In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

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

Key Takeaways:

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

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

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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