Making Strong Passive Engagements

Controlled Aggression

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Orienting your dog to the person, not the equipment in training and in deployment.
• The purpose of a decoy and what to look for in a good decoy class.
• Understanding engagement in passive and prone passive targets.
• Differences in training beginner, intermediate, and advanced dogs in passive engagement.

Key Takeaways:

• If that becomes a habit of always helping the dog to identify the threat, you're going to have a lot of problems.
• You do not want the decoy to help at all if possible. It is bad practice to start helping the dogs.
• There is a progression to all the training you have to do. You can’t account for all the variability in a Facebook post.
• Behavior progression can be trained, but you can’t skip steps. Make sure you work the steps and do all the variations as much as possible.

“[Regarding staple bites] give the dog the feedback he needs when he needs it. If you wait too long, then the dog might want to go back to where it was getting all the fight before." — Jerry Bradshaw

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