - sniffing, exploring, doing nothing much - and the work is dropped into that rather than replacing it, because the freedom is both the warm-up and the wage.
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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'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 summaryWhiskey's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-08 | 17:58
Topics: Hidden help; Start with freedom; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsDolce 1st In-Program Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-07-28 | 13:03
The first owner lesson of Dolce's in-program board-and-train, delivered as a walking briefing.
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 tagsBoog's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-08 | 13:24
Topics: Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward; The three stress reducers.
concept tagsKodak 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 tagsWhiskey's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-04 | 16:33
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Start with freedom; Hidden help.
concept tagsStormie's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-02 | 14:30
The best-reasoned of Stormie's short sessions.
Session summaryStormie's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-08-31 | 13:45
Topics: Start with freedom; Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsRocko 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 tagsLuna Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-03 | 17:20
The last working session before the handover, opening with a status report and a plan: off-leash heel, on-leash heel, down, sit and recall all reported as looking good, and the intention to take her into a store the next day to record the final go-home video - which is not what the go-home file actually shows.
Session summaryBun Learns Down: Recall, Release, and Reset | Full Session
Topics: Show what not to do, allow everything else; False reps: the dog reads the chain, not the word; Start with freedom.
concept tagsLuna’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 summaryWhy Your Dog Needs Breaks During a Training Walk
A short titled piece rather than a session, and on the audio a Rocko-only one: Rocko is the only dog named and Kodak is never mentioned.
Session summary3 Rules for a Better Public Training Walk | Dulce's Full Session
A public-access obedience walk at Downtown Cary Park, published with a teaching title.
Session summaryNervous or Disobedient? How to Tell | Luna's Full Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Freeze, flee or fight.
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 tagsHow to Train Around Distractions Without Micromanaging Your Dog
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Control is not obedience; Start with freedom.
concept tagsBun Was Afraid of the Stairs—Then He Climbed Them Alone | Complete Session
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help.
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 tags3 Priorities for a Fearful Dog's First Public Walk
The earliest-feeling Kodak material in this set: the trainer says outright that Kodak wants to bolt and does not trust him at all yet, and that he has deliberately asked for nothing.
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 summaryKodak Was Ready to Bolt—Then He Started Walking Closer
Topics: Start with freedom; Reading the dog; The flight-risk protocol, and the one command that matters.
concept tagsPiglet's Reactivity Breakthrough at Bass Lake | Heel, Recall & Real-World Proofing
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Start with freedom; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsBun Training Session Part 1
Topics: Show what not to do, allow everything else; False reps: the dog reads the chain, not the word; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsThor Refresher Training Session (We did 2 other sessions, but someone forgot his camera 😖)
Topics: Start with freedom; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAstro! Training & Cleaning (Shampooing the Rug!)
Topics: Start with freedom.
concept tagsRocko & Zuri Chan Training — Dog Reactivity
Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsDolce Training At Beautiful Downtown Cary Park!
The base cut of the Downtown Cary Park walk; x-lkgnxC6PE is the same session republished with a teaching title and a teaser on the front.
Session summaryZeus Go-Home Lesson Part 1
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog; Hidden help.
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 summaryZeus 2nd In-Program Lesson Part 2
The second in-program lesson, filmed as a continuation: the tape opens mid-sentence inside an e-collar remote walk-through that began in Part 1.
Session summaryLuna First In-Program Lesson Part 2
Topics: Hidden help; Meaningful release; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsZeus Training Session at the Sunflower Fields
A short outing with a stated plan attached to it: the sunflower field first, then downtown.
Session summaryZeus Training Session
A long, hot, almost silent walk on a greenway, and the note is thin because the session is.
Session summaryLuna Training Session
The trainer's first working session with Luna, outdoors, narrated to camera end to end.
Session summaryRocko Training Session Part 1
Training footage: Rocko.
A Rocko-only session - Kodak is not named or worked - written under Kodak's folder but belonging to Rocko.
Session summaryLola Training Session Part 1
The longest and most explanatory Lola session in the set.
Session summaryReaper Wolf Training Session Part 1
Topics: Start with freedom; The armor is the measure.
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 summarySamson Go-Home Lesson Part 2
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Hidden help; Start with freedom.
concept tagsFinn 🦌 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 tagsKing Training Session
A long, deliberately unhurried walk at a park the trainer has not used before, run as maintenance plus two specific projects.
Session summaryFinn Fully Off-Leash Again!
Finn worked off-leash in the open for twenty-three minutes, and the transcript's value is almost entirely in what the environment throws at him rather than in anything the handler says.
Session summaryKing Training Session
A maintenance walk, stated as such at the top: the trainer says King has mostly been doing protection work lately, so this session exists to check the rest of his commands are still there and to sharpen heel, which he names in advance as King's weak point.
Session summaryDolce Training Session
A working park walk with no narration to speak of.
Session summaryFinn Goes.. OFF-LEASH 🔥
Topics: Freedom is given in measured steps; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Start with freedom.
concept tagsDeuce Training Session Part 2
Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsFinn Training Session
The session that moves Finn one step closer to off leash.
Session summaryArchie Training Session
Topics: Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog.
concept tagsDutchess 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 tagsSimba Training Session Part 2
Topics: Start with freedom; Assess before you ask; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsRoxy & Ramsey In-Program Lesson #2 Part 2
Topics: Control is not obedience; Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward.
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 summaryRoxy & Ramsey At The Park
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsRamsey Off-Leash + Heel Training Session Part 1
Ramsey is worked individually on heel, recall, down and ranging distance.
Session summaryLola Training Session
A short outdoor working session, one day after OPVo9Qfkt38, and the first file in this set where the handler explains anything.
Session summaryArchie Training Session
Twelve minutes of a trainer working Archie alone, off in a field, with the camera running and almost nothing said to it.
Session summaryRamsey & Roxy First In-Program Lesson
The first in-program lesson for two dogs from one home.
Session summaryLola Training Session
Lola's second session, and the one that establishes the emotional frame the rest of her program runs on.
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 summaryFinn Training Session Part 1
Eight minutes of Finn on a long line in a place he has never been.
Session summaryDutchess Training Session
A long, hot walk built around one job: get down working somewhere more interesting than a room.
Session summaryFinn Training Session
The densest ordinary session in Finn's set, and effectively a lecture delivered while working the dog.
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 summaryRoxy Training Session
A long park walk intersperses heel, sit, down and place practice with releases and exploration.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
Thirteen minutes of tug play with Roxy, interleaved with short obedience inserts.
Session summaryRoxy 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 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 summaryDolce 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 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 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 summarySage Off-Leash At The Park
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Pressure, release, reward; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsDutchess Training Session
Topics: Hidden help; Start with freedom; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsSage Field Trip To Lowes
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Control is not obedience; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsSage Pre-Gaming In-Program Lesson #1!
A sparsely narrated park recording on a hot day, titled as preparation for Sage's first in-program lesson.
Session summaryDolce Training Session Park
Topics: Meaningful release; Build the handler's timing while it is easy; The three stress reducers.
concept tagsSage In-Program Lesson #1!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Control is not obedience.
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 tagsRoxy Training Session
Topics: The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; Start with freedom; You have to be able to reward him at all.
concept tagsRoxy Training Session
The handler describes sit practice, access to a pool and a planned second session later that day.
Session summarySage Training Session
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Assess before you ask; Hidden help.
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 summarySage, Home Context Training
The fifth dated session, one of three published the same day.
Session summarySage Training Session
Topics: Start with freedom; Don't heel grind; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts.
concept tagsDolce 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 summaryRoxy — Before Training Video
The handler introduces this as Roxy's first official training-day baseline, intended for comparison with later footage.
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 summaryRottweiler Private Lesson Part 1
Topics: Start with freedom; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsDolce In Home Depot!
Dolce's first outing in public, framed explicitly as a test rather than a lesson.
Session summarySavage In-Program Lesson
Topics: Reading the dog; Start with freedom.
concept tagsApollo 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.
concept tagsBaxter & Tyson Private Lesson Part 2
Topics: Hidden help; The leash is a prop; Start with freedom.
concept tagsQuick 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.
Session summaryApollo In-Program Lesson #1 Part 1!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Start with freedom; Hidden help.
concept tagsLouie at the Park!
A distraction-proofing outing rather than a teaching session.
Session summaryExcellent 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 Walkies Part 2!
A thirty-four minute trail walk that turns into the most useful diagnostic 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 tagsBullet — Proofing Heels ft Angier K9
An ordinary morning walk that the trainer says up front will have a little training in it along the way, and that is exactly what it is.
Session summaryMax — Go Home Lesson ft Angier K9
Topics: Reading the dog; Start with freedom; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsLevi—Follow Up, Part 2
Topics: Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsMax's Go Home Lesson Part 2!
Topics: Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between; Don't heel grind; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsBaxter — First Private Training Session Part 1
Topics: Social pressure; Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAborted Training Session With Bullet - Mind The Emotional State!
Four minutes that exist because the session did not work.
Session summaryMax #3 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!
Topics: Start with freedom; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsWorking On Everything With Max! Smart Boy! Solid Training Session.
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; Start with freedom.
concept tagsEarly Training Sesh With Thor!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Start with freedom; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsBullet — 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 summaryAstro 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.
concept tagsPlay Session with Thor!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Start with freedom; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
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 summaryLouie — In-Program Lesson with His Owner, Part 3
Topics: Reading the dog; Freeze, flee or fight; Start with freedom.
concept tags · Owner-corrected review label; original YouTube title preserved in source snapshotDay 1 With Max!
Topics: Hidden help; Reading the dog; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsPart 2 — Jack, Exposure Therapy with a Nervous Dog
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; Start with freedom.
concept tagsPart 1 — Jack Exposure Therapy with a Nervous Dog
Topics: Start with freedom; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsRocky — In Program Lesson #3
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Don't heel grind.
concept tagsSampson — Heel Work and Recalls!
Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between.
concept tagsRocky — In-Program Lesson
Topics: Start with freedom; The three stress reducers; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsBernie — Off Leash!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Control is not obedience; Hidden help.
concept tagsBernie — Go Home Lesson #1!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Reading the dog.
concept tagsJack — First Day Training!
Topics: Hidden help; Start with freedom; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsHandsome Man Bernie Going To Tractor Supply! Part 2!
Topics: Start with freedom; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsIrwin — Introduction and Walkies! (Part 1)
Topics: Assess before you ask; Start with freedom; Freeze, flee or fight.
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 #3
Topics: Reading the dog; Hidden help; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsZeus — Downs and Recalls!
The second of the two March sessions, four months before the board-and-train.
Session summaryLouie Working On Focus Training!
Topics: Start with freedom.
concept tagsApollo — Go Home Lesson!
Topics: Control is not obedience; The leash is a prop; Don't heel grind.
concept tagsPenny — Recalls and Heels!
Topics: Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between; Start with freedom; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsJosi — Place Work!
Topics: Start with freedom; Meaningful release; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsApollo — Walks and Heels!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help.
concept tagsStormy — Private Lesson 1
Topics: Start with freedom; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsThumper — Downs and Place Work!
Topics: Start with freedom.
concept tagsFiona — Walks and Place Work!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Start with freedom; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsBo — 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 summaryHattie — Focus Training! pt2
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Start with freedom; Hidden help.
concept tagsMurphy — Go Home Lesson! Aggression Check
Topics: Control is not obedience; Reading the dog; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsDrago—Go Home Lesson
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The four windows, and calm liberty; Reading the dog.
concept tagsBo — Full Go Home Lesson With Client!
The handover, and the single densest piece of teaching in Bo's file.
Session summaryBo — 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 summaryPK — Heels/Recalls 1!
Topics: Start with freedom.
concept tagsSuper Bo! Public Access Training Pt. 3
Topics: Start with freedom; The correction that did not work; Reading the dog.
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—Public Access Training Pt. 1
A calm, low-demand outing: Bo gets time to explore before down practice and a visit to a busy, dog-friendly store. The trainer asks for a cleaner down, then pauses to talk with someone in the store.
Session summaryBo — Focus Training/Recalls
An early session in Bo's program, filmed as a teaching video.
Session summaryBo — Focus Training/Recalls pt. 2
A quiet, deliberately low-distraction session with two jobs.
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.
concept tagsTraining Session in the Woods with Ace!
Topics: Hidden help; Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward.
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