In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Brad Gillespie discuss:

• Typical reactions from dogs to gunfire. 
• Understanding the operational requirement of the dog that you are working with to use the best technique for training.
• Minding your sequencing with training the gunfire training.
• Being mindful of canine audiology in inside and outside training with gunfire and other loud noises.

Key Takeaways:

• Gunfire should be background, it should not be a queue to do anything for the dog. 
• You can create neutrality to the gunfire by firing shots from a distance, initially, while the dogs are eating. 
• Utilizing food in the training can keep the activity levels low in a way that toys or other rewards may increase drive and activity when trying to create the neutrality.
• Google decibel levels of hearing damage and look at the decibels on the devices you are using. You can make things loud for long periods of time without paying attention because of your hearing protection, but your dog doesn’t have that same protection and it can cause unexpected consequences.

“A lot of folks get wrapped around the gunfire itself, but don’t take the time to condition and make everything else neutral. Gunfire is one thing, and it’s really just noise, but the movements, the drawing of the pistol, the yelling, all of those things create a lot of problems as well.” —  Brad Gillespie

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• What drive capping is, what it means, and how it differs from pressuring the dog.
• The value in drive capping for police dogs.
• The importance of both the trainer and the decoy in drive capping training. 
• Training prerequisites for drive capping. 

Key Takeaways:

• Training is a non-linear process. The further along you get, the more it changes up to direct the exact behaviors you want from the dog. 
• When training drive capping, you have to focus on rewarding and make it clear to the dog what their job is. 
• If a dog is too leaky during their capped state, it may lead to an early release by the dog.
• It is important the dog understands that they can be capped and be rewarded and can be expressive and can be rewarded. 

“Drive capping usually means using obedience to move the dog from an expressive state where he might be barking or showing some act of aggression to a cap state where the aggression is contained, ready to be expressed.” — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

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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 

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 

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:

• Understanding the progressions between redirects, recalls, and outs and returns. 
• Common mistakes made and how to correct them. 
• Avoiding unwanted stress, pressure, anticipation, and preferences during your training. 
• Repeated training and training more than what’s in certification only. 

Key Takeaways:

• Command discrimination is extremely important as it tells the dog what, exactly, you are wanting them to do. 
• You want to set the dog up for success when arranging the training sessions, including accounting for preferences that may skew their training results.
• Change up the training in some fashion when you start to see anticipation in your dog for the command. 
• If you want to build your control over your dog at distance, the e-collar can help you with that. 

“It is really important to understand, before you get into this, what is that progression – going from two decoy redirects until you get that reflex action and start adding in the get to heal position as a bridge to reward bites so that we can build the out and return nicely, and then we can start doing recalls, and so forth.” — 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/ 

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.