(06-02) Development: Canine and Feline

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Answer 2

this is in the dog

Question 3

(Developmental Stages: Dog)

1. Up until what hapens?
2. dependent on mother
3. sleeping, eating
4. what are the primary senses?
5. primary bond = mother (stimulates elimination reflex)

Answer 3

1. birth until ears/eyes open
2. smell/touch/taste (no sight/hearing yet)

Question 4

(Behavioral Development - Dog)

1-3. 3 minutes of handling per day + exposure to temperature change led to what 3 things?

4. What is the perioed of time in which social interaction is most important for a puppy?

Answer 4

1. improved disease resistance
2. decreased emotional reactivity
3. increased learning and problem solving
4. socialization period

Question 5

(Behavioral Development - Dog)

(Transition Stage)

1. begins with what?
2. how long?
3. response to light/beginning of ingestive behavior (lap, chew)
4. No longer require what for elimination?
5. from crawl to walk
6. full development of what perception?

7 development of what with littermates?

8. ends with onset of what?

Answer 5

1. opening of the eyes
2. short - less than 1 week
3. stimulation
4. pain perception
5. social bond
6. acoustic startle

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Question 7

(Behavioral Development - Dog)

(Socialization)

1. what time period?
2. All senses functioning to facilitate what?
3. stands to nurse, eats regurgitated food (early) and solid food (5-6 weeks)

Answer 7

1. 3-12 weeks
2. learning and communication

Question 8

(Behavioral Development - Dog)

(Socialization)

1. elimination - leaves nest to eliminate
2. substrate preference emerges when If envrionment allows?

bascially puppies should be given a choice where they want to poo early on

Answer 8

2. 4-5 weeks

Question 9

(Behavioral Development - Dog)

(Socialization)

(Early in the period)

1. how does seek relate to fear?
2. rapid recovery from frightening incidents
3. learning bite inhbition from littermates and dam (learn to gauge how much pressure they are exerting with their mouth)
4. what kind of response to separation?

(Late in the period)

1. how does seek relate to fear?
2. separation now?
3. what happens by 14-16 weeks relative to fear/seek

Answer 9

1. seek > fear
2. an intense one
3. seek =~ fear
4. not as stressful
5. fear >= seek

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Question 11

Answer 11

puppies should have had vaccines

also nobody should be sick

Question 12

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Question 13

there hasn’t really been a study that supports this… the temperment test that is

there is no way to look at a 7 year old puppy and know what it is going to be like when it is an adult

Question 14

(Behavioral Development - Dog)

(Juvenile Period)

1. what period?
2. environmental exploration
3. late see onset of what?
4. short attention span, easily exciteable (but learning fully developed)

Answer 14

1. 12 weeks to sexual maturity
2. male pattern elimination (leg lifting, scratch after defecation)

Question 15

(Behavioral Development - Dog)

(Maturity)

(sexual maturity)

1. when is it?
2. 1st estrus
3. attempt to do what?

(social maturity)

1. when is it?
2. what kind of behaviors?

Answer 15

1. 6-18 months
2. breed
3. 1-3. years
4. adult behaviors

(read the stuff about aggression)

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Question 18

Answer 18

C

Question 19

Answer 19

D

Question 20

she didn’t finish this one hardy har har

Question 21

don’t know the answer to this one…