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The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts
110 videos indexed under this topic. Topic tags help you find relevant sessions; they do not mean the entire recording teaches this one idea.
Distance, duration and distraction are the dials that make a command harder, you raise one at a time - and the ones that catch people out are the ones nobody counts, starting with what the ground is made of.
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Rocko & 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 summaryRocko'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 summaryDolce's First In-Program Owner Lesson Part 2. | Full Session | 2026-07-28 | 13:32
Topics: The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; Meaningful release; Build the handler's timing while it is easy.
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 summaryDolce'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 | 2026-09-06 | 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 summaryLuna Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-01 | 17:20
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; False reps: the dog reads the chain, not the word.
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 tags3 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 Your Dog Hold Place When You Walk Away? | Stormy Full Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts.
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 tagsCan Your Dog Hold Place When You Walk Away? | Stormy Full Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts.
concept tagsLuna 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 tagsKodak Knows Place—Why Does Sit Stall Off the Cot? | Full Session
A thin but diagnostically useful Kodak session, and the only one in this reader's set that is indoors and worked by two people.
Session summaryKing | 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 summarySage | What Her Family Saw Come Home
This short film combines material from Sage's first in-program lesson and go-home lesson.
Session summaryWhy 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 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 summaryStormie First In-Program Lesson Part 3
The substantive first half of Stormie's owner lesson.
Session summaryStormie First In-Program Lesson Part 6
Topics: The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; Internal emotional change, not repression; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
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 On Hillsborough Street In Downtown Raleigh
Topics: Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; Don't heel grind; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts.
concept tagsZeus Training Session
A late-program session with no owner and no second handler, and the most complete progress assessment in the Zeus material.
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 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 tagsArchie & Lola Go-Home Lesson Part 1
The first half of the lesson in which both dogs are handed back.
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 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 Training Session Part 2
Explicitly the second half of a session whose first part is a separate video.
Session summaryRocko Training Session Part 2
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; Meaningful release.
concept tagsDeath Sentence Denied. Handsome Lad Louie Deserves The Best. Part 3 ❤️ — Angier K9 Dog Rescue
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask; Reading the dog.
concept tagsZeus In-Program Lesson #1
The first owner lesson of Zeus's summer program, eight days before the planned go-home.
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 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 summaryDutchess 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 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 summaryDutchess Training Session
Topics: Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
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 summaryZeus 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 summaryLuna Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsArchie & Lola Training Session Part 2
Topics: Meaningful release; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts.
concept tagsDutchess Training Session
Topics: The leash is a prop; Internal emotional change, not repression; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsDeuce Training Session
A morning session that doubles as the clearest account in this batch of how the program is run.
Session summaryDolce Boogeyman Phase 1
Ten minutes of boogeyman phase 1 with no narration whatsoever.
Session summaryLola Training Session
Topics: Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; False reps: the dog reads the chain, not the word.
concept tagsDutchess Training Session
A tune-up session late in Dutchess's program, worked alone and narrated for the channel.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
Short, late-program, and mostly consolidation.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
The second half of the 2026-08-01 outing, picked up after the battery died.
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 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 summaryRoxy & Ramsey In-Program Lesson #2 Part 2
Topics: Control is not obedience; Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsRoxy Field Trip To Michaels
Topics: The leash is a prop; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; Don't heel grind.
concept tagsRoxy & Ramsey make friends in Bass Pro Shop
The recording contains cues to Roxy and Ramsey, praise and exchanges with staff or customers in a large retail store.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
This recording focuses on heel practice, with come, down, release cues and praise between walking sequences.
Session summaryDeuce 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 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
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Assess before you ask; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsDutchess Training Session
A long, hot walk built around one job: get down working somewhere more interesting than a room.
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 summaryRoxy Training Session
A long park walk intersperses heel, sit, down and place practice with releases and exploration.
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 summaryDolce Training Session
A long park walk on a 50-foot long line, the last one before the line gets shorter.
Session summaryDolce Off-leash Training Session
The session where Dolce comes off the leash, and the reason it is worth a note is that the handler states his criteria out loud before he does it rather than after.
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 tagsDutchess Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Meaningful release; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts.
concept tagsSage The Beautiful In Tractor Supply!
Topics: Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; Reading the dog.
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 summaryLouie 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 walk session on recall and radius, and the most articulate short note in Louie's file.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
A short, sparsely narrated working session from the first week.
Session summaryRamsey Training Session
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help.
concept tagsFinn Training Session
Seven minutes of asking Finn for a down in the backyard, which he mostly does not give.
Session summaryFinn Training Session
An early in-house session published on the same date as Finn's first park upload; the matching publication dates do not establish the filming date or order.
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 summaryLouie & Sage Training Session!
A park session with two dogs and two handlers, dated as Sage's third filmed session.
Session summaryDolce In Home Depot!
Dolce's first outing in public, framed explicitly as a test rather than a lesson.
Session summaryLouie, Heel Focused Session
Topics: The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; Don't heel grind; Hidden help.
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 summaryLouie at the Park!
A distraction-proofing outing rather than a teaching session.
Session summaryBullet - 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 summaryPlace Cot Training w/Cat Distraction - Bullet!
A short deliberate test dropped into the middle of a much longer place-cot hold.
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 summaryBullet Training Walk!
The most complete piece of teaching in Bullet's footage.
Session summaryBullet pt2 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!
The second half of the owner visit, and the most informative Bullet material about the case itself.
Session summaryBullet pt1 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!
Topics: Show what not to do, allow everything else; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsTraining Sesh W/Bullet!
The session where the trainer overreaches on purpose, watches it fail, and then says so.
Session summaryField 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 summaryField Trip W/ Bullet To Ross!
A short field trip taking Bullet into a store.
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 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 summaryBo — Crate Work, Boarding Kennel Style!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The armor is the measure; Reading the dog.
concept tagsZeus — 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.
Session summaryLooking 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 summaryBo—Public Access Training Pt. 4
A four-minute segment with three small things in it.
Session summaryBo Meets Taz in Home Depot!
Little narration, lots of practice: Bo works sit, come, down and heel in a busy store while two other dogs share the aisles. Repeated down cues and reminders to go all the way down show what the handler is asking for.
Session summaryBo Learning In Home Depot!
Bo's first published store session, and the one that states most of his history.
Session summaryBo — Public Training/Heels
Bo works on heel in public, and it is still a struggle here. The trainer accepts a single pace match, tests down on a new surface with less leash help, and skips another down to let Bo decompress after the harder heel work.
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