In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Multiple markers for different reward types. 
• The purpose of markers and when a marker may or may not be necessary. 
• Types of markers and what they indicate to your dog (even if you didn’t intend for that behavior).
• Reward prediction error and reward preferences. 

Key Takeaways:

• With more rehearsal, the neurons that release dopamine activate on the expectation of reward, not when the reward is delivered.
• Markers create clarity in behavior. 
• A marker is something that calls attention to a moment in time when the dog did something that’s rewardable. It allows us to bridge from behavior to reward delivery.
• It is not about the marker. It is about the goal directed behavior getting rewarded on a variable basis. 

“The most important thing here is the behavior. Don’t get so hung up on the marker itself, it’s the behavior. Our goal as dog trainers is to create behaviors that are going to be in line with what is expected.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Episode References: 

Fenzi Dog Sports Academy: https://www.fenzidogsportsacademy.com/ 

Dr. Robert Sapolsky: https://profiles.stanford.edu/robert-sapolsky 

Dopamine, Anticipation, & Relationships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIRZu1dRp8Q 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: [email protected] 

Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

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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:

• Having a full, firm, and hard grip (which may not be calm). 
• Developing a hunt drive in your dog. 
• Working dogs on markers and having different types of markers. 
• How to be an active learner and advice for young trainers. 
• How primacy of learning applies to training. 

Key Takeaways:

• You want a bite suit to be as form fitting as possible to allow the dog to feel the person underneath while still giving protection to the decoy. 
• Your dog should have a genetic predisposition to hunting. However, rehearsal and learning awakens the genetics inside of young dogs when you practice. 
• You have control of how you want to train on markers. You can have multiple types for different things how you choose as long as it is clear to the dog what you want them to do.
• Watch everything. When you are learning to train, watch others work, watch masters handle dogs. Be attentive at all times. 
• In training, ask questions, be kind, and pay attention. 

“My advice for young trainers is watch everything going on around you. Be present, be attentive to training that’s happening in front of you, so you can try and understand it.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.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: 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/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: [email protected] 

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. 

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if you’re interested in detection training, really this is a webinar series you don’t want to miss! You get lifetime access by going to StreetReadyK9.com!

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.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: 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/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: [email protected] 

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. 

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Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

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Email: [email protected]

Street Ready K9: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

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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/ 

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Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 

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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:

• What a heuristic is and how it applies to rewards and punishments. 
• Allowing for mental development during your training. 
• Training multiple commands for the same actions. 
• Differences in training obedience and detection. 

Key Takeaways:

• Histories create biases. You also need to understand your dog’s temperament and how they are going to generalize behavior. 
• You do not need to perfect the behavior you are training all at once. Allowing time between working on a skill often allows for mental development. 
• “All the time” and “never” are going to create problems. You need to find a balance in your training. 
• A variable reward scheme is the key to balanced training. 

“if you’re struggling with that call off, what you’re lacking is balance. If you wait too long to create that behavior, you can also have some problems, because you’ve created such a reward history. Dogs that have out problems have a reward history that is massive in terms of biting and possessing the bite equipment or biting and possessing the decoy.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

Street Ready K9: https://streetreadyk9.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: 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/ 

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: [email protected] 

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 discusses:

• Thinking about the end game from the beginning of your training. 
• Creating neutrality through all kinds of distractions. 
• Look at me, look at me while, look at that, and look at that while commands for your dog. 
• Balancing draw to fight against drift. 

Key Takeaways:

• Attention is the dog’s anchor. Give them a point to focus on that allows them to be neutral to everything else around.  You have to control a dog’s eyes to control their behavior. 
• You want to lay the foundation for sending on command, not sending on agitation and discriminating between the two early on in your training. 
• Create neutrality through time on the field. 
• No matter how advanced your dog is, keep working on your fundamentals. That is where the strength lies when you are in actual scenarios. 

“One of the most important fundamental exercises of attention is teaching the dog to look at me, then look at that, and then look back to me, and then look back to that and change it up for the dog where I point the dog at different things that might be of concern to him.” —  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 

Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 

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/ 

Superior Canine Email: [email protected] 

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.