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K9 Definitions Flashcards

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Drives

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Subconscious impulses to react to stimuli.

  • Genetic
  • can be enhanced or diminished through training
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Canine behavior

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Genetic behavior
Determined by the dogs genes, born into the dog. A dogs potential is limited by his genetic makeup.

Environmental behavior
Behavior that is learned through environmental conditioning

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Hunt

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Drive to pursue out of sight stimuli

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Air sent

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Drive to follow Wind born odors

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Tracking

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Drive to follow ground disturbance odors

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Prey

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Drive to pursue, bite, and kill visual prey

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Retrieve

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Drive to bring prey to the pack

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Activity

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Drive to move and act

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Play

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Drive for physical contact with pack members

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Pack

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Drive for emotional contact with pack members

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Survival

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Flight- drive to flee from real or imagined danger.

Self-defense- drive to attack real or imagined danger

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Rank

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Drive to achieve higher rank in the pack

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Protection

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Drive to defend pack members

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Guard

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Drive to defend territorial space from intruders

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Fight

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Drive to measure physical prowess with rivals

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Trainability

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Drive to follow desires of the pack leader

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Homing

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Drive to return to the pack or territory

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Herding

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Drive to circle and direct prey

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Pointing

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Drive to passively indicate prey

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Drafting

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Drive to pull when restricted

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Character traits

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Traits that diminish or enhance drive behavior

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CT

Courage

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Absence of fear toward objects or in situations

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CT

Confidence

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Environmentally conditioned acceptance of safety

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CT

Temperament

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Attitude towards life

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CT

Hardness

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Resiliency toward unpleasant experiences

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CT

Sensory threshold

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Amount of stimuli required to engage a drive

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CT

Softness

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Remembering unpleasant experiences

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CT

Frustration

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Tendency to subconsciously react aggressively when restrained from stimuli

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CT

Sharpness

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Tendency to react aggressively to stimuli

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Modular training

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Short simple lessons which work on one facet of a finished product

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Detection modulesp

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To search thoroughly for trained odors.

To indicate the presence of trained odors

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CT

Sensory threshold

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Amount of stimuli required to engage a drive

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Conflict training

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Constantly changing training so that the K9 does not become patterned into an incorrect response

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Scent

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Gaseous, particulate, and aerosol matter emitting from a substance

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Source

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The strongest concentration of trained odor available

35
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Olfactory Acuity

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The ability to identify and discriminate different orders

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Scent discrimination

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I canines ability to identify a trained odor amongst competing orders in the scent picture

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Residual order

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Odor that remains after the source of the trained odor is removed

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Threshold

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Threshold refers to the minimum and maximum levels of odor that the K9 will identify or trace to source

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Intent

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A canines ability and desire to systematically hunt for a trained odor

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Reading K9 intent

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The handler recognizes that the K9 is actively searching productive areas

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Control

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Canines responsiveness to verbal commands and presentations during the search

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Alert

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A change of body posture and increased respiration when the dog first encounters the odors he has been trained to detect

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Tracing

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Post alert behavior displayed by the K9 while following the odor to source

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Reading an alert

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The Handler recognizes the canines alert and tracing behavior and responds accordingly

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Walking odor

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The canine alerts and walks away

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Indication

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A trained behavior that pinpoints source

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Passive indication

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Sit, down, point

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Aggressive indication

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Scratch, bite

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Fringe indication

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The K9 prematurely indicates while tracing odor

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Pinpoint

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Directing the team to move to source

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Threshold problem

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The K9 walks odor that is not at a quantity previously experienced

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First pass

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The handler and K9 move through the search area while the canine searches with minimal direction from the handler

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Systematic

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The handler directs the canine through the search area, systematically presenting productive areas

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Primary rule

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The primary responsibility of a detection canine handler is to conduct a safe and Thorough search

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20 minute rule

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Never work a canine in a systematic search more than 20 minutes without a break

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Two strike

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You only allow a canine to break a search pattern on alert twice

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Verleitung

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German term for diversion

Refers to distraction Training

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Hunde Aus Laufen

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“Dogs out running”

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Two Meter

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Two meter: K9 shows interest in an area or you see an area you did not present, Loop the K9 back at least 2 meters behind the suspect area and search area again at the same speed

60
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Knick

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Directional command to a third-party provide slight auditory stimulation from source (example :tapping scratching)

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