In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: 

• The negative space in training that will be addressed later on in training. 
• How to decide what to prioritize and what to purposefully leave out for the time being. 
• Creating a balance between handler focus and independence. 
• Decreased age in the desirability of police dogs compared to previous years. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Get the dogs hunting so you can experience how they are functioning in their environments. 
• Teaching the final response too early on will condition the lesson that it revolves around obedience, not about what they can find in the hunt. 
• You can always turn the volume down on the intensity later on, but you can’t always turn it back up. 
• Understanding the temperament of an individual dog lets you know what you can do with that dog in training and the best way to train them. 

“I fear a lot people end up putting too much pressure on the dogs in the trained final response portion of training because they don’t actually get to hunt a lot in the presence of the handler, they don’t get to hunt a lot around people.” —  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: 

• Commonalities and differences between tracking and trailing. 
• What tracking is and what it isn’t. 
• Training a dog that is easy to read as he is tracking. 
• Tips and tricks for laying a track and evolving the track as your dog progresses. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Tracking or trailing is tacking to you danger – ask yourself, how do you want to be taken into danger? 
• Train and work on fundamentals more often – go back to basics, compartmentalize your training, tighten up the training that way. 
• When luring with food, make sure it is significant enough to entice, but not too much to satiate after only a couple tracks. 
• Do not put jackpots at the end of the track, that encourages speed, not finding the track. 

“You can make some good arguments as to why a particular method might be preferred. A lot of that’s going to come down to handler preference of how they want to work their dog, tactical advantage, as well as what your dog is well adapted to.” —  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.  

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: 

• The expert paradox and how it prevents learning. 
• Sacrificing in order to continue your education. 
• Asking good questions, how to ask those questions, and being in a place to receive. 
• Learning from mistakes and being attentive to what you’re doing 

Key Takeaways: 

• Sometimes you have to play around with the theory yourself before you start to understand the theory. 
• Take every opportunity you can to listen and to learn. 
• Asking good questions takes practice and refinement. 
• Lessons learned through failure are the most important – it gives you a point of reference for the future. 
• Everything you do or do not accomplish is on you – if you don’t do the work, it’s your fault. 

“Everything in life is about being proactive.” —  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 Aaron Kemp discuss: 

• What it takes to run a dog training business. 
• The sacrifices needed to start and run a successful business in the first five years. 
• Handling dogs with fear aggression. 
• Reintroducing the newly trained dog with their owner. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Bonding with the dog before training them makes it so much easier, especially if there is aggression. 
• Dogs want predictability in their environment. As trainers, you can create that for them. 
• Tackle on stimuli one at a time, don’t just overload an anxious, stressed dog with fear aggression. 
• You need a lot of positive interactions, trust building, and exposures to work with fear aggression. It’s not impossible, but it does take commitment. 

“The importance of bonding with the dog and getting that relationship really can’t be understated.” —  Aaron Kemp 

Contact Aaron: 

Website: SuperiorCanine.ca 

Email: [email protected]   

Twitter: @superior_canine 

Instagram: @superiorcanineinc 

Facebook: Superior Canine 

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: 

• Techniques and tools for teaching puppies proper biting. 
• Obedience work and neutrality for sport dogs versus police dogs. 
• Training outs and recalls with and without equipment or contact. 
• Balancing precision and coverage in detection with off-leash detection. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Every puppy is different and what you do for training in the first year is dependent on the puppy. 
• Teach young dogs how to hunt. Let them express their hunt drive and be willing to work it. 
• There is nothing wrong with having extra heeling behaviors in your pocket for different situations. 
• Not everything in dog training is all or nothing.  

“Dog training is not religion. It’s not the same for every single 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 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

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 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.  

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie 

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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.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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.  

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 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.  

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie 

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