Angier K9 Field Notes
Angier K9 | Finn Training Session
The densest ordinary session in Finn's set, and effectively a lecture delivered while working the dog.
Published 2026-07-25 · Channel recording · 34m 30s
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- Pressure, release, reward · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic
- Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between
- Thinking is what makes it better
- Meaningful release
- Hidden help · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- You have to be able to reward him at all
- Start with freedom
- Freeze, flee or fight
- 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
- Don't heel grind
- 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
- Assess before you ask · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Control is not obedience
- Finn: Training videos
- Training videos · 2026 · page 3 of 7