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Deuce
22 full sessions with Deuce, published between 2026-07-17 and 2026-08-04.
Meet Deuce
Rottweiler · 9 months at intake
Owner-reported priorities
- Calmer greetings
- Recall
- Obedience
Breed and intake details are owner-reported. Age refers to the intake date.
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The finished client story
The pleasure of a better walk together.
Deuce’s Angier K9 story brings useful skills into the owner’s hands. Walking, recall, and practice around everyday activity become something the family can see, try, and enjoy.
What these sessions show
When is it safe to let my dog off the leash?
Let's see how he I want to see what he does like off leash in here though.
What happens in a first dog training session?
What toy should I use to train my dog?
So, like adding could be like with the reinforcement, all right, so I have a toy in my hand.
What is the difference between come and let's go?
Why does my dog only listen when I'm pulling the leash?
How many rules should my dog have?
Does my dog actually know the command?
We're working on his uh respect for leash pressure out here cuz there's a lot more distractions.
Why won't my dog listen when he is scared?
Yeah, I think that's probably what it is cuz Polo kind of freaks out when Deuce even gets like remotely close.
How do you safely work with an aggressive dog?
So, but you know, there's a lot of people even in a bite suit that if they saw that, they'd probably like I used to.
Should I pull my dog into position?
So, if I have like the leash locked here to kind of like aid him a little bit with this.
How do I calm a stressed dog?
So, we do, like, a release to freedom sometimes, right?
Why does my dog react to how I stand?
So, deuce come [laughter] a little social pressure there.
How do I train my dog without treats?
Should my dog heel for the whole walk?
Where should I train my dog?
Should I let my dog sniff before training?
How does my dog know when he can stop?
How can I tell what my dog is feeling?
My dog won't take treats when he is nervous
How do I stop my dog reacting to other dogs?
The record
22 sessions, 5.3 hours of footage, 42,190 words of transcript.
- Deuce Training Session 2026-08-04 · 18:03
- Deuce Training Session 2026-08-03 · 10:48
- Deuce Training Session 2026-08-01 · 9:01
- Deuce Training Session 2026-08-01 · 2:55
- Deuce Training Session 2026-07-30 · 19:30
- Deuce In-Program Lesson #2 Part 1 2026-07-30 · 29:01
- Deuce Training Session 2026-07-28 · 15:59
- Deuce Training Session 2026-07-26 · 17:36
- Deuce Training Session 2026-07-17 · 17:30
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22 videos and 4 Shorts. Listed newest publication first. A title match is an index aid, not confirmation of training order.
Training videos
Angier K9 | Deuce | From Dragging His Owner to a Clean Heel
This is an edit, not a session, and the useful work here is provenance.
Tier 1 session summaryDeuce Go-Home Lesson Part 1
Listed by its published title; a teaching summary has not yet been added.
title metadata onlyDeuce Training Session Part 1
A sixteen-second fragment: the trainer opens the camera in downtown Angier, says why he has brought Deuce to this particular place, and says Deuce is going home later today.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Go-Home Lesson Part 3 (Camera died at the end)
The tail of the handover, and it splits cleanly in two.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Go-Home Lesson Part 2
Topics: Don't heel grind; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session Part 2
Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
A morning session that doubles as the clearest account in this batch of how the program is run.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
Short, late-program, and mostly consolidation.
Tier 1 session summaryDeuce Training Session
Three minutes cut out of a longer heel session.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
The second half of the 2026-08-01 outing, picked up after the battery died.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce In-Program Lesson #2 Part 1
The second in-program owner lesson, filmed in one continuous take until the recorder's limit cut it at twenty-nine minutes.
Tier 1 session summaryDeuce In-Program Lesson #1 Part 2
The second half of Deuce's first owner lesson.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
The first session in this batch where the heel is actually taught, and the first at a named public venue.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce In-Program Lesson #1 Part 1
Deuce's first in-program lesson, given to his owner in her own house with the dog loose in the room.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce In-Program Lesson #2 Part 2
The back half of the second owner lesson, and where the visit stops being a curriculum and becomes a handover.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
The tug was left in the vehicle, so the session improvises: sticks become the reward, and the trainer is explicit that a dog who will tug anything is an asset.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Play becomes the reward - and play is a contest.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
This note is mostly a record that the file is nearly empty, which is the honest thing to say about it.
Tier 1 session summaryDeuce Training Session
The best methodological session in Deuce's batch, and the only one that shows two handlers thinking out loud together.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
The trainer's second training session with Deuce, filmed at a park in the rain with no owner present.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
The earliest dated Deuce video in the corpus and, by the trainer's own count, the third time he has worked this dog and the second time out with him.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
An early session, and the only one in this batch that shows the foundation being laid rather than being handed over.
Tier 1 session summary
Shorts
“I Was Holding On for Dear Life”—Then She Took the Leash | Deuce | Angier K9
Listed by its published title; a teaching summary has not yet been added.
title metadata only3 Rotties! 🥰 | Angier K9
Listed by its published title; a teaching summary has not yet been added.
title metadata onlyDeuce Before Training Part 1 | Angier K9
Listed by its published title; a teaching summary has not yet been added.
title metadata onlyDeuce Before Training Part 2 | Angier K9
Listed by its published title; a teaching summary has not yet been added.
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Questions connected to this collection
These Tier 3 drafts reference eligible footage assigned to this collection. A session may feature more than one animal; this is a source connection, not a claim that every example describes this animal.
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- Does my dog actually know the command?
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- What toy should I use to train my dog?
- How do I train my dog without treats?
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- Should I let my dog sniff before training?
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- How can I tell what my dog is feeling?
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- How do I stop my dog running off on walks?
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- When is it safe to let my dog off the leash?
- What is the difference between come and let's go?
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- What happens in a first dog training session?
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