Controlled Aggression
Want to learn about K9 obedience, police dog training, learning theory and more? Jerry Bradshaw has been a sports competitor and police dog trainer for 25 years, and as the executive director of the Protection Sports Association he's been around the world competing and…
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Decoys Stop Helping the Dogs! (opens the original)
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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Training proactive, powerful dogs in proactivity. Preventing early queues in training to your canine. Teaching your dog that their actions initiate activity from the target. Morphing reactivity into proactivity. Having a training progression to move away from the handler and decoy help of early foundational training. Key Takeaways: You want your dog to be willing to initiate, even if there's no reaction or triggers from the decoy. As humans, it is easy
Attention at a Distance (opens the original)
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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: The importance of mandatory eye contact and how to generalize for distance work. Moving from negative reinforcement to positive punishment to move from escape to avoidance. Training progressions to train mandatory eye contact with your dog. Transitioning from lure to reward to variable reward. Key Takeaways: To get your dog to pay attention to your face, consider putting a food reward in your mouth - like hot dogs, cheese, or chicken. Build duration bef
Dogs Under Pressure! (opens the original)
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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Different ways to deliver pressure reliably to your canine while tracking how the dog is doing while under that pressure. Understanding the baseline bite pressure. Reading your canine's body language while in a bite. How training under pressure is a progressive thing that never ends. Training emotional regulation in your dog from a young age. Training under the assumption that something is going to go wrong and, at some point, something will bother your
Essentials of Civil Aggression (opens the original)
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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Bringing more civil aggression into your sport or police dogs. Utilizing prey guarding to start training young dogs for proactive defense. The difference between uncontrolled aggression and expressive aggression. What to look for in a patrol dog regarding civil aggression. The three ways dogs manifest a reaction to a threat. Key Takeaways: In our training for our police dogs, we're concentrating on these civil aggression essentials and thinking about ho
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