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Police K9 Utility of The Place Command06 Aug 202401:05:53

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Moving through the phases of behavior acquisition for maximum training potential and skill retention and generalization. 

  • Developing Mark, Move, and Reward as your protocol.

  • Using markers, such as try-again markers, to teach your dog variations of learned behaviors.

  • Making place a valuable and a safe place to be for your canine. 

  • Using the place command to train perimeter neutrality. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Dogs say “no” all the time - we have to have a way to make them want to go to a place and compel them to go to a place when we’re developing this command.

  • Depending on your dog, the place command can be used in different ways and with different rewarding protocols to improve the utility of the command. 

  • Place allows us to work the dog away from us.  

  • Don’t be married to only training one way. As you train more dogs, you will learn that different dogs train better in different ways. You, as a handler, will also evolve in your training. 

  • This is the boring side of great training. Sometimes the greatest training starts with training the place command and neutrality. 

  • Make use of your downtime and dead time. Work on neutrality and train that using place commands instead of just doom scrolling. 

 

"This is a really simple behavior that's really hard to mess up, and it allows the handlers to get tons and tons of practice at using marker systems, at using both direct and indirect rewarding protocols. If there are mistakes, there's much going to be much less fallout than if we were in the context of detection or article indication or anything like that." —  Jerry Bradshaw  

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Problem Solving: Countering, Grip, Outs, and Neutrality28 Jun 202401:20:38

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • More content you can get on the Controlled Aggression Patreon or in the Street Readiness Seminars to to help you problem solve with your dog. 

  • Luring and trading in training to build skills. 

  • Staying in control and not allowing your dog to self-reward. 

  • Leveraging every interaction with your dog.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • If you’re having troubles with countering - consider training outs. It may be that your dog doesn’t want to open their mouth once they get a bite. 

  • Don’t get too stuck in your quadrants - sometimes you have to use different aspects of negative and positive reward and punishment combined to get the behavior you’re looking for. 

  • Start training outs with mechanical outs. Leashes and lines are a great place to start - you don’t need to jump right in with ecollars. 

  • You need to be able to have handler presence for both punishments and rewards. Make sure you are the one controlling your dogs eyes. 

 

"Use the piece of equipment that’s going to get you the best results…When thinking about which tool to use, the property way to look at it is to experiment. Try one and see how it goes, then try the other and see if it is any better." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Scientific Approach to Off-Leash Control28 Jul 202301:08:41

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Understanding learning theory, types of conditioning, and systems of training.

  • Creating a habit so strong that it will hold up to distractions.

  • Consistency takes knowledge, effort, and discipline.

  • Having a picture in your mind of what is expected, and holding to that standard.

  • Reward is what replicates the habit. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • If you are struggling with certification level performance, you need to consider reaching out to get some additional help.

  • If you don’t understand theory about how a dog learns, you’re going to run into difficulty in trying to teach a dog anything.

  • Never abandon your training progression just to see what the dog will do.

  • When you have inconsistent training, you have inconsistent behaviors.

  • People who lack goal directed behavior become depressed. Dogs also have goal directed behavior.

 

"In the grand scheme of things, when you give a command, it happens." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

That Scent Dog Box: https://www.thatscentdogbox.com/ 

That Scent Dog Box Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thatscentdogbox/ 

That Scent Dog Box Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatscentdogbox/ 

That Scent Dog Box TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thatscentdogbox 



Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Defensive Dogs in Protection27 Jul 202301:15:44

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Having patience with your puppies. 

  • The three types of defensive dogs. 

  • How decoys can affect defense or prey. 

  • Identifying early signs of avoidance in your defensive dog. 

  • Tips for working the dog in defense properly. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Once the dog’s foundation work is where you want it, then you can start adding in skills. Don’t rush the foundation work. 

  • All drives have intensity. The intensity will be completely dependent on your experience. Working with and seeing more dogs will give you a better understanding of what is high, medium, and low. 

  • The avoidance threshold does not come out of nowhere. You want to watch carefully for where the defense is breaking down into avoidance. 

  • The younger the dog, the touchier the training will be. The thinner the margin between defense and avoidance, the more difficult it is to train the dog. 

 

"You’d be surprised by what you can get out of defensive dogs when you really understand how to work them." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

That Scent Dog Box: https://www.thatscentdogbox.com/ 

That Scent Dog Box Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thatscentdogbox/ 

That Scent Dog Box Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatscentdogbox/ 

That Scent Dog Box TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thatscentdogbox 

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Tarheel Canine Police Dog Info15 Jul 202300:13:46

Today, Jerry answers your burning questions about the available police and civilian dogs and their training at Tarheel Canine. Tarheel provides trained, duel purpose, explosive, and narcotics dogs of various breeds. They also provide green dogs ready to be trained by your officers. Jerry also explains the different options for handler courses, selecting dogs, your personalized experiences, and the guarantees at Tarheel Canine. 

 

For more information email Jerry at JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com or call the office at 919-774-4152.

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Drive Suppression v Drive Capping13 Jul 202301:09:37

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Mistakes made that lead to suppression, avoidance behavior, anxiety, or hesitancy in your canine. 

  • Building thoughtful release behavior into the pressure.

  • Training your dog how to sit when in drive. 

  • Rewarding the capping with something expressive, even if not a bite. 

  • Tips for training drive capping properly.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Excitement, expressiveness, and forward movement aren’t wrong. But you want the dog to learn how to hold that excitement in until released, not turn it off. 

  • Suppression happens when you do not allow the release at the end of the wait. 

  • You want to help the dog learn to find the advantage both in the quiet behavior and in the alert or expressive behavior.

  • You want to balance the capping and the expression. The dog needs to understand his advantage at every stage of the drive, including when capped. 

  • When you’re learning capping skills, having a really good decoy who understands capping, who can read the dog, and understands every aspect of the situation is invaluable. 

 

"It is so important to have your dog in the right frame of mind when they go into a building search or an area search when their job is going to be to make an apprehension. And we want to make sure we preserve that state of mind in the process of getting the correctness and the quality of the behaviors that we want." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Sport Culture for Pet Trainers05 Jul 202300:55:07

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • The positive impact PSA and American Schutzhund have had on pet training. 

  • Creativity and innovation in training your dog. 

  • The objective standards of canine sports to create better dogs of all ages. 

  • Getting involved in the culture of canine sport.

  • How sport can change the way you think about dogs. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Being part of a canine sport club will allow you to have conversations with other dog owners who are also training their dogs and can make training your pet feel less isolating. 

  • It is the application of ideas that matters. You want to be a trainer that can do, not just talk about doing. 

  • Behind the rules and standards of evaluation, canine sport shows the breeding of the dogs who participate and compete. 

  • The tighter the training, both in pet training and in sport, the better it will be over the long term. The looser the training, the looser it will get over time. 

 

"Part of the culture is you get a sense of place where you have belonging, you’ve got some safety, there’s some humility that has to be shown, you get to share success - nobody does this alone." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Countering, Pushing & Pulsing Grips30 Jun 202301:01:09

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Bringing out the traits in your dog that are (or are not) genetically in them already. 

  • The difference between countering, pushing/pulling, and pulsing bite grips. 

  • Working with the dog and not creating an unstable grip through overwork. 

  • Actively teaching your dog when and how to counter, and how and when to fight out of a pressure trap using the different grips. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Countering happens when dogs do not get the ideal strike and an ideal grip in the initial bite. You want the dog to be biting all the way back to their molars whenever possible (which can be difficult when the dog is coming in full speed on a decoy). 

  • Biting with the back teeth allows for more leverage power in the jaw which can help with pain compliance even through layers of clothing on a pushing grip in a police dog situation. 

  • The decoy and trainer both need to understand what you trying to get out of each training session with dogs at all stages of development. Training with a puppy is very different from training with an older, veteran dog. 

  • A lot of decoys and trainers are neglecting to teach the dog to counter off of the transition. 

 

"Countering is a very important technique in training a protection dog, but we may go too far in focusing only on that." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Setting Up Successful Training Sessions27 Apr 202301:15:46

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Teaching your dog lessons through action, feedback, and prevention. 

  • Understanding the queues that you are creating in your dog. 

  • Planning your training sessions in advance and understanding the variables. 

  • Preparing with the correct equipment and rewards for the training session you are heading into.

  • The importance of evaluating your training sessions, and getting a second pair of eyes on the training and evaluation when possible. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Your training session begins as soon as the dog comes out of the kennel, both what is and is not happening matter from that moment on. 

  • You should have reasons for doing everything that you are doing in training. You do not want to create associations with equipment or locations

  • Know the sub-skills that you want to work and the variables inherent in those when you are planning what skills and subskills you are planning on training in each session. Do the research if needed to understand how to support that training and make it better. 

  • You must know what you are doing before you even put your hands on the dog. There is a lot happening and if you don't have a plan things will get chaotic and not go how you want them to go.

 

"I plan out before I work my dog exactly what I'm going to work on before the session starts so I know what I want to do on the field. Setting up for success is about figuring out what you're going to do before you go and try to do it instead of just going out and doing what other people are doing and mimicking them." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

 

PSA Rituals and Field Awareness09 Mar 202301:02:05

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • The secrets to success in both the training field and trial field. 

  • Why consistency matters. 

  • Benefits of having an engagement ritual and how it can help provide a reset for your canine. 

  • Variable reward systems and proper reward frequencies. 

  • Advocating for your dog and understanding what is supposed to happen on trial day. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • You want to have rituals for both you and your dog. If you do it correctly, the trial day is just another training day. 

  • Don’t underestimate the importance of building your dog’s bathroom habits into your rituals. You don’t want them to be relieving themselves on the practice or trail fields. 

  • If your training is going well, you should be getting away from micromanaging their behavior. They need to be able to function without a lot of feedback during trial. 

  • You need to know your dog. Each dog will have a different strategy for parking, getting out of the car, coming on and off the field, etc. 

  • Practice what you will do during the critique. Practice your transitions between exercises. There is more to trial than just the trained activity. 

 

"It is what we develop in training that becomes a habit for trialing." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Building a Relationship with Communication & Emotion with Derek Beckelman23 Feb 202301:34:29

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Derek Beckelman discuss:

  • Building a relationship of trust with your new dog, both pet and working. 
  • Being consistent with the rules with your dog. 
  • The emotional nature of dogs and handlers. 
  • The clash between attention and anticipation. 
  • Increasing the effectiveness of your communication with your dog. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Using food, treats, or toys to motivate, especially in the early stages of building the relationship is not a bad thing. But you want to avoid becoming a treat dispensing robot. 
  • There are two sides to training - classical and operant. You do not want to focus only on operant conditioning and forget about the aspects of classical conditioning that can help with your training. 
  • Dogs will try to anticipate everything. We, as humans, fall into routines. These can clash and create conflict within the training. 
  • Training can be frustrating. But the dog just wants to do dog things. You can’t get mad at them for being a dog. 
  • You have to pay attention to where your dog’s head is at in any given moment. Sometimes they aren’t listening, not because they don’t want to, but because they cannot due to other circumstances. 

 

"It's not up to me how quickly a dog makes progress. It's up to the dog. But as long as we're paying attention, and we're reading what the dog is trying to tell us is going on, we can make jumps and progress when they're ready. But you have to see it. You have to feel it, and that just takes experience." — Derek Beckelman

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Episode References: 

 

 

Contact Derek: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/derekbeckelman/  

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

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Notes on Neutrality09 Feb 202301:06:26

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • The importance of neutrality in all aspects of dog training (not just obedience). 

  • Creating reflexes, capping at the right time, and building a powerful dog. 

  • Reversing reflex actions with desensitization - and doing it properly. 

  • Developing behaviors then pushing the threshold. 

  • Training neutrality at your PSA club.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Create more neutrality than you need for the level that you are in. 

  • Capping is the first stage in creating neutrality and allows the dog to hold on to the emotionality for a short period of time before they express it. 

  • Start training neutrality with dead equipment. You can start training capping around the objects on the ground. 

  • Training neutrality will work at different paces and through different variables depending on your dog. Be patient, maintain technique, and don’t rush. 

 

"Different dogs will be more or less susceptible to creating neutrality. Don’t compare your dog to others. Twitchy, reflexive, or defensive dogs are going to be tougher to manage neutrality in." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Prior Episode References: 

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Directionals and Casting25 Apr 202401:09:06

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Send the dog where you want them to go in upper-level control. 

  • Training young (and not so young) dogs away from you, not just near you. 

  • Using attention as a reset. 

  • Utilizing unconventional equipment when training your dog. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Consider training different commands for different attention and directionals to make it clear to your dog what you want from them exactly. 

  • You need to be able to give your dog clear feedback when they are focusing on the wrong thing. That is where the discipline comes into this process. 

  • Eventually, you have to generalize commands to various obstacles and decoys. 

  • Directionals are key in upper-level PSA and in scenarios, as they can allow you to, among other things, stop hunting behavior or send your dog in a specific direction, even if it's not the one they initially want. 

 

"Don't be in a hurry with puppies to do a lot of this directional stuff until you have all the tools to where you can actually make the dog understand what you want them to look at so we can make sure our targeting system is clean." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Feedback, Confidence, & Corrections05 Jan 202301:11:18

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • The impact of the e-collar and social media on dog training. 
  • Making and molding behaviors. 
  • Variable reward schedules and recourse for non-compliance. 
  • Changing the problem to clarify the problem when there is a lack of understanding. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • You’re looking for about an 80-20 rule - with 80% compliance - you can look to start moving to the next training session and work on a different type of system to clean up the final 20%.
  • You want the dog to understand the behavior in a number of contexts before saying it is learned. 
  • Many handlers are staying too long in the guiding correction, negative reinforcement phase of training. 
  • You need to understand what frame of mind your dog is in when you are training. If he is not in the right frame of mind to make a good decision, it needs a different correction than willful disobedience.

 

"I’ve found that in a lot of these discrimination exercises, what I'm battling more than anything else is stimulation and lack of clarity because of that stimulation the dog is trying to deal with. And sometimes pressure or pain, however you want to term it, can increase that stimulation that the dog is feeling in that moment and create an even more stimulated animal." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Simple Patrol K9 Scenarios03 Nov 202200:57:25

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Setting up simple patrol scenarios to figure out what your dog needs to work on. 
  • Tracking, searching, and engaging in muzzle.
  • Benefits and challenges of different types of scenarios. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Your dog may need context cues if they are going into a scenario that looks like it may be something else.
  • Throughout entire scenarios, your dog tells you information with their behavior and body language to tell you where it is even if they don’t know exactly what it is they are looking for and don’t give you a final response.
  • There is a process for teaching your dog targeting. Practicing discrimination exercises can help with that. 
  • You want to make sure to deal with any threats before you get deep into the building. If you miss threats when you are going into a situation, you may leave threats behind you, sandwiching yourself between two or more threats. 

 

"When you're trying to hit a bunch of different areas in an eight-hour period of time, that doesn't leave you a lot of time to do each thing. And so sometimes setting up fairly simple scenarios can be the way to go." — Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon: patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

 

 

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Brad Gillespie: Gunfire Training26 Oct 202201:04:39

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Brad Gillespie discuss:

  • Typical reactions from dogs to gunfire. 
  • Understanding the operational requirement of the dog that you are working with to use the best technique for training.
  • Minding your sequencing with training the gunfire training.
  • Being mindful of canine audiology in inside and outside training with gunfire and other loud noises.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Gunfire should be background, it should not be a queue to do anything for the dog. 
  • You can create neutrality to the gunfire by firing shots from a distance, initially, while the dogs are eating. 
  • Utilizing food in the training can keep the activity levels low in a way that toys or other rewards may increase drive and activity when trying to create the neutrality.
  • Google decibel levels of hearing damage and look at the decibels on the devices you are using. You can make things loud for long periods of time without paying attention because of your hearing protection, but your dog doesn’t have that same protection and it can cause unexpected consequences.

 

"A lot of folks get wrapped around the gunfire itself, but don't take the time to condition and make everything else neutral. Gunfire is one thing, and it's really just noise, but the movements, the drawing of the pistol, the yelling, all of those things create a lot of problems as well." —  Brad Gillespie

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

 

Connect with Brad Gillespie:  

Website: CanadianPoliceCanine.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

 

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Observations on Control Commands: Drive Capping20 Oct 202200:50:38

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • What drive capping is, what it means, and how it differs from pressuring the dog.
  • The value in drive capping for police dogs.
  • The importance of both the trainer and the decoy in drive capping training. 
  • Training prerequisites for drive capping. 

 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Training is a non-linear process. The further along you get, the more it changes up to direct the exact behaviors you want from the dog. 
  • When training drive capping, you have to focus on rewarding and make it clear to the dog what their job is. 
  • If a dog is too leaky during their capped state, it may lead to an early release by the dog.
  • It is important the dog understands that they can be capped and be rewarded and can be expressive and can be rewarded. 

 

 

"Drive capping usually means using obedience to move the dog from an expressive state where he might be barking or showing some act of aggression to a cap state where the aggression is contained, ready to be expressed." — Jerry Bradshaw

 

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon: patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

 

 

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Observations on Control Commands: Redirects, Recalls, and Out & Return07 Oct 202201:02:00

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Understanding the progressions between redirects, recalls, and outs and returns. 
  • Common mistakes made and how to correct them. 
  • Avoiding unwanted stress, pressure, anticipation, and preferences during your training. 
  • Repeated training and training more than what’s in certification only. 

 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Command discrimination is extremely important as it tells the dog what, exactly, you are wanting them to do. 
  • You want to set the dog up for success when arranging the training sessions, including accounting for preferences that may skew their training results.
  • Change up the training in some fashion when you start to see anticipation in your dog for the command. 
  • If you want to build your control over your dog at distance, the e-collar can help you with that. 

 

 

"It is really important to understand, before you get into this, what is that progression - going from two decoy redirects until you get that reflex action and start adding in the get to heal position as a bridge to reward bites so that we can build the out and return nicely, and then we can start doing recalls, and so forth." — Jerry Bradshaw

 

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon: patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Observations on Control Commands - Out29 Sep 202200:51:38

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • How to get fluency in your outing with reward, not punishment.
  • Beginning with the end in mind in your training.
  • Training with e-collars and your dog.
  • Command chains, variable reward, and understanding Pavlovian conditioning. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • You will not get fluency in your outing until you understand that repetition in out training with rewarding the dog for outing is what is going to get that fluency.
  • There are complications when importing an out command from an object, such as a toy, to fighting a man.
  • Not every e-collar is the same, and not every e-collar is correct for every dog.
  • You want the dog to think there is an obedience command after the release. The dog will be in a hurry to get into that obedience command because that is where the reward will happen. 

 

"One word cannot mean two different actions to a dog. He cannot always read the context in your intentions, so you must give him a command that is going to be meaningful to him." — Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon: patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Building a Successful PSA Club25 Aug 202201:06:55

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Starting a successful PSA club in your area that is good and healthy for trainers and canines.
  • Pros and cons of the two types of clubs you can run - democracy or top-down leadership.
  • The role of training directors and decoys within a PSA club.
  • Attending club, learning in seminars, following progressions, and learning from those who have had success in the sport you are pursuing. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Any place where people get together and share a passion, you will find certain types of conflicts.
  • New members will always need more guidance than a more experienced member. Same when a team member is transitioning between levels.
  • As training director, you are in charge of the safety of the dog, the safety of the trainer, and the safety of the decoys. Otherwise, you have to be willing to bend and let your trainers explore and try new things when they want to.
  • In a club atmosphere, training and information don’t all have to come from one person. Everyone can learn and grow from one another. 

 

"The approach has to be one where we look at shared success, and being genuinely happy as teams progress. Those teams have to realize they wouldn't be anywhere without the decoys, without the training directors, without the people that are part of the successful approach that has allowed that team to be able to title successfully." — Jerry Bradshaw  

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon: patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Holding a Standard of Behavior04 Aug 202201:02:00

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Knowing what an ideal behavior looks like when you’re working every stage of progression. 
  • Accountability and follow through. 
  • Short, medium, and long term goals in your organized training plan. 
  • Having proper technique and understanding reward structure for your dog. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • You must hold a consistent standard of behavior to show the dog that there is no wiggle room is what you expect from them. 
  • Allowing departures from what is expected tells the dog that there is no standard of behavior. 
  • You have to understand how to craft a training session and understand what your goal of each training session is and how it fits into the bigger picture of your training plan. 
  • We want to be able to articulate our assessment of how things went and that allows us to understand what we need to do moving into the next session.

 

"You have to know what an ideal state and ideal behavior looks like, whether it's a segment of behavior, or a part of a bigger behavior chain, when you're working every stage of that dog's progression. Whether you're working something in the short, medium, or long term you have to really understand what standard you want to hold that dog to, and, every single time you bring that dog out, you have to hold him to that standard of behavior." —  Jerry Bradshaw 

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

 

Is Your Training Too Operant?16 Jun 202201:24:13

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Classical versus operant conditioning. 
  • Recognizing and understanding the emotional states of your dog. 
  • How your emotions and confidence affect the emotional state of your dog. 
  • Understanding the classical effects of your operant conditioning. 
  • The magic in the emotions. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Most dog training starts with operant work then folds in classical conditioning. 
  • When training with a dog, you are not working in laboratory conditions. There are other associations happening and that context needs to be taken into account. 
  • Hunting for a toy and hunter for a man are two different things. You will draw more sustained, higher level drive when trailing with a bite at the end rather than hunting a ball or a pipe. 
  • Be aware of what lessons you are teaching when utilizing training tools.They may be learning a classical lesson instead of the intended operant lesson. 

 

"Classical conditioning will always trump operant conditioning, in certain circumstances, if those two things come into conflict." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 



Pat Stuart: Low Level Stim E-Collar Conditioning22 Apr 202201:34:36

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Pat Stuart discuss:

  • Utilizing e-collars for more than just negative reinforcement. 
  • Understanding what low-level actually means with the e-collar. 
  • Creating learning phases and utilizing more than one tool in your training tool kit. 
  • Negative reinforcement and positive punishment. 
  • Activation in e-collar training. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • The level of e-collar stim needs to be at a level where it doesn’t derail the dog from what he was going to do anyway. 
  • Duration matters with e-collars, and with pressure in general. Intensity and time both matter when it comes to the pressure being applied. 
  • The e-collar is a tool in the tool kit, not the only resource available. 
  • E-collar requires a mental reframing. Negative reinforcement can become playful for the dog, and they cannot win with an e-collar in the same way they can with a line.
  • Just because somebody is using a tool incorrectly does not make the tool inherently bad. 

 

"I think the way that people make a dog e-collar aware is by not using the collar enough, and by that I mean not wearing it enough, not necessarily using it and being on the buttons enough." —  Pat Stuart

 

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Connect with Pat:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/canineparadigm

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecanineparadigmshow/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecanineparadigm/?igshid=rhle8hrgp6tx

Website: https://www.operantcanine.com.au/

Show: http://www.thecanineparadigm.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4i8paQFojTy25xPRAR7LoA

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecanineparadigm

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

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Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

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Ten Common Outing Mistakes29 Feb 202401:04:00

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Drills to teach your dog to give up something to get something. 

  • Utilizing multiple types of reinforcement to increase positive behaviors. 

  • Adjusting e-collar settings to change the type of pressure on the dog. 

  • Differences in different models of e-collars and how your dog may react to them. 

  • Pre-empting the mistakes that you can. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • A lot of common outing mistakes have to do with e-collars and the misuse of certain functions for outing behaviors. 

  • Consider going lower on stimulation and longer on the taps of the e-collar rather than a high stimulation with an extremely short duration. This will change the type of pressure on the dog. 

  • Avoid habituating your dog to the higher levels of stimulation. These dogs are bred to fight through adversity, you don’t want to stress innoculate the dog to the e-collar pressure. 

  • Try a few different types of e-collars on and see which one they respond better to based on their temperament and the sharpness or bluntness of the e-collar. Experiment and see what works best with the minimum force rule. 

 

"Outs must be rewarded. No behavior will be maintained without some form of reinforcement." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

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Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

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The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

 

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Dr. Jessalyn Klein: Dealing with Difficult People07 Apr 202201:27:58

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Dr. Jessalyn Klein discuss:

  • Working with people with different personality types and different opinions. 
  • Successfully dealing with a know-it-all, a boundary pusher, and others. 
  • Setting expectations from the beginning. 
  • Giving necessary education and managing magical thinking. 
  • Using the DEAR MAN trick for dealing with people. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • As the trainer, be willing to throw the trainee a bone, but give them the big picture and show them how what they are saying fits in (or doesn’t) with that bigger picture. 
  • If people just want interaction, if they are paying you, they will likely drop off at some point. If they keep coming back, they likely do want to learn something even if they can’t admit it. 
  • Be realistic, be communicative, and be upfront. Don’t lie to the client about how the training is going. 
  • If you understand what motivates someone to behave in a certain way, then you can understand how to deal with that behavior (much like dog training). 
  • Your job is to educate the client, not to shame them for what they don’t know. 

 

"This all does come down to, ultimately, having a better educated general population with animals. Also, when you set up expectations effectively, and you and your clients are on the same page, that's going to result in meeting agreed upon goals, and they're going to be happy clients, they're going to be happy with their dogs, and happy with you as a trainer." —  Dr. Jessalyn Klein

 

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Contact Jessalyn: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessalynkleinphd/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessalyn.klein/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drkleink9training/ 



Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 

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Multiple Markers: Are they Necessary?31 Mar 202201:12:14

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Multiple markers for different reward types. 
  • The purpose of markers and when a marker may or may not be necessary. 
  • Types of markers and what they indicate to your dog (even if you didn’t intend for that behavior).
  • Reward prediction error and reward preferences. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • With more rehearsal, the neurons that release dopamine activate on the expectation of reward, not when the reward is delivered.
  • Markers create clarity in behavior. 
  • A marker is something that calls attention to a moment in time when the dog did something that's rewardable. It allows us to bridge from behavior to reward delivery.
  • It is not about the marker. It is about the goal directed behavior getting rewarded on a variable basis. 

 

"The most important thing here is the behavior. Don't get so hung up on the marker itself, it's the behavior. Our goal as dog trainers is to create behaviors that are going to be in line with what is expected." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Episode References: 

Fenzi Dog Sports Academy: https://www.fenzidogsportsacademy.com/ 

Dr. Robert Sapolsky: https://profiles.stanford.edu/robert-sapolsky 

Dopamine, Anticipation, & Relationships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIRZu1dRp8Q 

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 

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Primacy of Learning, Hunt Drive, Markers, and Advice for Young Trainers17 Mar 202200:57:08

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Having a full, firm, and hard grip (which may not be calm). 
  • Developing a hunt drive in your dog. 
  • Working dogs on markers and having different types of markers. 
  • How to be an active learner and advice for young trainers. 
  • How primacy of learning applies to training. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • You want a bite suit to be as form fitting as possible to allow the dog to feel the person underneath while still giving protection to the decoy. 
  • Your dog should have a genetic predisposition to hunting. However, rehearsal and learning awakens the genetics inside of young dogs when you practice. 
  • You have control of how you want to train on markers. You can have multiple types for different things how you choose as long as it is clear to the dog what you want them to do.
  • Watch everything. When you are learning to train, watch others work, watch masters handle dogs. Be attentive at all times. 
  • In training, ask questions, be kind, and pay attention. 

 

"My advice for young trainers is watch everything going on around you. Be present, be attentive to training that's happening in front of you, so you can try and understand it." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 

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The Detection Blueprint17 Mar 202200:04:24

Introducing…The Detection Blueprint! If you have ever wanted to learn how to train canine detection from start to finish, you can join us for the three part series, The Detection Blueprint! Over this three part series, we're going to break down detection training and share knowledge, insights and tactics - tactics that I've learned over the last 25 years training working dogs. In 3, 2-hour long sessions, you will learn detection foundations, your detection process, and making your detection operational.

 

if you're interested in detection training, really this is a webinar series you don't want to miss! You get lifetime access by going to StreetReadyK9.com!

 

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 

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Street Ready K910 Mar 202200:09:51

Introducing…StreetReadyK9.com! On the brand new site, you will be able to see all upcoming seminars from Tarheel Canine, download all registration information necessary for the seminars, as well as use the portal to request information regarding hosting a seminar with little to no cost to you (no matter the size of your department). If you are looking for a seminar and some quality training Tarheel Canine Training can provide it for you! Go on to StreetReadyK9.com and look at the different options for seminars that we have and we'll be happy to chat with you about how to make that happen.

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Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Street Ready K9: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

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Heuristics of Reward and Punishment History10 Mar 202200:57:28

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • What a heuristic is and how it applies to rewards and punishments. 
  • Allowing for mental development during your training. 
  • Training multiple commands for the same actions. 
  • Differences in training obedience and detection. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Histories create biases. You also need to understand your dog’s temperament and how they are going to generalize behavior. 
  • You do not need to perfect the behavior you are training all at once. Allowing time between working on a skill often allows for mental development. 
  • “All the time” and “never” are going to create problems. You need to find a balance in your training. 
  • A variable reward scheme is the key to balanced training. 

 

"if you're struggling with that call off, what you're lacking is balance. If you wait too long to create that behavior, you can also have some problems, because you've created such a reward history. Dogs that have out problems have a reward history that is massive in terms of biting and possessing the bite equipment or biting and possessing the decoy." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Street Ready K9: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 

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Attention, Direction & Draw03 Mar 202201:09:36
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:
  • Thinking about the end game from the beginning of your training. 
  • Creating neutrality through all kinds of distractions. 
  • Look at me, look at me while, look at that, and look at that while commands for your dog. 
  • Balancing draw to fight against drift. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Attention is the dog’s anchor. Give them a point to focus on that allows them to be neutral to everything else around.  You have to control a dog’s eyes to control their behavior. 
  • You want to lay the foundation for sending on command, not sending on agitation and discriminating between the two early on in your training. 
  • Create neutrality through time on the field. 
  • No matter how advanced your dog is, keep working on your fundamentals. That is where the strength lies when you are in actual scenarios. 

 

"One of the most important fundamental exercises of attention is teaching the dog to look at me, then look at that, and then look back to me, and then look back to that and change it up for the dog where I point the dog at different things that might be of concern to him." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 



 

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Back Tie Basics17 Feb 202201:10:51

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Best practices and variations on utilizing a back tie. 
  • Appropriate, sturdy back ties on different surfaces and tables. 
  • How to decoy while using a back tie for many types of training. 
  • Balancing bringing the dog to the decoy, and the decoy to the dog. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • The longer the back tie, the bigger the circle is. This creates additional challenges with the dog possibly getting tangled. 
  • The back tie is adjustable based on your needs. Look at what training you are doing and utilize the back tie to help assist that training. 
  • The dog needs to activate, and the decoy needs to react to that activation. This will create a proactive dog. 
  • The kinds of things that we're doing when we're working dogs on the back tie is working through all of our foundation fundamentals.

 

"Having the dog on a back tie makes it so that if you get too close and get bit, it's your own damn fault as the decoy. I'm not relying on that handler to keep me safe. Especially with some new handlers or some handlers that don't have a lot of experience or maybe have a particularly powerful dog, having that dog back tied is just going to give us an extra margin of safety." —  Jerry Bradshaw 

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 

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Ben Lepinski: Dog/Puppy Selection, Independence, Nerves, Recovery & Decoy Training03 Feb 202201:41:01

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Ben Lepinski discuss:

  • Raising and training sport dogs and police dogs from a decoy perspective. 
  • Attributes that make for a good sport dog. 
  • Handling a dog in fear and avoidance (without creating a bigger problem in the fear period). 
  • Digging to the root of an issue and not just taking it at the surface level. 
  • Teaching the dog to solve problems on his own with proper progressions. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • When selecting a puppy, understand what you want to do with the dog, then look at the attributes of the parents (not just the titles). 
  • In training, you’re going to struggle with something. The dog having independence is a great thing, as it shows they will be less likely to fall into confusion and safety seeking behavior when they hit a challenge. 
  • Don’t repeat the problem when the dog is stressed. Get his confidence back up and a while later, ease them back into a similar situation before approaching the exact same situation. 
  • The fewer repetitions of the bad thing happening, the greater chance of rehabilitating the dog. 
  • The best way to bond with your dog is to work your dog, regardless of if you get a puppy or an older dog. 

 

"I'm more interested in that dog that's going to go find his own satisfaction in his environment, instead of looking for me to kind of bring him through it." —  Ben Lepinski 

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Ben: 

Bio: http://www.tarheelcanine.com/2011/09/ben-lepinski-police-k9-instructor/ 

Website: www.tarheelcanine.com 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ben.lepinski/  

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Ben_Lepinski 



Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 

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HRD: Hyper Aggressive & Hyper Passive Suspects13 Jan 202200:30:20

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Handling hyper aggressive or hyper passive suspects on high risk deployments. 
  • Taking role play seriously in training to properly prepare for high risk scenarios. 
  • Component training for good scenario training.
  • Backup neutrality and realistic role playing. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • There must be clear communication between the canine handler and the SWAT team with highly aggressive suspects. 
  • Your dog must be a well conditioned athlete to endure a long and powerful fight. 
  • Passive engagement requires training your basic bite work so the dog understands it brings the prey alive, or the threat is neutralized by its actions. 
  • Passivity is a threat in police work and must be trained. 

 

"Training must create the habit of engagement using a variety of methods of awakening confidence, civil aggression, heightened prey aggression, a variety of equipment including hidden equipment, sleeves and suits, including muzzle and good solid targeting." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

 

Contact Brad Smith: 

Website: https://k9tacops.com/ 

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 




The Role of a Departmental Canine Trainer with John Kirk04 Jan 202401:14:59

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and John Kirk discuss:

  • The benefits of being both a handler and a trainer. 

  • Societal and departmental expectations of a canine unit in a large department. 

  • Creating good training files for handlers and canines. 

  • Utilizing all of your tools appropriately.

  • Procedures, protocols, and manuals. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • As a trainer, if your hand is off the leash for too long, it does make a difference and both the dog and your trainees will know it. 

  • It is equally as important for handlers and department heads to understand what a dog is capable of and what they are not capable of doing. 

  • As a trainer, you need to be able to speak with both the canine and the handler. 

  • Set up for real-world training, not just for certification training. Create challenging training that will prepare your dog for the street. 

  • Policing is changing, standards are becoming more stringent, and all of that needs to be communicated and supervised closely to ensure everyone stays safe. 

 

"As a trainer, I need to focus on the dog, I need to focus on any improvement that the dog needs. When it comes to training a handler, our goal is to make sure that this handler has the confidence that he needs." —  John Kirk

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Hot Pursuits, Focus Drills, & K9 Engagements30 Dec 202100:55:54

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Remediation through focus drills. 
  • Training door poppers with high communication and understanding. 
  • Patient handling to improve focus and targeting. 
  • Training in different conditions, such as night and day, and with different variables. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Dogs have a wide field of vision. It is possible that the first thing your dog sees may be the first thing they fixate on. 
  • Your dog is not going to learn every single thing they need to learn in a basic training class. You will likely need to continue training things with your dog after to strengthen your dog's skills. 
  • Target lock is a key to creating the understanding and communication with your dog on where they need to go. 
  • The key to focus drills is lots of repetition. 

 

"Everything about success in engagements is making sure our dog knows where we want him to go. If your dog doesn't understand where to go, the likelihood of him engaging goes down dramatically." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 



Dr. Jessalyn Klein: You’re Great at Dogs but You Suck at People23 Dec 202101:16:18

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Dr. Jessalyn Klein discuss:

  • Strategies for improving your people skills.
  • The building blocks of emotional intelligence. 
  • The power in taking a pause. 
  • Asking for (and processing) feedback, open ended questions, and how to connect with those you’re working with. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Emotional intelligence is the key to understanding people, including yourself. 
  • Self-awareness involves both taking the time to check in with yourself physically and emotionally, and paying attention to your tone of voice and body language. 
  • What is second nature to you, maybe incomprehensible to someone else. 
  • All humans need positive feedback, usually in a three positive to one negative for optimal learning.
  • If you know your stuff and can communicate it, age doesn’t matter. 

 

"You're going to have to communicate what the dog can do, you're going to have to talk the person through things that they're doing right or things that they need to work on. If you can't figure out how to be aware of your own delivery style, how you're doing, and how the person you're working with is doing, you're not going to be able to meet in the middle to ultimately achieve your goals - which are ultimately for the dog, and probably keeping your business going." —  Dr. Jessalyn Klein 

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jessalyn: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessalynkleinphd/ 

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 



Human Focused Aggression for Police K909 Dec 202100:59:37

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Understanding the basic biting principles. 
  • Creating neutrality to the equipment and distractions. 
  • The importance of understanding civil work. 
  • Human focused confrontation solved through biting. 
  • Training progressions in civil and bite work. 

 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • We want to teach the dogs in their basic foundation how they can win even when they get pushed into defense. 
  • Be more obsessed with the dog's mood and how he is dealing with confrontation than you are with the biting behavior. 
  • You have to show the dog how to work in defense in training or you may fail in an actual human encounter because they may not understand the real goal. 
  • When your dog is struggling with passive biting, that says that your foundation is off somewhere. 

 

"That's kind of the goal - we want the dog thinking about the confrontation with the man, not thinking about the equipment, and not thinking about what he's going to be biting." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 



Growing Your K9 Team02 Dec 202101:00:53

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Giving control and responsibility to your club members for their own progression.
  • Balancing the top down control with the individual responsibility in your training clubs and business. 
  • Getting things done on time and not allowing perfection to be the enemy of good.
  • Defiance in dogs. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • When growing a team, you have to remember that everyone on the team is an individual. 
  • Responsibility drives meaning. 
  • Let people make their mistakes. You can voice your opinion, but people won’t always listen. Don’t take it personally. 
  • With your dog, you have to be careful to not allow things to happen that you don’t want to happen. If they don’t know it’s possible, they won’t do it.  

 

"If you can produce the product that I want, and your process differs a little bit from my process, but we share the same goal, and our process is similar enough that it's producing, then we're going to get there." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

PSA Nationals 202111 Nov 202100:47:30

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Details and schedule for PSA Nationals 2021!
  • How to watch Nationals.
  • Important information for both competitors and spectators. 
  • Key events and sponsors for Nationals. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • PSA Nationals is at Five County Stadium in Zebulon, NC on November 12-14, 2021 - admission is FREE!
  • Sport Dogs Live will be live streaming the whole event for those who cannot make it in person. 
  • If you are not there for the handler’s meeting, you will be struck from competition and unable to compete. 
  • There will be great events happening all weekend, so come check it out. 

 

"I hope I will see everybody who is within listening distance at PSA Nationals - 20th anniversary this weekend, Five County Stadium, Zebulon, North Carolina. Check it out. Come on out." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

References: 

Legacy K9 Gear: https://www.instagram.com/legacyk9gear/?hl=en 

Sport Dogs Live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_H34ZzKFRoOMvvjAdJIeg 

Defcon Propaganda: https://www.instagram.com/defconpropaganda/?hl=en 

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Variable Reward Intervals - Soft Surface Tracking04 Nov 202100:47:47

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • The differences between hard and soft surface tracking (see episode 53 for more on hard surface tracking).
  • Advantages of soft surface tracking. 
  • Having multiple ways to reward a dog during tracking. 
  • The importance of variation and its relationship to hope. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • To start, begin in shorter grass. Taller grass will hold human scent more than short, manicured grass. 
  • Think of your track as a story with a beginning, middle, and end. It is important that the dog is engaged at every part of the story, or track, and not just anticipating the end. 
  • It is important to know where your tracks are and to train yourself to be a less intrusive handler. 
  • Unpredictability increases intensity and focus on the track, especially as you increase the distance and spread in your track. 

 

"The unpredictability of when the reward is going to come is going to keep the dog pinned into the track and concentrating on every aspect of the length of that track." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Dumb Stuff I Saw Online Round 228 Oct 202100:43:56

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Training prey and defense training in your police dogs. 
  • Diversifying training with and without equipment. 
  • Avoiding sweeping generalizations in your training. 
  • Training in the four quadrants of operant conditioning. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Muzzle biting is not the end all be all. While it can show you many things about your dog’s engagement, it does not guarantee a bite off the muzzle. 
  • A dog in conflict is going to choose life and is more likely to have a failed engagement. 
  • Reinforcement is the way in which you install a behavior that you want to keep in your dog. 
  • You don’t need to rush moving from a one-to-one fixed ratio to a variable reward scheme. It allows you to more effectively utilize other tools in your training tool belt, such as negative punishment. 

 

"As soon as you start getting into all or nothing thinking, in dog training, you're probably on the wrong side of the truth." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Dumb Stuff I Saw Online09 Sep 202100:58:30

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • Being suspect of always or never statements in training. 
  • The art of prey guarding. 
  • Laying your own tracks. 
  • The downsides to canine demos. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • By saying you never do defense work with puppies, you erase an entire section of training 2457
  • On any given track, you will have a combination of human odor and ground disturbance. How much of each will be different depending on the type of track. 
  • There can be benefits to laying your own tracks, including the ability to lay more tracks than you might be able to otherwise. 
  • You can never predict other people’s behavior - if you are doing a demo, you want to treat your dog like any other piece of equipment like your gun or your car. 

 

"Back when I was an academic, we used to tell students, if you see in a question ‘always’ or ‘never’ be suspect of what's being said, because there are usually exceptions to rules. And especially in dog training, there's usually some exceptions." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

PSA Trial Rituals12 Aug 202100:56:54

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • What is involved in getting on the field and having a great performance. 
  • Creating the right mindset from a young age in your dog. 
  • Reading the important moments happening all the time. 
  • Mirroring your training ritual in your trial ritual. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Expose your dog to new environments with new attractions and continue to practice your rituals. 
  • You can get additional time on field by utilizing long downs. 
  • Experiment with what works for you and your dog. Each dog is individual and different in what works for them. 
  • You’re not there to trick your dog into compliance, you’re there to train your dog into giving the desired behaviors under levels of stress and distraction.

 

"What you do in your training has got to be mirrored in what you do on the trial field.  You can’t change it at the last minute and think that’s going to be better." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Diagnosing Failed K9 Engagements01 Jul 202101:18:20

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • The key to creating a street ready dog with the highest probability of making an engagement. 
  • Equipment orientation and odor discrimination. 
  • Discrimination drills to show there is no value to the training equipment for the dog. 
  • Bridging from training to civil encounters to lead to engagement success.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Visually, we need to make sure the dog can show aggression to the human form without the equipment, such as a bite suit or sleeve. 
  • Train a civil picture - the dog needs to learn what he is supposed to do without all of the training equipment around. 
  • Do training around dead equipment - make that equipment mean nothing to the dog. 
  • Teach the dog there are ninjas everywhere - there could be a threat around every corner. 

 

"We have to look at diagnosing these types of problems -  I really think they boil down to discrimination issues. We have to be careful when thinking about what we're presenting to the dog, visually and also what the odor profile of the pictures are that we're presenting to the dog." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

 

Upcoming Events in 2024!03 Jan 202400:27:42

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • All the seminars packed into the first quarter of 2024!

  • The new handler-course-ready dogs from Tarheel Canine!

  • Check out https://streetreadyk9.com/ for all the events on the calendar!

  • Online training available

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Getting a handler-course-ready dog can save you time and manpower when looking for a new canine. 

  • Great seminars are coming up and include amazing trainers such as Aaron Kemp, Brad Gillespie, and so many more! 

  • For more information about foundational work, check out the Controlled Aggression Audio book! 

  • There are so many ways that you can use 2024 to become the canine trainer that you want to be!

 

"Our pledge is to keep expanding our knowledge so that we can bring more to you year in and year out." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

The Future of PSA06 May 202100:51:54

In this episode, Jerry, Erin, and Briella discuss:

  • Learning and training PSA, even when you’re young. 
  • Different ways that you can train with toys and with food. 
  • Lessons learned from training a PSA dog. 
  • Inspiration and the future of PSA. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Engaging with your dog is extremely important. 
  • When training at club, don’t compare yourself to other people. Just focus on what you’re doing and what your dog is doing.
  • Dog training is a journey that you and your dog are going through together. 
  • Do at least one thing every day with your dog. 

 

"When somebody is giving you information, don’t be distracted by other people. Focus on your dog." —  Briella

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

 

Pet Training Paradigms22 Apr 202101:14:28

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • The drive model of canine behavior. 
  • Choosing your paradigm of how you look at any particular dog. 
  • The clarity of boundaries, the expression of drive, and balancing reward and compulsion.
  • Understanding how paradigm and training fit together. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • The way in which you see dogs define your paradigm. 
  • You can apply working dog training paradigms to training pet dogs if you understand the paradigm.
  • Drive neutrality is like marathon training. It won’t happen overnight. Systematic drive capping training will help lead to drive neutrality. 
  • When dealing with reactive dogs, obedience buys you threshold.

 

"Obedience can create a state where trust is absolute. If we can create the state in obedience, that's comfortable and relaxed, then we can use the obedience to help generalize the safety around other stimuli that oftentimes will elicit those threats." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 



The Emotional Canine11 Mar 202101:17:40

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • The blue ribbon emotions and how they show in canines. 
  • Managing frustration in training. 
  • Recognizing human interpretation of intentionality in relation to canine behaviors.
  • The physical, mental, and emotional health of dogs. 

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Dogs have brain structures that produce emotions. In other words, those brain structures are similar to the emotion-producing brain structures in humans.
  • In both children and in puppies, rough and tumble play is vitally important to learning social skills, boundaries, and limits. 
  • Human beings are going to have a wider, richer, deeper range of emotions than pets. We cannot attribute human intention to a dog’s behavior. The simplest answer is usually the correct one when looking at canine behavior. 
  • As trainers and pet owners, we need to examine the net stress of the dog overall and ask ourselves if we are hitting all of the important parts of that dog's life.

 

"At the end of the day, we have to understand that dogs are emotional beings, they want to be forward-looking." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Resources: 

Panksepp, Jaak (1998).  Affective Neuroscience.

Grandin, Temple. (2005). Animals in Translation.

Kujala, Miiamaaria. Canine Emotions as Seen Through Human Social Cognition. Animal Sentience 2017.013.

Coren, Stanley. Do Dogs Have the Same Emotions People Do? Canadian Dogs, August 31, 2018.

Makin, Chad. The Layered Stress Model of Reactivity. (various internet descriptions).



Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Defense Training Basics - Avoiding Avoidance04 Feb 202101:10:58

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

  • The importance of working dogs in defense, without creating avoidance. 
  • Pre-avoidance behaviors and how to read and manage them. 
  • The role of a skilled decoy in defense training basics. 
  • Understanding the dog is going to do what it has been trained to do.
  • Addressing strengths in a puppy and working in those strong drives.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • When you’re working with a dog, you have to adjust your behavior, in real-time, to avoid creating an avoidance situation. 
  • You have to change your attitude immediately if your dog doesn’t engage. Take him out of the situation and do everything you can to avoid creating the phobia of the situation. 
  • In PSA, if your dog is not confident working in defense, you will see it in the carjacking scenario or on the handler attack. 
  • Reward is a very powerful thing if you're going to pressure your dog. It will teach him how to handle stress from you; it's going to teach him how to handle stress generally.

 

"If you don't work the defensive side of the dog, you may encounter one day or a suspect puts your dog in defense and your dog doesn't know how to handle the situation. Better to tackle it before it happens and understand how to do it." —  Jerry Bradshaw

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: calendly.com/tarheelcanine

 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 



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