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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Patreon: The Canine Paradigm

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

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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

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Connect with Brad Gillespie:  

Website: CanadianPoliceCanine.com

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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

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Contact Jerry:

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• What science is, by definition, and how it pertains to dog training. How the science balances with the art of dog training.
• The infancy of canine research and studies.
• Having flexibility in training methods for innovation, individualized training, and further understanding of training.
• Classical conditioning versus operant conditioning. 
• Understanding the benefits and limitations of the models you associate with your dogs. 

Key Takeaways:

• A little bit of knowledge makes people dangerous.
• We need to be careful about standardizing rules and regulations for training canines. All that matters, in the end, is that the job gets done.
• There is more to dog training than just the four quadrants.
• The important question is – how is the dog perceiving what you are doing? Are they perceiving it as negative reinforcement or positive punishment? 
• Much of what we consider to be settled, scientific fact, are not, in fact, settled, scientific fact, but do need more studies done before we can draw scientific conclusions.

“We are on this iterative path. What one study, or two studies, or three studies conclude is not the end all be all. Science is a messy process. Working with data is a messy process.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The themes of changing canine behavior.
• The genetic and learned aspects of behavior. 
• Understanding counterconditioning and training mutually exclusive behaviors and systematic desensitization. 
• Making systematic and planned changes and training scenarios.
• Having a strategy to deal with problem behaviors.

Key Takeaways:

• At the heart of a lot of behavioral problems, you will find communication issues that need to be addressed. 
• Space is everything to a dog, especially in our very confined modern society.
• Changing canine behavior is going to take commitment and consistency. 
• Don’t teach a dog anything you don’t want him to do. Don’t let him learn to do the behavior you don’t want him to do. 
• A dog is going to repeat a behavior where that behavior is rewarded and is successful

“We have to be really cognizant of the animal’s state of mind to make sure that we are doing the right thing in order to change behavior and not simply to suspend the dog’s reaction until such time as the dog feels that reaction can explode forth.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• What aggression is and how to see it in a dog.
• What it takes to solve an aggression problem in a dog.
• Drive theory of aggression.
• The dominance cycle.

Key Takeaways:

• Space is everything to a dog. When the dog can’t create space, the aggression is often created when they can’t get away, whether on a leash, in a car, behind a fence, etc.
• Growling is a good sign – the dog had the opportunity to do worse and chose not to, exhibiting bite inhibition.
• Don’t turn a dog who is not a biter into a biter. He might show aggression which can be scary, but that is the point. Don’t push that dog into biting.
• If you don’t need to take the risk, don’t take the risk. You have to be smart about what you are doing if you’re going to try for rehabilitation. If you have a dangerous dog, understand what you’re dealing with.  

“You have to understand the skill level of the people that are handling the dog. Take a mitigation plan that’s far less complicated and far easier to execute over a theoretically perfect plan that’s almost impossible to execute, because execution is ideal here.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Pat Stuart discuss:

• The challenge of training a PSA dog and acquiring strong dogs on an island continent.
• What is going on with IACP and how it represents a full spectrum of training.
• NePoPo® dog training and how the fusion of negative and positive reinforcement strengthens your training. 
• Primacy of results and taking whatever amount of time it takes to train is worth your while to do.

Key Takeaways:

• There is a lot of legislation that may come with good intentions, but also may be a double-edged sword that can be used against you, especially as may be subjectively interpreted.
• There is strength in numbers, especially in representation. 
• Nepopo training teaches the dog pressure in the learning phase to prepare for corrections later on so the dog knows how to turn off the pressure by performing the behavior they already know. 
• Be understanding of when something works, there’s a reason something works. It’s important to be eyes open and understanding and realize that every dog and every situation is individual.

“If you want to be able to continue doing what you do, you need to join a group that will help support that and help represent you in doing that.” —  Pat Stuart

Join IACP (International Association of Canine Professionals) here: CanineProfessionals.com

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Connect with Pat:

Twitter: @canineparadigm

Facebook: The Canine Paradigm

Instagram: @thecanineparadigm

Website: OperantCanine.com.au

Show: The Canine Paradigm

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Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• How COVID-19 restrictions will affect business and conferences.
• Money shocks for small businesses and government agencies.
• The upcoming cash-crunch reality for many people and businesses.
• Taking smart, reasonable precautions during turbulent times.

Key Takeaways:

• During this turbulent time, there may be monetary reallocations for a lot of businesses and government agencies.
• Be careful about overextending and taking on new expenditures at this time.
• Start planning how you can diversify your income streams to help assist with long term plans.
• There’s nothing you can do about what’s happening around you, you do have control over how you choose to respond.  

“Be attentive to what is going on. Talk about it, don’t allow all the fear to run around in your head.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

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Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

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