Angier K9 Field Notes
Bo — Follow Up Fine Tuning!
Topics: Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
Published 2026-01-11 · Channel recording · 57m 38s
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- Pressure, release, reward · 2026 · page 2 of 2
- The correction that did not work
- Stop before you shut him down
- A life that gets smaller, and the bargain
- Nobody is at fault; it isn't personal
- Meaningful release
- Hidden help · 2026 · page 2 of 2
- The dog tells you the reward · 2026 · page 2 of 2
- Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest
- Reading the dog · 2026 · page 2 of 2
- Social pressure
- The leash is a prop
- Honest limits, and reliability is not permission · 2026 · page 2 of 2
- The flight-risk protocol, and the one command that matters
- He has to be allowed to get it wrong
- Show what not to do, allow everything else
- Build the handler's timing while it is easy
- Say it bluntly or it will not land
- Bo
- Training videos · 2026 · page 7 of 7