Drive Suppression v Drive Capping

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Mistakes made that lead to suppression, avoidance behavior, anxiety, or hesitancy in your canine. 

• Building thoughtful release behavior into the pressure.

• Training your dog how to sit when in drive. 

• Rewarding the capping with something expressive, even if not a bite. 

• Tips for training drive capping properly.

Key Takeaways:

• Excitement, expressiveness, and forward movement aren’t wrong. But you want the dog to learn how to hold that excitement in until released, not turn it off. 

• Suppression happens when you do not allow the release at the end of the wait. 

• You want to help the dog learn to find the advantage both in the quiet behavior and in the alert or expressive behavior.

• You want to balance the capping and the expression. The dog needs to understand his advantage at every stage of the drive, including when capped. 

• When you’re learning capping skills, having a really good decoy who understands capping, who can read the dog, and understands every aspect of the situation is invaluable. 

"It is so important to have your dog in the right frame of mind when they go into a building search or an area search when their job is going to be to make an apprehension. And we want to make sure we preserve that state of mind in the process of getting the correctness and the quality of the behaviors that we want." —  Jerry Bradshaw

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