Behavior Flashcards

1
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What is the goal of therapeutic handling?

A

Learning about the dog’s behavior in order for cooperation for therapy

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What should behavior modification plans be focused on ?

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Reinforcing desired behaviors, ingnoring inappropriate behaviors, and creating behavior plans geared towards each dog’s behavior

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What is positive force-free interaction?

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Creating interactions that create positive experiences for the dogs. These actions should be consensual

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What is positive reinforcement?

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adding something pleasant to increase a behavior frequency

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What is negative reinforcement?

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Removing something to increase a desired behavior

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What is positive punishment?

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Adding something to decrease an activity

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What is negative punishment?

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Removing something to decrease the frequency of an activity

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What are reflexive signals?

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Outward reflexions of a dog’s inward state

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What are signs of

a reflexive signals?

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  • Face: closed mouth, blinking, watching
  • Ears: pulled back
  • Body: forward and backward facing
  • Braced front legs, stretched hind legs
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What are signs of shyness in a dog?

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  • Face: looking away, tense eyes, tongue licks
  • Ears: pulled back
  • Body: turned away from trigger with lowered tail
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What are signs of stress in dog?

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Face: tense eyes, dilated pupils, pulled lips, panting, yawning, drooling
Ears: pulled back
- Body shedding, round topline, head down and sniffing
- Tucked tail

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What are signs of fear in dog?

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  • Face: lips drawn back, whale eyes, looking away, low head
  • Ears: pulled to side
  • Body: Rounded topline
  • Tail tucked
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13
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What are signs of avoidance anxiety?

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Same as other clinical signs

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What are examples of calming signals in dogs?

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  • Face: subordinate licking, sniffing, yawning, tongue licks, soft mouth
  • Body: relaxed, turned away, lying down,
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What are signs of defensive aggression?

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  • Face: eyes, ears, nose all toward trigger, dilated pupils, tight closed mouth, showing teeth
  • Legs braced
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What are signs of offensive aggression?

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Face: eyes, ears, nose all toward trigger, dilated pupils,, C-shaped mouth
- Tail high, legs braced towards target

17
Q

What is the functional threshold?

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  • The line between rational thinking and survival thinking
18
Q

What cause dogs to go over their functional threshold?

A

Stress and fear

19
Q

What is flooding and is it effective?

A

Flooding is overloading of an undesirable behavior. It is not effective

20
Q

A dog yawns. What reciprocal signal should you send?

A

Yawn

21
Q

A dog shows whale eyes. What reciprocal signal should you send?

A

Look away and yawn

22
Q

A dog places a paw on you. What reciprocal signal should you send?

A

Look away and yawn

23
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A dog sniffs, licks, or tongue flicks. What reciprocal signal should you send?

A

Take a break

24
Q

A dog looks away. What reciprocal signal should you send?

A

Look away and yawn

25
Q

What is the first agreement between knowing animals

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  • Who are you?

- Knowing who the dog is : name, breed, greeting client first, not dog, letting the dog interact with you first

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What is the second agreement between knowing animals?

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  • How are you?
  • Understanding the dog’s emotional and physical state
  • Not putting dogs in difficult situations
  • E.G toss treats a safe distance away from you –> hand feeding keeps it too close to fear-trigger
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What is the third agreement between knowing animals?

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  • Will you do this with me?
  • Aim for active participation from dog
  • Make sure dog does not feel trapped
28
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What is the third agreement between knowing animals?

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  • May I do this to you?

- Use least amount of restraint possible

29
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How do you calm a dog for treatment/ evaluation

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  1. speak dog and understand body language

2. Use positive reinforcement

30
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What should you do prior to starting a physical treatment on a dog?

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  • Ask them to assume a position and reward positive behaviors