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Choose the place for the problems it will hand you, and stop thinking of training as a session at all - use the commands when life gives you a reason to.
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Somewhere that supplies the problem you need. That is the whole of it, and it has two halves. The first is that the place is chosen, deliberately, for what is likely to turn up in it. A home-improvement store is picked for a nervous dog because it has fans, and people cutting lumber, and generally is one of those places where if there is a noise your dog is going to react to, it is probably going to be in there. A busy street downtown is picked over a field not only because there is more to ignore but because the reasons to ask for something arise on their own - a crossing, a doorway, a passer-by - so the repetitions are organic instead of invented. A park with a big open field and people still in it is named as a good first place for off-leash work. Parks get rotated on purpose so the dog does not learn one of them. And the choice runs the other way too: a quiet hour and a low-stimulation spot are chosen when something new is being taught, and a boring training yard is chosen precisely because that is where one dog's heel is worst. Shade and evening are planning variables, not comforts - one trainer says he picks for beauty, evening or shade, and that seventy to eighty per cent of the time he wants a park with at least some shade. The second half is bigger, and it is the answer to the question owners actually ask. Asked by a family how many minutes a day they should practise the commands, the trainer's answer was that it is up to them, because what makes the most difference is using the commands in an actual life situation rather than drilling them - place while the stove is hot, a sit while the door opens, recalls scattered through a walk. A fixed daily slot is named as worse than useless, because what the dog learns from it is that eight in the morning in the back garden is when listening matters and the rest of the day does not. Life is the training ground - said in those words - because the dog is not training for a competition, he is training to be a dog in your house, and from the moment he comes home he is already in it. Everything that follows is the same idea applied: do not steer around the other dog, extend the walk to meet them and put a command next to them, because people who avoid every dog end up with a life that has shrunk. Take the distraction that arrives - a child on a bicycle, twenty-five schoolchildren, a stranger who wants to pet him - rather than treating it as an interruption, because that is what he will meet at home. And when something goes wrong and eats the session, name what it trained and count it: nearly an hour lost to a stranger and her dog was booked, on the spot, as impulse-control practice with another dog present. What is inferred rather than said: nobody on film ranks venues or gives a progression you could follow. The ladders exist in individual files - facility, then this park, then stores, then downtown Raleigh as the final boss - but they differ between dogs and handlers, and no one states a house standard.
Owner takeaway
Stop setting aside ten minutes in the back garden. Use the commands when there is an actual reason: a sit at the kerb, place while you cook, a recall away from something he wants. Then pick where you walk for what it will contain rather than for what is convenient - a car park, a hardware store, a park with people in it - and rotate, so he never learns that one place is the listening place. When you see another dog or a stranger, walk towards them rather than around them, and put a command in beside them. If the outing gets hijacked by something you did not plan, ask what it trained and count that.
Across the cases
Finn
Finn's file holds both the clearest statement of the idea and its clearest failure. The statement is made inside a home-improvement store, about a dog with strong nerves: the store is great because it has a lot of stuff, so a dog with a weird association will probably run into it here - fans, lumber being cut, and generally if there is a noise your dog will react to, it is probably in there. A separate store visit is even more explicit about what is being harvested: he is there hoping people will want to pet the dog. The park is chosen because Finn has never been there, and the report from it is that walks are starting to look exploratory rather than frightening. The failure is the same Home Depot trip. Later in that session the dog locks up and the trainer names it on camera as his own misjudgement - he gauged the level too high. Weeks afterwards the same trainer tells the owners that Finn is the first nervous dog he has ever overestimated, and a colleague tells them that Connor came back from that session saying it was pretty rough. One venue, one dog, three tellings.
the internet but it's great in here too because like uh home depot has just a lot of stuff that if you're if you've got a dog with some nerves and they have like a weird association or something you'll probably run into it here there's fans in here there's like weird like like sometimes they'll be like cutting lumber in here it's just one of those places where if it's a noise that your dog's gonna freak out it's probably gonna be in home depot and i love it
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gotta gauge the level today i tried to gauge the level and actually i i gauged it too high so he's a little shut down right now
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it was actually the first time I've ever over like usually I underestimate the nervous dogs and actually this time I he's like the first one I've ever overestimated and I took him out to Home Depot
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Honestly, that's why I'm here today. I'm just here, like, hoping that we'll want to pet him.
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liking this really active sniffing good he's starting to see walks I can tell as much more of an exploratory saying that's fun instead of a thing that's that's scary that is very good thing
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Roxy
Roxy's household is where the concept stops being about venues and becomes about the shape of a life. An owner asks, in so many words, how many minutes a day they should practise the commands. The answer is that it is up to them, because what makes the difference is using the commands in an actual life situation with the collar on to back them up - place while the stove is hot, and so on. Then the alternative is dismantled: ten minutes of drills in the back garden every morning teaches the dog that eight a.m. in the garden is when listening matters and the rest of the day does not. Life is the training ground, said in those words, because the dog is not training for competition - he is training to be a dog in your house, and the moment he comes home he is already in the competition. The go-home lesson gives the same answer in two halves: formal practice, or just use it. And the venue judgements around it are careful rather than gung-ho: an open field with people still in it is the right first off-leash place, downtown Raleigh is the ambition, and an indoor room is chosen for being well-distracted and realistic in a way a hardware store would not be for that particular exercise.
How many minutes a day should we practice the commands?
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Uh, how often? That's up to you. Um, because what makes the most difference is using them in an actual life situation and having this on to reinforce whatever the command is and doing it right.
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And eventually, my goal with this session is to get an off-leash recall in here. Because, again, like, I mean, you know, I wouldn't go and have an off-leash recall in, like, a home depot or something. But in here it's quite perfect because it's very well-distracted and very realistic.
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King
King is the dog the walk is lengthened for. The route is extended on purpose to pass a person - definitely not passing that up - and the trainer then says the thing that makes it a philosophy rather than a technique: so many people see another dog and steer their own away because it cannot behave, and that is sad, it is a bummer. It is the same argument as life getting smaller, made from the handler's side. King's venue choices are reasoned out loud too: downtown is picked because he has a startle thing and downtown has cars and random objects he will have to keep functioning around; and on an evening walk the kids' park is chosen first because there is no lighting there and the dogs will like it better anyway, before the route moves on to the lit streets downtown.
Alright, well, we just extended our walk slightly Because we're gonna walk by this person Definitely not passing that up
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so many people do that they see another dog they avoid them with their dog because their dog can't behave good boy let's go up up here that is sad it's a bummer
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because he has like a pretty strong like startle thing where he's kind of like weirded out by some stuff randomly so taking him to like more I've been taking him to like is like downtown's a bit busier there's a lot of cars and like other random stuff that he's gonna see so taking him there so he's able to still like function and listen to command
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that door for you i wanted to go to the kids park first because there's no like lighting out here yeah but there's lighting downtown yeah so i figured like come here first the dogs will like it better here anyway yeah they do this is like far more interesting
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Zeus
Zeus's downtown session supplies the property nobody else names: the street is good not only because there is more distraction but because the opportunities are organic. In a field the handler has to invent a reason to ask for something; on a street there is a crossing, a doorway, a person coming the other way. The indoor version of the same idea is the gate routine - four gates on the way out, and the sit-and-wait is practised at each one because those transitions were happening anyway. And the justification is stated flatly in another session: a command rehearsed only in a calm room may not hold when the dog is amped, so the moments where you get to reinforce it are part of the training, because at home that is going to happen. He says it seconds before a crowd of schoolchildren walks past.
This is a very good place to practice doing deals. Because there's lots of opportunities for it that are organic. Instead of just doing it in a field, you know. And there's way more distractions.
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coming out of the kennel because it's big it's like a door right so i practice it there i practice it at the next gate and then there's two more gates that we go through before we get to the outside world there's those four gates we practice it every time i make him sit or down and wait
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bo
Bo's public-access set is the corpus's fullest worked example of choosing a venue, and it runs both ways. The store is picked for being dog-friendly and nice and busy - not because access is required, but because that is where the people are - and the parking lot outside it is worked as its own stage before the door is reached. Elsewhere the same trainer picks a quiet hour and a low-stimulation spot on purpose, and says why: it is a good environment to teach new stuff. In between, the working practice is harvesting rather than staging - a dog coming up the path is hoped for, the e-collar's charge is checked before the trouble is invited, ducks on a lake are described afterwards as an excellent proofing opportunity - and the refusal matters as much: when the approaching dog turns out to be something Bo is merely curious about rather than pumped for, the repetition is not banked. Bo also supplies the strangest case of the venue handing you an experiment: a collar that will not come off with gloves on produces far more handling than the planned exercise would have, and two handlers let it run because it is a better test.
Yeah, it's they're very dog friendly and it's nice and busy and Yeah, you guys
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So it's a good environment to teach new stuff.
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like when I say interested I mean like really interested because he's just kind of like curious about things right now but he's not like pumped you know
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and this is actually a good test for him because like this is a lot more than like normally like would be there yeah he's like dude just take it off bro what is going on did you get it off yet no no well this is good because it's kind of like a longer process so he has to he has to really like be chilled out
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Luna
Luna's file carries the warning the rest of the concept needs. The handler likes one particular park because he can focus on the commands there - and says in the same breath that this is exactly the danger: without somebody actively working against it the dog keeps the command in that one area, and learns that here you have to listen and everywhere else you do not. The remedy is stated as a plan rather than a principle - a different park tomorrow, and then a third place, to see what actually travels. The rest of her set shows the harvesting habit: a child on a bicycle is not avoided but walked toward, because dogs have a particular thing about kids on bikes and he wants to see what she does; a passer-by at the end of a session is described as really good to end on, because she can see it and cannot act on it. And the first owner lesson makes generalisation the reason for the venue rotation in the first place - the joke in that file is that he talks about generalising so much they could give him a nickname for it.
We do this lab in Jack Marley a lot I like it because I can focus on the commands but the downside is that like if you don't actively have somebody the dog only does like one area and keeps the command in that one area the dog just does the same thing it's more of like an isolated place like you have to listen but everywhere else you don't
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It'll be interesting. I'm going to go to Jack Marley Park tomorrow. So I'm going to see how she reacts doing This kind of thing in Jack Marley Park, and then how she reacts in another Place.
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There's a kid on a bike, I wanna see what she does. Dogs have a unique thing about kids on a bike. See what she do.
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It's actually really good to end the session out with. I know you see people with them, but she can't act on it, right?
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about generalizing. I have a joke that you can call me Connor generalizes Pierce because I talk about generalizing all the time because that's why we go out to a bunch of stores in different parks because
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Dolce
Dolce's material is where the venue is rotated on a schedule and where a ruined session is rescued. The rotation is named out loud - a lot of Lake Benson Park and Beach Bluff lately, so today Jack Marley, a nice change of scenery - which is the only place in the corpus where the reason for a venue is simply that it is not the last one. The first public-access outing is a big-box store chosen for the density of novelty, and the check being run is specific: not whether she obeys, but whether she is checking things out properly rather than becoming defensive because there are people about. The restraint is stated too: do not do the first off-leash work somewhere incredibly busy - that is the next stage, and you start in a quieter spot. And then the best line in this concept for an owner whose day has gone wrong: nearly an hour lost to a stranger and her dog, and the trainer books it as impulse-control practice with another dog around, plus some Platz repetitions.
I've been doing a lot of Lake Benson Park and Beach Bluff. We're back out here in Jack Marley. It's a nice change of scenery, too
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but she's not she's checking things out properly and she's not fixating or trying to be overly defensive or reactive just because there's people around
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Rocko
Rocko's material, stored in the Kodak source collection, illustrates choosing a setting to suit the task. In the park passage, the trainer gives his preference for shade, evening conditions or an appealing location and estimates how often he chooses shaded parks. That is his stated preference, not a measured inventory of sessions or a universal venue formula. The street passage describes difficulty finding a pause for the intended reset. In another downtown passage, he anticipates an opportunity to work around other dogs. These are examples of his planning in those sessions; the excerpts do not show that a reaction is the only teachable event or that provoking one is a general exercise for owners.
this particular park this is beach bluff park um is that um it's it's got plenty of shade
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I also think I'm just gonna kind of let him like do his thing for the next few minutes because like walking on the street there's ends up being like a lot of a lot of stuff that I have to ask him to do so it's harder to get like to break in the reset
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through downtown here in Angier. I got a couple of other dogs out here that's good. Hopefully he spots them and reacts. That would be actually ideal.
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Sage
Sage is the dog whose venue is chosen because of what happened there last time. A park is judged too quiet and a store is named as the next stop - Home Depot, or Lowe's - and the reason Lowe's comes up is that loud noises outside it once frightened her. So the plan is to go back: recreate it, run through something like it a few more times, come back to more home-improvement stores. It is the clearest example in the corpus of a venue picked as a treatment rather than a test. The store footage then shows the limit of the approach - if her options are restricted too tightly she will panic when she is not restricted, and tight management does not allow any learning - which is why the field trips are long, loose and mostly uneventful.
Definitely like to take Sage to a little bit busier spot than this. I'll probably swing by a store and take her off-leash there cuz she's um she's doing great and I think she's plenty ready for it, so probably take her into Home Depot or something like that. Maybe Lowe's.
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So I'm gonna recreate that We're gonna run through something like this a few more times. So I'm gonna be coming back to more home improvement stores again
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If I restrict her options too tightly, she'll panic if she's not restricted. That kind of tight management doesn't allow for any kind of learning.
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Stormie
Stormie's lessons contain the only explicit ladder anybody gives a family: in-house basics, then this park, then some store videos, and sometimes downtown Raleigh, which he calls the final boss. A later solo session names the working rotation in the same breath - Home Depot, downtown Angier, and the park - and adds the criterion that matters most for an owner: this area is a lot like an area that somebody would actually walk their dog around. The surface is treated as a venue variable in its own right, with concrete named as something the commands have to be learned on. And her file supplies the cheapest version of the whole idea: a session run in a room that happens to be being cleaned, with the handler simply saying that they are working on distractions here.
this park actually um maybe a couple like store videos sometimes i'll take the dogs like to downtown raleigh that's like kind of like a final test the final boss
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And actually this area is like a lot like an area that somebody would walk their dog around.
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You're working on distractions here.
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Louie
Louie is the argument for the boring venue. He is better at his heel and his commands out and about, when they are actually going somewhere, and worse in the training yard where they are just walking - so the yard is where the trainer proofs it, on the grounds that fixing it there should improve it everywhere else. It is the same reasoning as picking the busy store, applied to a dog whose weakness is boredom rather than stimulation. The park sessions do the conventional half: noise, open space, water birds and strangers, with obedience layered over the distractions. And his file has the cheapest distraction protocol in the corpus, which is also the one every owner already has - place and settle running underneath the staff's ordinary working day in a room with half a dozen other dogs in it, all of them quiet.
doing good better when he's out and about um he doesn't do as good with it in the training yard same thing with the heel he does better with the heel when he's out and about and we're actually going somewhere um he doesn't like it very much when we're in the training yard and we're just kind of like walking but that's why i'm trying to proof it there so that he kind of gets it here
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we're focusing on teaching them how to relax a little more with different noises and public area stuff that's like just more wide open um and wanting to go out and like sniff explore those areas and but still stay where he's checking in and paying attention
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Luis, come on, come meet your, um, come meet your work, your job.
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Bullet
Bullet's programme is the one that starts outside and comes indoors, which is the reverse of what an owner would expect. On day three the trainer notes that everything up to then has been walk training, out at the park, and that they are only now doing things at the facility. The store field trips are treated as routine rather than as stunts - a good day for a field trip, a good place to take the dogs, and another shop already named as the next one he would like to use - and the unflattering repetitions are left in: a place on a store fixture that takes several cues and a correction. And at the end of a park walk the trainer tells the owners exactly what the venue is for: proofing each position against people walking by, random distractions and other dogs, with a real failure from ten minutes earlier described rather than edited out.
all the training we've done until now has been walk training has been um out at the park good boy good job we're just doing stuff at the facility now today
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It's a good day for a field trip to Ross, and I'm sure he's going to be fantastic, right buddy?
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um proofing like the downs and sits with like people walking by because he gets excited so like he'll down and stuff but like like i just had it back there somebody a kid walked by and he was like and he like jumped up from the down so i had to correct him from back to the down
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Deuce
Deuce's sessions rank venues out loud, in one breath, three at a time: the back garden is where the leash respect already looks nice, and it is discounted for being easy; a parking lot is the next rung and he is curious how the dog will handle it; and because it is hot today he will settle for a quieter school instead. The park is chosen over the yard specifically for the distraction load, with the lesson itself held constant. And the physical properties of the place count as venue choice too - the work moves onto grass because the pavement is hot, and the sun is refused outright because working him in it just feels cruel.
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Now, we're here at the park. We're working on his uh respect for leash pressure out here cuz there's a lot more distractions.
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good boy now i'm doing everything in the grass because the pavement's hot so any command i put him in that's like a actual like sit down whatever
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I don't want to work him in the sun though. That just feels cruel.
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Dutchess
Dutchess's first owner lesson names the whole estate as a deliberate set - the store, the park, the facility's back yard, the facility's indoor room - and gives the reason: you generalise it each place. She is also the dog whose file contains the standing exception, and it is a real one: what a family will actually end up with, he says, is stricter obedience inside the house and a bit looser outside, with the recall held to one standard everywhere because a weak recall is a danger. Her sessions choose their spots for the distraction load and say so, and the final off-leash check is deliberately run somewhere with squirrels and open ground rather than anywhere the result would flatter.
i will say the way like when i was talking about how we take the dog to the store in the park and even we have like our backyard area and then we have our indoor area even like at our facility the reason for that is that you like i said generalize it each place
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What you'll do is you'll generalize stricter obedience inside and a little bit looser outside.
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Lola
Lola's venue reasoning is the negative of everyone else's: the place is chosen for what it does not contain. A shorter, lighter line goes on because the stakes are low here and there is nothing much to run at, so a failed repetition is survivable. The flip side is that the useful thing in her environment turns out to be an object rather than a crowd - the truck. She blows the handler off going to it, reliably and repeatedly, so the scenario is walked back to and recreated on purpose, with the honest caveat that he can only get a few repetitions out of it before it stops working. Her first owner lesson plans the escalation out loud, through busier parks toward stores, and names the next park in the ladder.
it's a lot smaller so she can get away get away from me a lot easier so you need to have a little bit more trust to put this line on but she's doing good right now and we're not an incredibly high stakes environment or anything like that
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and she went to the truck she blew me off going to the truck it's very regular I found it to be pretty consistent I can only get a few reps out of it
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the internet but it's great in here too because like uh home depot has just a lot of stuff that if you're if you've got a dog with some nerves and they have like a weird association or something you'll probably run into it here there's fans in here there's like weird like like sometimes they'll be like cutting lumber in here it's just one of those places where if it's a noise that your dog's gonna freak out it's probably gonna be in home depot and i love it
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This is a very good place to practice doing deals. Because there's lots of opportunities for it that are organic. Instead of just doing it in a field, you know. And there's way more distractions.
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Uh, how often? That's up to you. Um, because what makes the most difference is using them in an actual life situation and having this on to reinforce whatever the command is and doing it right.
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say that um you did what I just said versus every day you uh in the morning you take them outside for 10 minutes and do drills out in the backyard and then take them back inside and don't ask them to do anything else the rest of the day. Right? That's very narrow.
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because they're not training for competition. They're training for being a dog in your house. So the they as soon as they come back, they are already in the training field. They're already in the competition. The competition is life, right? The world is the is the is the place where all the lessons happen.
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So there are kind of two ways to go about it. Um one way to go about it is to try to do like formal practice with her. Um the other way is to just use it.
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Alright, well, we just extended our walk slightly Because we're gonna walk by this person Definitely not passing that up
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so many people do that they see another dog they avoid them with their dog because their dog can't behave good boy let's go up up here that is sad it's a bummer
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I've been doing a lot of Lake Benson Park and Beach Bluff. We're back out here in Jack Marley. It's a nice change of scenery, too
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We do this lab in Jack Marley a lot I like it because I can focus on the commands but the downside is that like if you don't actively have somebody the dog only does like one area and keeps the command in that one area the dog just does the same thing it's more of like an isolated place like you have to listen but everywhere else you don't
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It'll be interesting. I'm going to go to Jack Marley Park tomorrow. So I'm going to see how she reacts doing This kind of thing in Jack Marley Park, and then how she reacts in another Place.
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this park actually um maybe a couple like store videos sometimes i'll take the dogs like to downtown raleigh that's like kind of like a final test the final boss
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And actually this area is like a lot like an area that somebody would walk their dog around.
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doing good better when he's out and about um he doesn't do as good with it in the training yard same thing with the heel he does better with the heel when he's out and about and we're actually going somewhere um he doesn't like it very much when we're in the training yard and we're just kind of like walking but that's why i'm trying to proof it there so that he kind of gets it here
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But this is pretty low stimulation, low distraction.
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So it's a good environment to teach new stuff.
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Yeah, it's they're very dog friendly and it's nice and busy and Yeah, you guys
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like when I say interested I mean like really interested because he's just kind of like curious about things right now but he's not like pumped you know
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Yeah, another spot I'd like to go to is Michael's.
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It's a good day for a field trip to Ross, and I'm sure he's going to be fantastic, right buddy?
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like right now that's what we're working on we're proofing the each position with people walking by and like random distractions other dogs stuff like that
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Now, we're here at the park. We're working on his uh respect for leash pressure out here cuz there's a lot more distractions.
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I don't want to work him in the sun though. That just feels cruel.
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i will say the way like when i was talking about how we take the dog to the store in the park and even we have like our backyard area and then we have our indoor area even like at our facility the reason for that is that you like i said generalize it each place
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more of a interesting stimulus it's a little bit more interesting environment to start teaching
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Honestly, that's why I'm here today. I'm just here, like, hoping that we'll want to pet him.
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liking this really active sniffing good he's starting to see walks I can tell as much more of an exploratory saying that's fun instead of a thing that's that's scary that is very good thing
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more important than that is that the recall is perfect and that we're able to spend some more time going to the stores and get him okay with those settings as well
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So I'm gonna recreate that We're gonna run through something like this a few more times. So I'm gonna be coming back to more home improvement stores again
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We've taken her to Agri Supply and a couple of other places already
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Definitely like to take Sage to a little bit busier spot than this. I'll probably swing by a store and take her off-leash there cuz she's um she's doing great and I think she's plenty ready for it, so probably take her into Home Depot or something like that. Maybe Lowe's.
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And eventually, my goal with this session is to get an off-leash recall in here. Because, again, like, I mean, you know, I wouldn't go and have an off-leash recall in, like, a home depot or something. But in here it's quite perfect because it's very well-distracted and very realistic.
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it's a lot smaller so she can get away get away from me a lot easier so you need to have a little bit more trust to put this line on but she's doing good right now and we're not an incredibly high stakes environment or anything like that
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and she went to the truck she blew me off going to the truck it's very regular I found it to be pretty consistent I can only get a few reps out of it
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through downtown here in Angier. I got a couple of other dogs out here that's good. Hopefully he spots them and reacts. That would be actually ideal.
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I also think I'm just gonna kind of let him like do his thing for the next few minutes because like walking on the street there's ends up being like a lot of a lot of stuff that I have to ask him to do so it's harder to get like to break in the reset
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that door for you i wanted to go to the kids park first because there's no like lighting out here yeah but there's lighting downtown yeah so i figured like come here first the dogs will like it better here anyway yeah they do this is like far more interesting
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because he has like a pretty strong like startle thing where he's kind of like weirded out by some stuff randomly so taking him to like more I've been taking him to like is like downtown's a bit busier there's a lot of cars and like other random stuff that he's gonna see so taking him there so he's able to still like function and listen to command
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and this is actually a good test for him because like this is a lot more than like normally like would be there yeah he's like dude just take it off bro what is going on did you get it off yet no no well this is good because it's kind of like a longer process so he has to he has to really like be chilled out
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How the trainers explain it
Three reasons are given and only two of them are about distraction. The first is availability: whatever the dog's problem is, you cannot work on it until it turns up, and some places guarantee that it will. A big store has fans, lumber saws and strangers, so "if it's a noise that your dog's gonna freak out it's probably gonna be in home depot" (0JRh17nttVw, 06:34) - the venue is a sampling strategy. The second is the supply of reasons, which is the property nobody else names: on a street "there's lots of opportunities for it that are organic" (ZdN45WO_o0o, 16:05), so the handler is answering the world rather than inventing repetitions, and a rep the world asked for looks to the dog like life rather than like a drill. The third is the transfer argument, and it is the one that makes the whole concept load-bearing: a command rehearsed only where the dog is calm may not survive the dog being amped - "If you only do it while the dog's calm, when the dog is amped up, they might blow you off" (o0b_WoOMJ0A, 07:29) - so the moments the environment hands you are not interruptions, they are the training, "because when he goes home, guess what? Like that's going to happen" (o0b_WoOMJ0A, 08:04). The same mechanism read backwards is the warning: a place chosen because it is easy to work in is a place the command may stay in - "the dog only does like one area and keeps the command in that one area" (QZZDVkQFLeU, 11:07) - and a fixed daily drill slot teaches the dog that one hour and one patch of grass are when listening matters (b1KKdwPV3k4, 39:48). What is inferred rather than stated: nobody explains how many venues are enough, or in what order. Individual ladders are given - facility to park to store to downtown for one dog, park to store for another, outdoors first and facility later for a third - but they contradict each other in sequence, and no one on camera claims a house standard.
Differences to review
How rich the venue should be for a nervous dog.
First perspective
Rich. Pick the place most likely to contain whatever the dog is frightened of, because that is what you came to work on - and go back to it repeatedly if that is where the bad association lives.
the internet but it's great in here too because like uh home depot has just a lot of stuff that if you're if you've got a dog with some nerves and they have like a weird association or something you'll probably run into it here there's fans in here there's like weird like like sometimes they'll be like cutting lumber in here it's just one of those places where if it's a noise that your dog's gonna freak out it's probably gonna be in home depot and i love it
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I'm probably gonna have her come back to Lowe's a few times So that she can figure out this kind of area And start to have a better reaction to some of those triggers
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Second perspective
Quiet. Do not run the hard thing for the first time somewhere incredibly busy - that is the next stage. Pick a low-stakes spot, and downgrade further if the dog starts to shut down.
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gotta gauge the level today i tried to gauge the level and actually i i gauged it too high so he's a little shut down right now
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How to read this comparison
The strongest evidence on both sides comes from the same session. Finn's Home Depot trip is where the case for the rich venue is made most persuasively and where, eleven minutes later, the same trainer says he pitched it too high and the dog is shut down. Two other files retell that day - he calls Finn the first nervous dog he ever overestimated, and a colleague tells the owners the trainer came back saying it was pretty rough. Nobody in the corpus reconciles the two; the closest anyone comes is the pacing rule that a dog's usable ceiling is read live rather than chosen in advance. The practical version of the disagreement is whether a store is a treatment or a test, and the record contains both uses.
Whether the easy venue is a tool or a trap.
First perspective
A tool. New behaviour is taught somewhere low-stimulation, at a quiet hour, chosen for that property - and a boring yard is the right place to proof a command the dog only performs when something interesting is happening.
But this is pretty low stimulation, low distraction.
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doing good better when he's out and about um he doesn't do as good with it in the training yard same thing with the heel he does better with the heel when he's out and about and we're actually going somewhere um he doesn't like it very much when we're in the training yard and we're just kind of like walking but that's why i'm trying to proof it there so that he kind of gets it here
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Second perspective
A trap. The venue that makes the training easiest to run is the one the command is most likely to stay inside, and a routine built around it teaches the dog that listening is a place rather than a rule.
We do this lab in Jack Marley a lot I like it because I can focus on the commands but the downside is that like if you don't actively have somebody the dog only does like one area and keeps the command in that one area the dog just does the same thing it's more of like an isolated place like you have to listen but everywhere else you don't
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say that um you did what I just said versus every day you uh in the morning you take them outside for 10 minutes and do drills out in the backyard and then take them back inside and don't ask them to do anything else the rest of the day. Right? That's very narrow.
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How to read this comparison
Both are true of the same place, and the difference is what stage the dog is at - teach quiet, proof loud - but the corpus never says it that way, and Luna's warning is aimed at a handler who is doing exactly what Bo's trainer recommends. The unresolved part is who is responsible for breaking the habit: Luna's file says the antidote is 'actively hav[ing] somebody' vary it, which in a board-and-train is the trainer and at home is the owner. See `generalisation-is-the-whole-job`.
Questions and answers
How many minutes a day should I practise the commands?
A family asked exactly that, and the answer was that it is up to them - because what makes the most difference is not practice, it is using the commands when there is a real reason to. Place while something is hot on the stove. A sit while the front door opens. A recall away from something he actually wanted. The alternative was picked apart in the same breath: ten minutes of drills in the back garden every morning and nothing the rest of the day teaches the dog that eight a.m. on that patch of grass is when listening matters, and that the rest of his life is his own. The go-home lesson for the same household puts it as a choice of two routes - formal practice, or just use it - and every trainer in this corpus who is asked leans to the second.
Uh, how often? That's up to you. Um, because what makes the most difference is using them in an actual life situation and having this on to reinforce whatever the command is and doing it right.
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say that um you did what I just said versus every day you uh in the morning you take them outside for 10 minutes and do drills out in the backyard and then take them back inside and don't ask them to do anything else the rest of the day. Right? That's very narrow.
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So there are kind of two ways to go about it. Um one way to go about it is to try to do like formal practice with her. Um the other way is to just use it.
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Where should I actually take him?
Somewhere that supplies the problem. The stores in this corpus are picked because they guarantee people, noise and odd machinery - a home-improvement store is described as the place a strange noise is most likely to turn up in. Streets are picked because the reasons to ask for something happen by themselves: a crossing, a doorway, a person coming past. Parks are picked for a mix of open ground and people, and they are rotated deliberately so the dog does not learn one of them. There is one stated rule for choosing between parks, and it is as much about the handler as the dog: beauty, evening time, or shade - pick one of the three, and for most of the training, shade. And the least glamorous option is the best value: a room with other dogs in it while ordinary work goes on around him.
the internet but it's great in here too because like uh home depot has just a lot of stuff that if you're if you've got a dog with some nerves and they have like a weird association or something you'll probably run into it here there's fans in here there's like weird like like sometimes they'll be like cutting lumber in here it's just one of those places where if it's a noise that your dog's gonna freak out it's probably gonna be in home depot and i love it
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This is a very good place to practice doing deals. Because there's lots of opportunities for it that are organic. Instead of just doing it in a field, you know. And there's way more distractions.
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Should I avoid other dogs and people while we are still working on this?
The trainers do the opposite, and they are blunt about why. A walk gets lengthened on purpose to pass a stranger - definitely not passing that up - and the reason given is that so many people see another dog and steer their own away because it cannot behave, and that their world shrinks as a result. The handling is straightforward and partly for the other person's benefit: recall the dog, then either put him in a down and wait for the pass, or heel him and keep walking. There is one caveat worth taking seriously: the distraction has to be real to be worth using. One trainer declines a repetition because the approaching dog is something his dog is only curious about rather than pumped for, and a repetition against a weak distraction proves nothing.
Alright, well, we just extended our walk slightly Because we're gonna walk by this person Definitely not passing that up
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so many people do that they see another dog they avoid them with their dog because their dog can't behave good boy let's go up up here that is sad it's a bummer
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like when I say interested I mean like really interested because he's just kind of like curious about things right now but he's not like pumped you know
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My dog is nervous. Is a busy store going to make him worse?
It can, and the corpus contains the case where it did. The argument for taking a nervous dog somewhere rich is that his bad associations have to turn up before they can be worked on, and a big store guarantees a supply of them. The argument against is a trip in this record that went wrong: the same trainer who made that case came back eleven minutes later to say he had gauged the level too high and the dog was a little shut down. He repeats it weeks afterwards to the owners - Finn is the first nervous dog he has ever overestimated. So the honest answer is that the venue is a dose like anything else. Other files put the caution as a rule: do not run the hard thing for the first time somewhere incredibly busy, start in a quieter spot, and take the busy one next. And with a dog who is already shutting down, the room gets downgraded rather than pushed.
gotta gauge the level today i tried to gauge the level and actually i i gauged it too high so he's a little shut down right now
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A stranger interrupted us and the whole walk was a write-off. Was that wasted time?
Probably not, and the useful habit is to say out loud what it trained. After nearly an hour of a session went to a stranger and her dog, the trainer was asked if he minded and said he did not - she got some good practice in impulse control with another dog around, and got to practise her downs. The same instinct shows up in an odder form on another dog: a collar that would not come off with gloves on turned into a long, clumsy episode of two people pulling at a dog's head, and the handlers let it run because it was a harder test of the thing they were working on than the exercise they had planned. The rule of thumb is that an unplanned event is training if you can name what it trained.
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and this is actually a good test for him because like this is a lot more than like normally like would be there yeah he's like dude just take it off bro what is going on did you get it off yet no no well this is good because it's kind of like a longer process so he has to he has to really like be chilled out
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He is perfect at the park we always go to. Is that good enough?
No, and one trainer says so about his own favourite spot. He uses one park a lot because he can focus on the commands there, and then names the downside: without somebody actively working against it, the dog only performs in that one area and keeps the command there - it becomes an isolated place where you have to listen and everywhere else you do not. The remedy he gives is concrete rather than philosophical: a different park tomorrow, and then a third place, to find out what actually travels. The same logic is why a programme takes a dog to several stores and several parks rather than perfecting one.
We do this lab in Jack Marley a lot I like it because I can focus on the commands but the downside is that like if you don't actively have somebody the dog only does like one area and keeps the command in that one area the dog just does the same thing it's more of like an isolated place like you have to listen but everywhere else you don't
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It'll be interesting. I'm going to go to Jack Marley Park tomorrow. So I'm going to see how she reacts doing This kind of thing in Jack Marley Park, and then how she reacts in another Place.
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i will say the way like when i was talking about how we take the dog to the store in the park and even we have like our backyard area and then we have our indoor area even like at our facility the reason for that is that you like i said generalize it each place
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Is there any point training somewhere boring?
Yes, for two different reasons. New behaviour gets taught somewhere with low stimulation and low distraction, at a quiet hour, chosen for exactly that - one trainer calls it a good environment to teach new stuff. And a boring place can be the hardest place for a particular dog: one dog in this record heels well when the handler is actually going somewhere and badly in the training yard where they are only walking about, so the yard is where the heel gets proofed, on the expectation that fixing it there will improve it everywhere. The rule underneath both is the same one as for the busy store - go where this dog is worst.
So it's a good environment to teach new stuff.
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doing good better when he's out and about um he doesn't do as good with it in the training yard same thing with the heel he does better with the heel when he's out and about and we're actually going somewhere um he doesn't like it very much when we're in the training yard and we're just kind of like walking but that's why i'm trying to proof it there so that he kind of gets it here
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Teaching outline
The handler can name, before leaving the house, what this venue is expected to supply and what would make it the wrong choice today - and can convert an unplanned event into a named repetition rather than writing the outing off.
06:34
The venue strategy explained inside the venue, with the fans and the lumber it is being chosen for.
17:17
The same trip pitched too high, and the trainer naming it as his own misjudgement.
33:39
A walk lengthened on purpose to produce an encounter, and the reason given while it happens.
37:14
The owner's question about minutes a day, and the answer that replaces practice with use.
Before you go, say what you are going for: the thing this place will supply that your garden will not. Pick for it deliberately - shade, evening or beauty if you are choosing between parks; a store if you want noise and strangers; a street if you want doorways and crossings. Take the repetitions the place hands you rather than inventing any: wait until the dog genuinely wants the thing, then ask. If he is only curious rather than pumped, let it go and wait for a better one. Do not route around the other dog; lengthen the walk to pass it and put a command in beside it. Go somewhere different next time, and somewhere different again. Afterwards, name one thing the outing trained - including if the outing was hijacked. And if the dog stops offering, stops sniffing, or goes flat, you pitched the venue too high; go somewhere quieter and come back to this one later. (Finn 0JRh17nttVw; King BTrXx8i5Gl0; Bo pnVXL20xQGM and xRUUJeou5Y0; Luna QZZDVkQFLeU; Dolce ZSZXszTZVfQ.)
Picking the place that makes the session easy to run, which is the place the command will stay in.
Steering around every dog and person instead of walking towards them.
Banking reps against distractions the dog did not actually want.
Treating an unplanned encounter as a lost session.
Taking a nervous dog somewhere rich without a way of reading that the level is too high.
Doing all of it in a fixed daily slot, which teaches the dog that listening is a time and a place.
Forgetting the physical properties of the venue - sun, hot pavement, slippery floors, concrete - which are venue choices too.
You take the dog to a car park to work on his heel, and within two minutes a delivery van, a shopping trolley and a loose dog have all arrived and nothing you planned has happened. What did the session train? (Whatever you can name honestly - probably heel under distraction and impulse control with a dog present. The outing did its job; the plan did not, and the plan is the less important of the two.)
Common mistakes
Steering the dog away from every other dog and every stranger, which is how a dog's world gets smaller.
so many people do that they see another dog they avoid them with their dog because their dog can't behave good boy let's go up up here that is sad it's a bummer
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Setting aside ten minutes of drills in the back garden every morning and asking for nothing the rest of the day, which teaches the dog that listening belongs to one hour and one place.
say that um you did what I just said versus every day you uh in the morning you take them outside for 10 minutes and do drills out in the backyard and then take them back inside and don't ask them to do anything else the rest of the day. Right? That's very narrow.
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Always training in the same spot because it works there, which is precisely why it may only work there.
We do this lab in Jack Marley a lot I like it because I can focus on the commands but the downside is that like if you don't actively have somebody the dog only does like one area and keeps the command in that one area the dog just does the same thing it's more of like an isolated place like you have to listen but everywhere else you don't
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Only practising when the dog is calm, so that nothing has ever been asked of him in the state he will actually be in when it matters.
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Treating an unplanned encounter as the ruin of the session rather than asking what it trained.
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Taking a nervous dog somewhere rich because it is good for him, without a way to read whether the level has been pitched too high.
gotta gauge the level today i tried to gauge the level and actually i i gauged it too high so he's a little shut down right now
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Banking a repetition against something the dog did not actually want. Curious is not the same as pumped, and a rep against a weak distraction tests nothing.
like when I say interested I mean like really interested because he's just kind of like curious about things right now but he's not like pumped you know
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What to notice
You want to know how many minutes a day you are supposed to be training.
How many minutes a day should we practice the commands?
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He is excellent in the garden or at the trainer's, and useless on the pavement outside your house.
We do this lab in Jack Marley a lot I like it because I can focus on the commands but the downside is that like if you don't actively have somebody the dog only does like one area and keeps the command in that one area the dog just does the same thing it's more of like an isolated place like you have to listen but everywhere else you don't
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You plan your walks around avoiding other dogs, and you have been doing it long enough that you no longer notice.
so many people do that they see another dog they avoid them with their dog because their dog can't behave good boy let's go up up here that is sad it's a bummer
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He does everything you ask while he is calm and none of it once he is excited.
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There is one particular shop, road or noise that frightens him, and you have stopped going near it.
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He is better on a proper outing than he is pottering about at home, and you have read that as him being stubborn indoors.
doing good better when he's out and about um he doesn't do as good with it in the training yard same thing with the heel he does better with the heel when he's out and about and we're actually going somewhere um he doesn't like it very much when we're in the training yard and we're just kind of like walking but that's why i'm trying to proof it there so that he kind of gets it here
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Trainer notes
Selection criteria actually stated on film: density and variety of novel stimuli for nervous dogs (0JRh17nttVw 06:34); organic reasons to command, not just more distraction (ZdN45WO_o0o 16:05); open field plus people still present, as the first off-leash venue (wfSef-M7-vU 11:46); shade for 70-80 per cent of training, else beauty or evening (7_ZqvaivpPU 23:03); a place that resembles where a client would actually walk (q7hPbRFXE8E 12:36); concrete as a surface the commands must be learned on (q7hPbRFXE8E 12:30); low stimulation for teaching new behaviour (Lb7bNmhsxig 06:08); the dog's worst venue for proofing, even when that venue is boring (9AaDjZ-8Jrg 12:22); rotation for its own sake (KK6zS1srCOE 00:13). Ladders, all single-file and mutually inconsistent: facility, park, stores, downtown Raleigh as 'final boss' (60YpxVWYv20 03:24); quiet park then busy park then store (PzoAjLwiN8w 01:00); park then store (bqE6MDNWh6c 13:02); park first and facility later (Bipi06BnW1U 04:45); store, park, backyard area, indoor area as a set (4ZgZpT7Bilw 12:40). Working practice inside a venue: harvest rather than stage; grade the candidate for whether the pull is real and decline it if it is not (pnVXL20xQGM 02:09); confirm the backstop before inviting the trouble - the e-collar's charge is checked out loud (pnVXL20xQGM 01:10); extend the route to meet the distraction (BTrXx8i5Gl0 33:39); handle a pass with recall then down-and-wait, or heel and keep walking. Indoor equivalents: four gates on the way out of the kennel, each one a sit-and-wait (Ca9jIFIAjNI 19:32); place and settle under an ordinary working day in a room of dogs (J7OJPtswC7o 03:15); a room being cleaned as free distraction (VIFZ2E5NSY0 00:27). Physical variables that override the plan: hot pavement (EL-La0eKp0Q 02:37), sun (Glzo5FjM7dQ 14:57), heat generally, a slippery store floor. Failure mode to watch for in yourself: the venue you like because you can focus there (QZZDVkQFLeU 11:03). And the one documented overshoot, worth teaching from: Finn at Home Depot (0JRh17nttVw 17:17, retold in JvNqp0YKO7M 16:10 and d9BZyckPC44 01:01).
Equipment context
E-collar
The thing that makes a chosen venue safe to use. Its charge is confirmed out loud before a distraction is deliberately invited, and it is what lets a command be reinforced in a place where a leash correction is not available.
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Uh, how often? That's up to you. Um, because what makes the most difference is using them in an actual life situation and having this on to reinforce whatever the command is and doing it right.
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Long line
What makes a rich venue usable before the dog is off leash. Its length is itself a venue variable - a shorter, lighter line is chosen in a low-stakes place because she could get away more easily and that takes more trust.
it's a lot smaller so she can get away get away from me a lot easier so you need to have a little bit more trust to put this line on but she's doing good right now and we're not an incredibly high stakes environment or anything like that
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Backup collar
Fitted before a flight-risk dog's first trip to a park, with the e-collar set in front of it so it cannot slide off and the flat collar kept relatively tight. The venue is only as good as the containment behind it.
This is his first time out to the park, and Finney is a major flight risk. So he will bolt. He will try to run. So I've got his backup collar on, and I've got the e-collar in front, so that it helps a little bit with the collar sliding off, and I've got his flat collar on relatively tight.
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The truck
Not equipment, but the most reliable distraction in one dog's record: she blows the handler off going to it, consistently, so the scenario is deliberately recreated - with the caveat that it only yields a few repetitions.
and she went to the truck she blew me off going to the truck it's very regular I found it to be pretty consistent I can only get a few reps out of it
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Gates and doorways
The indoor venue's own supply of organic repetitions: four gates between the kennel and the outside world, and a sit-and-wait practised at each one because the transition was happening anyway.
coming out of the kennel because it's big it's like a door right so i practice it there i practice it at the next gate and then there's two more gates that we go through before we get to the outside world there's those four gates we practice it every time i make him sit or down and wait
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Settings
Finn
Home Depot - named in the audio, and the venue the concept's central statement is made inside
06:34
Stormie
Home Depot, downtown Angier and the park, named together as the current rotation ('downtown engineer' in the transcript)
12:46
Dolce
a home-improvement store, named in the title only ('Dolce In Home Depot!'); the audio does not name it
01:33
Sage
Lowe's - named in the audio, and chosen for a return visit because loud noises outside it had frightened her
17:43
Sage
Home Depot or Lowe's, named as the next venue after a park judged too quiet
13:02
Bullet
a large outdoor-goods store, named in the title only ('Field Trip W/ Bullet To Bass Pro Shops!'); the audio says only that it is a good place to take the dogs
14:40
Dolce
Lake Benson Park and Beach Bluff, named as the two parks used a lot lately, against Jack Marley today
00:13
Rocko
downtown Angier, on a maintenance walk with other handlers' dogs about
03:11
Roxy
Lake Vincent, named and chosen as the first off-leash venue for its open field with people still around
11:46
Zeus
a street in downtown Raleigh, named in the title only ('Zeus Training Session On Hillsborough Street In Downtown Raleigh'); the audio never names it
16:05
King
the kids' park, chosen first for the evening because it has no lighting and the dogs prefer it
30:34
bo
a busy dog-friendly store the trainer visits often; not named in the audio
04:20
Louie
the facility's training yard, chosen because the dog is worst there
12:22
Owner accounts
How many minutes a day should we practice the commands?
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Um and then like how often should we practice?
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I would like for that.
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Candidate clips
How many minutes a day should we practice the commands?
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i like to for the most part prefer um for like 70 to 80 percent of the training i like to prefer parks that have at least a little bit of shade if possible um doesn't always work out but um i'll pick either beauty uh evening time or shade one of those three
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Source moments
Case story beats
Finn
A trainer walks a frightened dog into a hardware store and explains, happily, why it is the perfect place: fans, lumber saws, and whatever noise this dog has a bad association with is probably in here somewhere. Eleven minutes later the dog locks up and stops answering to his name, and the trainer says into the camera that he gauged the level too high. Weeks later he tells the owners that Finn is the first nervous dog he has ever overestimated, and a colleague tells them he came back from that session saying it was pretty rough. The best argument for the method and its clearest failure are the same forty minutes of footage.
the internet but it's great in here too because like uh home depot has just a lot of stuff that if you're if you've got a dog with some nerves and they have like a weird association or something you'll probably run into it here there's fans in here there's like weird like like sometimes they'll be like cutting lumber in here it's just one of those places where if it's a noise that your dog's gonna freak out it's probably gonna be in home depot and i love it
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gotta gauge the level today i tried to gauge the level and actually i i gauged it too high so he's a little shut down right now
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it was actually the first time I've ever over like usually I underestimate the nervous dogs and actually this time I he's like the first one I've ever overestimated and I took him out to Home Depot
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Roxy
Near the end of a long lesson an owner asks the sensible question - how many minutes a day should we practise the commands? - and the trainer refuses the premise. Not minutes. Occasions. Place while the stove is hot. A sit at the door. And then the line the whole method could be filed under: they are not training for competition, they are training to be a dog in your house, and the competition is life.
How many minutes a day should we practice the commands?
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because they're not training for competition. They're training for being a dog in your house. So the they as soon as they come back, they are already in the training field. They're already in the competition. The competition is life, right? The world is the is the is the place where all the lessons happen.
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King
A trainer sees a stranger on a path and lengthens his own walk to intercept them. He gets the pass he wanted, and then says the part that stings: most people do the opposite - they see another dog coming and steer away because their own dog cannot behave - and their lives get smaller for it.
Alright, well, we just extended our walk slightly Because we're gonna walk by this person Definitely not passing that up
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so many people do that they see another dog they avoid them with their dog because their dog can't behave good boy let's go up up here that is sad it's a bummer
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Dolce
Nearly an hour of a session disappears into a conversation with a stranger and her dog. Asked afterwards whether he minds, the trainer says no - she got impulse-control practice with another dog around and some long downs out of it - and books the lost hour as the work.
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Questions for intake
Where do you actually walk this dog, and how many different places in a typical week? One answer means the commands have nowhere to go.
Are there places you have stopped taking him - a shop, a road, a park, a friend's house - and what happened the last time?
Do you currently set aside time to practise, and if so, when and where? A fixed slot in a fixed spot is the thing this concept most wants changed.
When you see another dog or a stranger on a walk, what do you do? Ask for the honest answer, not the intended one.
What does your dog most want that you could use - the truck, the water, another dog, a particular neighbour? Those are the reliable proofing opportunities and they are free.
What surfaces does he meet at home and on his walks - concrete, decking, gravel, tile, hot tarmac? Surface turns out to be a venue variable in its own right.
Is there anything about your dog, your household or your schedule that would rule a venue out - heat intolerance, a flat face, an injury, a pushchair, a small child on the walk?
Still to establish
The live concept page quotes the Home Depot line in a tidied form ('It's great in here too, because Home Depot has a lot of stuff that if you've got a dog with some nerves and they have a weird association or something, you'll probably run into it here') and attributes it to Connor. The transcript's words are different and messier, and the speaker is not named inside that file - the Connor attribution comes from two other videos. Kelton should decide whether the page keeps the smoothed quote or moves to the verbatim one.
Nine of the fifteen dogs whose records supply evidence here have no arc entry for this concept, because their Tier 2 readers folded venue choice into other entries. That makes the concept look thinner in the arcs than it is in the sessions.
No two files give the same venue ladder. Stormie's is facility, park, stores, downtown Raleigh; Sage's is park then store; Bullet's runs the other way, park first and facility on day three; Dolce's is quiet park then busy park then store. Is there a house progression, or does each handler build his own?
Nobody states how many different places a dog should have worked in before go-home, and no file records the count. The claim that the programme takes dogs 'to a bunch of stores in different parks' would be cheap to verify against the video record, and worth verifying, because it is a selling point.
The 'life is the training ground' advice is given to owners who have just completed a board-and-train and already have an e-collar on the dog. Nobody on camera says what the same advice looks like without one.
Louie's group-room material is carried in the arc as a proposal only: the dog is never named in that file and both quotes are low-confidence. A better-transcribed group session would settle whether the group room is a distinct venue in the method or an artefact of one recording.
Source limitations
Speaker identity is unrecoverable for every statement in this concept. None of the cited files names its narrator. The Finn Home Depot session is the one attribution worth stating carefully: the trainer in JvNqp0YKO7M says he personally took Finn to Home Depot, and a staff member in d9BZyckPC44 says Connor took him there and came back saying it was rough. The two agree, but neither is inside 0JRh17nttVw, so this file records that speaker as unnamed with the cross-references given.
Several venue names come from the video titles rather than from the audio: Bass Pro Shops (Pk82Gd1MwLw), Michaels (3wQXy6skyGE), Home Depot for Dolce (_JOxnYAn3-s) and Hillsborough Street in downtown Raleigh (ZdN45WO_o0o, where the location is never spoken). The `places` list marks which are which.
Stormie's q7hPbRFXE8E renders 'downtown Angier' as 'downtown engineer' at 12:46. The reading is this reader's; the same handler names Angier correctly elsewhere.
Kodak's C0f_ap6DuJo and 7_ZqvaivpPU call the dog Rocko. The Tier 1 set treats Rocko and Kodak as two dogs walked and filmed together; the material used here is the trainer's reasoning about the venue, which is not dog-specific.
Finn is rendered 'Ben' throughout 5wlMCqmfUzo, and 'Luis' for Louie in cSuKJlVvGL4. Dolce is 'Dulce' and Platz is 'plots' in several files.
A passage is withheld from this presentation under the current collection exclusions.
Luna's ldFe0hOs5NQ 12:17 contains what appears to be a self-naming joke rendered as 'Connor generalizes Pierce'. It is quoted as the transcript has it; whether it is a surname, a mistranscription or a joke is not recoverable, and no family name is asserted here.
Bullet's XRDK3HGF8iM is titled an in-person evaluation, and the Tier 1 note records that nothing in the audio is an intake or an evaluation - the dog is already mid-programme, and the passage used here is a conversation with the owners at the end of a park walk.
Several quotes begin mid-cue - Bo's L5MEAb3TgKs 04:20 and Deuce's oOQ7AQFAax4 07:23 among them - because the sentence starts inside a cue boundary. They are reproduced as the transcripts have them.
Connected library collections
These links follow eligible video assignments in the reviewed library. A source can feature more than one animal; the older research-folder name is not used to merge identities.
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