Angier K9 Field Notes
Angier K9 | Kodak Was Ready to Bolt—Then He Started Walking Closer
Topics: Start with freedom; Reading the dog; The flight-risk protocol, and the one command that matters.
Published 2026-08-30 · Channel recording · 58m 21s
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- Pressure, release, reward · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Stop before you shut him down
- Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between
- The level is not a number
- Meaningful release
- Hidden help · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- The dog tells you the reward · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- You have to be able to reward him at all
- 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
- 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
- Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground · 2026 · page 1 of 2
- Show what not to do, allow everything else
- Build the handler's timing while it is easy
- Rocko
- Kodak
- Training videos · 2026 · page 2 of 7