In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The growth of PSA internationally and an update on upcoming events.
• The future of protection training and sports with changes in international law due to organizations such as PETA.
• Recommendations for solo training and those without access to clubs.
• Creating a PSA club culture for the best outcomes for handlers, dogs, and decoys.

Key Takeaways:

• We need an international meeting of the worlds best known trainers to come together and make a position statement to preserve the right to train dogs effectively and efficiently.
• Dogs need limits and corrections. High level working dogs, and pet dogs, need limits set on their lives.
• Train the dog that’s in front of you, don’t hold out for the podium dog.
• Don’t rush, especially when things are complicated.

“You have to read the rulebook and understand the rulebook and understand where the latitude exists for things to be done a little bit differently. That’s where you can come up with interesting scenarios; that’s where judges come up with interesting scenarios.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Mike Simons discuss: 

• What drew him to becoming a K9 Handler. 
• Differences in dog training from when he started and what he is anticipating now. 
• His training adventures with K9 Aura and watching her continue to grow and become better. 
• What makes a good K9 program. 

Key Takeaways: 

• If the dog’s not ready, sometimes you have to go another route. 
• You get what you put into training 
• You want to make sure your dog is being handled on the street, not seeing new things every night. 
• Learn from your dog – they can teach you as much as, if not more than, you can teach them. 

“Be patient, slow down, think it out because the dog is vibeing off of you.” —  Mike Simons 

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 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.  

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

•         The importance of quality decoy work in training suspect encounters.
•         Complex behavior chains as a story.
•         The critical nature of hide placement and multiple suspects.
•         Variations in hot searches, warm searches, and cold searches.

Key Takeaways:

•         The searching piece can be irrelevant if you don’t have a proper start.
•         Using multiple entry points makes the site a new picture for the dog.
•         Be systematic, use a line to create a level of boundary with the dog so you can clear the rooms closest first.
•         Don’t stack too many variables on top of each other. Make sure the dogs get big wins during training.
•         Pick the best dog that’s available for you at the time, no matter what it looks like, what breed it is, what gender it is.

“I don’t believe in one-and-done. When you’re working on building searches you must do multiple repetitions, just like when you’re doing tracking.” —  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

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: 

• Prerequisites and sound fundamentals for having a sound building search. 
• Muzzle desensitization and dead equipment neutrality. 
• Passive and active suspect encounters. 
• Finding balance in your searching. 

Key Takeaways: 

• You want a proper start – the dog needs to understand what it is doing in any particular search. 
• Generalize the dog’s response to finding a subject in the search, you don’t want them to be surprised by finding someone. 
• Make sure the dog understands that passivity equals threat. 
• If you wouldn’t do it in detection, don’t do it in bite work. 

“You, as the handler, have no control over when your dog perceives a threatening encounter. Based on how we train these dogs and their capacity for prey work, one of the things we have to keep in mind is that we don’t control what that dog perceives in any given moment.” —  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 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.  

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Brad Smith discuss: 

• Brad’s professional journey to becoming one of the leading subject matter experts on SWAT and K9. 
• The S.K.I.D.D.S. and CATS programs at K9TacOps. 
• The differences between civilian SWAT and military canine units. 
• Major tactical errors Brad sees regularly in tactical deployments. 

Key Takeaways: 

• A patrol operation and a SWAT operation should be the same as far as how you search. 
• Take what you learn in classes, then go back and teach others in your department.  
• Keep everything slow and deliberate – it is safer for everyone involved in a search. 
• Never stop learning – things are evolving and changing and there is always something new that can be learned. 

“You’ve got to do some sort of socialization before you jump right into the searches.” —  Brad Smith 

Connect with Brad:   

Website: K9TacOps.com 

Book: K9 Tactical Operations for Patrol and SWAT & K9’s in the Courtroom 

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 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.  

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw, Pat Stuart, Glenn Cooke, Janet Edwards, and Shawn Edwards discuss:

• Cannibalism in the industry is about lack of support in the industry for each other.
• The call-out culture of social media and the effect it has on the dog training industry.
• Creating community and an international family with dog sports.
• Training sports as a proofing ground for all types of dog training.
• How to handle social media, controversy, online trolls, and bad advice.

Key Takeaways:

• There is a power in joining forces and speaking up on issues, not just trying to handle everything individually.
• Without the ability to communicate with one another, there will be no ability to combat the nonsense of the training industry.
• Without the sports, you wouldn’t have the canines for military and police work.
• As a trainer, have a great relationship with your local veterinarians. You have different skills and, together, can best serve the animals.
• We need to do something now to stop cannibalizing each other.

“If you stop the tools, then you stop the progress of the dog sports. If you stop the progress of the dog sports, people lose interest in taking their dogs out and being obedient. Then there’s lack of control all over the place and government legislation starts stepping in.” —  Glenn Cooke

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Contact Pat & Glenn:  

Podcast: The Canine Paradigm

Contact Shawn & Janet:

Website: StatelineCanine.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

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.  

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Real deployment versus training behaviors from the handler and the dog.
• Pitfalls to avoid for the best street readiness.
• The power of a good decoy and the detriment of a poor decoy.
• Areas that are necessary for deep practice.

Key Takeaways:

• Tactics are meant to increase the probability of survivability in any engagement.
• Deployability and readiness starts at selection.
• Train for a level that surpasses your certification skill levels.
• You want to teach engagement as a habit. You don’t want the dog to have to make a decision.

“Structure your dog so they don’t have to make decisions about not biting somebody. Keep the tool in the right frame of mind. Keep them safe from having to make too many decisions. Keep them safe from having to make too much discrimination.” —  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

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Nathan Hall discuss:

• Nathan’s background and research interests in canine olfaction.
• The cocktail method of training detection.
• Psuedo scents and the research behind them.
• The ever-growing list of questions that comes up as you continue research and the further need for research in canine olfaction.
• Variations in your training samples.

Key Takeaways:

• We don’t know enough about the threshold of olfaction
• Train the dog to what you want them to find.
• Look at actual data. It is easy to see a success story, but the data will tell what’s actually happening.
• If you don’t set yourself to be wrong, then you’re not doing science.

“The dog is a dynamic system, they are constantly learning.” —  Nathan Hall

Contact Nathan:

Bio: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/afs/people/nathan-hall/

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-hall-78306516/

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

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.  

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Debbie Zappia discuss:

• Debbie’s story and how she got into the sport world.
• The evolution of Schutzhund and how it is expressed in IPG.
• The conception of American Schutzhund and breed testing.
• The relationship between American Schutzhund and PSA.

Key Takeaways:

• Political pressure has changed the way that dog sports have changed over the years.
• There will be over 40 exercises for each club to choose from and the results will be recorded for each dog for breed test purposes.
• There will be updates to American Schutzhund from IPO or original Schutzhund to keep the skills relevant and important.
• Without good judges you don’t have a sport – not a sport that is equal to all.
• American Schutzhund is completely inclusive – you can be in other types of clubs and organizations as well as American Schutzhund.

“We don’t know if we’re going to be successful or not, we may fail. What we do know is this: we’re not sitting around complaining, we’re actually trying to do something. We’re working hard, we’re trying to put an organization together that’s going to make our vision a reality. What we can promise, is we’re going to continue to fight for the betterment of all of our respective breeds.” —  Debbie Zappia

Contact Debbie:  

Facebook: American Schutzhund

Email: [email protected]

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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

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.  

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The difference in responses between defense mood and prey mood.
• The problems that can occur when a dog can’t channel defense to prey.
• Why defense work is inherently stressful for the dog.
• Good and bad behaviors from the decoy in defense to prey channeling.
• Adjusting intensity and duration during each element of the defensive channel.

Key Takeaways:

• We must do what we can to try and teach the dog that fighting is always the strategy and always the way that it will win confrontations.
• Think of channeling to prey as relief from stress.
• Fights ebb and flow, drive channeling is the key to allowing the dog to think in those situations.
• The avoidance threshold isn’t a fixed amount, it will trend upwards over time as we train the dog that he can handle the stress in higher and higher amounts.
• Stress accumulates, without relieving the stress, the dog’s avoidance threshold may lower over time.

“What we need to get the dog to understand is, when he wins the fight, he can calm down. By channeling defense to prey, the return to prey mood signals to the dog that he’s winning or he’s won and he can concentrate on those obedience commands.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/

Tarheel Canine Training: http://www.tarheelcanine.com/

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tarheelcanine

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarheelcanine

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tarheelk9/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: http://psak9.org/

Patreon:  www.patreon.com/controlledaggression

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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