Terminology Flashcards
Control
A canine’s responsiveness to verbal commands and presentations during the search.
Intent
A canine’s ability and desire to systematically hunt for a trained odor.
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 odor
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 of 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 were present.
Nonproductive alert
The canine displayed an alert in an uncontrolled field environment where no tangible trained substances could be located.
