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.
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Decoys Stop Helping the Dogs!
08/21/2026
Decoys Stop Helping the Dogs!
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Training proactive, powerful dogs in proactivity. Preventing early queues in training to your canine. Teaching your dog that their actions initiate activity from the target. Morphing reactivity into proactivity. Having a training progression to move away from the handler and decoy help of early foundational training. Key Takeaways: You want your dog to be willing to initiate, even if there’s no reaction or triggers from the decoy. As humans, it is easy for us to identify that a random extremity is part of a larger human being. It takes dogs longer to look at that picture and figure out that what they are seeing is attached to the target, which is a passive human being. Have a plan if your dog is struggling with proactivity to go back to foundational elements. Don’t get in the habit of assisting them with movement every time. Allow context to work for you. Avoid creating anticipation and let the training and context work by changing the picture the dog sees. "So don't be lazy. Set up your civil sessions, your scenarios, and make sure as the dog comes into the training area that we're setting up these situations that were not leaving clues on the ground in the form of equipment." — Jerry Bradshaw Episode References: The Working Grip Foundation: Stewart Hilliard’s Kynology: 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal Instagram: Kirby K9: 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.
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Attention at a Distance
07/24/2026
Attention at a Distance
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: The importance of mandatory eye contact and how to generalize for distance work. Moving from negative reinforcement to positive punishment to move from escape to avoidance. Training progressions to train mandatory eye contact with your dog. Transitioning from lure to reward to variable reward. Key Takeaways: To get your dog to pay attention to your face, consider putting a food reward in your mouth - like hot dogs, cheese, or chicken. Build duration before you build distance in your training progression. If they aren’t paying attention at 2 feet, they’re not going to pay attention at 20 feet. You have to take the training wheels off as you move between training progression levels. When you get to trial, you have to operate on an extinction condition - there is no reinforcement or rewards on the field, so it is better to have your dog on a very, very thin variable reward schedule by that point. That only comes through training progressions and systematic generalization. "If we never get to the point where the dog understands there's a correction for inattention, then that's not going to be a very reliable tool for us for attention at a distance. We want to generalize it. We want to continue to create a systematic desensitization to all the things that the decoy might do." — Jerry Bradshaw Episode References: The Working Grip Foundation: Stewart Hilliard’s Kynology: 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal Instagram: Kirby K9: 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.
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Dogs Under Pressure!
07/17/2026
Dogs Under Pressure!
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Different ways to deliver pressure reliably to your canine while tracking how the dog is doing while under that pressure. Understanding the baseline bite pressure. Reading your canine’s body language while in a bite. How training under pressure is a progressive thing that never ends. Training emotional regulation in your dog from a young age. Training under the assumption that something is going to go wrong and, at some point, something will bother your dog. Key Takeaways: When we don’t bring civil aggression and pressure into the biting, we can get failures in the bite. Build in the training now, build the resiliency, give your dog something to lean into when things get stressful. When trained to handle pressure, police canines can be used to bring suspects into custody in a way that is safer for both the suspect and the officers involved. Where most training gets in trouble is when an inexperienced decoy is working with an inexperienced dog, or when training progressions are rushed. You do not have to go to the lengths of physically hurting dogs in order to create resilience. People do that when they don’t actually understand what they’re doing. Stress inoculation is an ongoing training process for the dog’s whole life. It is not something that will be finished at any point. It must happen both gradually and variably. Not everything boils down to genetics. Environment and training are also key to getting the most out of any dog. "Conditioning is training. You have to show the dog the pictures. You have to run through the processes. You have to be aware of what you can do with this dog and where he is in the levels of training. Stress and pressure then become predictable and addressable by the dog. This is so important. If they never see stuff, it's not predictable." — Jerry Bradshaw Episode References: The Working Grip Foundation: Stewart Hilliard’s Kynology: 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal Instagram: Kirby K9: 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.
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Essentials of Civil Aggression
07/10/2026
Essentials of Civil Aggression
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Bringing more civil aggression into your sport or police dogs. Utilizing prey guarding to start training young dogs for proactive defense. The difference between uncontrolled aggression and expressive aggression. What to look for in a patrol dog regarding civil aggression. The three ways dogs manifest a reaction to a threat. Key Takeaways: In our training for our police dogs, we're concentrating on these civil aggression essentials and thinking about how that decoy can bring about some of that aggression, and then we can start to minimize the cues that bring out that aggression, and then it becomes much more contextual. Don't let people make you believe that just because a dog shows expressiveness and aggression in an expressive way, the dog will become uncontrollable and incapable. Defense is not a dirty word. There’s nothing to be scared of. Defense is not a weakness. When promoting aggression and tapping into the defensive side of the dog, and building confidence in those reactions is ignored, oftentimes the dog cannot figure out how to bring a prey response out of a decoy, which can lead to displacement behaviors. "It's easier to cap a dog when he understands how to be expressive than to never allow him to be expressive in the beginning." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal Instagram: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2026 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.
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Podcast Short: PSA2 Muzzle Attack
06/19/2026
Podcast Short: PSA2 Muzzle Attack
In today’s podcast short, Jerry Bradshaw discusses issues with muzzle attacks in the PSA Level 2, noting that many dogs and handlers struggle with this exercise. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the fundamentals of a good muzzle fight and suggests starting with unsuited muzzle work to build civil aggression. Jerry advises limiting strikes in training sessions to manage your dog’s frustrations and to gradually introduce other equipment, such as bite suits and hidden sleeves. He stresses the need for decoys to provide accurate feedback and to avoid distractions in early training sessions, especially when starting out on muzzle work. "We want the dog biting through the muzzle. The muzzle is just something that's keeping him from biting that decoy." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal Instagram: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2026 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.
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Ditch Your Bite Suit!
06/19/2026
Ditch Your Bite Suit!
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Keeping in mind the olfactory and visual cues of a bite suit that we don’t often consider. Reducing equipment fixation, creating habits of engagement, and training the behaviors you want into your dog. Why your dog needs to believe the bite suit is irrelevant. Focusing training on the most likely scenarios your dog will encounter. Key Takeaways: Too much suit work creates a false sense of security for your dog. Active aggression is a trained response, usually to an invasion of territory or other behaviors soliciting that reaction. Through classical conditioning, we can train dogs to show that behavior in training and, in turn, active scenarios in deployment. Create a habit of engagement. During the development of your younger dogs, you want to develop that habit so they know where they’re going to bite, so they don’t get into a state of choice paralysis. Train leg bites - it is typically the easiest and most likely place the dog will be able to get a bite on in most engagements. You're increasing the probability of real engagements every time you deemphasize the cues of odor and visuals from suits. "We want to camouflage these suits with different visual patterns, randomize the visual cue of that suit, and so that means different colors, textures, covering those suits with, jeans, jackets, raincoats, sheets, layers of blankets, right, all of these things to make the picture look a lot less like a guy in a bite suit, and a lot more like what a suspect might look like on the street." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal Instagram: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2026 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.
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Tarheel Canine Police K9 Services 2026
05/02/2026
Tarheel Canine Police K9 Services 2026
Today, Jerry outlines the 2026 Police Canine Services offered by Tarheel Canine Training. They offer instructor courses multiple times per year, unit canine training, and sell green dual and single canines. The selection process is low-stress, with dogs undergoing four months of training before handler courses. They also provide handler course-ready dogs and SWAT integrated canines. You can also look to Tarheel Canine for seminars that cover tracking, detection, street readiness, and high-risk deployments. If you’re looking to get individualized training for your dogs and departments, reach out to Tarheel Canine. For more information, email Jerry at or call the office at 919-774-4152. 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal 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.
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Training for the Operational Release
05/01/2026
Training for the Operational Release
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Getting your dog off the bite as quickly as you can when the threat has diminished to a reasonable level. The importance of being proficient in more than one option for your dog when you’re in an engagement. The importance of your dog being willing to accept lower value rewards in the presence of a potential bite. Mastering verbal, mechanical, and manual release protocols. Transitioning from negative reinforcement to positive punishment - from escape to avoidance. Key Takeaways: Practice your call-offs in stressful situations during training. You’re practicing for real-life situations, and real life is not going to be stress-free. Trying to pull your dog off will create more opposition and make it more difficult to release the dog. Pushing into the bite will often make it easier to release your dog via the gag reflex. You don’t want to use your handcuffs as a standard breakstick stand-in, so that you are not creating anticipation and an association with handcuffs and releasing. Not every release protocol or piece of equipment is going to work best for every dog. You will have to try different things to see what works best for your dog. It comes down to handlers needing to, in training, work at being proficient in the proper application of all the correct methods to get the dog to release. We have to be able to start getting them to realize, based on a training setup, what's going to be the more appropriate approach to getting a dog to release in that situation. Rewards make behaviors repeatable. Failure to reward releases and training makes biting something to fight for, and we don't want that dog constantly coming out thinking this is the last time he's ever going to get it, and he has to fight with all of his life to get it back. "If our training never matches what an operational situation is going to look like, then the out procedure, whether it's a physical one or a verbal one, is going to be far different than anything that we've trained in the past, and it's going to look very different to the dog." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal 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.
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Back to the Laboratory in Bite Work
04/23/2026
Back to the Laboratory in Bite Work
If your dog won’t counter full, won’t push into the fight, or spins away when you approach, this episode is for you. Jerry breaks down exactly why these bite work issues happen and how to rebuild the foundation so your dog bites harder, fuller, and with real confidence. In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Drive channelling as a confidence builder for your dog. Bite work problems and their solution strategies. Inducing counter bites, getting appropriate pressure when biting, and encouraging pushing into the bite. Reasons to train your out before your bite work and not create an association that may create an out you don’t want. The three types of pressure you need to account for are creating desensitization to distraction objects. Key Takeaways: If a dog doesn’t know how to fight out of its problems, you may get displacement and avoidance creeping in. Training bite work in young dogs may require different techniques than those used for training with older dogs. When you train with a crutch, you will, eventually, need to wean yourself off the crutch. Make sure your decoys aren’t bailing. Make sure they aren’t sidestepping, dropping their arms, or pulling the dogs into their chest. That is only going to make it worse. It is very important to be able to get your dog out in many different ways. That is going to require desensitization to anything you’re going to bring near the dog’s head. We have to work on type, intensity, and duration of pressure, and our goal is to desensitize objects early in training. The more the dog can see those things, the more he can negotiate through weird stuff that he hasn't seen before; the more the dog will understand what he's supposed to do and how he's supposed to do it. "One of the things that we know is that the grip itself is the barometer of how the dog feels when he's biting. So if the dog doesn't feel super confident about biting, he's going to create a little bit of distance between himself and the perceived conflict, which could be the helper itself." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal 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.
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Attention, Direction & Draw
03/26/2026
Attention, Direction & Draw
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Thinking about the end game from the beginning of your training. Creating neutrality through all kinds of distractions. Look at me, look at me, look at that, and look at that while giving commands for your dog. Balancing the draw to fight against drift. Key Takeaways: Attention is the dog’s anchor. Give them a point to focus on that allows them to be neutral to everything else around. You have to control a dog’s eyes to control their behavior. You want to lay the foundation for sending on command, not sending on agitation, and discriminating between the two early on in your training. Create neutrality through time on the field. No matter how advanced your dog is, keep working on your fundamentals. That is where the strength lies when you are in actual scenarios. "One of the most important fundamental exercises of attention is teaching the dog to look at me, then look at that, and then look back to me, and then look back to that, and change it up for the dog where I point the dog at different things that might be of concern to him." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal 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.
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Navigating Fears and Phobias in Working Dogs
03/19/2026
Navigating Fears and Phobias in Working Dogs
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Timing the puppy training early and with a 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 Book Reference: The Decoy Book by William Garrido - Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training by Stephen R. Lindsay - Excel-erated Learning by Pamela J. Reid - 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal 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.
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Liberty Leash Project
02/12/2026
Liberty Leash Project
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw, Ben Searle, and Gary Dawson discuss: There is a need for highly trained service dogs for veterans. The origin story and vital mission of the Liberty Leash Project. The importance of standardization and collaboration across service dog training. Things to consider when going into the dog training business. Key Takeaways: Service dogs are a medical implement for people and need to be trained to the highest standards. Training service dogs should be about collaboration, not competition. A village model builds the most resilient dogs and sustainable trainers. Different dogs require different levels of handling ability and different levels of training ability. When it comes to pairing dogs with veterans, they also require different dogs for different people, as no two people and no two dogs require the exact same thing. If you’re interested in helping with the Liberty Leash Project, no matter your skill set, reach out to Gary and Ben at the contact information below. "We want these dogs to be these veterans' battle buddies and help them through their tough times and grow from it and thrive from it." — Gary Dawson Episode References: More information on the Kynology Seminar with Dr. Stewart Hilliard: Get Jerry's book Contact Ben, Gary, and Libery Leash Project: Liberty Leash Project: Instagram: Facebook: Phone: 919-351-9123 Email: Sapper K9: Triune Kennels: 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal 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.
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Idealism vs. Pragmatism in Canine Training: Behavioral Science with Dr. Stewart Hilliard
01/08/2026
Idealism vs. Pragmatism in Canine Training: Behavioral Science with Dr. Stewart Hilliard
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Dr. Stewart Hilliard discuss: Why your dog training should be based on theory, pragmatic results, and experience. Theoretical vs intuitive dog training. How is idealist training different from pragmatic training? Why you should not be removing all stressors from your dog training. Control and learned helplessness. Key Takeaways: Dog training is a long series of lonely decisions. You are a team of one training your dog, and even if you have a coach, in the moment, you are the one making each decision based on the problem facing you in the moment. Technical training is great, but you do need to be able to generalize the training for different locations and situations for the best results. If, in the course of doing its job, your dog will face adversity, then having a background in overcoming some adversity in training is going to stand the dog in good stead. There is considerable discussion and data that speak to the point that the ideal state for an animal to develop in is not necessarily one that is free of stress. Aversive control can be used without producing bad welfare for the subjects of the training. On the flip side, excellent positive reinforcement technicians also produce really good results in dog training. Animals in avoidance are not running from something; they are running to something safe. "If you want to engage with dogs intellectually, they're a very rich topic for intellectual engagement, because they're super interesting. And you can look at them at any level you want; you can look at dog training at any level you want. And for some people, the pathway to getting really good is becoming theoretically very, very strong." — Dr. Stewart Hilliard Episode References: Go to now and start an account to stay up to date on Kynology events, upcoming resources, and products! Get Jerry's book Contact Stewart: Website: Book: Schutzhund, Theory and Training Methods - A Book by Susan Barwig and Stewart Hilliard, Ph.D. - 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal 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.
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Training the PSA Carjack Exer
01/01/2026
Training the PSA Carjack Exer
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: What judges are looking for during the PSA Carjack Exercise. Safety precautions and training progressions for decoys, dogs, and trainers. Keeping your dog focused in the right place. Rewarding, capping, and knowing your dog’s limits. Key Takeaways: In training, you should be training in neutrality as you prepare for your PDC. Just because they have the skills in the exercise does not mean they are prepared for the neutrality between exercises. If you are able to, get a vehicle to train with your PSA club on these Carjack Exercises. There are a lot of progressions you can do as you work up to the full exercise. It is the first impression of the aggression that's going to catch the judge's eye. Spend time focusing on transitions. Even in PDC, there are transitions you can work on. A good transition can help you be well prepared. "One of the big mistakes I see is rushing into the vehicle without doing the proper neutrality to the vehicle when they're younger, not doing the proper neutrality to the vehicle, where they now have to experience the bite work, in addition to the unstable footing, and in addition to the enclosed area, the tight space of the vehicle. All of these things impinge on the dog's experience during that carjacking exercise." — Jerry Bradshaw Episode References: Josh Kirby at Kirby K9 / Demanet: More information on the Kynology Seminar with Dr. Stewart Hilliard: 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Dog Armour Instagram: Rogue Arsenal: Rogue Arsenal 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.
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Low Profile Equipment
12/18/2025
Low Profile Equipment
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Bridging the gap from training to deployment with low-profile equipment. Comparing traditional and modern low-profile equipment. Mistakes to avoid with low-profile equipment. Importance of having properly fitted equipment. Training progressions with low-profile equipment. Key Takeaways: Ideally, low-profile equipment contains both lower visibility and lower odor profiles. It is critical for the dog to feel the human underneath the equipment. While you should have protection, training the dog to find the human is also important. If a dog can’t be satisfied with the bite they are getting on a suit, they may look for the human underneath and bite outside of the typical areas, such as ankles, which can cause more harm. Use training techniques like equipment shredding drills to improve the dog’s ability to find and get a successful bite. "When we're introducing the hidden equipment, usually we want to introduce it in such a way that we can maximize the dog's experience, including having them in the right mood that we want them in when they're experiencing this hidden equipment. We also want to have decoy safety." — Jerry Bradshaw Episode References: Josh Kirby at Kirby K9 / Demanet: Thad Peterson at Seynaeve US: & Dog Armour: More information on the Kynology Seminar with Dr. Stewart Hilliard: 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Rogue Arsenal: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2026 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.
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Prosthetics for Street Readiness
12/11/2025
Prosthetics for Street Readiness
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Pros and cons of prosthetics for canine training. The importance of teaching your dog to find the human being in the bite. Why training biting across different textures is key. Tips for safely and effectively utilizing prosthetics in training. Key Takeaways: When you’re trying to approximate down in training and are using equipment, you want to use equipment that is as thin as possible, but as thick as necessary. If you’re beginning training with prosthetics, the arms can be a little easier to work with at first. Leverage your dog’s bite command right before they engage. If there is any confusion, leverage what they already know to get the behavior you’re looking for. Decoy schools should be teaching how to safely and properly incorporate prosthetic equipment. "Biting any kind of equipment, the dogs are going to get used to a texture that gives their teeth some purchase in that particular piece of equipment…And so we want to make sure that they're willing to engage that new texture. We want to take advantage when we first introduce these things." — Jerry Bradshaw Episode References: Check out the Training Videos by Steve Sprouse at: More information on the Kynology Seminar with Dr. Stewart Hilliard: 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: Tarheel Canine: PSA & American Schutzhund: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Dog Armour: Rogue Arsenal: 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.
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Introduction to Kynology With Dr. Stewart Hilliard
11/04/2025
Introduction to Kynology With Dr. Stewart Hilliard
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Dr. Stewart Hilliard discuss: The debate between purely positive training and balanced training. How Kynology goes deeper than just basic dog training. Ways in which the scientific process in research can go wrong. The role of a canine trainer is to teach their dog to handle stress. Stewart’s two answers to the question “Why do you need aggression?” Key Takeaways: While there are about 25 research studies that create the canon of dog training, a lot of them are based on pure science or theory alone and do not actually understand the practicality of dog training. Research is often not replicated enough to know if the original model and data were structured and analyzed properly. Punishing behaviors into existence is not really a thing that happens in real life, human, ethical training. Good practitioners don’t teach with adversives. They use aversives to facilitate generalization of behaviors that are established using positive reinforcement and generalization of those behaviors to different physiological and emotional states. "You and I, in February, are going to run a seminar under the aegis of kynology. It’s an effort…to provide really good, solid, formal education to other kynologists - which means people who are really, really interested in dogs, dog behavior, and learning. Not in a casual way, but those who want to know everything they can." — Dr. Stewart Hilliard Episode References: Go to now and start an account to stay up to date on Kynology events, upcoming resources, and products! Get Jerry's book Contact Stewart: Website: Book: Schutzhund, Theory and Training Methods - A Book by Susan Barwig and Stewart Hilliard, Ph.D. - 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: 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.
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Creating Independence: The Hunting Game
08/21/2025
Creating Independence: The Hunting Game
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Canine independence - identifying the problem and how to solve it. Why you might need to be doing less obedience training. Training independence behaviors. Creating hunting games with progression for puppies of all ages. Working with your dog near and away from you so they are comfortable in both positions. Key Takeaways: Balance the inward and outward focus in your puppy training. Wind plays a very important role in the hunting games. The windier it is, the narrower the scent cone; the less wind, the wider it is. Watch your dog’s intensity and speed and adjust the game accordingly. You don’t want to push too fast, but you don’t want them to get bored either. Progressive complexity should be done in a variable way. Some hunts should be easier and some should be harder. Do not step in and solve problems for your dog; work on independent work. That stops it from being independent work. "We're trying to create independence. So it's very important that when we start initiating these predatory sequences, the dog will start to, on his own, realize he and only he is going to be the one that can solve this problem, and you are irrelevant in this situation. And that's exactly what we're trying to teach, that there are going to be times where the dog has to work and you are going to be irrelevant." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2026 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.
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Learning to Adapt with K9s Talking Scents, Cameron Ford
07/31/2025
Learning to Adapt with K9s Talking Scents, Cameron Ford
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Cameron Ford discuss: The creation of PSA and evolution of dog sport. How the rigidity in traditional dog sports has led to innovation and creativity. Being open to adaptation not fighting against it. Increasing complexity in training detection. The responsibility of having an online platform for your dog training. Training based on experience and on research. Key Takeaways: PSA exploded in popularity the last decade due to the prevalence of younger trainers and social media. A lot of traditional dog sport is built around breeding programs and registering your dogs. PSA allows for dogs of any breed and age as long as they can handle the training. If you’re interested in your dogs learning detection, teach your puppies to track and hunt. It is key for police work. Training detection dogs is about more than odor, no matter what changes have occurred over the years. Adjusting to what the dog is doing during training when they aren’t following your progressions is where the fun and intrigue comes in. Training is not a race. Do it right from the beginning and it will create a stronger, better dog than if you try and do it all in just a few weeks. "Unfortunately, a lot of dog trainers get married to doing something because it's the way they've always done and they feel comfortable with it. But I think you have to be smart enough to jettison what's not working or is less efficient." — Jerry Bradshaw Contact Cameron: Website: Website: K9s Talking Scents: YouTube: Facebook: 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2026 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.
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Brad Gillespie - Signaled Punishment
07/23/2025
Brad Gillespie - Signaled Punishment
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Brad Gillespie discuss: Positive and negative punishment in police dog training. Pros, cons, and balancing the use of punishment markers. Intentional and unintentional markers. The importance of consistency in punishment. Marking for clearer communication. Biting through the muzzle. Changing one variable at a time and reducing the number of variables in training. Key Takeaways: In some cases, marking punishment may be more important than marking with positive reinforcement. Following the punishment marker with the punishment allows the dogs to understand what is happening. Be careful about the overuse of those punishment markers. They can oftentimes create a drift where the marker itself becomes the signal for the dog to rectify the behavior, rather than when you give that command. You need to be consistent in your timing and ready with the punishment. Dogs are great at recognizing when things are consistent or not. Communication is the problem with most issues we have with dogs. Marking punishment is a way that can help us to have clearer communication. Train the dog (and the handler) in a way that makes it look and feel real. "I really think that using a marker can allow us, both on negative reinforcement and on positive punishment, to use much higher levels of stimulation, and the dogs are able to better process what's happening. We have a system, or at least a way of communicating with the dog. And I think that the marker helps them understand that a little bit better on both ends of the spectrum." — Brad Gillespie Contact Brad: Website: 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: 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.
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The Evolution of Police Dog Training with Dr. Stewart Hilliard
07/16/2025
The Evolution of Police Dog Training with Dr. Stewart Hilliard
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Dr. Stewart Hilliard discuss: The influence of European sport dogs in early North American working dog training. Benefits and challenges of introducing KNPV-trained dogs to the American market. Evolution of Eastern European working dog trade. Sourcing and importing working dogs. Institutional breeding programs, increased costs, and decreased quality. The future of dog training with kynology. Key Takeaways: KNPV (Royal Dutch Police Dog Association) dogs were the gold standard for transitioning sport dogs to dual-purpose police dog prospects. KNPV dogs were not trained to distinguish between equipment and humans, which gave those early Malinois dogs a bad reputation. Dogs that come from a deprived background with limited experiences often need to be deprogrammed before they can be taught to forget, then taught to learn what they need to know. Don’t kill your dog by playing with it. The dog’s reward is not a toy; it’s a reward. Toy implies play, and these are working dogs. Malinois and German Shepherd dogs are not fully adult dogs until 2.5-3. Younger dogs are more vulnerable to mistakes and stress, leaving you, as the trainer, with the technical burden of not making many mistakes. "I think the future is going to be agency-based breeding, heavily informed by scientific practice, but also with strong participation of practitioners - practical dog people who know how to produce results. Those are the agencies that are going to do really well." — Dr. Stewart Hilliard Contact Stewart: Website: Book: Schutzhund, Theory and Training Methods - A Book by Susan Barwig and Stewart Hilliard, Ph.D. - 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: 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.
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Engagement
05/06/2025
Engagement
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Why engagement is important, what it means, and how it differs between puppies and older dogs. The importance of rituals in engagement, no matter the location. Developing engagement and engagement rituals. Creating and maintaining an emotional connection with your dog, no matter your emotional state that day. Key Takeaways: If your dog is not in the right state of mind, you’re not going to achieve your training goals in a particular session. If it happens too many times, you won’t be moving forward in achieving your training goals. You should be creating an emotional connection with your dog when you’re training and working with your dog. Whether you are training at a club or in your backyard, you want the ritual to be consistent so your dog knows that it is game time. Engagement does not just happen at the beginning of your training session - it should go through the entire session to keep the dog’s attention and keep them engaged no matter how many repetitions. Stop training when you’re at the peak of it. Leave the dog wanting more for next time. "Developing good rituals for engagement means you're going to be training better, right? You're going to be ready ahead of time. You're going to be creating expectations in your dog. When one repetition is over, we want that dog to have the expectation that they're going to get to do it again." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company 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.
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Back to the Laboratory in Detection
03/07/2025
Back to the Laboratory in Detection
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: The practical differences between direct reward conditioning and indirect reward conditioning. Primacy of learning and conditioning hunting as a means of locating odor. Understanding the foundations built into your dog’s early training. Utilize the quality of hunting as the barometer to show your dog’s interest. Giving varied and unique hiding places for the odor to your dog in training. Creating sticky behavior in your dog when searching. Building variability to maintain behavior over time. Key Takeaways: In the direct reward methodology, we are pairing hunting and odor recognition. It teaches an olfactory queue to get an obedience behavior. In the indirect methodology, we pair the final response and the odor recognition. Variation in hunting volume and variable reward in finding the target order are extremely important. Remove handler dependency as much as possible. You don’t want your canine to be obsessed with you, your reward delivery, and presentations. You want them to have enough independence to do their work without influence from you. Mimic what you see in deployment in your training and in-services. Those pictures should be aligned, your dog doesn’t know the difference. Clearing blanks is something your dog needs to know how to do because that is what they’re going to see often in deployment. "Variable reward is the thing that's going to really keep your dog at a high level of engagement in the hunting process over longer periods of time and more area that we're asking them to cover, and it's very important to master variation in how you do detection." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company 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.
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Back to the Laboratory in Tracking
01/13/2025
Back to the Laboratory in Tracking
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Hard surface training for the most successful tracking. Creating an independent problem solver in your dog. Common issues in tracking. Drills and approaches to shore up your tracking foundation and the problems you are facing. Why laying a good track is a critical skill. Key Takeaways: Returning to foundational drills is not a bad thing - it is returning to basics to keep your tracking training progressing forward. One of the first things to train in tracking is pace—this will be different from dog to dog, but our job in training is to create a nice, even pace given the dogs temperament, characteristics, etc. Get rid of the large rewards at the end of the track - value the track itself. You need a variable reward system on the track. Don’t get lazy when laying your tracks. If you’re always doing large articles, the dog will start to look for those instead of the potentially higher-value, small articles. Your dog is not too slow. Deliberate is a good pace. "This is going to be the life cycle of your tracking - tighten them up, they're going to get looser. Tighten them up again, they're going to get looser. You have to have these go-to's to always reel that dog back in and make him tighter." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2025 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.
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Battling Equipment Fixation
11/08/2024
Battling Equipment Fixation
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Using the right equipment for the right stage and type of training for your canine. What equipment fixation looks like and how you can overcome it. Equipment orientation drills and the peeling the onion drill. Training your dog to alert on human odors and with man primacy. Key Takeaways: Equipment fixation leads to street failures. Focus on the human form instead of biting equipment. Proper, methodical transitions from hard sleeves to hidden sleeves help to build confidence and create focus on the human decoy. You never want to go from a satisfying bite to a less satisfying bite. You want to be using the lowest profile hidden sleeves that you can, such as the ALM hidden sleeves. Train dogs to focus on human odor, not equipment odors. Your dog does not need to get the bite every single time. Especially when doing muzzle work, taking it off to get the bite every time might just introduce a different type of equipment to fixate on. "Dogs are great economists because they're going to want to trade for something of equal or greater value. If it's equal value, it usually means that you're giving them something and adding something in by your behavior so you're creating a reward event." — 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2025 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.
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Foundations of Targeting - Triceps
10/14/2024
Foundations of Targeting - Triceps
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: The evolution of training targeting, different target areas, and primary vs secondary targets. Training bites with young puppies even before they start teething and when to start grip development. When to teach drive, grip, targeting, and outs for the most success in biting behavior. Making the right equipment choices for the different stages of bite training. Progressions in targeting, why you should train rear and front targets, and how they affect launch. Key Takeaways: Tricep targeting is worth developing and is worth spending time on. Take the time to learn how to work your dog on a leather strap and on a wedge during early training. Don’t expect perfection from the beginning, it is a progression. If you’re doing your training properly, your dog should not have a fixation on the equipment that you can’t out them. Training police dogs in biting legs can help remove hesitation and get a quicker bite on the suspects. "Developing good targeting without developing multiple targets is a huge mistake." — Jerry Bradshaw Get Jerry's book Contact Jerry: Website: Email: Tarheel Canine Training: Podcast Website: 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: The Drive Company: The Drive Company Instagram: Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2025 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.
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Police K9 Utility of The Place Command
08/06/2024
Police K9 Utility of The Place Command
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Moving through the phases of behavior acquisition for maximum training potential and skill retention and generalization. Developing Mark, Move, and Reward as your protocol. Using markers, such as try-again markers, to teach your dog variations of learned behaviors. Making place a valuable and a safe place to be for your canine. Using the place command to train perimeter neutrality. Key Takeaways: Dogs say “no” all the time - we have to have a way to make them want to go to a place and compel them to go to a place when we’re developing this command. Depending on your dog, the place command can be used in different ways and with different rewarding protocols to improve the utility of the command. Place allows us to work the dog away from us. Don’t be married to only training one way. As you train more dogs, you will learn that different dogs train better in different ways. You, as a handler, will also evolve in your training. This is the boring side of great training. Sometimes the greatest training starts with training the place command and neutrality. Make use of your downtime and dead time. Work on neutrality and train that using place commands instead of just doom scrolling. "This is a really simple behavior that's really hard to mess up, and it allows the handlers to get tons and tons of practice at using marker systems, at using both direct and indirect rewarding protocols. If there are mistakes, there's much going to be much less fallout than if we were in the context of detection or article indication or anything like 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: 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.
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Problem Solving: Countering, Grip, Outs, and Neutrality
06/28/2024
Problem Solving: Countering, Grip, Outs, and Neutrality
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: More content you can get on the Controlled Aggression Patreon or in the Street Readiness Seminars to to help you problem solve with your dog. Luring and trading in training to build skills. Staying in control and not allowing your dog to self-reward. Leveraging every interaction with your dog. Key Takeaways: If you’re having troubles with countering - consider training outs. It may be that your dog doesn’t want to open their mouth once they get a bite. Don’t get too stuck in your quadrants - sometimes you have to use different aspects of negative and positive reward and punishment combined to get the behavior you’re looking for. Start training outs with mechanical outs. Leashes and lines are a great place to start - you don’t need to jump right in with ecollars. You need to be able to have handler presence for both punishments and rewards. Make sure you are the one controlling your dogs eyes. "Use the piece of equipment that’s going to get you the best results…When thinking about which tool to use, the property way to look at it is to experiment. Try one and see how it goes, then try the other and see if it is any better." — 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.
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Directionals and Casting
04/25/2024
Directionals and Casting
In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Send the dog where you want them to go in upper-level control. Training young (and not so young) dogs away from you, not just near you. Using attention as a reset. Utilizing unconventional equipment when training your dog. Key Takeaways: Consider training different commands for different attention and directionals to make it clear to your dog what you want from them exactly. You need to be able to give your dog clear feedback when they are focusing on the wrong thing. That is where the discipline comes into this process. Eventually, you have to generalize commands to various obstacles and decoys. Directionals are key in upper-level PSA and in scenarios, as they can allow you to, among other things, stop hunting behavior or send your dog in a specific direction, even if it's not the one they initially want. "Don't be in a hurry with puppies to do a lot of this directional stuff until you have all the tools to where you can actually make the dog understand what you want them to look at so we can make sure our targeting system is clean." — 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.
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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.
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