Week One: Restraint&Handling Flashcards
How long is your patient usually with you?
10 minutes to 8 hours
What is the role of CVT in animal behavior?
- Find out information (behavioral descriptions, not interpretations)
- Educate clients (socializing with people, new pets, other animals)
- impression time for puppies and kittens
- Training
Where are important places you need to read?
- Exam room with owner
- Exam room without owner
- In kennel or cage
- In a corner
- On a table
- On the floor
What is the Dr. Pearson’s stop light sequence? (Explain colors)
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
What are the behaviors seen in animals?
Affiliative, redirected, submissive
Define affiliative
Performed by two individuals such as grooming or nuzzling that serve to maintain social bonds
Define redirected behavior
The animal is emotionally aroused (licking, really excited)
Define submissive behavior
Also know as appeasement behaviors
Functions as signals to “turn off” threatening and aggressive behaviors from other individuals
Things that affect behavior are..
Fear, anxiety, frustration, phobias
What is fear?
Relating something to a bad experience
What is frustration?
When the animal does not understand why a behavior that previously worked so well no longer works
What is cognitive dysfunction?
Like Alzheimer’s- start walking and doesn’t remember where they are
What are common behavior problems or unruly behaviors in dogs?
Play related aggression Leash walking Excessive barking Fear, phobias, and anxiety Separation anxiety Destructive behavior House soiling Cognitive dysfunction Aggression
Common behavior problems or unruly behaviors in cats..
Inter cat aggression Destructive behavior Aggression toward people Irritable aggression Redirected aggression House soiling Conflict
What is idiopathic?
Unpredictable
What is redirected aggression?
Animal is highly emotionally aroused like a dogfight
What are aggressions seen in animals?
Conflict related (dominance) Fear related Food related Idiopathic Irritable Maternal Pain related Play related Possessive Predatory Redirected Social status/dominance Territorial
What other things do CVTs do in behavior?
Help owners choose a pet
Educate owners how to habituate the pet
Educate clients about psychotropic (anxiety) drugs the DVM might or has prescribed
What is anthromorphizing?
When the owner is projecting his human perspective onto the animal to justify the troublesome actions of the pet
The CVT must encourage owners to describe only the ______ of the animal, not what they _____________.
Actions, believe the pet was feeling or thinking
How do animals learn?
Reinforcement Positive reinforcement Negative reinforcement Punishment Positive punishment Negative Punishment
What is reinforcement?
Stimulus that increases the chances of a behavior being repeated
What is positive reinforcement?
Includes the presentation of something pleasant
What is negative reinforcement?
Involves the removal of something unpleasant
What is punishment?
Stimulus that decreases the chance of a behavior being repeated
What is positive punishment?
Involves the application of something unpleasant
Squirting water, rolled newspaper, verbal reprimand
What is negative punishment?
Involves the removal of something pleasant, such as play or social interaction
What is respondent conditioning?
Involuntary or reflexive types
Salivating when food is around
Learned through Pavlovian conditioning
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
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
What is counter conditioning and counter commanding?
Exposes the animal to its fear but can handle commands and rewards the pet for doing so
What is flooding?
Should be avoided
Exposes the animal to a thing they are fearful to until they stop being fearful
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)
What is prevent or minimize inappropriate behavior?
Manage the pets environment to minimize the behavior
Crate training
What is the take away method?
Removing a valuable object when the behavior is inappropriate
Where are the horses blind spots?
Directly behind them and directly below their noses
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.
What is foot stomping?
Mild threat or signs of discomfort
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
What is pawing?
Frustration
What is the dominant behavior of cattle
Stand sideways with their head held low and perpendicular to the ground as if displaying horns
What is the dominant behavior of sheep?
Stamp their feet
What is dominant behavior of goats?
Raring up on their hind limbs and then charge and butting head of horn with their opponent
What is submissive behavior of cattle?
Demonstrate submission by holding their head low but parallel to the ground with their ears turned outward
What is the submissive behavior of sheep?
Shake their head and lower it while looking away then moving away
What is submissive behavior of goats?
Look away from the dominant animal and may look away to avoid conflict
What is allogrooming?
Cattle groom each other by licking the heads and neck of the other individual
What is buller steer syndrome?
When one steer repeatedly stands and tolerates mounting by other steer
What is primiparous?
First birth
Why is proper restraint important?
Protects the animals from harming themselves
Protects veterinary personnel
Protects the client
To restrain properly you must..
Understand animal behavior
Understand the importance of proper restraint
Understand your job as a restrainer
What is sterilization?
The removal or destruction of all microbes
What are some examples of microbes?
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, and endospores
What is asepsis?
An environment or procedure that is free contamination by pathogens
Like surgical fields and hand washing
What is disinfection?
The process of using physical or chemical agents to reduce the number of pathogens on INANIMATE objects
What is disinfectant?
Chemical used in disinfection which inhibit the growth of microorganisms on inanimate objects
What is antiseptics?
Kill or inhibit the growth of microorganisms on the living tissue
Definition of antisepsis
Process of using antiseptics
What is germicide?
Chemical that kills microorganisms
What does cidal mean?
Kill
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
