Angier K9 Field Notes
Angier 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.
Published 2026-08-16 · Channel recording · 94m 17s
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- Pressure, release, reward · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Teach the move, then the word
- A life that gets smaller, and the bargain
- Meaningful release
- Don't poison the command
- Hidden help · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Freeze, flee or fight
- Go and look at the scary thing
- Reading the dog · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Social pressure
- Internal emotional change, not repression
- The armor is the measure
- Freedom is given in measured steps
- Honest limits, and reliability is not permission · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending
- The flight-risk protocol, and the one command that matters
- He has to be allowed to get it wrong
- Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts
- Assess before you ask · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Control is not obedience
- Build the handler's timing while it is easy
- Archie
- Lola
- Training videos · 2026 · page 2 of 7