Detector Dog Definitions Of Behavior

Question 1

SEARCHING

Answer 1

Behavior a dog exhibits when it is hunting for an odor it has been training to detect and it does so primarily by the use of its nose.

Question 2

RANGING

Answer 2

Unique search behavior that is usually exhibited only when a dog is deployed in a large open search area, such as a field, forest, or large building.

Question 3

PROOFING

Answer 3

To intentionally place specific odors in a search area other than the prescribed odors that a PSD has been trained to detect/locate, but may of been exposed to during training

Question 4

DISCRETIONARY

Answer 4

To intentionally place items within a search area and determining if those items have the door of a controlled substance that the PSD has been trained to detect.

Question 5

DIVERSION

Answer 5

Odor or object placed in a location with the obvious intent to divert the dog away

Question 6

ALERT

Answer 6

A natural behavioral response to having spontaneously detected a trained drug odor, but without the display of a trained behavior.