Angier K9 · Training video library
Stop before you shut him down
109 videos indexed under this topic. Topic tags help you find relevant sessions; they do not mean the entire recording teaches this one idea.
Some stress is how a dog learns, but a dog who has stopped trying has stopped learning - so stop the repetition, not the programme, and come back to it another time.
Concept answer prepared for Kelton’s review.
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Angier K9 | Chunk's 1st In-Program Owner Lesson (Part 2) | Full Session | 2026-09-14 | 18:37
Topics: Pressure, release, reward; Stop before you shut him down; Build the handler's timing while it is easy.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormi's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-09 | 13:33
Topics: Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormi Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-09 | 13:12
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormi's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-08 | 19:45
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; Social pressure.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bun's 2nd In-Program Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-09-02 | 15:48
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormie's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-08-31 | 11:46
A field session on the down, and the most instructive failure in Stormie's set.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Dog Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-03 | 14:20
Topics: Stop before you shut him down; Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormie's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-02 | 14:30
The best-reasoned of Stormie's short sessions.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Luna'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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Luna's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-02 | 17:32
A deliberately short second session on a day that had already worn her out.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Stormi's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-06 | 21:04
Topics: Hidden help; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormie'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 tagsAngier K9 | Stormie'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 tagsAngier K9 | Bun's Off-Leash Test: What Worked and What Needs Work
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Rocko's City Walk: Heel, Dog Distractions, and Breaks
Topics: Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | 3 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Kodak 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 tagsAngier K9 | Kodak 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Rocko vs. Distractions with Zuri Chan | Real-World Dog Reactivity Training
Topics: Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Ozzy's Confidence Breakthrough | Full Fearful Dog Training Check-In
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Assess before you ask; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | King | 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Sage Go-Home Lesson
Topics: Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; The leash is a prop; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | King & 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Stormie 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 tagsAngier K9 | Luna Training Session
A follow-up to the previous recall session, and mostly a session about equipment.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Archie & 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 tagsAngier K9 | Luna Training Session
The trainer's first working session with Luna, outdoors, narrated to camera end to end.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Zeus Training Session Part 2
Explicitly the second half of a session whose first part is a separate video.
Tier 1 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Lola Training Session Part 1
A mid-program session in bad conditions, and the most candid one about what is not working.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Titan Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; The dog tells you the reward; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Lola Training Session
Topics: Reading the dog; Stop before you shut him down; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Finn Training Session
A public-access outing to Home Depot whose single purpose is stated plainly in the middle of it: the trainer is there hoping people will want to pet Finn.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Dutchess In-Program Lesson #1 Part 2
The second half of the same lesson, and the half where the owners do most of the talking.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Finn 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 tagsAngier K9 | Zuri & I try to open Finn Up to Play
Fifty-seven minutes of the handler putting a persistent, socially pushy female dog, Zuri, in a room with Finn to see whether she can get him to play.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Lola Training Session Part 1
Lola's first outing with this trainer, and by his count only her second or third time off the property.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Ramsey & Roxy First In-Program Lesson
The first in-program lesson for two dogs from one home.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Dutchess Training Session
A trainer who has not handled Dutchess before takes her out for ten minutes between appointments, and because everything is new to him he narrates his reasoning for all of it.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Finn Training Session
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Assess before you ask; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Zeus Training Session
An early session, and the source of a narration block that later turns up in two compilation videos.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Addressing 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 tagsAngier K9 | Finn 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Spending The Evening With Finn. ❤️ Part 1
Topics: Stop before you shut him down; Don't poison the command; Internal emotional change, not repression.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Deuce 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Lola Training Session Part 1
Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Dutchess Training Session
Topics: Hidden help; Start with freedom; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Sage Field Trip To Lowes
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Control is not obedience; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Finn 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Archie Training Session
Topics: Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Sage In-Program Lesson #1!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Control is not obedience.
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 tagsAngier K9 | King Training Session
Almost all lecture, with King as the demonstration.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Sage Training Session
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Assess before you ask; Hidden help.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Louie 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 tagsAngier K9 | Louie Training Session Part 1
Topics: Stop before you shut him down; The armor is the measure; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Dolce 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.
Tier 1 session summaryLouie Training Session
A walk session on recall and radius, and the most articulate short note in Louie's file.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Finn At The Park Part 1!
Finn's first trip out of the facility, and the session that sets the terms of the whole case.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | At 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.
Tier 1 session summaryDolce Training Session
Topics: Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest; Hidden help; Don't poison the command.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Finn Training Session
Seven minutes of asking Finn for a down in the backyard, which he mostly does not give.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Finn Training Session
An early in-house session, the same day as Finn's first park trip.
Tier 1 session summaryDolce Training Session
A heel session that turns into a teaching session for the handler.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Dolce Training Session
Probably Dolce's first heel session, and the handler says so twice while hedging that another trainer may have done some already.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | E-Collar Experimentation
Topics: Stop before you shut him down; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Kelton Dons the E-Collar & Gets Leashed Up for Heel Mechanics Practice Session!
Topics: Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Dolce Training Session!
Topics: Assess before you ask; The dog tells you the reward; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Louie, Home Context Training
A home-context session in which a visiting senior trainer audits where Louie has got to and pushes him one step further: off leash, in a house, on place and down.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Sage Home Context Training
Topics: Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bumblebee!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsMore Finn Acclimation Footage
Topics: Reading the dog; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Teaching A New Trainer By Having Him Stand In For The Dog
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Part 2 Ozzie In-Program Lesson #1!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; The dog tells you the reward; Social pressure.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Ozzy - Place & Home Context Training
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Social pressure; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bullet Training Walk!
The most complete piece of teaching in Bullet's footage.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Training Sesh W/Bullet!
The session where the trainer overreaches on purpose, watches it fail, and then says so.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Rocky Follow up pt 2 ft Angier K9!
Topics: Control is not obedience; The dog tells you the reward; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Day 2, Part 2, Bullet—Learning at the Park
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Baxter — First Private Training Session Part 2
Topics: Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Baxter — First Private Training Session Part 1
Topics: Social pressure; Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Aborted Training Session With Bullet - Mind The Emotional State!
Four minutes that exist because the session did not work.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Simba (Day 1) — Environmental Learning and Recalls with Angier K9!
Topics: Hidden help; Social pressure; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Sometimes Dog Training Is Just Hanging Out Ft. Bullet
The companion piece to the aborted session, and the video where the underlying doctrine gets said out loud.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Neo (Part 1 — Conquering the Downs ft Angier K9!
Topics: Stop before you shut him down; Social pressure.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bullet — 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.
Tier 1 session summaryThor Day 1 — Out in the Park, Learning Recalls and Sits with Angier K9
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Part 1 — Jack Exposure Therapy with a Nervous Dog
Topics: Start with freedom; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bernie Learning A TON going for Walkies!!! Part 2
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Stop before you shut him down; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Astro & Akira! — Place Duration & Home Context Training
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Day 2 Full Training Sesh with Akira! 🔥
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Shadow — Sits and Heel Work!
Topics: Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Rocky — Day 1! He's learning so fast! All on a Flat Collar! ☺️
Topics: Start with freedom; Meaningful release; Freeze, flee or fight.
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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Roman — Evaluation Time!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The leash is a prop; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Protection Training With Bane, South African Mastiff!
Topics: Hidden help; The leash is a prop; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Penny — Go Home Lesson!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Social pressure.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Clark Kent at Home Depot!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Chester—General Obedience and Training Discussion
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog; Start with freedom.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Private Lesson with 3 dogs having problems in the household. Ft. Sputnik, Bear, & Astra
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog; Social pressure.
concept tagsBo — Follow Up Fine Tuning!
Topics: Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Drago—Go Home Lesson
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The four windows, and calm liberty; Reading the dog.
concept tagsHow To Punish Inappropriate Nipping, Jumping, etc. #dogtrainer #dogtraining #viral #fyp #dogbehavior
Topics: Social pressure; The dog tells you the reward; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bo — Focus Training/Recalls
An early session in Bo's program, filmed as a teaching video.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Bo — Focus Training/Recalls pt. 2
A quiet, deliberately low-distraction session with two jobs.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Gunny & Luna— Go Home Lesson pt 2
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; Reading the dog.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Gunny & Luna — Go Home Lesson Pt. 1
Topics: Hidden help; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Ace — Sit duration/Recall pt2
Topics: Stop before you shut him down.
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