Controlled Aggression Jerry Bradshaw

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:
Teaching your dog lessons through action, feedback, and prevention. 
Understanding the queues that you are creating in your dog. 
Planning your training sessions in advance and understanding the variables. 
Preparing with the correct equipment and rewards for the training session you are heading into.
The importance of evaluating your training sessions, and getting a second pair of eyes on the training and evaluation when possible. 
 
Key Takeaways:
Your training session begins as soon as the dog comes out of the kennel, both what is and is not happening matter from that moment on. 
You should have reasons for doing everything that you are doing in training. You do not want to create associations with equipment or locations
Know the sub-skills that you want to work and the variables inherent in those when you are planning what skills and subskills you are planning on training in each session. Do the research if needed to understand how to support that training and make it better. 
You must know what you are doing before you even put your hands on the dog. There is a lot happening and if you don't have a plan things will get chaotic and not go how you want them to go.
 
"I plan out before I work my dog exactly what I'm going to work on before the session starts so I know what I want to do on the field. Setting up for success is about figuring out what you're going to do before you go and try to do it instead of just going out and doing what other people are doing and mimicking them." —  Jerry Bradshaw
 
Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com
 
Contact Jerry:
Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com
Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com
Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com
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PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org
Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com
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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 secrets to success in both the training field and trial field. 
Why consistency matters. 
Benefits of having an engagement ritual and how it can help provide a reset for your canine. 
Variable reward systems and proper reward frequencies. 
Advocating for your dog and understanding what is supposed to happen on trial day. 
 
Key Takeaways:
You want to have rituals for both you and your dog. If you do it correctly, the trial day is just another training day. 
Don’t underestimate the importance of building your dog’s bathroom habits into your rituals. You don’t want them to be relieving themselves on the practice or trail fields. 
If your training is going well, you should be getting away from micromanaging their behavior. They need to be able to function without a lot of feedback during trial. 
You need to know your dog. Each dog will have a different strategy for parking, getting out of the car, coming on and off the field, etc. 
Practice what you will do during the critique. Practice your transitions between exercises. There is more to trial than just the trained activity. 
 
"It is what we develop in training that becomes a habit for trialing." —  Jerry Bradshaw
 
Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com
 
Contact Jerry:
Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com
Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.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: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 
Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 
 
 
Sponsors: 
ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com
PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org
Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com
Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 
Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 
Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 
Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 
Train Hard, train smart, be safe.
 
 
Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie
 
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Derek Beckelman discuss:
Building a relationship of trust with your new dog, both pet and working.  Being consistent with the rules with your dog.  The emotional nature of dogs and handlers.  The clash between attention and anticipation.  Increasing the effectiveness of your communication with your dog.   
Key Takeaways:
Using food, treats, or toys to motivate, especially in the early stages of building the relationship is not a bad thing. But you want to avoid becoming a treat dispensing robot.  There are two sides to training - classical and operant. You do not want to focus only on operant conditioning and forget about the aspects of classical conditioning that can help with your training.  Dogs will try to anticipate everything. We, as humans, fall into routines. These can clash and create conflict within the training.  Training can be frustrating. But the dog just wants to do dog things. You can’t get mad at them for being a dog.  You have to pay attention to where your dog’s head is at in any given moment. Sometimes they aren’t listening, not because they don’t want to, but because they cannot due to other circumstances.   
"It's not up to me how quickly a dog makes progress. It's up to the dog. But as long as we're paying attention, and we're reading what the dog is trying to tell us is going on, we can make jumps and progress when they're ready. But you have to see it. You have to feel it, and that just takes experience." — Derek Beckelman
 
Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com
 
Episode References: 
Dog Language: An Encyclopedia of Canine Behavior by Roger Abrantes - https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Language-Encyclopedia-Canine-Behavior/dp/0966048407 
Excel-erated Learning by Pamela Reid - https://www.amazon.com/Excel-erated-Learning-Explaining-plain-English/dp/1888047070 
How Dogs Learn by Mary Burch - https://www.amazon.com/How-Dogs-Learn-Mary-Burch/dp/1630260398 
Info Every Dog Trainer Should Know by Will Garrido - https://www.amazon.com/Info-Every-Trainer-Should-Know/dp/1653816155 
The Decoy Book by Will Garrido - https://www.amazon.com/Decoy-Book-Collaborations-Some-Industry/dp/B08T6YGWSD/ 
On Talking Terms with Dogs by Turid Rugaas - https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Terms-Dogs-Calming-Signals/dp/1929242360/ 
Mia Skogster - https://inspireurdog.fi/trainings 
 
 
Contact Derek: 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/derekbeckelman/  
 
Contact Jerry:
Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com
Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.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: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 
Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 
 
 
Sponsors: 
ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com
PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org
Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com
Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 
Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 
Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 
Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 



 
Train Hard, train smart, be safe.
 
 
Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie
 
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:
The importance of neutrality in all aspects of dog training (not just obedience). 
Creating reflexes, capping at the right time, and building a powerful dog. 
Reversing reflex actions with desensitization - and doing it properly. 
Developing behaviors then pushing the threshold. 
Training neutrality at your PSA club.
 
Key Takeaways:
Create more neutrality than you need for the level that you are in. 
Capping is the first stage in creating neutrality and allows the dog to hold on to the emotionality for a short period of time before they express it. 
Start training neutrality with dead equipment. You can start training capping around the objects on the ground. 
Training neutrality will work at different paces and through different variables depending on your dog. Be patient, maintain technique, and don’t rush. 
 
"Different dogs will be more or less susceptible to creating neutrality. Don’t compare your dog to others. Twitchy, reflexive, or defensive dogs are going to be tougher to manage neutrality in." —  Jerry Bradshaw
 
Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com
 
Prior Episode References: 
 Attention, Direction, & Draw - https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/2022/03/attention-direction-draw/ 
Observations on Control Commands: Drive Capping - https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/2022/10/observations-on-control-commands-drive-capping/ 
 
Contact Jerry:
Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com
Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.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: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 
Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 
 
 
Sponsors: 
ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com
PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org
Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com
Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 
Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 
Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 
Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 

 
 
Train Hard, train smart, be safe.
 
 
Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie
 
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:
The impact of the e-collar and social media on dog training.  Making and molding behaviors.  Variable reward schedules and recourse for non-compliance.  Changing the problem to clarify the problem when there is a lack of understanding.   
Key Takeaways:
You’re looking for about an 80-20 rule - with 80% compliance - you can look to start moving to the next training session and work on a different type of system to clean up the final 20%. You want the dog to understand the behavior in a number of contexts before saying it is learned.  Many handlers are staying too long in the guiding correction, negative reinforcement phase of training.  You need to understand what frame of mind your dog is in when you are training. If he is not in the right frame of mind to make a good decision, it needs a different correction than willful disobedience.  
"I’ve found that in a lot of these discrimination exercises, what I'm battling more than anything else is stimulation and lack of clarity because of that stimulation the dog is trying to deal with. And sometimes pressure or pain, however you want to term it, can increase that stimulation that the dog is feeling in that moment and create an even more stimulated animal." —  Jerry Bradshaw
 
Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com
 
Contact Jerry:
Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com
Email: JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.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: https://calendly.com/tarheelcanine 
Tarheel Canine Seminars: https://streetreadyk9.com/ 
 
 
Sponsors: 
ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com
PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org
Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com
Superior Canine Website: https://superiorcanine.ca/ 
Aaron’s Superior Canine Email: aaron@superiorcanine.ca 
Superior Canine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superiorcanineinc 
Superior Canine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superiorcanineinc/ 
 
 
Train Hard, train smart, be safe.
 
 
Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie
 
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

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