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

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

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 – 

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

Excel-erated Learning by Pamela J. Reid – 

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

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: calendly.com/tarheelcanine

Sponsors: 

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

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:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

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

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

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 – 

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

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: calendly.com/tarheelcanine

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Koru K9: KoruK9.com

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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