Angier K9 Field Notes
Archie & Lola First In-Program Lesson
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Control is not obedience.
Published 2026-07-30 · Channel recording · 96m 10s
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- Pressure, release, reward · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic
- Nobody is at fault; it isn't personal
- The level is not a number
- Meaningful release
- Don't poison the command
- False reps: the dog reads the chain, not the word
- Hidden help · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- The dog tells you the reward · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest
- Start with freedom
- Go and look at the scary thing
- Space to retreat, obligation to return
- The three stress reducers
- Reading the dog · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Internal emotional change, not repression
- Don't heel grind
- The leash is a prop
- Freedom is given in measured steps
- Honest limits, and reliability is not permission · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- 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
- Show what not to do, allow everything else
- Control is not obedience
- Build the handler's timing while it is easy
- Say it bluntly or it will not land
- Archie
- Lola
- Training videos · 2026 · page 3 of 7