Controlled Aggression

Want to learn about K9 obedience, police dog training, learning theory and more? Jerry Bradshaw has been a sports competitor and police dog trainer for 25 years, and as the executive director of the Protection Sports Association he's been around the world competing and training K9s. Welcome to the Controlled Aggression podcast.

Directionals and Casting 04/25/2024

Ten Common Outing Mistakes 02/29/2024

Ten Common Outing Mistakes In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Drills to teach your dog to give up something to get something. Utilizing multiple types of reinforcement to increase positive behaviors. Adjusting e-collar settings to change the type of pressure on the dog. Differences in different models of e-collars and how your dog may react to them. Pre-empting the mistakes that you can. Key Takeaways: A lot of common outing mistakes have to do with e-collars and the misuse of certain functions for outing behaviors. Consider going lower on stimulation and longer on the taps of the e-collar rather than a high stimulation with an extremely short duration. This will change the type of pressure on the dog. Avoid habituating your dog to the higher levels of stimulation. These dogs are bred to fight through adversity, you don’t want to stress innoculate the dog to the e-collar pressure. Try a few different types of e-collars on and see which one they respond better to based on their temperament and the sharpness or bluntness of the e-collar. Experiment and see what works best with the minimum force rule. "Outs must be rewarded. No behavior will be maintained without some form of reinforcement." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Contact Jerry: Website: Email: Tarheel Canine Training: Youtube: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Protection Sports Website: Patreon: Slideshare: Calendly: Tarheel Canine Seminars: Tarheel Canine Student Portal: Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: PSA & American Schutzhund: Tarheel Canine: Superior Canine Website: Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: Superior Canine Facebook: Superior Canine Instagram: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at Train Hard, train smart, be safe. Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/30149278

The Role of a Departmental Canine Trainer with John Kirk 01/04/2024

The Role of a Departmental Canine Trainer with John Kirk In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and John Kirk discuss: The benefits of being both a handler and a trainer. Societal and departmental expectations of a canine unit in a large department. Creating good training files for handlers and canines. Utilizing all of your tools appropriately. Procedures, protocols, and manuals. Key Takeaways: As a trainer, if your hand is off the leash for too long, it does make a difference and both the dog and your trainees will know it. It is equally as important for handlers and department heads to understand what a dog is capable of and what they are not capable of doing. As a trainer, you need to be able to speak with both the canine and the handler. Set up for real-world training, not just for certification training. Create challenging training that will prepare your dog for the street. Policing is changing, standards are becoming more stringent, and all of that needs to be communicated and supervised closely to ensure everyone stays safe. "As a trainer, I need to focus on the dog, I need to focus on any improvement that the dog needs. When it comes to training a handler, our goal is to make sure that this handler has the confidence that he needs." — John Kirk Get Jerry's book Contact Jerry: Website: Email: Tarheel Canine Training: Youtube: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Protection Sports Website: Patreon: Slideshare: Calendly: Tarheel Canine Seminars: Tarheel Canine Student Portal: Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: PSA & American Schutzhund: Tarheel Canine: Superior Canine Website: Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: Superior Canine Facebook: Superior Canine Instagram: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at Train Hard, train smart, be safe. Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/29322593

Upcoming Events in 2024! 01/03/2024

Mechanics and Applications of Drive Capping 12/07/2023

Preparing for PSA 1 Nationals 2023 10/19/2023

Notes on K9 Certification - Patrol 09/14/2023

Notes on K9 Certification - Patrol In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Understanding the flow channel to make your dog (and you as a trainer) better. How handlers and trainers decide the skills to prevent to the dogs at different skill levels. Exceeding the requirements of certification and organizational policy in your training. Training tools to make for a stronger dog in operational settings. Setting up building searches for different scenarios, not just bite situations. Key Takeaways: As the skill levels grow, it is important to have a challenge that fits with that skill to keep your dog engaged and involved with the training. Obedience for the sake of obedience is not practice. Obedience is the framework that provides boundaries to a dog’s behavior. Hands-on removal in policy doesn’t mean you don’t want to practice other releases. If you do a chokehold removal every time, it will create frustration. You need to train a call off with your dog. It is more than just something that is used in certification, it is a safety skill. "As your dog’s skill levels increase, you can challenge them more - you can challenge them more with scenarios, you can challenge them more with training." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Contact Jerry: Website: Email: Tarheel Canine Training: Youtube: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Protection Sports Website: Patreon: Slideshare: Calendly: Tarheel Canine Seminars: Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: PSA & American Schutzhund: Tarheel Canine: Superior Canine Website: Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: Superior Canine Facebook: Superior Canine Instagram: That Scent Dog Box: That Scent Dog Box Facebook: That Scent Dog Box Instagram: That Scent Dog Box TikTok: Hold the Line Conference: Train Hard, train smart, be safe. Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/28029564

Notes on K9 Certifications - Scentwork 09/07/2023

Scientific Approach to Off-Leash Control 07/28/2023

Defensive Dogs in Protection 07/27/2023

Tarheel Canine Police Dog Info 07/15/2023

Drive Suppression v Drive Capping 07/13/2023

Drive Suppression v Drive Capping In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Mistakes made that lead to suppression, avoidance behavior, anxiety, or hesitancy in your canine. Building thoughtful release behavior into the pressure. Training your dog how to sit when in drive. Rewarding the capping with something expressive, even if not a bite. Tips for training drive capping properly. Key Takeaways: Excitement, expressiveness, and forward movement aren’t wrong. But you want the dog to learn how to hold that excitement in until released, not turn it off. Suppression happens when you do not allow the release at the end of the wait. You want to help the dog learn to find the advantage both in the quiet behavior and in the alert or expressive behavior. You want to balance the capping and the expression. The dog needs to understand his advantage at every stage of the drive, including when capped. When you’re learning capping skills, having a really good decoy who understands capping, who can read the dog, and understands every aspect of the situation is invaluable. "It is so important to have your dog in the right frame of mind when they go into a building search or an area search when their job is going to be to make an apprehension. And we want to make sure we preserve that state of mind in the process of getting the correctness and the quality of the behaviors that we want." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Contact Jerry: Website: Tarheel Canine Seminars: Email: Tarheel Canine Training: Youtube: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Protection Sports Website: Patreon: Slideshare: Calendly: Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: PSA & American Schutzhund: Tarheel Canine: Superior Canine Website: Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: Superior Canine Facebook: Superior Canine Instagram: Train Hard, train smart, be safe. Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/27453309

Sport Culture for Pet Trainers 07/05/2023

Countering, Pushing & Pulsing Grips 06/30/2023

Countering, Pushing & Pulsing Grips In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Bringing out the traits in your dog that are (or are not) genetically in them already. The difference between countering, pushing/pulling, and pulsing bite grips. Working with the dog and not creating an unstable grip through overwork. Actively teaching your dog when and how to counter, and how and when to fight out of a pressure trap using the different grips. Key Takeaways: Countering happens when dogs do not get the ideal strike and an ideal grip in the initial bite. You want the dog to be biting all the way back to their molars whenever possible (which can be difficult when the dog is coming in full speed on a decoy). Biting with the back teeth allows for more leverage power in the jaw which can help with pain compliance even through layers of clothing on a pushing grip in a police dog situation. The decoy and trainer both need to understand what you trying to get out of each training session with dogs at all stages of development. Training with a puppy is very different from training with an older, veteran dog. A lot of decoys and trainers are neglecting to teach the dog to counter off of the transition. "Countering is a very important technique in training a protection dog, but we may go too far in focusing only on that." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Contact Jerry: Website: Email: Tarheel Canine Training: Youtube: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Protection Sports Website: Patreon: Slideshare: Calendly: Tarheel Canine Seminars: Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: PSA & American Schutzhund: Tarheel Canine: Superior Canine Website: Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: Superior Canine Facebook: Superior Canine Instagram: Train Hard, train smart, be safe. Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/27332334

Setting Up Successful Training Sessions 04/27/2023

Setting Up Successful Training Sessions In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Teaching your dog lessons through action, feedback, and prevention. Understanding the queues that you are creating in your dog. Planning your training sessions in advance and understanding the variables. Preparing with the correct equipment and rewards for the training session you are heading into. The importance of evaluating your training sessions, and getting a second pair of eyes on the training and evaluation when possible. Key Takeaways: Your training session begins as soon as the dog comes out of the kennel, both what is and is not happening matter from that moment on. You should have reasons for doing everything that you are doing in training. You do not want to create associations with equipment or locations Know the sub-skills that you want to work and the variables inherent in those when you are planning what skills and subskills you are planning on training in each session. Do the research if needed to understand how to support that training and make it better. You must know what you are doing before you even put your hands on the dog. There is a lot happening and if you don't have a plan things will get chaotic and not go how you want them to go. "I plan out before I work my dog exactly what I'm going to work on before the session starts so I know what I want to do on the field. Setting up for success is about figuring out what you're going to do before you go and try to do it instead of just going out and doing what other people are doing and mimicking them." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Contact Jerry: Website: Email: Tarheel Canine Training: Youtube: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Protection Sports Website: Patreon: Slideshare: Calendly: Tarheel Canine Seminars: Tarheel Canine Student Portal: Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: PSA & American Schutzhund: Tarheel Canine: Superior Canine Website: Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: Superior Canine Facebook: Superior Canine Instagram: Train Hard, train smart, be safe. Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/26677422

PSA Rituals and Field Awareness 03/09/2023

Building a Relationship with Communication & Emotion with Derek Beckelman 02/23/2023

Building a Relationship with Communication & Emotion with Derek Beckelman In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Derek Beckelman discuss: Building a relationship of trust with your new dog, both pet and working. Being consistent with the rules with your dog. The emotional nature of dogs and handlers. The clash between attention and anticipation. Increasing the effectiveness of your communication with your dog. Key Takeaways: Using food, treats, or toys to motivate, especially in the early stages of building the relationship is not a bad thing. But you want to avoid becoming a treat dispensing robot. There are two sides to training - classical and operant. You do not want to focus only on operant conditioning and forget about the aspects of classical conditioning that can help with your training. Dogs will try to anticipate everything. We, as humans, fall into routines. These can clash and create conflict within the training. Training can be frustrating. But the dog just wants to do dog things. You can’t get mad at them for being a dog. You have to pay attention to where your dog’s head is at in any given moment. Sometimes they aren’t listening, not because they don’t want to, but because they cannot due to other circumstances. "It's not up to me how quickly a dog makes progress. It's up to the dog. But as long as we're paying attention, and we're reading what the dog is trying to tell us is going on, we can make jumps and progress when they're ready. But you have to see it. You have to feel it, and that just takes experience." — Derek Beckelman Get Jerry's book Episode References: Dog Language: An Encyclopedia of Canine Behavior by Roger Abrantes - Excel-erated Learning by Pamela Reid - How Dogs Learn by Mary Burch - Info Every Dog Trainer Should Know by Will Garrido - The Decoy Book by Will Garrido - On Talking Terms with Dogs by Turid Rugaas - Mia Skogster - Contact Derek: Instagram: Contact Jerry: Website: Email: Tarheel Canine Training: Youtube: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Protection Sports Website: Patreon: Slideshare: Calendly: Tarheel Canine Seminars: Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: PSA & American Schutzhund: Tarheel Canine: Superior Canine Website: Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: Superior Canine Facebook: Superior Canine Instagram: Train Hard, train smart, be safe. Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/26014695

Notes on Neutrality 02/09/2023

Feedback, Confidence, & Corrections 01/05/2023

Simple Patrol K9 Scenarios 11/03/2022

Simple Patrol K9 Scenarios In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Setting up simple patrol scenarios to figure out what your dog needs to work on. Tracking, searching, and engaging in muzzle. Benefits and challenges of different types of scenarios. Key Takeaways: Your dog may need context cues if they are going into a scenario that looks like it may be something else. Throughout entire scenarios, your dog tells you information with their behavior and body language to tell you where it is even if they don’t know exactly what it is they are looking for and don’t give you a final response. There is a process for teaching your dog targeting. Practicing discrimination exercises can help with that. You want to make sure to deal with any threats before you get deep into the building. If you miss threats when you are going into a situation, you may leave threats behind you, sandwiching yourself between two or more threats. "When you're trying to hit a bunch of different areas in an eight-hour period of time, that doesn't leave you a lot of time to do each thing. And so sometimes setting up fairly simple scenarios can be the way to go." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Contact Jerry: Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com Email: [email protected] 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: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: [email protected] Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 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. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/24888489

Brad Gillespie: Gunfire Training 10/26/2022

Brad Gillespie: Gunfire Training In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Brad Gillespie discuss: Typical reactions from dogs to gunfire. Understanding the operational requirement of the dog that you are working with to use the best technique for training. Minding your sequencing with training the gunfire training. Being mindful of canine audiology in inside and outside training with gunfire and other loud noises. Key Takeaways: Gunfire should be background, it should not be a queue to do anything for the dog. You can create neutrality to the gunfire by firing shots from a distance, initially, while the dogs are eating. Utilizing food in the training can keep the activity levels low in a way that toys or other rewards may increase drive and activity when trying to create the neutrality. Google decibel levels of hearing damage and look at the decibels on the devices you are using. You can make things loud for long periods of time without paying attention because of your hearing protection, but your dog doesn’t have that same protection and it can cause unexpected consequences. "A lot of folks get wrapped around the gunfire itself, but don't take the time to condition and make everything else neutral. Gunfire is one thing, and it's really just noise, but the movements, the drawing of the pistol, the yelling, all of those things create a lot of problems as well." — Brad Gillespie Get Jerry's book Connect with Brad Gillespie: Website: Contact Jerry: Website: Email: Tarheel Canine Training: Youtube: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Protection Sports Website: Patreon: Slideshare: Calendly: Tarheel Canine Seminars: Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: PSA & American Schutzhund: Tarheel Canine: Superior Canine Website: Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: Superior Canine Facebook: Superior Canine Instagram: Train Hard, train smart, be safe. Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/24775485

Observations on Control Commands: Drive Capping 10/20/2022

Observations on Control Commands: Redirects, Recalls, and Out & Return 10/07/2022

Observations on Control Commands: Redirects, Recalls, and Out & Return In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Understanding the progressions between redirects, recalls, and outs and returns. Common mistakes made and how to correct them. Avoiding unwanted stress, pressure, anticipation, and preferences during your training. Repeated training and training more than what’s in certification only. Key Takeaways: Command discrimination is extremely important as it tells the dog what, exactly, you are wanting them to do. You want to set the dog up for success when arranging the training sessions, including accounting for preferences that may skew their training results. Change up the training in some fashion when you start to see anticipation in your dog for the command. If you want to build your control over your dog at distance, the e-collar can help you with that. "It is really important to understand, before you get into this, what is that progression - going from two decoy redirects until you get that reflex action and start adding in the get to heal position as a bridge to reward bites so that we can build the out and return nicely, and then we can start doing recalls, and so forth." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com Contact Jerry: Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com Email: [email protected] 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: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: [email protected] Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 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. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/24612207

Observations on Control Commands - Out 09/29/2022

Observations on Control Commands - Out In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: How to get fluency in your outing with reward, not punishment. Beginning with the end in mind in your training. Training with e-collars and your dog. Command chains, variable reward, and understanding Pavlovian conditioning. Key Takeaways: You will not get fluency in your outing until you understand that repetition in out training with rewarding the dog for outing is what is going to get that fluency. There are complications when importing an out command from an object, such as a toy, to fighting a man. Not every e-collar is the same, and not every e-collar is correct for every dog. You want the dog to think there is an obedience command after the release. The dog will be in a hurry to get into that obedience command because that is where the reward will happen. "One word cannot mean two different actions to a dog. He cannot always read the context in your intentions, so you must give him a command that is going to be meaningful to him." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com Contact Jerry: Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com Email: [email protected] 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: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: [email protected] Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 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. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/24513489

Building a Successful PSA Club 08/25/2022

Building a Successful PSA Club In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Starting a successful PSA club in your area that is good and healthy for trainers and canines. Pros and cons of the two types of clubs you can run - democracy or top-down leadership. The role of training directors and decoys within a PSA club. Attending club, learning in seminars, following progressions, and learning from those who have had success in the sport you are pursuing. Key Takeaways: Any place where people get together and share a passion, you will find certain types of conflicts. New members will always need more guidance than a more experienced member. Same when a team member is transitioning between levels. As training director, you are in charge of the safety of the dog, the safety of the trainer, and the safety of the decoys. Otherwise, you have to be willing to bend and let your trainers explore and try new things when they want to. In a club atmosphere, training and information don’t all have to come from one person. Everyone can learn and grow from one another. "The approach has to be one where we look at shared success, and being genuinely happy as teams progress. Those teams have to realize they wouldn't be anywhere without the decoys, without the training directors, without the people that are part of the successful approach that has allowed that team to be able to title successfully." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com Contact Jerry: Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com Email: [email protected] 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: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: [email protected] Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 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. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/24156942

Holding a Standard of Behavior 08/04/2022

Holding a Standard of Behavior In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Knowing what an ideal behavior looks like when you’re working every stage of progression. Accountability and follow through. Short, medium, and long term goals in your organized training plan. Having proper technique and understanding reward structure for your dog. Key Takeaways: You must hold a consistent standard of behavior to show the dog that there is no wiggle room is what you expect from them. Allowing departures from what is expected tells the dog that there is no standard of behavior. You have to understand how to craft a training session and understand what your goal of each training session is and how it fits into the bigger picture of your training plan. We want to be able to articulate our assessment of how things went and that allows us to understand what we need to do moving into the next session. "You have to know what an ideal state and ideal behavior looks like, whether it's a segment of behavior, or a part of a bigger behavior chain, when you're working every stage of that dog's progression. Whether you're working something in the short, medium, or long term you have to really understand what standard you want to hold that dog to, and, every single time you bring that dog out, you have to hold him to that standard of behavior." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Contact Jerry: Website: Email: Tarheel Canine Training: Youtube: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Protection Sports Website: Patreon: Slideshare: Calendly: Tarheel Canine Seminars: Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: PSA & American Schutzhund: Tarheel Canine: Superior Canine Website: Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: Superior Canine Facebook: Superior Canine Instagram: Train Hard, train smart, be safe. Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/23957730

Is Your Training Too Operant? 06/16/2022

Pat Stuart: Low Level Stim E-Collar Conditioning 04/22/2022

Dr. Jessalyn Klein: Dealing with Difficult People 04/07/2022

Dr. Jessalyn Klein: Dealing with Difficult People In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Dr. Jessalyn Klein discuss: Working with people with different personality types and different opinions. Successfully dealing with a know-it-all, a boundary pusher, and others. Setting expectations from the beginning. Giving necessary education and managing magical thinking. Using the DEAR MAN trick for dealing with people. Key Takeaways: As the trainer, be willing to throw the trainee a bone, but give them the big picture and show them how what they are saying fits in (or doesn’t) with that bigger picture. If people just want interaction, if they are paying you, they will likely drop off at some point. If they keep coming back, they likely do want to learn something even if they can’t admit it. Be realistic, be communicative, and be upfront. Don’t lie to the client about how the training is going. If you understand what motivates someone to behave in a certain way, then you can understand how to deal with that behavior (much like dog training). Your job is to educate the client, not to shame them for what they don’t know. "This all does come down to, ultimately, having a better educated general population with animals. Also, when you set up expectations effectively, and you and your clients are on the same page, that's going to result in meeting agreed upon goals, and they're going to be happy clients, they're going to be happy with their dogs, and happy with you as a trainer." — Dr. Jessalyn Klein Get Jerry's book Contact Jessalyn: LinkedIn: Instagram: Instagram: Contact Jerry: Website: Email: [email protected] Tarheel Canine Training: Youtube: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Protection Sports Website: Patreon: Slideshare: Calendly: Tarheel Canine Seminars: Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: PSA & American Schutzhund: Tarheel Canine: Superior Canine Website: Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: [email protected] Superior Canine Facebook: Superior Canine Instagram: Train Hard, train smart, be safe. Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. /episode/index/show/controlledaggressionposcast/id/22706306

Multiple Markers: Are they Necessary? 03/31/2022

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