All posts by JerryTK9

CEO, Training Director, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc.

Find and Bark vs. Find and Bite REVISITED

Article by Jerry Bradshaw • The .pdf version (12mb) from “The Journal” • Dispatch alerts the K9 Unit that a homeowner sees a man fitting the description of the suspect in a nearby liquor store robbery: Caucasian, male, jeans, red baseball cap, and running into … Continue reading Find and Bark vs. Find and Bite REVISITED

Restraining Canine Drives: Capping and Neutrality, Part 1

Article by Jerry Bradshaw • The .pdf version from “The Canine Professional Journal” How we understand dog behavior is based on a paradigm in the trainer’s mind–a paradigm being a way of thinking or understanding something, otherwise called a scientific model. For working dogs, the … Continue reading Restraining Canine Drives: Capping and Neutrality, Part 1

K-9 Obedience: Command Discrimination & Generalization

Article by Jerry Bradshaw • Photos by Stefanie Suddeth The .pdf version with images from K-9 Cop Magazine There are two types of conditioning that are important to us as canine trainers: classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Classical conditioning is learning by … Continue reading K-9 Obedience: Command Discrimination & Generalization

The Talented K9 Trainer: Becoming an Expert Handler or Trainer

By Jerry Bradshaw President, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc The .pdf version with images from The Journal In 2010 in a blog for the Harvard Business Review, work performance guru Tony Schwartz wrote that a minimum of 10,000 hours of deliberate concentrated practice … Continue reading The Talented K9 Trainer: Becoming an Expert Handler or Trainer