In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Orienting your dog to the person, not the equipment in training and in deployment.
• The purpose of a decoy and what to look for in a good decoy class.
• Understanding engagement in passive and prone passive targets.
• Differences in training beginner, intermediate, and advanced dogs in passive engagement.

Key Takeaways:

• If that becomes a habit of always helping the dog to identify the threat, you’re going to have a lot of problems.
• You do not want the decoy to help at all if possible. It is bad practice to start helping the dogs.
• There is a progression to all the training you have to do. You can’t account for all the variability in a Facebook post.
• Behavior progression can be trained, but you can’t skip steps. Make sure you work the steps and do all the variations as much as possible.

“[Regarding staple bites] give the dog the feedback he needs when he needs it. If you wait too long, then the dog might want to go back to where it was getting all the fight before.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The evolution of the availability and maturity of dogs over the last 20 years.
• What it means to lack experience, and mental and physical maturity in a green dog.
• Knowing what is a training issue and what is a deal breaker when looking at a dog.
• Adjusting training to fit the dog.

Key Takeaways:

• Dogs are not genetically programmed. You have to understand that when you are testing and training young dogs.
• By knowing the dog’s regime before you go to test or train them, you can better work by knowing what is familiar to them.
• You cannot cookie cutter what every dog you train is going to do. There is going to be a lot more variation, in young dogs, of what they need to have worked on most.
• Don’t underestimate the value of training. Repetitions and conditioning behaviors we want will get you the mileage you want, especially with young dogs.

“You have to bridge the context between what that dog has been used to doing and what you want them to do. And so you have to understand where he came from, you have to understand what he’s seen before.” —  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 discusses:

• Pros and cons of different types of leads, harness, and halters.
• Growing your small business and selling to law enforcement.
• How social media has changed the dog training industry and the view of those training in the industry.
• Following an individualized training program for every dog.

Key Takeaways:

• Don’t make generalizations about male versus female dogs. Look at each dog, and their temperament, individually as they can vary between dogs.
• Put yourself out there to get visibility, even if it means offering free training at appropriate times.
• You have to work the dog in drive that is most in evidence first.
• Get out there, do the work, every day. Get your repetitions in.

“The fact of the matter is, the longer you are in this field, the more you realize what you actually don’t know and how much more you really want to know.” —  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

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: 

• Crossover effects for puppies and police dog training. 
• Balancing giving attention to the dog with creating independence. 
• Distance work versus safety-seeking and teaching independence. 
• Finding a balance between go and stop, with more bias toward the action of go. 

Key Takeaways: 

• The dog should get attention when it works and does something productive, not just because it is seeking attention. 
• Bias to attention not action can form through too much obedience training. 
• Value distance work don’t just train your dog to safety seek. 
• Without balance, you will create unintended crossover effects. Balance is the key.  

“You must reward the behaviors you want to see more of, withhold rewards from behaviors you want to see less of.” —  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 discusses: 

• The benefits of having a capacity for self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and knowing your strengths and weaknesses. 
• The power of patience and identifying your purpose from the beginning. 
• What it takes to be successful by knowing how you measure success in your business. 
• Loving the process and always continue learning through goal setting and achievement. 
• Be present and do the things that matter. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Take the time, put in the work, and educate yourself. Never stop learning and growing and evolving. 
• Set goals, invest in yourself, and allow time to do its work.  
• Manage your growth without too much debt liability. Growth doesn’t have to be overnight. Be slow and steady and be okay with that. 
• No matter how good you are at what you do, you’re not as good as you think you are. You’ve got to constantly get better and evolve. 
• Be proactive in everything you do, from further training to client communications. 
• Have gratitude and give without expectation. 

“Everybody starts somewhere…You’re always going to start at some level of incompetence. Nobody has 20 or 30 years of experience the first day they start, and you’re going to learn lessons along the way.” —  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 discusses: 

• Behavioral issues and dominance aggression.  
• How failing dogs repeatedly drives up the cost of dogs. 
• Avoiding confrontations. 
• Tips and tricks for dealing with different types of dominance aggression. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Behavioral problems can take times to manifest, you likely won’t see them in the kennel environment. 
• Every police dog is just a dog – they don’t have a special god status, they are just a dog. 
• Forget about being alpha. Your dog doesn’t relate to you as a dog. 
• Stay levelheaded when dealing with a dominant dog, don’t take it personally, reward the dog when they comply.  

“Gain respect from the dog using your brain not your hands.” —  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 Brad Gillespie discuss: 

• Following principles, not just techniques and procedures. 
• Distraction is zero sum. 
• “Then what” not “now what.” 
• Balance horsepower and breaks – horsepower first. 
• Detection, muzzle work, and tracking. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Always be learning – the goal is to suck less tomorrow than you do today. 
• If you are too worried about your dog biting your back up officers that you are not able to do your job, it becomes a problem. 
• Let the dog learn to learn! Let the dog want to learn!  
• Experience is making mistakes and learning from those mistakes. 

“The behavior, ultimately, is all that matters in the end. Is it reliable? Is it repeatable? Can we use it operationally? How you got there doesn’t really matter.” —  Brad Gillespie 

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 

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You’re the expert. Your podcast will prove it.  

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: 

• Needs verses wants. 
• Tapping into the genetic needs to create fixed action patterns. 
• Creating a heavily rewarded fixed action pattern. 
• Thinking about foundations before getting wrapped up in methodology of training. 

Key Takeaways: 

• All dogs have needs, but the intensity of those needs can vary between the dogs. 
• A dog’s needs are theoretical; a dog’s wants are practical. 
• No matter what you think of your genetics and your breeding program, good quality puppy raising from the time they are born until they go to their home matters. 
• Dogs look at the world as a probability distribution. 

“What we really want are not needs. What we really need to focus on are wants. These are how to take these needs, these biological needs, and craft them, through training, to serve our purposes. When we take a need and create a want, now we have something that really can serve our purposes.” —  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 discusses:

• Why to train targeting in police dogs.
• Using fendeds in training.
• Training secondary targets.
• How to decoy the dog while training targeting and fendeds.

Key Takeaways:

• Create a dog that has a habit to bite in a place and doesn’t have to make decisions at the last minute.
• Be patient when teaching secondary targets – the dog will often not recognize it as a target at first.
• Repetition is the key – the dog will get faster, more confident, and more fluid the more you practice.
• Notate the targeting training in your training records.

“We are trying to create a dog that doesn’t think when he comes in for a bite. What we are trying to do is create a muscle memory habit in the dog.” —  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 discusses:

• The purpose of muzzle training.
• How to install muzzle-wearing behavior in your dog.
• Best practices for targeting training – both primary and secondary.
• Properly fitting the muzzle on your dog & types of muzzles.

Key Takeaways:

• Muzzle work is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition to biting for real.
• Dogs are used to knowing they can control the world through their mouths – muzzles aren’t comfortable for them and it takes time to get them used to having a muzzle on.
• Work with a decoy who really understands how to build good muzzle work.
• Muzzle work can be disorienting. Be careful about how you physically handle the dog when you’re training.

“The same biting behavior that we have painstakingly taught him over months and months and months is still going to be used. Don’t just allow the dog to go anywhere and everywhere and be sloppy about how he bites – this is biting without biting. We want the dog to use the same muscle memory, the same process to understand muzzle work that we do bite work on the bite suit.” —  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

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You’re the expert. Your podcast will prove it.