In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Knowing your dogs before trial and how to situate them at a trial. 
• Balancing training and showing. 
• Getting your dog in the right frame of mind. 
• How quality level decoys make a difference in training and trials. 

Key Takeaways:

• As your dog gets older, you do need to pay attention to what they can handle and what they can take. 
• It is harder to train dogs who have been trained and titled in other sports into PSA. Not impossible, just harder. 
• Utilize your training to prepare you for the trials, even beyond the tasks, but how you go into tests and how you wait for them. 
• Your dog will read you as you read them. If you can stay calm and clear, then they are more likely to be in control 

“It’s impossible in PSA to prepare perfectly for everything.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.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: 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 and Matt Hubble discuss:

• Jerry’s childhood fear of dogs, how he got into dog training, and the start of Tarheel Canine
• Embracing the struggle moments and learning from the tough dogs. 
• Taking advantage of every opportunity that exists and positioning yourself as a student of all times. 
• Gathering experience from those you talk to. 

Key Takeaways:

• As long as you know more than the person you are teaching, you can leverage that knowledge. 
• You have to be able to teach people, be good at it, want to teach people, and want people to learn. That is what makes a great instructor. 
• Be grateful that you’re around people that are willing to share with you really allows you to absorb what you need to absorb. 
• Once you understand the big picture, then it is easier to grasp and understand the minutia of what you are doing. 
• The education of other people is not a threat to you. 

“I travel all over the world. You have to keep your mind open because you might see some things that you haven’t seen before. It doesn’t matter who’s doing that. You can learn a lot from people who are kind of new in any sort of endeavor, because sometimes they come to things with fresh eyes, and fresh eyes is a commodity that you don’t get a lot of times. “ —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Matt:

Website: CaninePerformanceCoach.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/everydayhubblin/

Instagram: instagram.com/matt.hubble/

Facebook: facebook.com/canineperformancecoach

YouTube: youtube.com/nataliedobkins

Canine Performance Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/7C8eH6Pt7QqroBDlmHN5N0

Join DogPro: members.canineperformancecoach.com

Download the DogPro App!: apps.apple.com/us/app/dogpro-training/id1535090723

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.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

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.com 

Tarheel Canine School for Dog Trainers: 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:

• Types of tables for training and their various purposes. 
• Progressions of training while integrating the traditional tables or bark boxes. 
• Skills that train well when properly utilizing the different types of training tables. 
• Individualizing each dog’s training as you go through the progress. 

Key Takeaways:

• The goal is to get the dog to understand that his behavior activates the decoy. They need to understand that their aggression starts the process. 
• When a dog wins in their encounters, they like to start playing in that training. They enjoy it. 
• There is no real standardization for the tables – make the version that works for you. 
• Just like all training, you have to vary the conditions of training as you repeat the same behaviors. 

“These apparatus are meant, really, for us to individualize training, as per the dog. They don’t all have to go in that same progression, and they don’t all have to work in the same way. Pick and choose which piece of equipment you might use for a particular dog based on what that particular dog actually needs.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.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

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.com 

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:

• What makes a good teacher and what makes a bad teacher. 
• Knowing what to teach and how to teach it to your specific audience. 
• Making your information stand out and be remembered – organization is key.
• Involving your audience in your lesson. 

Key Takeaways:

• There is no substitute for experience. You have to have more than “knowing some things” you have to have seen it in action. 
• You want to know your audience and shoot to challenge them a little bit. In order to do that, you have to be able to read the room and know where they are at in their training. 
• Choose a presentation technique that works for you. Develop your own style, try a few things, and see what you like. 
• If you really want to make an important point, slow down and call attention to it. 

“If you master your material, you really know what you’re talking about, you have practiced your presentation, it fits in the right time frame that you have to present, you’re comfortable talking about that material, and you’re comfortable if people don’t necessarily believe what you’re saying, or they have different opinions about how to do the things we are going to talk about…there are tons and tons of things that you can do to give a good presentation.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.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

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.com 

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:

• How to pick a sport puppy and what to look for in your choice. 
• Avoiding creating contextual conflicts during training and in how you are housing the dog.  
• Finding the balance between independence and handler focus. 
• Understanding the training system before you ask the dog to go through the system. 
• What to expect to work on at a good club with your puppy and getting exposure for your dog in different environments. 

Key Takeaways:

• It takes a village to raise a puppy – that village is your club and the people around you. If you’re not getting good advice, you’re not going to have a well-raised puppy.
• Don’t be too afraid to socialize your puppy. It is important to get out and see different places and people. Aim for 3 new places a week, but be smart about it. 
• Train your young dogs to hunt – hunting is an instinct, but it needs to be shaped and trained. 
• There are benefits to having others work your puppy that you cannot get by training them yourself solely. 
• You can always move slow, then move faster later on, but you can’t take it back if you move too fast. 

“I think sometimes people give up too easily on puppies, you have some puppies that are super slow maturing and some some pups that don’t show a lot of drive until later. I think you have to be careful though…But I think that’s something to bear in mind is you want to see something out of the puppies early on, the puppy should have gotten out of the backyard of the breeder at some point.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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:

• Running detection training on knowns, single blinds, and double blinds and how to know which to use. 
• The researcher behind handler knowledge on detection tasks. 
• Being self-aware as a handler and trainer on your own body language and behaviors.
• The difference between testing and training. 

Key Takeaways:

• Training requires intervention. 
• When you’re running double blind runs, you can’t manage rewards appropriately. Because of such, you don’t want to over do these runs. 
• There are ways to train without giving the dog any feedback, even when you, as the handler/trainer, knows where the hides are. 
• There must be a body of work in research, not just taking singular studies as gospel truth or gold standards.  

“In these double blind runs, we have to be really careful to note that it’s not training, it’s really testing. And if we want to test the dog, then that’s fine.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

References: 

Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes – Lisa Lit, Julie B. Schweitzer, and Anita M. Oberbauer

Effect of Handler Knowledge of the Detection Task on Canine Search Behavior and Performance – Mallory T. DeChant, Cameron Ford, and Nathaniel J. Hall

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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 most important foundation skills as a handler and foundation exercises for your canine.
• Phase progression during tracks, including lengths and food rewards. 
• What to look for and deal breakers in green dogs. 
• Being creative in your hides during training. 

Key Takeaways:

• Canned food on a tract will blend in better to the ground than the hotdogs. It can also be more enticing to young dogs. 
• Know what you are willing to give up, that may be able to be taught, and what are traits that you don’t want to give up on when you are choosing a dog. 
• See the dog both in and out of drive if possible when you are making your dog selection. 
• Height and depth can be two sides of the same coin when you’re hunting. If the dog can’t get to the source, you may have to check other indication behaviors of the dog instead of their traditional alert. 

“What is important for one dog might be a little bit less important for another dog. You really have to think about the particular dog you’re working with when you’re trying to identify what might be most important or less important.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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, Cameron Ford, and Canine Paradigm discuss:

• Using markers in detection, the different types of markers, and training with those markers. 
• Upgrading to new efficiencies and technologies as science and research progress.
• Training dogs in drive and drive capping.
• Learning how to read dogs during training exercises. 
• The changing landscape of training due to current events of police/working dogs. 

Key Takeaways:

• Focus on the task, not the cosmetics of the indication. You don’t want to take away from search or odor recognition. 
• Good training is good training, no matter what you do.
• Independence is great! You do not want the dog to be completely dependent on the handler. 
• Put the focus on the hunting, the detection. It’s not called finding. You don’t want to be focused on the end. 
• The earlier you train the final response, the more you have to worry about flashing.

“You have to be flexible as a trainer and train to the dog in front of you. If you do that, you will get the result you’re looking for.” —  Cameron Ford

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Cameron Ford:

Facebook: Ford K9 LLC

Instagram: @cameronfordk9

Website: FordK9.com

Show: K9s Talking Scents

Webinar: K9s Talking Scents Webinar

YouTube: Cameron Ford

LinkedIn: Cameron Ford

Contact Canine Paradigm:

Twitter: @canineparadigm

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: The Canine Paradigm

Instagram: @thecanineparadigm

Website: OperantCanine.com.au

Show: The Canine Paradigm

YouTube: The Canine Paradigm

Patreon: The Canine Paradigm

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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 Brad Gillespie discuss:

• The basics of training tracking and the process of starting that process. 
• Challenges and benefits of laying master track, different reward systems, and tracking versus trailing protocols. 
• The factors at play in a live operation and the opportunities that tracking can bring.
• The importance of communication with the dog in any tracking behaviors.
• Component training in your daily tracking practice. 

Key Takeaways:

• Tracking is an interpretation of the dog’s behavior. 
• Be predictably unpredictable. 
• Slow your dog down on tracking – it is always possible to speed them up (and they will often do it on their own).
• There is not one solution for everything. You have to take the operational environment and what the operational end state is supposed to be and that drives everything else.
• The best way to get better at tracking is to track.

“Embrace the struggle and the challenge. Dogs require incremental and obtainable struggle. We all do. That is part of the learning process.” —  Brad Gillespie

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Connect with Brad Gillespie:  

Website: CanadianPoliceCanine.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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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 importance of proper exposure training.
• Paying attention to fear periods in puppies and dogs.
• Systematic desensitization as a form of introduction and controlling the variables of the desensitization process.
• The process of exposure and how it is more effective and efficient.
• The process of passive desensitization.

Key Takeaways:

• You don’t want to create phobias from a young age or create something that they can’t overcome from a severe fright.
• If you have a dog with no experience with something, you are in a better place than with a dog who has multiple negative associations and has a learned avoidance response.
• Go slow. There is a cost to rushing the desensitization training.
• Short, multiple sessions progress without flooding the dog and creating phobias.
• Have a plan, execute the plan, make sure it is a good plan.

“All training has to have a plan – there has to be an object that we are trying to achieve.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

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.