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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Facebook: Ford K9 LLC

Instagram: @cameronfordk9

Website: FordK9.com

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Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

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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:

• 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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Connect with Brad Gillespie:  

Website: CanadianPoliceCanine.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

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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 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

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

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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.