In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Having patience with your puppies.

• The three types of defensive dogs.

• How decoys can affect defense or prey.

• Identifying early signs of avoidance in your defensive dog.

• Tips for working the dog in defense properly.

Key Takeaways:

• Once the dog’s foundation work is where you want it, then you can start adding in skills. Don’t rush the foundation work.

• All drives have intensity. The intensity will be completely dependent on your experience. Working with and seeing more dogs will give you a better understanding of what is high, medium, and low.

• The avoidance threshold does not come out of nowhere. You want to watch carefully for where the defense is breaking down into avoidance.

• The younger the dog, the touchier the training will be. The thinner the margin between defense and avoidance, the more difficult it is to train the dog.

“You’d be surprised by what you can get out of defensive dogs when you really understand how to work them.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Today, Jerry answers your burning questions about the available police and civilian dogs and their training at Tarheel Canine. Tarheel provides trained, duel purpose, explosive, and narcotics dogs of various breeds. They also provide green dogs ready to be trained by your officers. Jerry also explains the different options for handler courses, selecting dogs, your personalized experiences, and the guarantees at Tarheel Canine.

For more information email Jerry at [email protected] or call the office at 919-774-4152.

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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 discusses:

• Mistakes made that lead to suppression, avoidance behavior, anxiety, or hesitancy in your canine.

• Building thoughtful release behavior into the pressure.

• Training your dog how to sit when in drive.

• Rewarding the capping with something expressive, even if not a bite.

• Tips for training drive capping properly.

Key Takeaways:

• Excitement, expressiveness, and forward movement aren’t wrong. But you want the dog to learn how to hold that excitement in until released, not turn it off.

• Suppression happens when you do not allow the release at the end of the wait.

• You want to help the dog learn to find the advantage both in the quiet behavior and in the alert or expressive behavior.

• You want to balance the capping and the expression. The dog needs to understand his advantage at every stage of the drive, including when capped.

• When you’re learning capping skills, having a really good decoy who understands capping, who can read the dog, and understands every aspect of the situation is invaluable.

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

[email protected]

Tarheel Canine Training

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ALM K9 Equipment

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Tarheel Canine

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Aaron’s Superior Canine Email

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Superior Canine Instagram

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 positive impact PSA and American Schutzhund have had on pet training.

• Creativity and innovation in training your dog.

• The objective standards of canine sports to create better dogs of all ages.

• Getting involved in the culture of canine sport.

• How sport can change the way you think about dogs.

Key Takeaways:

• Being part of a canine sport club will allow you to have conversations with other dog owners who are also training their dogs and can make training your pet feel less isolating.

• It is the application of ideas that matters. You want to be a trainer that can do, not just talk about doing.

• Behind the rules and standards of evaluation, canine sport shows the breeding of the dogs who participate and compete.

• The tighter the training, both in pet training and in sport, the better it will be over the long term. The looser the training, the looser it will get over time.

“Part of the culture is you get a sense of place where you have belonging, you’ve got some safety, there’s some humility that has to be shown, you get to share success – nobody does this alone.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

[email protected]

Tarheel Canine Training

Tarheel Canine Seminars

Find us on social:

Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,

PSA (Protection Sports Association)

Patreon

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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Thanks to our sponsors:

ALM K9 Equipment

PSA & American Schutzhund

Tarheel Canine

Superior Canine Website

Aaron’s Superior Canine Email

Superior Canine Facebook

Superior Canine Instagram

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.