In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The differences between hard and soft surface tracking (see episode 53 for more on hard surface tracking).
• Advantages of soft surface tracking. 
• Having multiple ways to reward a dog during tracking. 
• The importance of variation and its relationship to hope. 

Key Takeaways:

• To start, begin in shorter grass. Taller grass will hold human scent more than short, manicured grass. 
• Think of your track as a story with a beginning, middle, and end. It is important that the dog is engaged at every part of the story, or track, and not just anticipating the end. 
• It is important to know where your tracks are and to train yourself to be a less intrusive handler. 
• Unpredictability increases intensity and focus on the track, especially as you increase the distance and spread in your track. 

"The unpredictability of when the reward is going to come is going to keep the dog pinned into the track and concentrating on every aspect of the length of that track." —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Training prey and defense training in your police dogs. 
• Diversifying training with and without equipment. 
• Avoiding sweeping generalizations in your training. 
• Training in the four quadrants of operant conditioning. 

Key Takeaways:

• Muzzle biting is not the end all be all. While it can show you many things about your dog’s engagement, it does not guarantee a bite off the muzzle. 
• A dog in conflict is going to choose life and is more likely to have a failed engagement. 
• Reinforcement is the way in which you install a behavior that you want to keep in your dog. 
• You don’t need to rush moving from a one-to-one fixed ratio to a variable reward scheme. It allows you to more effectively utilize other tools in your training tool belt, such as negative punishment. 

"As soon as you start getting into all or nothing thinking, in dog training, you're probably on the wrong side of the truth." —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

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Email: [email protected]

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

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Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Being suspect of always or never statements in training. 
• The art of prey guarding. 
• Laying your own tracks. 
• The downsides to canine demos. 

Key Takeaways:

• By saying you never do defense work with puppies, you erase an entire section of training 2457
• On any given track, you will have a combination of human odor and ground disturbance. How much of each will be different depending on the type of track. 
• There can be benefits to laying your own tracks, including the ability to lay more tracks than you might be able to otherwise. 
• You can never predict other people’s behavior - if you are doing a demo, you want to treat your dog like any other piece of equipment like your gun or your car. 

"Back when I was an academic, we used to tell students, if you see in a question ‘always’ or ‘never’ be suspect of what's being said, because there are usually exceptions to rules. And especially in dog training, there's usually some exceptions." —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

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Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• What is involved in getting on the field and having a great performance. 
• Creating the right mindset from a young age in your dog. 
• Reading the important moments happening all the time. 
• Mirroring your training ritual in your trial ritual. 

Key Takeaways:

• Expose your dog to new environments with new attractions and continue to practice your rituals. 
• You can get additional time on field by utilizing long downs. 
• Experiment with what works for you and your dog. Each dog is individual and different in what works for them. 
• You’re not there to trick your dog into compliance, you’re there to train your dog into giving the desired behaviors under levels of stress and distraction.

"What you do in your training has got to be mirrored in what you do on the trial field.  You can’t change it at the last minute and think that’s going to be better." —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

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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 

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The key to creating a street ready dog with the highest probability of making an engagement. 
• Equipment orientation and odor discrimination. 
• Discrimination drills to show there is no value to the training equipment for the dog. 
• Bridging from training to civil encounters to lead to engagement success.

Key Takeaways:

• Visually, we need to make sure the dog can show aggression to the human form without the equipment, such as a bite suit or sleeve. 
• Train a civil picture - the dog needs to learn what he is supposed to do without all of the training equipment around. 
• Do training around dead equipment - make that equipment mean nothing to the dog. 
• Teach the dog there are ninjas everywhere - there could be a threat around every corner. 

"We have to look at diagnosing these types of problems -  I really think they boil down to discrimination issues. We have to be careful when thinking about what we're presenting to the dog, visually and also what the odor profile of the pictures are that we're presenting to the dog." —  Jerry Bradshaw

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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

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry, Erin, and Briella discuss:

• Learning and training PSA, even when you’re young. 
• Different ways that you can train with toys and with food. 
• Lessons learned from training a PSA dog. 
• Inspiration and the future of PSA. 

Key Takeaways:

• Engaging with your dog is extremely important. 
• When training at club, don’t compare yourself to other people. Just focus on what you’re doing and what your dog is doing.
• Dog training is a journey that you and your dog are going through together. 
• Do at least one thing every day with your dog. 

"When somebody is giving you information, don’t be distracted by other people. Focus on your dog." —  Briella

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

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

Train hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The drive model of canine behavior. 
• Choosing your paradigm of how you look at any particular dog. 
• The clarity of boundaries, the expression of drive, and balancing reward and compulsion.
• Understanding how paradigm and training fit together. 

Key Takeaways:

• The way in which you see dogs define your paradigm. 
• You can apply working dog training paradigms to training pet dogs if you understand the paradigm.
• Drive neutrality is like marathon training. It won’t happen overnight. Systematic drive capping training will help lead to drive neutrality. 
• When dealing with reactive dogs, obedience buys you threshold.

"Obedience can create a state where trust is absolute. If we can create the state in obedience, that's comfortable and relaxed, then we can use the obedience to help generalize the safety around other stimuli that oftentimes will elicit those threats." —  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

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.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 blue ribbon emotions and how they show in canines. 
• Managing frustration in training. 
• Recognizing human interpretation of intentionality in relation to canine behaviors.
• The physical, mental, and emotional health of dogs. 

Key Takeaways:

• Dogs have brain structures that produce emotions. In other words, those brain structures are similar to the emotion-producing brain structures in humans.
• In both children and in puppies, rough and tumble play is vitally important to learning social skills, boundaries, and limits. 
• Human beings are going to have a wider, richer, deeper range of emotions than pets. We cannot attribute human intention to a dog’s behavior. The simplest answer is usually the correct one when looking at canine behavior. 
• As trainers and pet owners, we need to examine the net stress of the dog overall and ask ourselves if we are hitting all of the important parts of that dog's life.

"At the end of the day, we have to understand that dogs are emotional beings, they want to be forward-looking." —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Resources: 

Panksepp, Jaak (1998).  Affective Neuroscience.

Grandin, Temple. (2005). Animals in Translation.

Kujala, Miiamaaria. Canine Emotions as Seen Through Human Social Cognition. Animal Sentience 2017.013.

Coren, Stanley. Do Dogs Have the Same Emotions People Do? Canadian Dogs, August 31, 2018.

Makin, Chad. The Layered Stress Model of Reactivity. (various internet descriptions).

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

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.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 importance of working dogs in defense, without creating avoidance. 
• Pre-avoidance behaviors and how to read and manage them. 
• The role of a skilled decoy in defense training basics. 
• Understanding the dog is going to do what it has been trained to do.
• Addressing strengths in a puppy and working in those strong drives.

Key Takeaways:

• When you’re working with a dog, you have to adjust your behavior, in real-time, to avoid creating an avoidance situation. 
• You have to change your attitude immediately if your dog doesn’t engage. Take him out of the situation and do everything you can to avoid creating the phobia of the situation. 
• In PSA, if your dog is not confident working in defense, you will see it in the carjacking scenario or on the handler attack. 
• Reward is a very powerful thing if you're going to pressure your dog. It will teach him how to handle stress from you; it's going to teach him how to handle stress generally.

"If you don't work the defensive side of the dog, you may encounter one day or a suspect puts your dog in defense and your dog doesn't know how to handle the situation. Better to tackle it before it happens and understand how to do it." —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: psak9-as.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

Slideshare: Tarheel Canine

Calendly: calendly.com/tarheelcanine

Sponsors: 

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.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:

• Timing the puppy training early and with 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

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Book Reference: 

The Decoy Book by William Garrido - amazon.com/Decoy-Book-Collaborations-Some-Industry/dp/B08T6YGWSD

Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training by Stephen R. Lindsay - 

amazon.com/Handbook-Applied-Behavior-Training-Vol/dp/0813807549

Excel-erated Learning by Pamela J. Reid - 

amazon.com/Excel-erated-Learning-Explaining-plain-English/dp/1888047070

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

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: calendly.com/tarheelcanine

Sponsors: 

PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.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.