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Freeze, flee or fight
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Push any dog hard enough and he freezes, runs or fights - and while he is panicking he cannot pick the good option even when he knows one.
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Angier K9 | Kali & Kane 1st In-Program Lesson Part 1 | Full Session | 2026-09-14 | 18:41
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Start with freedom; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Reaper's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-11 | 15:47
Topics: A life that gets smaller, and the bargain; The correction that did not work; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Mazi's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-09 | 16:19
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Kodak's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-06 | 09:48
A long walk-and-play session, mid-program, that doubles as the clearest statement in this set of what the trainer is actually trying to buy for Kodak.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Titan's Go-Home Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-09-05 | 17:24
Topics: Assess before you ask; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Mazi's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-08 | 17:43
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Luna's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-08-28 | 21:03
The long one, and the most substantial single session in Luna's footage.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Bun's 2nd In-Program Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-09-02 | 15:48
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Kodak's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-06 | 21:55
A short, mostly silent working session with Kodak in a field: down, heel with turns, and ball play, with long unrecorded stretches between reps.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Bun Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-02 | 00:29
Topics: Show what not to do, allow everything else; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; Hidden help.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormie's Go-Home Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-09-03 | 18:54
Topics: Stop before you shut him down; The leash is a prop; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Luna’s Training Walk | Full Session
A solo working walk, framed at the top as a catch-up session on a day the trainer does not normally work.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Nervous or Disobedient? How to Tell | Luna's Full Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormy Came Home To Visit—But Would Her Training Still Hold?
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Pressure, release, reward; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsAngier K9 | 3 Priorities for a Fearful Dog's First Public Walk
The earliest-feeling Kodak material in this set: the trainer says outright that Kodak wants to bolt and does not trust him at all yet, and that he has deliberately asked for nothing.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Ozzy's Confidence Breakthrough | Full Fearful Dog Training Check-In
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Assess before you ask; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | King | From Safety Line to Family-Led Freedom
The last working session before King goes home, and by the end it turns into the owner lesson itself.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Sage | What Her Family Saw Come Home
This short film combines material from Sage's first in-program lesson and go-home lesson.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Fiona Meets The Bissell! Training & Cleaning!
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | King & Zuri Chan Training Session at Dix Park
An evening walk at a park none of them has been to, with King as the client dog and Zuri Chan - the trainer's own dog - along, handled by his wife.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Zeus 2nd In-Program Lesson Part 1
The second of the in-program lessons, five days before Zeus goes home, held at the owner's house with the dog present.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Piglet & Zuri Chan Training Session On Hillsborough Street In Downtown Raleigh
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsAngier K9 | King 2nd In-Program Lesson
The pivot point of King's program, and the one session where the whole case is stated out loud.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Archie & Lola 2nd In-Program Lesson
The second owner lesson of Archie and Lola's board-and-train, run as a ninety-minute shaded loop at a park neither owner had been to, with two trainers, two owners and both dogs.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Archie & Lola Go-Home Lesson Part 1
The first half of the lesson in which both dogs are handed back.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Shadow Training Session
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Lola Training Session Part 2
Five minutes of debrief immediately after a bolt, and it is the most explicitly reasoned piece of teaching in Lola's record.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Simba & Cosmo Go-Home Lesson
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsDeath Sentence Denied. Handsome Lad Louie Deserves The Best. Part 5 ❤️ — Angier K9 Dog Rescue
The second half of the placement-day meal, and the part that answers the series title.
Tier 1 session summaryDeath Sentence Denied. Handsome Lad Louie Deserves The Best. Part 4 ❤️ — Angier K9 Dog Rescue
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; Reliability is what you have not tested.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Lola Training Session Part 1
A mid-program session in bad conditions, and the most candid one about what is not working.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Finn 🦌 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.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Hattie Pattie Finds Her New Home ❤️
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Reading the dog; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Dutchess In-Program Lesson #2 Part 2
The second in-program owner lesson, at the owners' house, in the last week of Dutchess's board-and-train.
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 | Roxy & Ramsey Go-Home Lesson
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Control is not obedience; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Zuri & I try to open Finn Up to Play
Fifty-seven minutes of the handler putting a persistent, socially pushy female dog, Zuri, in a room with Finn to see whether she can get him to play.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Ramsey Off-Leash + Heel Training Session Part 1
Ramsey is worked individually on heel, recall, down and ranging distance.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Ramsey & Roxy First In-Program Lesson
The first in-program lesson for two dogs from one home.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Finn Training Session
The densest ordinary session in Finn's set, and effectively a lecture delivered while working the dog.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Roxy & Ramsey Off-Leash Training Session
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Pressure, release, reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Addressing Phobias In Dog Training. King, working through Fan-Phobia in Lowes.
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsFinn In-Program Lesson #1
Topics: Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; The level is not a number; Thinking is what makes it better.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Lola Training Session Part 1
Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Sage Training Session
An outdoor long-line session with Sage and another handler working Ramsey.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Sage Field Trip To Lowes
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Control is not obedience; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Finn Home Depot Field Trip
A public-access field trip that turns into the clearest filmed example of a trainer pushing a fear case too far and saying so on camera.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Daisy Field Trip to Tractor Supply!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsAngier K9 | King Training Session
Almost all lecture, with King as the demonstration.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Roxy Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Finn At The Park Part 2!
Topics: Hidden help; Assess before you ask; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Finn At The Park Part 1!
Finn's first trip out of the facility, and the session that sets the terms of the whole case.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Anna Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsDolce Training Session
A heel session that turns into a teaching session for the handler.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | E-Collar Experimentation
Topics: Stop before you shut him down; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Peque during her recent Refresher Program Part 2!
Topics: Control is not obedience; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Luna Chanelle Training Session
Topics: Pressure, release, reward; Show what not to do, allow everything else; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Continuing Education Session
Topics: Hidden help; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Ozzy Home Context Training Session!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Ozzy In-Program Lesson #1, Part 2
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Training Session With Fiona
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Control is not obedience; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Anna Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Ozzy In-Program Lesson #1, Part 1
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Reading the dog; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Fionita At The Park!
Topics: Control is not obedience; Pressure, release, reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Teaching A New Trainer By Having Him Stand In For The Dog
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Place Cot Training With Daisy!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Part 2 Ozzie In-Program Lesson #1!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; The dog tells you the reward; Social pressure.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Max Go-Home Lesson Part 3!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Ozzy - Place & Home Context Training
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Social pressure; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Thor (Pt 1) — Go Home Lesson ft Angier K9!
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The three stress reducers.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Luci pt1 — In Person Evaluation ft Angier K9!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tags · Owner-corrected review label; original YouTube title preserved in source snapshotAngier K9 | Bo (Part 1) — In Person Evaluation!
Topics: The leash is a prop; Reading the dog; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsOzzy—Overcoming Social Anxiety w/ Scampy
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Neo In-Program Lesson #2!
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Getting Ozzy Comfortable Part 4
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bullet — Exposure Training at the Park!
Bullet's first day of training, and by the trainer's own count day one of a four to four-and-a-half week board-and-train.
Tier 1 session summaryThor Day 1 — Out in the Park, Learning Recalls and Sits with Angier K9
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Hattie at Spring Fling Pier Fair
Topics: Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty; Social pressure.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Akira #1 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Don't heel grind.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Astro Part 2 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!
Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Astro Part 1 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9
Topics: Assess before you ask; Show what not to do, allow everything else; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Louie — In-Program Lesson with His Owner, Part 3
Topics: Reading the dog; Freeze, flee or fight; Start with freedom.
concept tags · Owner-corrected review label; original YouTube title preserved in source snapshotAngier K9 | Jack — Establishing Trust with Nervous Dog #2
Topics: Hidden help; The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Rocky — Public Focus Training!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Astro & Akira! — Place Duration & Home Context Training
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight; Stop before you shut him down.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Egg — Downs and Recalls!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Akira — Day 3! (She's Based) Part 1
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Meaningful release; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Callie — Go Home Lesson #1
Topics: Control is not obedience; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Irwin — Introduction and Walkies! (Part 1)
Topics: Assess before you ask; Start with freedom; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Rocky — Day 1! He's learning so fast! All on a Flat Collar! ☺️
Topics: Start with freedom; Meaningful release; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsMajor — Walk Obedience
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Thumper — Conquering his Fear!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Josi and Milo — Private Lesson #2
Topics: The leash is a prop; Reading the dog; Hidden help.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Major — Private Lesson #2
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; The dog tells you the reward; Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Josi and Milo — Downs and Recalls pt 1
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Teddy — Private Lesson #2 (pt 2)
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Roman — Play and Evaluation!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Roman — Evaluation Time!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The leash is a prop; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Major — Long Duration Place Work!
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Dolly — Private Lesson #2
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help; Social pressure.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Kalypso - Phases 1-3 of Loose-Leash Walking (Great Dane) Session 1 (Part 2)
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Show what not to do, allow everything else.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Milo Training Session 1
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormy — Private Lesson 1
Topics: Start with freedom; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Stormy — Private Lesson 2
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Penny — Place Work and Play!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Penny at Lowe's!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Internal emotional change, not repression; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Astro — On A Walk! Leash Yielding & Some Obedience.
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Fiona — Go Home Lesson!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; He has to be allowed to get it wrong.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Clark Kent — Downs and Heels!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsMurphy — Go Home Lesson! Aggression Check
Topics: Control is not obedience; Reading the dog; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Josephine—Full Go Home Lesson With Client!
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty.
concept tagsBo — Full Go Home Lesson With Client!
The handover, and the single densest piece of teaching in Bo's file.
Tier 1 session summaryDrago — Recalls/Focus Training
Topics: Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Milo and Josi — Go Home Lesson pt3
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; The level is not a number; Reliability is what you have not tested.
concept tagsMilo and Josi — Go Home Lesson pt 2
Topics: Freeze, flee or fight; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bo — Recalls/Heels
A seventeen-minute proofing walk at Bass Lake Park, and the single most informative Bo session in this set.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Gunny & Luna— Go Home Lesson pt 2
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic; Reading the dog.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Gunny & Luna — Go Home Lesson Pt. 1
Topics: Hidden help; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Sputnik, Astra & Bear— Go-Home Lesson Pt. 1
Topics: Pressure, release, reward; The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Training Session in the Woods with Ace!
Topics: Hidden help; Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Milo—Behavior Modification, "Aggression," and Actually telling your do "No."
Topics: Control is not obedience; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsWiley—heels, public training
Topics: Meaningful release; Reading the dog; Assess before you ask.
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