Extra Flashcards
Hunt
Drive to pursue out of sight stimuli.
Air scent
Drive to follow wind borne odors.
Tracking
Drive to follow ground disturbance odors.
Prey
Drive to pursue, bite and kill visual prey.
Retrieve
Drive to bring pretty to the pack.
Activity
Drive to move and act.
Play
Drive for physical contact with pack members.
Pack
Drive for emotional contact with pack members.
SURVIVAL
Flight
Drive to flee from real or imagined danger.
SURVIVAL
Self defense
Drive to attack real or imagined danger.
Rank
Drive to achieve higher rank in the pack.
Protection
Drive to defend pack members.
Guard
Drive to defend territorial space from intruders.
Fight
Drive to measure physical prowess with rivals.
Trainability
Drive to follow the desires of the pack leader.
Homing
Drive to return to pack or territory.
Herding
Drive to circle and direct prey.
Pointing
Drive to passively indicate prey.
Drafting
Drive to pull when restricted.
Courage
Absence of fear toward object or in situation.
Confidence
Environmentally conditioned acceptance of safety.
Hardness
Resiliency toward unpleasant experiences.
Softness
Remembering unpleasant experiences.
Sensory threshold
Amount of stimuli required to engage a drive. May be high or low for each drive.
Sharpness
Tendency to react aggressively to stimuli.
Frustration
Tendency to subconsciously react aggressively when restrained from stimuli.
Temperament
Attitude toward life.
Intent
A canine’s ability and desire to systematically hunt for a trained odor.
Control
Canine’s responsiveness to verbal commands and presentations during the search.
Alert
A change of body posture and increased respiration when the dog first encounters the odors he has been trained to detect.
Indication
A trained behavior that pinpoints source.
Tracing
Post alert behavior displayed by the canine while following the odor to source.
Walking odor
The canine alerts and walks away.
Passive indication
Sit, down, point.
Active indication
Scratch, bite.
Fringe indication
The canine prematurely indicates while tracing odors.
Pinpoint
Directing the team to move to source.
Threshold problem
The canine walks odor that is not at a quantity previously experienced.
False indication
The canine displayed a change in behavior that the handler interpreted as an alert and indication in a controlled training environment where it had been previously established that no trained odors where present.
Nonproductive alert
The canine displayed an alert in an uncontrolled field environment where no tangible trained substances could be located.
