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.