In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Timing the puppy training early and with directed purpose and handling the fear periods in dogs.  
• Habituation, spontaneous recovery, sensitization, and learned irrelevance.  
• When to reorient and when to address fears. 
• Understanding your dog’s phobias to learn how to solve the problem. 
• Common fears and phobias seen in police and sport dogs.  

Key Takeaways:

• Too many people restrict social and experiential learning in puppies during the critical stages of development out of fear. 
• As a decoy, as a handler, as anyone working with a young dog, you need to be attentive to what you’re doing and always be surveying your environment to avoid unintended consequences. 
• Avoid creating a problem that doesn’t already exist. Take a systematic approach to expose your dog to everything they need to be exposed to. 
• Generally, fear periods are short-lived. Take your dog into more familiar places, more natural spaces, where it’s not going to encounter a lot of things that are going to be super unusual or might provoke a fearful response.

“I have a phobia about creating phobias. I don’t want to create a phobia in my dog, because the road is going to be super long to try and systematically desensitize to any type of stimuli that’s been created as an avoidance response.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Book Reference: 

The Decoy Book by William Garrido – amazon.com/Decoy-Book-Collaborations-Some-Industry/dp/B08T6YGWSD

Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training by Stephen R. Lindsay – 

amazon.com/Handbook-Applied-Behavior-Training-Vol/dp/0813807549

Excel-erated Learning by Pamela J. Reid – 

amazon.com/Excel-erated-Learning-Explaining-plain-English/dp/1888047070

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: 

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.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 the grip can vary depending on the sport you’re training for. 
• What it means to have a bad grip and why different ways bad grip may manifest.
• Teaching your dog to be unsatisfied with any bite that is not at the back of the mouth. 
• Teaching the basic fundamentals from a young age, including social interaction and teaching the dog to work with other trainers. 
• Taking the proper time through progressions and not pushing too hard too fast. 

Key Takeaways:

• A firm grip is more important than a calm grip. We want the dog to default to a full grip, all the way back to the back teeth.  
• Genetics provides a capacity, but the training can enhance or ruin what the genetics are bringing to the table. 
• Give your dog something challenging to bite. A lot of busy grips come from a failure to challenge the grip and give the dog something they can bite successfully. 
• Challenging the grip is one of the most important things you can do as you go through your training progressions. 

“The firmness, the fullness, the hardness, those are the things that really determine the grip.” —  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.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 discusses:

• The power of just showing up and investing in the outcome with a manageable solution strategy.
• Book references for being a better K9 entrepreneur. 
• What it means to be effective in your life and business. 
• Planning for the future and investing in yourself and diversifying your business. 
• Reflecting on life and doing the best that we can with our decisions. 

Key Takeaways:

• Do a little something every single day towards your goal and watch that success breed upon itself. 
• You are not a victim and at the mercy of the society in which you live. You are capable of high achievement if you are proactive, and not reactive. 
• Listen to understand. It is okay for you to be quiet and not just be waiting to make your point. 
• Pay attention to what you are doing with your money and assets. Is it working for you or is it working against you? 
• Take calculated risks and be willing to fail then learn from that failure.  If you don’t take any risks, you will never succeed. 

“I don’t understand why anybody who’s in the dog training space, doesn’t do competition. Some of the best trainers that I know are in competitions. Because it teaches you how to bounce back from failures, it teaches you that sometimes you have to find five different ways to try and get your dog to do something, until you find the one way that really sticks.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Book References:

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey – https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/0743269519

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki – https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1612680194

The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss – https://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/dp/0307465357

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson – 

https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/0345816021

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

Koru K9: KoruK9.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:

• Laying a good foundation for bite work from a young age. 
• Using a flirt pole to emulate prey action to entice the puppy. 
• Encouraging biting with the back teeth through bite progressions. 
• Training before and after, but not during, teething. 
• Focusing on bite mechanics during all aspects of training. 

Key Takeaways:

• The puppy needs to know, from a young age, that he is in control of the process. 
• A leather rag is a more slippery bite than a terrycloth roll. By using leather, it teaches the dog to lock the grip in if they want to hold and possess it. 
• Young dogs are super resilient. Introduce items that will become familiar to them from an early age so they can start to hear the noises that will be around. 
• As you progress, the more grips the dog can do per session and the longer they can hold the grip. 

“The idea is, from the beginning, a dog needs to learn if he’s going to do bite work properly, that he’s in control of the whole process. It’s a very operant process and he has to understand that he’s going to be able to push me around, he’s going to be able to manipulate me, even if I’m just coming in and trying to steal his little rag.” —  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

Schedule a Zoom Meeting with Jerry: calendly.com/tarheelcanine

The Detection Blueprint: eventbrite.com/e/the-detection-blueprint-with-jerry-bradshaw-tickets-131458488879 

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 & William Garrido discuss:

• William’s journey into dog training and his professional journey to head trainer at Starmark Academy. 
• The value in working with dogs of all types and temperaments. 
• Continuing learning while keeping your focus and system of training. 
• Understanding the unchanging fundamentals. 

Key Takeaways:

• You can learn a lot about dogs and behavior by training pet dogs. Even if you work with working dogs, there is still more to learn from pet dogs. 
• There is value in learning training at a school with a specific, outlined curriculum led by professionals. 
• Dog training is not all glamour – there is a grind and dirty and challenging aspects to it. 
• Fundamentals are always going to be there, that’s not going to change. The scientists have done the legwork for you, you just have to understand how that applies to dog training and to learning.

“I see tremendous value in going to a place where there’s a curriculum laid out for you, and professionals guiding you through that curriculum.” —  William Garrido

Contact William Garrido:

Website: StarmarkAcademy.com 

Email: [email protected]

Youtube: youtube.com/user/StarmarkAcademy?feature=mhum

Flickr: flickr.com/photos/starmarkacademy

Facebook: facebook.com/StarmarkPetProducts 

Books: 

• Info Every Dog Trainer Should Know – https://www.amazon.com/Info-Every-Trainer-Should-Know/dp/1653816155/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1606784677&refinements=p_27%3AWilliam+Garrido&s=books&sr=1-1&text=William+Garrido

• Common Myths About Dogs (Debunked): For Dog Owners and Trainers – https://www.amazon.com/Common-Myths-about-Dogs-Debunked/dp/1973484676/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&qid=1606784724&refinements=p_27%3AWilliam+Garrido&s=books&sr=1-3&text=William+Garrido

Connect with Dog Training Is My Passion:

Website: DogTrainingIsMyPassion.com

Show: Dog Training Is My Passion Podcast – podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dog-training-is-my-passion/id1542561964

Youtube: youtube.com/dogtrainingismypassion

Instagram: instagram.com/dogtrainingismypassion

Facebook: facebook.com/dogtrainingismypassion

Reference: Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, MD, FICS – amazon.com/Psycho-Cybernetics-Updated-Expanded-Maxwell-Maltz/dp/0399176136

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.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 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

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.