Start with the question you have today.

You can explore the library in any order. If you want a place to begin, choose the question closest to your day. Each path starts with a short guide, follows an original exchange, and finishes with something useful to bring to your trainer.

01 · Before and after your owner lesson

Keep the instruction usable when you get home.

Begin with Prepare for your owner lesson. Bring a recent example and a question you want to practise with feedback. In Questions families ask in lessons, choose a Pepper or Shadow exchange about praise, posture, a boundary or a return.

Use the owner-lesson record for the cue, help, ending and next practice agreed with your trainer. Then put that practice into an ordinary routine. If more than one person will practise, the shared household card keeps the same instructions in reach.

Bring back: one part you can describe clearly and one part you need demonstrated again.

02 · People, dogs and available time

Describe the home the plan has to fit.

Choose a household training priority turns a broad hope into an everyday situation. If family members see different things, keep their observations side by side before drawing a conclusion.

Follow Rocko & Kodak’s assessment questions: which dogs are involved, who is there during the day, and what does a dog do when out alone? Record your own current arrangements with the two-dog routine map, leaving recommendations for your trainer to supply.

Bring back: one ordinary situation for each dog, attached to the person who saw it.

03 · Participation and what follows it

Follow how this dog joins the interaction.

Read Find the game worth joining, then watch Rocko’s original tug exchange. Keep the invitation, participation and return to the person in sequence.

For a different question, follow Kodak’s changing plan. The trainer’s priority in that passage belongs to Kodak at that point. Use the reward profile to describe what your dog already chooses and what your trainer should clarify. An appealing toy in one clip does not select the next exercise for another dog.

Bring back: an ordinary example of what your dog joins, leaves or returns to.

04 · A familiar cue in a different place

Find the change around the response.

Same cue. Different setting. introduces the conditions to record. From a familiar yard to a busy aisle follows Finn’s source discussion. Same cue. New bed. connects Shadow’s smaller home bed with the help in her go-home lesson.

Use the two-moment comparison workbench when you have two bounded exchanges to examine. Keep the person, surface, surrounding activity and assistance attached to each one. Your trainer can decide which difference matters for your next practice.

Bring back: the two moments and the details that differ, with unknowns left open.

05 · Watching the work closely

Follow the person, dog and camera in order.

Start with Watch the handler, too and Notice the line, too. Try the three-passage observation practice to distinguish a proposed next step, a camera-away interval and visible help.

The session observation notebook gives you a place to keep the source, time and response. In Films, one moment, two views shows what a synchronized detail adds to the full scene.

Bring back: a source-linked observation and the question it leaves you with.

Browse freely or follow the work into its sources.

The complete Academy library has search and format filters. Films’ viewing paths organize stories and original exchanges. For deeper case research, use Angier K9 Field Notes topics. To discuss your own dog, start with a free consultation.