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:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

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 

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.

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 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 

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jessalyn: 

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

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

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 

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:

• 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

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

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 

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:

• 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:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

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 

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.