Police K9 Utility of The Place Command

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Moving through the phases of behavior acquisition for maximum training potential and skill retention and generalization. 

• Developing Mark, Move, and Reward as your protocol.

• Using markers, such as try-again markers, to teach your dog variations of learned behaviors.

• Making place a valuable and a safe place to be for your canine. 

• Using the place command to train perimeter neutrality. 

 

Key Takeaways:

• Dogs say “no” all the time - we have to have a way to make them want to go to a place and compel them to go to a place when we’re developing this command.

• Depending on your dog, the place command can be used in different ways and with different rewarding protocols to improve the utility of the command. 

• Place allows us to work the dog away from us.

• Don’t be married to only training one way. As you train more dogs, you will learn that different dogs train better in different ways. You, as a handler, will also evolve in your training. 

• This is the boring side of great training. Sometimes the greatest training starts with training the place command and neutrality. 

• Make use of your downtime and dead time. Work on neutrality and train that using place commands instead of just doom scrolling. 

 

"This is a really simple behavior that's really hard to mess up, and it allows the handlers to get tons and tons of practice at using marker systems, at using both direct and indirect rewarding protocols. If there are mistakes, there's much going to be much less fallout than if we were in the context of detection or article indication or anything like that." — Jerry Bradshaw

 

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