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Controlled Aggression

Controlled Aggression

By: Jerry Bradshaw
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Summary

 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 training K9s. Welcome to the Controlled Aggression podcast.
Episodes
  • Tarheel Canine Police K9 Services 2026

    Tarheel Canine Police K9 Services 2026
    May 2 2026

    Today, Jerry outlines the 2026 Police Canine Services offered by Tarheel Canine Training. They offer instructor courses multiple times per year, unit canine training, and sell green dual and single canines. The selection process is low-stress, with dogs undergoing four months of training before handler courses. They also provide handler course-ready dogs and SWAT integrated canines. You can also look to Tarheel Canine for seminars that cover tracking, detection, street readiness, and high-risk deployments. If you're looking to get individualized training for your dogs and departments, reach out to Tarheel Canine.

    For more information, email Jerry at JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com or call the office at 919-774-4152.

    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/

    Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/

    Sponsors:

    ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com

    PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org

    Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com

    The Drive Company: thedriveco.com

    The Drive Company Instagram: instagram.com/thedrive.co

    Dog Armour: dogarmour.com

    Dog Armour Instagram: instagram.com/dogarmourpro

    Rogue Arsenal: roguearsenal.com

    Rogue Arsenal Instagram: instagram.com/rogue_arsenal_official

    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.

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    10 mins
  • Training for the Operational Release

    Training for the Operational Release
    May 1 2026
    In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Getting your dog off the bite as quickly as you can when the threat has diminished to a reasonable level. The importance of being proficient in more than one option for your dog when you're in an engagement. The importance of your dog being willing to accept lower value rewards in the presence of a potential bite. Mastering verbal, mechanical, and manual release protocols. Transitioning from negative reinforcement to positive punishment - from escape to avoidance. Key Takeaways: Practice your call-offs in stressful situations during training. You're practicing for real-life situations, and real life is not going to be stress-free. Trying to pull your dog off will create more opposition and make it more difficult to release the dog. Pushing into the bite will often make it easier to release your dog via the gag reflex. You don't want to use your handcuffs as a standard breakstick stand-in, so that you are not creating anticipation and an association with handcuffs and releasing. Not every release protocol or piece of equipment is going to work best for every dog. You will have to try different things to see what works best for your dog. It comes down to handlers needing to, in training, work at being proficient in the proper application of all the correct methods to get the dog to release. We have to be able to start getting them to realize, based on a training setup, what's going to be the more appropriate approach to getting a dog to release in that situation. Rewards make behaviors repeatable. Failure to reward releases and training makes biting something to fight for, and we don't want that dog constantly coming out thinking this is the last time he's ever going to get it, and he has to fight with all of his life to get it back. "If our training never matches what an operational situation is going to look like, then the out procedure, whether it's a physical one or a verbal one, is going to be far different than anything that we've trained in the past, and it's going to look very different to the dog." — 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/ Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com The Drive Company: thedriveco.com The Drive Company Instagram: instagram.com/thedrive.co Dog Armour: dogarmour.com Dog Armour Instagram: instagram.com/dogarmourpro Rogue Arsenal: roguearsenal.com Rogue Arsenal Instagram: instagram.com/rogue_arsenal_official 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.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Back to the Laboratory in Bite Work

    Back to the Laboratory in Bite Work
    Apr 23 2026
    If your dog won't counter full, won't push into the fight, or spins away when you approach, this episode is for you. Jerry breaks down exactly why these bite work issues happen and how to rebuild the foundation so your dog bites harder, fuller, and with real confidence. In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: Drive channelling as a confidence builder for your dog. Bite work problems and their solution strategies. Inducing counter bites, getting appropriate pressure when biting, and encouraging pushing into the bite. Reasons to train your out before your bite work and not create an association that may create an out you don't want. The three types of pressure you need to account for are creating desensitization to distraction objects. Key Takeaways: If a dog doesn't know how to fight out of its problems, you may get displacement and avoidance creeping in. Training bite work in young dogs may require different techniques than those used for training with older dogs. When you train with a crutch, you will, eventually, need to wean yourself off the crutch. Make sure your decoys aren't bailing. Make sure they aren't sidestepping, dropping their arms, or pulling the dogs into their chest. That is only going to make it worse. It is very important to be able to get your dog out in many different ways. That is going to require desensitization to anything you're going to bring near the dog's head. We have to work on type, intensity, and duration of pressure, and our goal is to desensitize objects early in training. The more the dog can see those things, the more he can negotiate through weird stuff that he hasn't seen before; the more the dog will understand what he's supposed to do and how he's supposed to do it. "One of the things that we know is that the grip itself is the barometer of how the dog feels when he's biting. So if the dog doesn't feel super confident about biting, he's going to create a little bit of distance between himself and the perceived conflict, which could be the helper itself." — 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/ Tarheel Canine Student Portal: https://tcstudentportal.com/ Sponsors: ALM K9 Equipment: almk9equipment.com PSA & American Schutzhund: psak9-as.org Tarheel Canine: tarheelcanine.com The Drive Company: thedriveco.com The Drive Company Instagram: instagram.com/thedrive.co Dog Armour: dogarmour.com Dog Armour Instagram: instagram.com/dogarmourpro Rogue Arsenal: roguearsenal.com Rogue Arsenal Instagram: instagram.com/rogue_arsenal_official 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.
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    1 hr and 24 mins
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