Controlled Aggression

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Police K9 Utility of The Place Command Aug 06, 2024

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

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Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

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Problem Solving: Countering, Grip, Outs, and Neutrality Jun 28, 2024

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

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Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

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Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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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/

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

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Directionals and Casting Apr 25, 2024

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

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Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

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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/

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

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Ten Common Outing Mistakes Feb 29, 2024

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

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Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

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Sponsors:

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The Role of a Departmental Canine Trainer with John Kirk Jan 04, 2024

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

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Contact Jerry:

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Sponsors:

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Upcoming Events in 2024! Jan 03, 2024

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

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

Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

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Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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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

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Mechanics and Applications of Drive Capping Dec 07, 2023

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Obedience and capping in drive.
Leveraging reward systems and using queues in drive to prepare for capping.
Utilizing different tools and training progressions to properly train drive.
Drive training with different canines.

Key Takeaways:

Suppressing the dog’s behavior is not obedience or capping because it isn’t channeling their energy into something. We don’t want to suppress - this creates behaviors we do not want.
Dogs that are dirty in their outings are struggling in their drive capping.
Don’t be scared of the expression - it should not make you nervous. But you want them to also be able to cap and be quiet. Neither should be sacrificed for the other.
Make sure to train your dogs in all situations and around decoys in full kit.

"If all we ever do when we're doing obedience on a dog is just suppress the hell out of them, then we're not doing obedience in drive, nor are we doing drive capping." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Episode References:

The Companion Dog Podcast - https://losthighwaykennels.com/podcast/
The Working Dog Depot Podcast - https://www.doublehcanine.com/the-working-dog-depot
Controlled Aggression - Defensive Dogs in Protection
Detection Blueprint
Restraining Canine Drives

Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

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Sponsors:

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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/

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

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Preparing for PSA 1 Nationals 2023 Oct 19, 2023

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Developing training rituals that translate to travel and trial.
Basic positions and notifying judges in basic position variations.
What judges are looking for and the difference between minor errors and larger point losses.
Why consistency, speed, directness, and attention matter during your trail.

Key Takeaways:

One of the first things the judge looks for is if your dog is coming onto the field in the right state of mind. As the handler or spotter, you want to be aware of how you are presenting yourself as well.
Any time words come out of your mouth, they matter. You do not want to be giving double commands when you’re getting started.
Don’t make handler errors when it isn’t necessary.
Footwork drives what your upper body does. You want your dog to be able to read your body language.

"When I see things that are outside the rules, I have to assume they’re being done on purpose." — Jerry Bradshaw

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

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

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

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

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Notes on K9 Certification - Patrol Sep 14, 2023

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Understanding the flow channel to make your dog (and you as a trainer) better.
How handlers and trainers decide the skills to prevent to the dogs at different skill levels.
Exceeding the requirements of certification and organizational policy in your training.
Training tools to make for a stronger dog in operational settings.
Setting up building searches for different scenarios, not just bite situations.

Key Takeaways:

As the skill levels grow, it is important to have a challenge that fits with that skill to keep your dog engaged and involved with the training.
Obedience for the sake of obedience is not practice.
Obedience is the framework that provides boundaries to a dog’s behavior.
Hands-on removal in policy doesn’t mean you don’t want to practice other releases. If you do a chokehold removal every time, it will create frustration.
You need to train a call off with your dog. It is more than just something that is used in certification, it is a safety skill.

"As your dog’s skill levels increase, you can challenge them more - you can challenge them more with scenarios, you can challenge them more with training." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

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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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Notes on K9 Certifications - Scentwork Sep 07, 2023

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Things you need to know before starting certification.
Having a training methodology that allows for compartmentalization, repetition, and isolation of skills if needed.
Understanding rewards throughout and at the end of the track.
Creating the behavior you want to create and working around distractions.

Key Takeaways:

Run your training for certifications like you would run a real scenario.
Pay attention to all directions and information in the scenario briefing.
Be careful not to overvalue the end of the track by always putting a person at the end.
Ritual is going to give you a really good reset when you’re lost. Ritual will also help a dog distinguish when you are on a search rather than just a normal day.

"Context is everything. As handlers and as trainers, we need to start thinking in terms of context. It is possible to have an extremely successful tracking program where the handlers lay some proportion of their own tracks. This allows the handlers to isolate things and skill sets that they need to isolate." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

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Sponsors:

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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/

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Scientific Approach to Off-Leash Control Jul 28, 2023

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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/

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Defensive Dogs in Protection Jul 27, 2023

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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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/

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Tarheel Canine Police Dog Info Jul 15, 2023

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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Drive Suppression v Drive Capping Jul 13, 2023

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:

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

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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

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Sport Culture for Pet Trainers Jul 05, 2023

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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Countering, Pushing & Pulsing Grips Jun 30, 2023

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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Setting Up Successful Training Sessions Apr 27, 2023

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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PSA Rituals and Field Awareness Mar 09, 2023

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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Building a Relationship with Communication & Emotion with Derek Beckelman Feb 23, 2023

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

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Episode References:

Dog Language: An Encyclopedia of Canine Behavior by Roger Abrantes - https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Language-Encyclopedia-Canine-Behavior/dp/0966048407
Excel-erated Learning by Pamela Reid - https://www.amazon.com/Excel-erated-Learning-Explaining-plain-English/dp/1888047070
How Dogs Learn by Mary Burch - https://www.amazon.com/How-Dogs-Learn-Mary-Burch/dp/1630260398
Info Every Dog Trainer Should Know by Will Garrido - https://www.amazon.com/Info-Every-Trainer-Should-Know/dp/1653816155
The Decoy Book by Will Garrido - https://www.amazon.com/Decoy-Book-Collaborations-Some-Industry/dp/B08T6YGWSD/
On Talking Terms with Dogs by Turid Rugaas - https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Terms-Dogs-Calming-Signals/dp/1929242360/
Mia Skogster - https://inspireurdog.fi/trainings

Contact Derek:

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

Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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

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Notes on Neutrality Feb 09, 2023

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:

Attention, Direction, & Draw - https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/2022/03/attention-direction-draw/
Observations on Control Commands: Drive Capping - https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/2022/10/observations-on-control-commands-drive-capping/

Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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Feedback, Confidence, & Corrections Jan 05, 2023

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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Simple Patrol K9 Scenarios Nov 03, 2022

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/

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Brad Gillespie: Gunfire Training Oct 26, 2022

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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

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Observations on Control Commands: Drive Capping Oct 20, 2022

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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

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Observations on Control Commands: Redirects, Recalls, and Out & Return Oct 07, 2022

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

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Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

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Observations on Control Commands - Out Sep 29, 2022

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

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Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

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Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon: patreon.com/controlledaggression

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

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Building a Successful PSA Club Aug 25, 2022

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

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Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

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Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon: patreon.com/controlledaggression

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Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

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

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Holding a Standard of Behavior Aug 04, 2022

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

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Is Your Training Too Operant? Jun 16, 2022

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

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Pat Stuart: Low Level Stim E-Collar Conditioning Apr 22, 2022

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

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

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

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Dr. Jessalyn Klein: Dealing with Difficult People Apr 07, 2022

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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Multiple Markers: Are they Necessary? Mar 31, 2022

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

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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:

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Primacy of Learning, Hunt Drive, Markers, and Advice for Young Trainers Mar 17, 2022

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

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Contact Jerry:

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The Detection Blueprint Mar 17, 2022

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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!

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Heuristics of Reward and Punishment History Mar 10, 2022

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

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

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Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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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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Attention, Direction & Draw Mar 03, 2022

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

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Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

Sponsors:

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

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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 Basics Feb 17, 2022

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

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Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

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 Training Feb 03, 2022

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

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Contact Ben:

Website: www.tarheelcanine.com

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

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

Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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

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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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Ben Lepinski: Dog/Puppy Selection, Independence, Nerves, Recovery & Decoy Training Feb 03, 2022

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:

Website: www.tarheelcanine.com

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

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

Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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HRD: Hyper Aggressive & Hyper Passive Suspects Jan 13, 2022

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

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Contact Brad Smith:

Website: https://k9tacops.com/

Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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Hot Pursuits, Focus Drills, & K9 Engagements Dec 30, 2021

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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.

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Dr. Jessalyn Klein: You’re Great at Dogs but You Suck at People Dec 23, 2021

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

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Contact Jessalyn:

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

Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Sponsors:

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

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Human Focused Aggression for Police K9 Dec 09, 2021

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

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Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Sponsors:

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

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Growing Your K9 Team Dec 02, 2021

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

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PSA Nationals 2021 Nov 11, 2021

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

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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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

Sponsors:

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

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Variable Reward Intervals - Soft Surface Tracking Nov 04, 2021

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Sponsors:

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

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Dumb Stuff I Saw Online Round 2 Oct 28, 2021

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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.

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Dumb Stuff I Saw Online Sep 09, 2021

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

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Contact Jerry:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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.

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PSA Trial Rituals Aug 12, 2021

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

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Diagnosing Failed K9 Engagements Jul 01, 2021

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

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The Future of PSA May 06, 2021

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

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Pet Training Paradigms Apr 22, 2021

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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The Emotional Canine Mar 11, 2021

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:

Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Sponsors:

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Defense Training Basics - Avoiding Avoidance Feb 04, 2021

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:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

amazon.com/Handbook-Applied-Behavior-Training-Vol/dp/0813807549

Sponsors:

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

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Navigating Fears and Phobias in Working Dogs Jan 28, 2021

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Timing the puppy training early and with directed purpose and handling the fear periods in dogs.
Habituation, spontaneous recovery, sensitization, and learned irrelevance.
When to reorient and when to address fears.
Understanding your dog’s phobias to learn how to solve the problem.
Common fears and phobias seen in police and sport dogs.

Key Takeaways:

Too many people restrict social and experiential learning in puppies during the critical stages of development out of fear.
As a decoy, as a handler, as anyone working with a young dog, you need to be attentive to what you’re doing and always be surveying your environment to avoid unintended consequences.
Avoid creating a problem that doesn’t already exist. Take a systematic approach to expose your dog to everything they need to be exposed to.
Generally, fear periods are short-lived. Take your dog into more familiar places, more natural spaces, where it’s not going to encounter a lot of things that are going to be super unusual or might provoke a fearful response.

"I have a phobia about creating phobias. I don't want to create a phobia in my dog, because the road is going to be super long to try and systematically desensitize to any type of stimuli that's been created as an avoidance response." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Book Reference:

The Decoy Book by William Garrido - amazon.com/Decoy-Book-Collaborations-Some-Industry/dp/B08T6YGWSD

Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training by Stephen R. Lindsay -

Excel-erated Learning by Pamela J. Reid -

amazon.com/Excel-erated-Learning-Explaining-plain-English/dp/1888047070

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Sponsors:

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

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Fixing Grip Issues in Sport and Police Dogs Jan 14, 2021

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

How the grip can vary depending on the sport you’re training for.
What it means to have a bad grip and why different ways bad grip may manifest.
Teaching your dog to be unsatisfied with any bite that is not at the back of the mouth.
Teaching the basic fundamentals from a young age, including social interaction and teaching the dog to work with other trainers.
Taking the proper time through progressions and not pushing too hard too fast.

Key Takeaways:

A firm grip is more important than a calm grip. We want the dog to default to a full grip, all the way back to the back teeth.
Genetics provides a capacity, but the training can enhance or ruin what the genetics are bringing to the table.
Give your dog something challenging to bite. A lot of busy grips come from a failure to challenge the grip and give the dog something they can bite successfully.
Challenging the grip is one of the most important things you can do as you go through your training progressions.

"The firmness, the fullness, the hardness, those are the things that really determine the grip." — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/0345816021

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Becoming a Better K9 Entrepreneur Jan 07, 2021

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The power of just showing up and investing in the outcome with a manageable solution strategy.
Book references for being a better K9 entrepreneur.
What it means to be effective in your life and business.
Planning for the future and investing in yourself and diversifying your business.
Reflecting on life and doing the best that we can with our decisions.

Key Takeaways:

Do a little something every single day towards your goal and watch that success breed upon itself.
You are not a victim and at the mercy of the society in which you live. You are capable of high achievement if you are proactive, and not reactive.
Listen to understand. It is okay for you to be quiet and not just be waiting to make your point.
Pay attention to what you are doing with your money and assets. Is it working for you or is it working against you?
Take calculated risks and be willing to fail then learn from that failure. If you don’t take any risks, you will never succeed.

"I don't understand why anybody who's in the dog training space, doesn't do competition. Some of the best trainers that I know are in competitions. Because it teaches you how to bounce back from failures, it teaches you that sometimes you have to find five different ways to try and get your dog to do something, until you find the one way that really sticks." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Book References:

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey - https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/0743269519

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki - https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1612680194

The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss - https://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/dp/0307465357

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson -

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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Sponsors:

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Koru K9: KoruK9.com

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Building Grips in Young Dogs Dec 17, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Laying a good foundation for bite work from a young age.
Using a flirt pole to emulate prey action to entice the puppy.
Encouraging biting with the back teeth through bite progressions.
Training before and after, but not during, teething.
Focusing on bite mechanics during all aspects of training.

Key Takeaways:

The puppy needs to know, from a young age, that he is in control of the process.
A leather rag is a more slippery bite than a terrycloth roll. By using leather, it teaches the dog to lock the grip in if they want to hold and possess it.
Young dogs are super resilient. Introduce items that will become familiar to them from an early age so they can start to hear the noises that will be around.
As you progress, the more grips the dog can do per session and the longer they can hold the grip.

"The idea is, from the beginning, a dog needs to learn if he's going to do bite work properly, that he's in control of the whole process. It's a very operant process and he has to understand that he's going to be able to push me around, he's going to be able to manipulate me, even if I'm just coming in and trying to steal his little rag." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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Schedule a Zoom Meeting with Jerry: calendly.com/tarheelcanine

The Detection Blueprint: eventbrite.com/e/the-detection-blueprint-with-jerry-bradshaw-tickets-131458488879

Sponsors:

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William Garrido: Dog Training is My Passion! Dec 03, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw & William Garrido discuss:

William’s journey into dog training and his professional journey to head trainer at Starmark Academy.
The value in working with dogs of all types and temperaments.
Continuing learning while keeping your focus and system of training.
Understanding the unchanging fundamentals.

Key Takeaways:

You can learn a lot about dogs and behavior by training pet dogs. Even if you work with working dogs, there is still more to learn from pet dogs.
There is value in learning training at a school with a specific, outlined curriculum led by professionals.
Dog training is not all glamour - there is a grind and dirty and challenging aspects to it.
Fundamentals are always going to be there, that's not going to change. The scientists have done the legwork for you, you just have to understand how that applies to dog training and to learning.

"I see tremendous value in going to a place where there's a curriculum laid out for you, and professionals guiding you through that curriculum." — William Garrido

Contact William Garrido:

Website: StarmarkAcademy.com

Email: Info@SchoolForDogTrainers.com

Youtube: youtube.com/user/StarmarkAcademy?feature=mhum

Flickr: flickr.com/photos/starmarkacademy

Facebook: facebook.com/StarmarkPetProducts

Books:

Info Every Dog Trainer Should Know - https://www.amazon.com/Info-Every-Trainer-Should-Know/dp/1653816155/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1606784677&refinements=p_27%3AWilliam+Garrido&s=books&sr=1-1&text=William+Garrido

Common Myths About Dogs (Debunked): For Dog Owners and Trainers - https://www.amazon.com/Common-Myths-about-Dogs-Debunked/dp/1973484676/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&qid=1606784724&refinements=p_27%3AWilliam+Garrido&s=books&sr=1-3&text=William+Garrido

Connect with Dog Training Is My Passion:

Website: DogTrainingIsMyPassion.com

Show: Dog Training Is My Passion Podcast - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dog-training-is-my-passion/id1542561964

Youtube: youtube.com/dogtrainingismypassion

Instagram: instagram.com/dogtrainingismypassion

Facebook: facebook.com/dogtrainingismypassion

Reference: Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, MD, FICS - amazon.com/Psycho-Cybernetics-Updated-Expanded-Maxwell-Maltz/dp/0399176136

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Contact Jerry:

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Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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PSA 2020 Nationals Recap Nov 19, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Knowing your dogs before trial and how to situate them at a trial.
Balancing training and showing.
Getting your dog in the right frame of mind.
How quality level decoys make a difference in training and trials.

Key Takeaways:

As your dog gets older, you do need to pay attention to what they can handle and what they can take.
It is harder to train dogs who have been trained and titled in other sports into PSA. Not impossible, just harder.
Utilize your training to prepare you for the trials, even beyond the tasks, but how you go into tests and how you wait for them.
Your dog will read you as you read them. If you can stay calm and clear, then they are more likely to be in control

"It’s impossible in PSA to prepare perfectly for everything." — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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DogPro: Online Education with Matt Hubble of Canine Performance Oct 22, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Matt Hubble discuss:

Jerry’s childhood fear of dogs, how he got into dog training, and the start of Tarheel Canine
Embracing the struggle moments and learning from the tough dogs.
Taking advantage of every opportunity that exists and positioning yourself as a student of all times.
Gathering experience from those you talk to.

Key Takeaways:

As long as you know more than the person you are teaching, you can leverage that knowledge.
You have to be able to teach people, be good at it, want to teach people, and want people to learn. That is what makes a great instructor.
Be grateful that you're around people that are willing to share with you really allows you to absorb what you need to absorb.
Once you understand the big picture, then it is easier to grasp and understand the minutia of what you are doing.
The education of other people is not a threat to you.

"I travel all over the world. You have to keep your mind open because you might see some things that you haven't seen before. It doesn't matter who's doing that. You can learn a lot from people who are kind of new in any sort of endeavor, because sometimes they come to things with fresh eyes, and fresh eyes is a commodity that you don't get a lot of times. " — Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Matt:

Website: CaninePerformanceCoach.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/everydayhubblin/

Instagram: instagram.com/matt.hubble/

Facebook: facebook.com/canineperformancecoach

YouTube: youtube.com/nataliedobkins

Canine Performance Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/7C8eH6Pt7QqroBDlmHN5N0

Join DogPro: members.canineperformancecoach.com

Download the DogPro App!: apps.apple.com/us/app/dogpro-training/id1535090723

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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Table Training in Protection Oct 15, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Types of tables for training and their various purposes.
Progressions of training while integrating the traditional tables or bark boxes.
Skills that train well when properly utilizing the different types of training tables.
Individualizing each dog’s training as you go through the progress.

Key Takeaways:

The goal is to get the dog to understand that his behavior activates the decoy. They need to understand that their aggression starts the process.
When a dog wins in their encounters, they like to start playing in that training. They enjoy it.
There is no real standardization for the tables - make the version that works for you.
Just like all training, you have to vary the conditions of training as you repeat the same behaviors.

"These apparatus are meant, really, for us to individualize training, as per the dog. They don’t all have to go in that same progression, and they don’t all have to work in the same way. Pick and choose which piece of equipment you might use for a particular dog based on what that particular dog actually needs." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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Teaching Dog Training Oct 02, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

What makes a good teacher and what makes a bad teacher.
Knowing what to teach and how to teach it to your specific audience.
Making your information stand out and be remembered - organization is key.
Involving your audience in your lesson.

Key Takeaways:

There is no substitute for experience. You have to have more than “knowing some things” you have to have seen it in action.
You want to know your audience and shoot to challenge them a little bit. In order to do that, you have to be able to read the room and know where they are at in their training.
Choose a presentation technique that works for you. Develop your own style, try a few things, and see what you like.
If you really want to make an important point, slow down and call attention to it.

"If you master your material, you really know what you're talking about, you have practiced your presentation, it fits in the right time frame that you have to present, you’re comfortable talking about that material, and you're comfortable if people don't necessarily believe what you're saying, or they have different opinions about how to do the things we are going to talk about...there are tons and tons of things that you can do to give a good presentation." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

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Training a Working Puppy Aug 27, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

How to pick a sport puppy and what to look for in your choice.
Avoiding creating contextual conflicts during training and in how you are housing the dog.
Finding the balance between independence and handler focus.
Understanding the training system before you ask the dog to go through the system.
What to expect to work on at a good club with your puppy and getting exposure for your dog in different environments.

Key Takeaways:

It takes a village to raise a puppy - that village is your club and the people around you. If you're not getting good advice, you're not going to have a well-raised puppy.
Don’t be too afraid to socialize your puppy. It is important to get out and see different places and people. Aim for 3 new places a week, but be smart about it.
Train your young dogs to hunt - hunting is an instinct, but it needs to be shaped and trained.
There are benefits to having others work your puppy that you cannot get by training them yourself solely.
You can always move slow, then move faster later on, but you can’t take it back if you move too fast.

"I think sometimes people give up too easily on puppies, you have some puppies that are super slow maturing and some some pups that don't show a lot of drive until later. I think you have to be careful though...But I think that's something to bear in mind is you want to see something out of the puppies early on, the puppy should have gotten out of the backyard of the breeder at some point." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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Detection Training - Known, Single, and Double Blind Jul 30, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Running detection training on knowns, single blinds, and double blinds and how to know which to use.
The researcher behind handler knowledge on detection tasks.
Being self-aware as a handler and trainer on your own body language and behaviors.
The difference between testing and training.

Key Takeaways:

Training requires intervention.
When you’re running double blind runs, you can’t manage rewards appropriately. Because of such, you don’t want to over do these runs.
There are ways to train without giving the dog any feedback, even when you, as the handler/trainer, knows where the hides are.
There must be a body of work in research, not just taking singular studies as gospel truth or gold standards.

"In these double blind runs, we have to be really careful to note that it's not training, it's really testing. And if we want to test the dog, then that's fine." — Jerry Bradshaw

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References:

Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes - Lisa Lit, Julie B. Schweitzer, and Anita M. Oberbauer

Effect of Handler Knowledge of the Detection Task on Canine Search Behavior and Performance - Mallory T. DeChant, Cameron Ford, and Nathaniel J. Hall

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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Dog Selection, Detection Progression, & Handler Skills Jul 16, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The most important foundation skills as a handler and foundation exercises for your canine.
Phase progression during tracks, including lengths and food rewards.
What to look for and deal breakers in green dogs.
Being creative in your hides during training.

Key Takeaways:

Canned food on a tract will blend in better to the ground than the hotdogs. It can also be more enticing to young dogs.
Know what you are willing to give up, that may be able to be taught, and what are traits that you don’t want to give up on when you are choosing a dog.
See the dog both in and out of drive if possible when you are making your dog selection.
Height and depth can be two sides of the same coin when you’re hunting. If the dog can’t get to the source, you may have to check other indication behaviors of the dog instead of their traditional alert.

"What is important for one dog might be a little bit less important for another dog. You really have to think about the particular dog you’re working with when you’re trying to identify what might be most important or less important." — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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Detection Topics with Cameron Ford & Canine Paradigm Jun 18, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw, Cameron Ford, and Canine Paradigm discuss:

Using markers in detection, the different types of markers, and training with those markers.
Upgrading to new efficiencies and technologies as science and research progress.
Training dogs in drive and drive capping.
Learning how to read dogs during training exercises.
The changing landscape of training due to current events of police/working dogs.

Key Takeaways:

Focus on the task, not the cosmetics of the indication. You don’t want to take away from search or odor recognition.
Good training is good training, no matter what you do.
Independence is great! You do not want the dog to be completely dependent on the handler.
Put the focus on the hunting, the detection. It’s not called finding. You don’t want to be focused on the end.
The earlier you train the final response, the more you have to worry about flashing.

"You have to be flexible as a trainer and train to the dog in front of you. If you do that, you will get the result you’re looking for." — Cameron Ford

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Brad Gillespie: Canine Tracking Jun 11, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Brad Gillespie discuss:

The basics of training tracking and the process of starting that process.
Challenges and benefits of laying master track, different reward systems, and tracking versus trailing protocols.
The factors at play in a live operation and the opportunities that tracking can bring.
The importance of communication with the dog in any tracking behaviors.
Component training in your daily tracking practice.

Key Takeaways:

Tracking is an interpretation of the dog’s behavior.
Be predictably unpredictable.
Slow your dog down on tracking - it is always possible to speed them up (and they will often do it on their own).
There is not one solution for everything. You have to take the operational environment and what the operational end state is supposed to be and that drives everything else.
The best way to get better at tracking is to track.

"Embrace the struggle and the challenge. Dogs require incremental and obtainable struggle. We all do. That is part of the learning process." — Brad Gillespie

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Environmental Training Jun 04, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The importance of proper exposure training.
Paying attention to fear periods in puppies and dogs.
Systematic desensitization as a form of introduction and controlling the variables of the desensitization process.
The process of exposure and how it is more effective and efficient.
The process of passive desensitization.

Key Takeaways:

You don’t want to create phobias from a young age or create something that they can’t overcome from a severe fright.
If you have a dog with no experience with something, you are in a better place than with a dog who has multiple negative associations and has a learned avoidance response.
Go slow. There is a cost to rushing the desensitization training.
Short, multiple sessions progress without flooding the dog and creating phobias.
Have a plan, execute the plan, make sure it is a good plan.

"All training has to have a plan - there has to be an object that we are trying to achieve." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Science and Dog Training May 28, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

What science is, by definition, and how it pertains to dog training. How the science balances with the art of dog training.
The infancy of canine research and studies.
Having flexibility in training methods for innovation, individualized training, and further understanding of training.
Classical conditioning versus operant conditioning.
Understanding the benefits and limitations of the models you associate with your dogs.

Key Takeaways:

A little bit of knowledge makes people dangerous.
We need to be careful about standardizing rules and regulations for training canines. All that matters, in the end, is that the job gets done.
There is more to dog training than just the four quadrants.
The important question is - how is the dog perceiving what you are doing? Are they perceiving it as negative reinforcement or positive punishment?
Much of what we consider to be settled, scientific fact, are not, in fact, settled, scientific fact, but do need more studies done before we can draw scientific conclusions.

"We are on this iterative path. What one study, or two studies, or three studies conclude is not the end all be all. Science is a messy process. Working with data is a messy process." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Changing Canine Behavior May 07, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The themes of changing canine behavior.
The genetic and learned aspects of behavior.
Understanding counterconditioning and training mutually exclusive behaviors and systematic desensitization.
Making systematic and planned changes and training scenarios.
Having a strategy to deal with problem behaviors.

Key Takeaways:

At the heart of a lot of behavioral problems, you will find communication issues that need to be addressed.
Space is everything to a dog, especially in our very confined modern society.
Changing canine behavior is going to take commitment and consistency.
Don’t teach a dog anything you don’t want him to do. Don’t let him learn to do the behavior you don’t want him to do.
A dog is going to repeat a behavior where that behavior is rewarded and is successful

"We have to be really cognizant of the animal's state of mind to make sure that we are doing the right thing in order to change behavior and not simply to suspend the dog's reaction until such time as the dog feels that reaction can explode forth." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Canine Aggression Cases Apr 16, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

What aggression is and how to see it in a dog.
What it takes to solve an aggression problem in a dog.
Drive theory of aggression.
The dominance cycle.

Key Takeaways:

Space is everything to a dog. When the dog can’t create space, the aggression is often created when they can’t get away, whether on a leash, in a car, behind a fence, etc.
Growling is a good sign – the dog had the opportunity to do worse and chose not to, exhibiting bite inhibition.
Don’t turn a dog who is not a biter into a biter. He might show aggression which can be scary, but that is the point. Don’t push that dog into biting.
If you don’t need to take the risk, don’t take the risk. You have to be smart about what you are doing if you’re going to try for rehabilitation. If you have a dangerous dog, understand what you’re dealing with.

"You have to understand the skill level of the people that are handling the dog. Take a mitigation plan that’s far less complicated and far easier to execute over a theoretically perfect plan that’s almost impossible to execute, because execution is ideal here." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Pat Stuart: NePoPo® Training and the IACP (International Association of Canine Professionals) Apr 02, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Pat Stuart discuss:

The challenge of training a PSA dog and acquiring strong dogs on an island continent.
What is going on with IACP and how it represents a full spectrum of training.
NePoPo® dog training and how the fusion of negative and positive reinforcement strengthens your training.
Primacy of results and taking whatever amount of time it takes to train is worth your while to do.

Key Takeaways:

There is a lot of legislation that may come with good intentions, but also may be a double-edged sword that can be used against you, especially as may be subjectively interpreted.
There is strength in numbers, especially in representation.
Nepopo training teaches the dog pressure in the learning phase to prepare for corrections later on so the dog knows how to turn off the pressure by performing the behavior they already know.
Be understanding of when something works, there’s a reason something works. It’s important to be eyes open and understanding and realize that every dog and every situation is individual.

"If you want to be able to continue doing what you do, you need to join a group that will help support that and help represent you in doing that." — Pat Stuart

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Shock to the System – COVID-19 Mar 19, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

How COVID-19 restrictions will affect business and conferences.
Money shocks for small businesses and government agencies.
The upcoming cash-crunch reality for many people and businesses.
Taking smart, reasonable precautions during turbulent times.

Key Takeaways:

During this turbulent time, there may be monetary reallocations for a lot of businesses and government agencies.
Be careful about overextending and taking on new expenditures at this time.
Start planning how you can diversify your income streams to help assist with long term plans.
There’s nothing you can do about what’s happening around you, you do have control over how you choose to respond.

"Be attentive to what is going on. Talk about it, don’t allow all the fear to run around in your head." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Making Strong Passive Engagements Mar 05, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Orienting your dog to the person, not the equipment in training and in deployment.
The purpose of a decoy and what to look for in a good decoy class.
Understanding engagement in passive and prone passive targets.
Differences in training beginner, intermediate, and advanced dogs in passive engagement.

Key Takeaways:

If that becomes a habit of always helping the dog to identify the threat, you're going to have a lot of problems.
You do not want the decoy to help at all if possible. It is bad practice to start helping the dogs.
There is a progression to all the training you have to do. You can’t account for all the variability in a Facebook post.
Behavior progression can be trained, but you can’t skip steps. Make sure you work the steps and do all the variations as much as possible.

“[Regarding staple bites] give the dog the feedback he needs when he needs it. If you wait too long, then the dog might want to go back to where it was getting all the fight before." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Training Young Green Police K9s Feb 06, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The evolution of the availability and maturity of dogs over the last 20 years.
What it means to lack experience, and mental and physical maturity in a green dog.
Knowing what is a training issue and what is a deal breaker when looking at a dog.
Adjusting training to fit the dog.

Key Takeaways:

Dogs are not genetically programmed. You have to understand that when you are testing and training young dogs.
By knowing the dog’s regime before you go to test or train them, you can better work by knowing what is familiar to them.
You cannot cookie cutter what every dog you train is going to do. There is going to be a lot more variation, in young dogs, of what they need to have worked on most.
Don’t underestimate the value of training. Repetitions and conditioning behaviors we want will get you the mileage you want, especially with young dogs.

"You have to bridge the context between what that dog has been used to doing and what you want them to do. And so you have to understand where he came from, you have to understand what he's seen before." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Listener Q&A - K9 Culture, Scenario Simplicity, and Flexi Leads Jan 30, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Pros and cons of different types of leads, harness, and halters.
Growing your small business and selling to law enforcement.
How social media has changed the dog training industry and the view of those training in the industry.
Following an individualized training program for every dog.

Key Takeaways:

Don’t make generalizations about male versus female dogs. Look at each dog, and their temperament, individually as they can vary between dogs.
Put yourself out there to get visibility, even if it means offering free training at appropriate times.
You have to work the dog in drive that is most in evidence first.
Get out there, do the work, every day. Get your repetitions in.

"The fact of the matter is, the longer you are in this field, the more you realize what you actually don’t know and how much more you really want to know." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Crossover Effects in K9 Training Jan 16, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Crossover effects for puppies and police dog training.
Balancing giving attention to the dog with creating independence.
Distance work versus safety-seeking and teaching independence.
Finding a balance between go and stop, with more bias toward the action of go.

Key Takeaways:

The dog should get attention when it works and does something productive, not just because it is seeking attention.
Bias to attention not action can form through too much obedience training.
Value distance work don’t just train your dog to safety seek.
Without balance, you will create unintended crossover effects. Balance is the key.

"You must reward the behaviors you want to see more of, withhold rewards from behaviors you want to see less of." — Jerry Bradshaw

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25 Years of Dog Business Lessons Jan 09, 2020

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The benefits of having a capacity for self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and knowing your strengths and weaknesses.
The power of patience and identifying your purpose from the beginning.
What it takes to be successful by knowing how you measure success in your business.
Loving the process and always continue learning through goal setting and achievement.
Be present and do the things that matter.

Key Takeaways:

Take the time, put in the work, and educate yourself. Never stop learning and growing and evolving.
Set goals, invest in yourself, and allow time to do its work.
Manage your growth without too much debt liability. Growth doesn’t have to be overnight. Be slow and steady and be okay with that.
No matter how good you are at what you do, you’re not as good as you think you are. You’ve got to constantly get better and evolve.
Be proactive in everything you do, from further training to client communications.
Have gratitude and give without expectation.

“Everybody starts somewhere…You're always going to start at some level of incompetence. Nobody has 20 or 30 years of experience the first day they start, and you're going to learn lessons along the way." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Dominance Aggression Dec 12, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Behavioral issues and dominance aggression.
How failing dogs repeatedly drives up the cost of dogs.
Avoiding confrontations.
Tips and tricks for dealing with different types of dominance aggression.

Key Takeaways:

Behavioral problems can take times to manifest, you likely won’t see them in the kennel environment.
Every police dog is just a dog – they don’t have a special god status, they are just a dog.
Forget about being alpha. Your dog doesn’t relate to you as a dog.
Stay levelheaded when dealing with a dominant dog, don’t take it personally, reward the dog when they comply.

"Gain respect from the dog using your brain not your hands." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Brad Gillespie – Principle Based Training Nov 28, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Brad Gillespie discuss:

Following principles, not just techniques and procedures.
Distraction is zero sum.
“Then what” not “now what.”
Balance horsepower and breaks – horsepower first.
Detection, muzzle work, and tracking.

Key Takeaways:

Always be learning – the goal is to suck less tomorrow than you do today.
If you are too worried about your dog biting your back up officers that you are not able to do your job, it becomes a problem.
Let the dog learn to learn! Let the dog want to learn!
Experience is making mistakes and learning from those mistakes.

"The behavior, ultimately, is all that matters in the end. Is it reliable? Is it repeatable? Can we use it operationally? How you got there doesn’t really matter." — Brad Gillespie

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Why Do Dogs Do Anything? Nov 21, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Needs verses wants.
Tapping into the genetic needs to create fixed action patterns.
Creating a heavily rewarded fixed action pattern.
Thinking about foundations before getting wrapped up in methodology of training.

Key Takeaways:

All dogs have needs, but the intensity of those needs can vary between the dogs.
A dog’s needs are theoretical; a dog’s wants are practical.
No matter what you think of your genetics and your breeding program, good quality puppy raising from the time they are born until they go to their home matters.
Dogs look at the world as a probability distribution.

"What we really want are not needs. What we really need to focus on are wants. These are how to take these needs, these biological needs, and craft them, through training, to serve our purposes. When we take a need and create a want, now we have something that really can serve our purposes." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Police K9 Targeting & Fendeds Nov 14, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Why to train targeting in police dogs.
Using fendeds in training.
Training secondary targets.
How to decoy the dog while training targeting and fendeds.

Key Takeaways:

Create a dog that has a habit to bite in a place and doesn’t have to make decisions at the last minute.
Be patient when teaching secondary targets – the dog will often not recognize it as a target at first.
Repetition is the key – the dog will get faster, more confident, and more fluid the more you practice.
Notate the targeting training in your training records.

"We are trying to create a dog that doesn’t think when he comes in for a bite. What we are trying to do is create a muscle memory habit in the dog." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Targeting Your K9’s Muzzle Training Oct 31, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The purpose of muzzle training.
How to install muzzle-wearing behavior in your dog.
Best practices for targeting training – both primary and secondary.
Properly fitting the muzzle on your dog & types of muzzles.

Key Takeaways:

Muzzle work is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition to biting for real.
Dogs are used to knowing they can control the world through their mouths – muzzles aren’t comfortable for them and it takes time to get them used to having a muzzle on.
Work with a decoy who really understands how to build good muzzle work.
Muzzle work can be disorienting. Be careful about how you physically handle the dog when you’re training.

"The same biting behavior that we have painstakingly taught him over months and months and months is still going to be used. Don’t just allow the dog to go anywhere and everywhere and be sloppy about how he bites – this is biting without biting. We want the dog to use the same muscle memory, the same process to understand muzzle work that we do bite work on the bite suit." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Negative Space in Police K9 Training Oct 24, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The negative space in training that will be addressed later on in training.
How to decide what to prioritize and what to purposefully leave out for the time being.
Creating a balance between handler focus and independence.
Decreased age in the desirability of police dogs compared to previous years.

Key Takeaways:

Get the dogs hunting so you can experience how they are functioning in their environments.
Teaching the final response too early on will condition the lesson that it revolves around obedience, not about what they can find in the hunt.
You can always turn the volume down on the intensity later on, but you can’t always turn it back up.
Understanding the temperament of an individual dog lets you know what you can do with that dog in training and the best way to train them.

"I fear a lot people end up putting too much pressure on the dogs in the trained final response portion of training because they don’t actually get to hunt a lot in the presence of the handler, they don’t get to hunt a lot around people." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Intro Police K9 Hard Surface Tracking Oct 17, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Commonalities and differences between tracking and trailing.
What tracking is and what it isn’t.
Training a dog that is easy to read as he is tracking.
Tips and tricks for laying a track and evolving the track as your dog progresses.

Key Takeaways:

Tracking or trailing is tacking to you danger – ask yourself, how do you want to be taken into danger?
Train and work on fundamentals more often – go back to basics, compartmentalize your training, tighten up the training that way.
When luring with food, make sure it is significant enough to entice, but not too much to satiate after only a couple tracks.
Do not put jackpots at the end of the track, that encourages speed, not finding the track.

"You can make some good arguments as to why a particular method might be preferred. A lot of that’s going to come down to handler preference of how they want to work their dog, tactical advantage, as well as what your dog is well adapted to." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Be a Great Student of Dog Training Oct 08, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The expert paradox and how it prevents learning.
Sacrificing in order to continue your education.
Asking good questions, how to ask those questions, and being in a place to receive.
Learning from mistakes and being attentive to what you’re doing

Key Takeaways:

Sometimes you have to play around with the theory yourself before you start to understand the theory.
Take every opportunity you can to listen and to learn.
Asking good questions takes practice and refinement.
Lessons learned through failure are the most important – it gives you a point of reference for the future.
Everything you do or do not accomplish is on you – if you don’t do the work, it’s your fault.

"Everything in life is about being proactive." — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Aaron Kemp: Growing Your Training Business and Handling Aggression in Dogs Sep 30, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Aaron Kemp discuss:

What it takes to run a dog training business.
The sacrifices needed to start and run a successful business in the first five years.
Handling dogs with fear aggression.
Reintroducing the newly trained dog with their owner.

Key Takeaways:

Bonding with the dog before training them makes it so much easier, especially if there is aggression.
Dogs want predictability in their environment. As trainers, you can create that for them.
Tackle on stimuli one at a time, don’t just overload an anxious, stressed dog with fear aggression.
You need a lot of positive interactions, trust building, and exposures to work with fear aggression. It’s not impossible, but it does take commitment.

"The importance of bonding with the dog and getting that relationship really can’t be understated." — Aaron Kemp

Contact Aaron:

Website: SuperiorCanine.ca

Email: Aaron@SuperiorCanine.ca

Twitter: @superior_canine

Instagram: @superiorcanineinc

Facebook: Superior Canine

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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. 

Police K9 Talk, Listener Questions, and Observations Sep 23, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Techniques and tools for teaching puppies proper biting.
Obedience work and neutrality for sport dogs versus police dogs.
Training outs and recalls with and without equipment or contact.
Balancing precision and coverage in detection with off-leash detection.

Key Takeaways:

Every puppy is different and what you do for training in the first year is dependent on the puppy.
Teach young dogs how to hunt. Let them express their hunt drive and be willing to work it.
There is nothing wrong with having extra heeling behaviors in your pocket for different situations.
Not everything in dog training is all or nothing.

"Dog training is not religion. It’s not the same for every single dog." — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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 Sport Talk: Observations & Listener Questions Sep 16, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The growth of PSA internationally and an update on upcoming events.
The future of protection training and sports with changes in international law due to organizations such as PETA.
Recommendations for solo training and those without access to clubs.
Creating a PSA club culture for the best outcomes for handlers, dogs, and decoys.

Key Takeaways:

We need an international meeting of the worlds best known trainers to come together and make a position statement to preserve the right to train dogs effectively and efficiently.
Dogs need limits and corrections. High level working dogs, and pet dogs, need limits set on their lives.
Train the dog that’s in front of you, don’t hold out for the podium dog.
Don’t rush, especially when things are complicated.

"You have to read the rulebook and understand the rulebook and understand where the latitude exists for things to be done a little bit differently. That’s where you can come up with interesting scenarios; that’s where judges come up with interesting scenarios." — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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.

Mike Simons: The Driven K9 Handler Aug 05, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Mike Simons discuss:

What drew him to becoming a K9 Handler.
Differences in dog training from when he started and what he is anticipating now.
His training adventures with K9 Aura and watching her continue to grow and become better.
What makes a good K9 program.

Key Takeaways:

If the dog’s not ready, sometimes you have to go another route.
You get what you put into training
You want to make sure your dog is being handled on the street, not seeing new things every night.
Learn from your dog – they can teach you as much as, if not more than, you can teach them.

"Be patient, slow down, think it out because the dog is vibeing off of you." — Mike Simons

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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. 

Proofing Building Searches – Part 2 Jul 29, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The importance of quality decoy work in training suspect encounters.
Complex behavior chains as a story.
The critical nature of hide placement and multiple suspects.
Variations in hot searches, warm searches, and cold searches.

Key Takeaways:

The searching piece can be irrelevant if you don’t have a proper start.
Using multiple entry points makes the site a new picture for the dog.
Be systematic, use a line to create a level of boundary with the dog so you can clear the rooms closest first.
Don’t stack too many variables on top of each other. Make sure the dogs get big wins during training.
Pick the best dog that’s available for you at the time, no matter what it looks like, what breed it is, what gender it is.

"I don’t believe in one-and-done. When you’re working on building searches you must do multiple repetitions, just like when you’re doing tracking." — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

Proofing Building Searches - Part 1 Jul 15, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Prerequisites and sound fundamentals for having a sound building search.
Muzzle desensitization and dead equipment neutrality.
Passive and active suspect encounters.
Finding balance in your searching.

Key Takeaways:

You want a proper start – the dog needs to understand what it is doing in any particular search.
Generalize the dog’s response to finding a subject in the search, you don’t want them to be surprised by finding someone.
Make sure the dog understands that passivity equals threat.
If you wouldn’t do it in detection, don’t do it in bite work.

"You, as the handler, have no control over when your dog perceives a threatening encounter. Based on how we train these dogs and their capacity for prey work, one of the things we have to keep in mind is that we don’t control what that dog perceives in any given moment." — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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. 

Brad Smith: Canine Tactical Operations and Consulting Jul 01, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Brad Smith discuss:

Brad’s professional journey to becoming one of the leading subject matter experts on SWAT and K9.
The S.K.I.D.D.S. and CATS programs at K9TacOps.
The differences between civilian SWAT and military canine units.
Major tactical errors Brad sees regularly in tactical deployments.

Key Takeaways:

A patrol operation and a SWAT operation should be the same as far as how you search.
Take what you learn in classes, then go back and teach others in your department.
Keep everything slow and deliberate – it is safer for everyone involved in a search.
Never stop learning – things are evolving and changing and there is always something new that can be learned.

"You’ve got to do some sort of socialization before you jump right into the searches." — Brad Smith

Connect with Brad:  

Website: K9TacOps.com

Book: K9 Tactical Operations for Patrol and SWAT & K9’s in the Courtroom

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Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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. 

Cannibalism in the Dog Training Industry Jun 10, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw, Pat Stuart, Glenn Cooke, Janet Edwards, and Shawn Edwards discuss:

Cannibalism in the industry is about lack of support in the industry for each other.
The call-out culture of social media and the effect it has on the dog training industry.
Creating community and an international family with dog sports.
Training sports as a proofing ground for all types of dog training.
How to handle social media, controversy, online trolls, and bad advice.

Key Takeaways:

There is a power in joining forces and speaking up on issues, not just trying to handle everything individually.
Without the ability to communicate with one another, there will be no ability to combat the nonsense of the training industry.
Without the sports, you wouldn’t have the canines for military and police work.
As a trainer, have a great relationship with your local veterinarians. You have different skills and, together, can best serve the animals.
We need to do something now to stop cannibalizing each other.

"If you stop the tools, then you stop the progress of the dog sports. If you stop the progress of the dog sports, people lose interest in taking their dogs out and being obedient. Then there’s lack of control all over the place and government legislation starts stepping in." — Glenn Cooke

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Contact Pat & Glenn:

Podcast: The Canine Paradigm

Contact Shawn & Janet:

Website: StatelineCanine.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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. 

Street Readiness – Pitfalls and Deep Practice May 14, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Real deployment versus training behaviors from the handler and the dog.
Pitfalls to avoid for the best street readiness.
The power of a good decoy and the detriment of a poor decoy.
Areas that are necessary for deep practice.

Key Takeaways:

Tactics are meant to increase the probability of survivability in any engagement.
Deployability and readiness starts at selection.
Train for a level that surpasses your certification skill levels.
You want to teach engagement as a habit. You don’t want the dog to have to make a decision.

"Structure your dog so they don’t have to make decisions about not biting somebody. Keep the tool in the right frame of mind. Keep them safe from having to make too many decisions. Keep them safe from having to make too much discrimination." — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

Bio: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/afs/people/nathan-hall/

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Nathan Hall PhD on the State of Canine Olfaction Research Apr 29, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Nathan Hall discuss:

Nathan’s background and research interests in canine olfaction.
The cocktail method of training detection.
Psuedo scents and the research behind them.
The ever-growing list of questions that comes up as you continue research and the further need for research in canine olfaction.
Variations in your training samples.

Key Takeaways:

We don’t know enough about the threshold of olfaction
Train the dog to what you want them to find.
Look at actual data. It is easy to see a success story, but the data will tell what’s actually happening.
If you don’t set yourself to be wrong, then you’re not doing science.

"The dog is a dynamic system, they are constantly learning." — Nathan Hall

Contact Nathan:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-hall-78306516/

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9.org

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. 

Debbie Zappia: American Schutzhund Apr 15, 2019

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Debbie Zappia discuss:

Debbie’s story and how she got into the sport world.
The evolution of Schutzhund and how it is expressed in IPG.
The conception of American Schutzhund and breed testing.
The relationship between American Schutzhund and PSA.

Key Takeaways:

Political pressure has changed the way that dog sports have changed over the years.
There will be over 40 exercises for each club to choose from and the results will be recorded for each dog for breed test purposes.
There will be updates to American Schutzhund from IPO or original Schutzhund to keep the skills relevant and important.
Without good judges you don’t have a sport – not a sport that is equal to all.
American Schutzhund is completely inclusive – you can be in other types of clubs and organizations as well as American Schutzhund.

"We don’t know if we’re going to be successful or not, we may fail. What we do know is this: we’re not sitting around complaining, we’re actually trying to do something. We’re working hard, we’re trying to put an organization together that’s going to make our vision a reality. What we can promise, is we’re going to continue to fight for the betterment of all of our respective breeds." — Debbie Zappia

Contact Debbie:

Facebook: American Schutzhund

Email: DZappia300@aol.com

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