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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Hot Pursuits, Focus Drills, & K9 Engagements

December 30, 2021 ciera 3354

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

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Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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

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Dr. Jessalyn Klein: You’re Great at Dogs but You Suck at People

December 23, 2021 ciera 4578

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:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

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Human Focused Aggression for Police K9

December 9, 2021 ciera 3577

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:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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.

Growing Your K9 Team

December 2, 2021 ciera 3653

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:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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.

PSA Nationals 2021

November 11, 2021 ciera 2850

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Details and schedule for PSA Nationals 2021!
How to watch Nationals.
Important information for both competitors and spectators.
Key events and sponsors for Nationals.

Key Takeaways:

PSA Nationals is at Five County Stadium in Zebulon, NC on November 12-14, 2021 – admission is FREE!
Sport Dogs Live will be live streaming the whole event for those who cannot make it in person.
If you are not there for the handler’s meeting, you will be struck from competition and unable to compete.
There will be great events happening all weekend, so come check it out.

“I hope I will see everybody who is within listening distance at PSA Nationals – 20th anniversary this weekend, Five County Stadium, Zebulon, North Carolina. Check it out. Come on out.” — Jerry Bradshaw

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References:

Legacy K9 Gear: https://www.instagram.com/legacyk9gear/?hl=en

Sport Dogs Live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_H34ZzKFRoOMvvjAdJIeg

Defcon Propaganda: https://www.instagram.com/defconpropaganda/?hl=en

Contact Jerry:

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Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/

Sponsors:

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Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Variable Reward Intervals – Soft Surface Tracking

November 4, 2021 ciera 2867

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

The differences between hard and soft surface tracking (see episode 53 for more on hard surface tracking).
Advantages of soft surface tracking.
Having multiple ways to reward a dog during tracking.
The importance of variation and its relationship to hope.

Key Takeaways:

To start, begin in shorter grass. Taller grass will hold human scent more than short, manicured grass.
Think of your track as a story with a beginning, middle, and end. It is important that the dog is engaged at every part of the story, or track, and not just anticipating the end.
It is important to know where your tracks are and to train yourself to be a less intrusive handler.
Unpredictability increases intensity and focus on the track, especially as you increase the distance and spread in your track.

“The unpredictability of when the reward is going to come is going to keep the dog pinned into the track and concentrating on every aspect of the length of that track.” — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

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Dumb Stuff I Saw Online Round 2

October 28, 2021 ciera 2636

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Training prey and defense training in your police dogs.
Diversifying training with and without equipment.
Avoiding sweeping generalizations in your training.
Training in the four quadrants of operant conditioning.

Key Takeaways:

Muzzle biting is not the end all be all. While it can show you many things about your dog’s engagement, it does not guarantee a bite off the muzzle.
A dog in conflict is going to choose life and is more likely to have a failed engagement.
Reinforcement is the way in which you install a behavior that you want to keep in your dog.
You don’t need to rush moving from a one-to-one fixed ratio to a variable reward scheme. It allows you to more effectively utilize other tools in your training tool belt, such as negative punishment.

“As soon as you start getting into all or nothing thinking, in dog training, you’re probably on the wrong side of the truth.” — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Tarheel Canine Training: www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

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Dumb Stuff I Saw Online

September 9, 2021 ciera 3510

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

Being suspect of always or never statements in training.
The art of prey guarding.
Laying your own tracks.
The downsides to canine demos.

Key Takeaways:

By saying you never do defense work with puppies, you erase an entire section of training 2457
On any given track, you will have a combination of human odor and ground disturbance. How much of each will be different depending on the type of track.
There can be benefits to laying your own tracks, including the ability to lay more tracks than you might be able to otherwise.
You can never predict other people’s behavior – if you are doing a demo, you want to treat your dog like any other piece of equipment like your gun or your car.

“Back when I was an academic, we used to tell students, if you see in a question ‘always’ or ‘never’ be suspect of what’s being said, because there are usually exceptions to rules. And especially in dog training, there’s usually some exceptions.” — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

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Youtube: tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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

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PSA Trial Rituals

August 12, 2021 ciera 3414

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

What is involved in getting on the field and having a great performance.
Creating the right mindset from a young age in your dog.
Reading the important moments happening all the time.
Mirroring your training ritual in your trial ritual.

Key Takeaways:

Expose your dog to new environments with new attractions and continue to practice your rituals.
You can get additional time on field by utilizing long downs.
Experiment with what works for you and your dog. Each dog is individual and different in what works for them.
You’re not there to trick your dog into compliance, you’re there to train your dog into giving the desired behaviors under levels of stress and distraction.

“What you do in your training has got to be mirrored in what you do on the trial field. You can’t change it at the last minute and think that’s going to be better.” — Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

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