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 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/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

Train Hard, Train Smart, Be Safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• 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 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/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2025 at https://htlk9.com/ 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• 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 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/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2025 at https://htlk9.com/ 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The 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 Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Podcast Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.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/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2025 at https://htlk9.com/ 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• 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 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/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.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/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• 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 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/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.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/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• 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 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/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.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/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• 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 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/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.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/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and 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 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/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.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/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.com/ 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• All the seminars packed into the first quarter of 2024!

• The new handler-course-ready dogs from Tarheel Canine!

• Check out https://streetreadyk9.com/ for all the events on the calendar!

• Online training available

Key Takeaways:

• Getting a handler-course-ready dog can save you time and manpower when looking for a new canine. 

• Great seminars are coming up and include amazing trainers such as Aaron Kemp, Brad Gillespie, and so many more! 

• For more information about foundational work, check out the Controlled Aggression Audio book! 

• There are so many ways that you can use 2024 to become the canine trainer that you want to be!

"Our pledge is to keep expanding our knowledge so that we can bring more to you year in and year out." —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Find out more about Hold The Line Conference 2024 at https://htlk9.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/ 

Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.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/ 

The Drive Company: https://thedriveco.com/ 

The Drive Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrive.co 

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.