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Freeze, flee or fight
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Push any dog hard enough and he freezes, runs or fights - and while he is panicking he cannot pick the good option even when he knows one.
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Angier K9 | 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 tagsAngier K9 | Mazi's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-09 | 16:19
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Kodak'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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Titan's Go-Home Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-09-05 | 17:24
Topics: Assess before you ask; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Mazi's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-08 | 17:43
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Luna's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-08-28 | 21:03
The long one, and the most substantial single session in Luna's footage.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier 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 | Kodak'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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Bun Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-02 | 00:29
Topics: Show what not to do, allow everything else; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; Hidden help.
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 | Luna’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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Nervous 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 tagsAngier K9 | Stormy Came Home To Visit—But Would Her Training Still Hold?
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Pressure, release, reward; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
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 | 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 | What Her Family Saw Come Home
The trainer lays out what he saw when Sage arrived: mellow ninety percent of the time, no command at verbal-only fluency or with duration, off the command at any distraction, and - the scary one - random fear of loud noises with no recall once spooked, which he calls the thing most likely to cause her harm.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Fiona Meets The Bissell! Training & Cleaning!
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
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 | Zeus 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Piglet & Zuri Chan Training Session On Hillsborough Street In Downtown Raleigh
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsAngier K9 | King 2nd In-Program Lesson
The pivot point of King's program, and the one session where the whole case is stated out loud.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Archie & 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Archie & Lola Go-Home Lesson Part 1
The first half of the lesson in which both dogs are handed back.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Shadow Training Session
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Lola 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Simba & Cosmo Go-Home Lesson
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsDeath 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 summaryDeath Sentence Denied. Handsome Lad Louie Deserves The Best. Part 4 ❤️ — Angier K9 Dog Rescue
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; Reliability is what you have not tested.
concept tagsAngier 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 | Finn 🦌 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 tagsAngier K9 | Hattie Pattie Finds Her New Home ❤️
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Reading the dog; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Dutchess 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Go-Home Lesson Part 3 (Camera died at the end)
The tail of the handover, and it splits cleanly in two.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Go-Home Lesson Part 2
Topics: Don't heel grind; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Roxy & Ramsey Go-Home Lesson
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Control is not obedience; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
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 | Ramsey Off-Leash + Heel Training Session Part 1
Roxy is not in this session, and the note exists in her folder for one reason: it contains the clearest statement of the problem of training two dogs from one household, and the plan for fixing it.
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 | Finn Training Session
The densest ordinary session in Finn's set, and effectively a lecture delivered while working the dog.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Roxy & Ramsey Off-Leash Training Session
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Pressure, release, reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier 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 tagsFinn 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 tagsAngier K9 | Lola Training Session Part 1
Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Sage Training Session
Sage's last dated session, three weeks after the first.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier 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 | Daisy Field Trip to Tractor Supply!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsAngier K9 | King Training Session
Almost all lecture, with King as the demonstration.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Roxy Training Session
A short indoor block on place and sit, one dog in a rotation - the trainer says at the top that he will work her for about twenty minutes and then move on to the next dog, and that he intends to hold her on place for something like ten minutes of it.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Finn At The Park Part 2!
Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsAngier 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 | Anna Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsDolce Training Session
A heel session that turns into a teaching session for the handler.
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 | Peque during her recent Refresher Program Part 2!
Topics: Control is not obedience; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Luna Chanelle Training Session
Topics: Pressure, release, reward; Show what not to do, allow everything else; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Continuing Education Session
Topics: Hidden help; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Ozzy Home Context Training Session!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Ozzy In-Program Lesson #1, Part 2
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Training Session With Fiona
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Control is not obedience; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Anna Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Ozzy In-Program Lesson #1, Part 1
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Reading the dog; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Fionita At The Park!
Topics: Control is not obedience; Pressure, release, reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
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 | Place Cot Training With Daisy!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
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 | Max Go-Home Lesson Part 3!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help.
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 | Thor (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 tagsAngier K9 | Luci pt1 — In Person Evaluation ft Angier K9!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tags · Owner-corrected review label; original YouTube title preserved in source snapshotAngier K9 | Bo (Part 1) — In Person Evaluation!
Topics: The leash is a prop; Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsOzzy—Overcoming Social Anxiety w/ Scampy
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Neo In-Program Lesson #2!
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Getting Ozzy Comfortable Part 4
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
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 | Hattie at Spring Fling Pier Fair
Topics: Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty; Social pressure.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Akira #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 tagsAngier K9 | Astro Part 2 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!
Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Astro Part 1 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9
Topics: Assess before you ask; Show what not to do, allow everything else; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Louie — 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 snapshotAngier K9 | Jack — Establishing Trust with Nervous Dog #2
Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Rocky — Public Focus Training!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
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 | Egg — Downs and Recalls!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Akira — Day 3! (She's Based) Part 1
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Meaningful release; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Callie — Go Home Lesson #1
Topics: Control is not obedience; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Irwin — Introduction and Walkies! (Part 1)
Topics: Assess before you ask; Start with freedom; Freeze, flee or fight.
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 tagsMajor — Walk Obedience
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Thumper — Conquering his Fear!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Josi and Milo — Private Lesson #2
Topics: The leash is a prop; Reading the dog; Hidden help.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Major — Private Lesson #2
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; The dog tells you the reward; Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Josi 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 tagsAngier K9 | Teddy — Private Lesson #2 (pt 2)
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Roman — Play and Evaluation!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Roman — Evaluation Time!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The leash is a prop; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Major — Long Duration Place Work!
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Dolly — Private Lesson #2
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help; Social pressure.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Kalypso - Phases 1-3 of Loose-Leash Walking (Great Dane) Session 1 (Part 2)
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Milo Training Session 1
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormy — Private Lesson 1
Topics: Start with freedom; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormy — Private Lesson 2
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Penny — Place Work and Play!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Penny at Lowe's!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Internal emotional change, not repression; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Astro — On A Walk! Leash Yielding & Some Obedience.
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Fiona — 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 tagsAngier K9 | Clark Kent — Downs and Heels!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsMurphy — Go Home Lesson! Aggression Check
Topics: Control is not obedience; Reading the dog; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Josephine—Full Go Home Lesson With Client!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty.
concept tagsBo — Full Go Home Lesson With Client!
The handover, and the single densest piece of teaching in Bo's file.
Tier 1 session summaryDrago — Recalls/Focus Training
Topics: Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Milo and Josi — Go Home Lesson pt3
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; The level is not a number; Reliability is what you have not tested.
concept tagsMilo and Josi — Go Home Lesson pt 2
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bo — Recalls/Heels
A seventeen-minute proofing walk at Bass Lake Park, and the single most informative Bo session in this set.
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 | Sputnik, Astra & Bear— Go-Home Lesson Pt. 1
Topics: Pressure, release, reward; The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Training Session in the Woods with Ace!
Topics: Hidden help; Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Milo—Behavior Modification, "Aggression," and Actually telling your do "No."
Topics: Control is not obedience; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsWiley—heels, public training
Topics: Meaningful release; Reading the dog; Assess before you ask.
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