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 

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com  

Contact Jerry: 

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com 

Youtube:  tarheelcanine 

Twitter: @tarheelcanine 

Instagram: @tarheelk9 

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org 

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.  

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie 

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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 

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com  

Contact Jerry: 

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com 

Youtube:  tarheelcanine 

Twitter: @tarheelcanine 

Instagram: @tarheelk9 

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org 

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression 

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.  

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 

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com  

Contact Jerry: 

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com 

Youtube:  tarheelcanine 

Twitter: @tarheelcanine 

Instagram: @tarheelk9 

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org 

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.  

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie 

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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

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

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.

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

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

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. 

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 

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com  

Contact Jerry: 

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com 

Youtube:  tarheelcanine 

Twitter: @tarheelcanine 

Instagram: @tarheelk9 

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org 

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression 

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.  

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 

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com  

Contact Jerry: 

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com 

Youtube:  tarheelcanine 

Twitter: @tarheelcanine 

Instagram: @tarheelk9 

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org 

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression 

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.  

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: 

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com 

Youtube:  tarheelcanine 

Twitter: @tarheelcanine 

Instagram: @tarheelk9 

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org 

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression 

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. 

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: [email protected]   

Twitter: @superior_canine 

Instagram: @superiorcanineinc 

Facebook: Superior Canine 

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com  

Contact Jerry: 

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com 

Youtube:  tarheelcanine 

Twitter: @tarheelcanine 

Instagram: @tarheelk9 

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org 

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression 

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.  

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: 

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com 

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com 

Youtube:  tarheelcanine 

Twitter: @tarheelcanine 

Instagram: @tarheelk9 

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org 

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression 

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.