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Week One: Restraint&Handling Flashcards

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How long is your patient usually with you?

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10 minutes to 8 hours

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What is the role of CVT in animal behavior?

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  • Find out information (behavioral descriptions, not interpretations)
  • Educate clients (socializing with people, new pets, other animals)
  • impression time for puppies and kittens
  • Training
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Where are important places you need to read?

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  • Exam room with owner
  • Exam room without owner
  • In kennel or cage
  • In a corner
  • On a table
  • On the floor
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What is the Dr. Pearson’s stop light sequence? (Explain colors)

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Green: Animal is approachable but you should still be careful as usual
Yellow: Pushing animals buttons
Red: Both you and the animal need to stop and take a break

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What are the behaviors seen in animals?

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Affiliative, redirected, submissive

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Define affiliative

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Performed by two individuals such as grooming or nuzzling that serve to maintain social bonds

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Define redirected behavior

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The animal is emotionally aroused (licking, really excited)

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Define submissive behavior

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Also know as appeasement behaviors

Functions as signals to “turn off” threatening and aggressive behaviors from other individuals

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Things that affect behavior are..

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Fear, anxiety, frustration, phobias

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What is fear?

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Relating something to a bad experience

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What is frustration?

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When the animal does not understand why a behavior that previously worked so well no longer works

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What is cognitive dysfunction?

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Like Alzheimer’s- start walking and doesn’t remember where they are

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What are common behavior problems or unruly behaviors in dogs?

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Play related aggression
Leash walking
Excessive barking
Fear, phobias, and anxiety
Separation anxiety
Destructive behavior
House soiling
Cognitive dysfunction 
Aggression
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Common behavior problems or unruly behaviors in cats..

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Inter cat aggression
Destructive behavior
Aggression toward people
Irritable aggression
Redirected aggression
House soiling
Conflict
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What is idiopathic?

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Unpredictable

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What is redirected aggression?

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Animal is highly emotionally aroused like a dogfight

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What are aggressions seen in animals?

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Conflict related (dominance)
Fear related
Food related
Idiopathic
Irritable
Maternal
Pain related
Play related
Possessive
Predatory
Redirected
Social status/dominance
Territorial
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What other things do CVTs do in behavior?

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Help owners choose a pet
Educate owners how to habituate the pet
Educate clients about psychotropic (anxiety) drugs the DVM might or has prescribed

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What is anthromorphizing?

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When the owner is projecting his human perspective onto the animal to justify the troublesome actions of the pet

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The CVT must encourage owners to describe only the ______ of the animal, not what they _____________.

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Actions, believe the pet was feeling or thinking

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How do animals learn?

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Reinforcement 
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Punishment
Positive punishment
Negative Punishment
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What is reinforcement?

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Stimulus that increases the chances of a behavior being repeated

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What is positive reinforcement?

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Includes the presentation of something pleasant

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What is negative reinforcement?

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Involves the removal of something unpleasant

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What is punishment?
Stimulus that decreases the chance of a behavior being repeated
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What is positive punishment?
Involves the application of something unpleasant | Squirting water, rolled newspaper, verbal reprimand
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What is negative punishment?
Involves the removal of something pleasant, such as play or social interaction
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What is respondent conditioning?
Involuntary or reflexive types Salivating when food is around Learned through Pavlovian conditioning
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What is operant conditioning?
The animal performs a behavior and the likelihood that the behavior will increase or decrease depends on the consequences that occur immediately after Learned through operant, instrumental conditioning
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What is classical conditioning?
A neutral stimulus comes to elicit a reflexive response when paired with a stimulus that normally elicits that response Meeting strangers when not used to meeting strangers
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What is counter conditioning and counter commanding?
Exposes the animal to its fear but can handle commands and rewards the pet for doing so
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What is flooding?
Should be avoided | Exposes the animal to a thing they are fearful to until they stop being fearful
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What is elicit and reinforce appropriate behavior?
Rewarding the animal when it is doing what is suppose to be doing (like playing with its own toy)
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What is prevent or minimize inappropriate behavior?
Manage the pets environment to minimize the behavior | Crate training
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What is the take away method?
Removing a valuable object when the behavior is inappropriate
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Where are the horses blind spots?
Directly behind them and directly below their noses
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What is VNO? (Jacobson's organ)
Tubular structure within the horses hard palate that opens into the nasal cavity. Allows the horse to exhibit the flehmen response.
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What is foot stomping?
Mild threat or signs of discomfort
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What is teeth clapping?
Various degrees of extension of the head retraction of the lips with partial exposure of the teeth and rapid snapping of the teeth Usually in foal
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What is pawing?
Frustration
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What is the dominant behavior of cattle
Stand sideways with their head held low and perpendicular to the ground as if displaying horns
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What is the dominant behavior of sheep?
Stamp their feet
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What is dominant behavior of goats?
Raring up on their hind limbs and then charge and butting head of horn with their opponent
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What is submissive behavior of cattle?
Demonstrate submission by holding their head low but parallel to the ground with their ears turned outward
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What is the submissive behavior of sheep?
Shake their head and lower it while looking away then moving away
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What is submissive behavior of goats?
Look away from the dominant animal and may look away to avoid conflict
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What is allogrooming?
Cattle groom each other by licking the heads and neck of the other individual
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What is buller steer syndrome?
When one steer repeatedly stands and tolerates mounting by other steer
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What is primiparous?
First birth
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Why is proper restraint important?
Protects the animals from harming themselves Protects veterinary personnel Protects the client
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To restrain properly you must..
Understand animal behavior Understand the importance of proper restraint Understand your job as a restrainer
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What is sterilization?
The removal or destruction of all microbes
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What are some examples of microbes?
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, and endospores
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What is asepsis?
An environment or procedure that is free contamination by pathogens Like surgical fields and hand washing
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What is disinfection?
The process of using physical or chemical agents to reduce the number of pathogens on INANIMATE objects
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What is disinfectant?
Chemical used in disinfection which inhibit the growth of microorganisms on inanimate objects
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What is antiseptics?
Kill or inhibit the growth of microorganisms on the living tissue
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Definition of antisepsis
Process of using antiseptics
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What is germicide?
Chemical that kills microorganisms
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What does cidal mean?
Kill
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Steps of cleaning..
``` •First step: sanitizing The fisical removal or organic materials such as blood, feed, manure -Two steps: Dry: removal of materials Wet: use of water - soaking - washing - rinsing - drying •Second step: disinfection ```

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