Angier K9 Field Notes
Angier K9 | Finn 馃 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.
Published 2026-08-08 路 Channel recording 路 45m 57s
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- Pressure, release, reward 路 2026 路 page 1 of 2
- Teach the move, then the word
- Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic
- Thinking is what makes it better
- Nobody is at fault; it isn't personal
- Don't poison the command
- The dog tells you the reward 路 2026 路 page 1 of 2
- Start with freedom
- Freeze, flee or fight
- 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 路 2026 路 page 1 of 2
- 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 路 2026 路 page 1 of 2
- Assess before you ask 路 2026 路 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
- Finn: Training videos
- Training videos 路 2026 路 page 2 of 7