News, Updates and Training Articles from Jerry Bradshaw, CEO/Training Director.
Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. from the Inside-Out By Jerry Bradshaw, Training Director Why: Our mission at Tarheel Canine, from the beginning in 1994, has always been is to challenge the status quo in dog training, to question why things are … Continue reading Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. from the Inside-Out
Training With the Automatic Door Release By- Jerry Bradshaw PDF- Training With The Automatic Door Release The Journal- Summer 2017 Many K9 patrol vehicles are outfitted with an automatic door release. The door release is controlled by a button on the … Continue reading Training With the Automatic Door Release
Drive Neutrality for Police Dogs- Keep your K9 Composed and Focused Written by Jerry Bradshaw PDF- Drive Neutrality Suppose you roll up on a scene—perhaps there’s been a robbery or a violent domestic—with a fleeing, unsearched felony subject, and as the … Continue reading Drive Neutrality for Police Dogs
Not so shy anymore! Written by Jerry Bradshaw- Published in Tell Tail Magazine Vol. III, Issue 3 November-January 2017 PDF Version TT_Pg1-40_Nov16-Jan2017Revised Not so shy anymore. If you think about it, it’s kind of a dirty trick to take a species … Continue reading Not So Shy Anymore
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
Article by Jerry Bradshaw • The .pdf version from “The Canine Professional Journal” (See part one of this article) Drive Neutrality There are times in training where we need to not just cap drive temporarily, but reduce the dog’s arousal in prey to … Continue reading Restraining Canine Drives: Capping and Neutrality, Part 2
“Breischaft, a retired police detective and entrepreneur, recently launched a new company called Stealth Vigilance that offers drug detection services to private schools, parents who may suspect their child is using drugs, or businesses that want to make sure employees … Continue reading “Stealth Vigilance”, Stealth Canine: Sniffs out Drugs
Riley also admonished police to skip testing on the scene, and encouraged them to also remember potential harm to police canines during the course of duties. DEA Warning to Police and Public: Fentanyl Exposure Kills Roll Call Video Advises Law … Continue reading DEA Warning to Police & Public: Fentanyl Exposure Kills
Summary: Canines trained on pseudo-explosives could not reliably identify the genuine article (and vice versa). When it comes to teaching dogs how to sniff out explosives, there’s nothing quite like the real thing to make sure they’re trained right. Date: … Continue reading Science News Article: “Mimics do not substitute for the ‘real thing’ for bomb-sniffing dogs”
Becoming an Expert Handler or Trainer By Jerry Bradshaw, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. 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 is … Continue reading “The Talented K9 Trainer” (article)
