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Drive: Hunt - ANSWER Drive to pursue out-of-sight stimuli Drive: Drafting - ANSWER Drive to pull when restricted Genetic Behavior - ANSWER Determined by the dog's genes, born into the dog. A dog's potential is limited by his genetic makeup. Environmental Behavior - ANSWER Behavior that is learn...

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Drive: Hunt - ANSWER Drive to pursue out-of-sight stimuli

Drive: Drafting - ANSWER Drive to pull when restricted

Genetic Behavior - ANSWER Determined by the dog's genes, born into the dog. A
dog's potential is limited by his genetic makeup.

Environmental Behavior - ANSWER Behavior that is learned through
environmental conditioning.

Instincts - ANSWER Genetic behavior is divided into:

A) Species preservation:

Behavior associated with the survival and reproduction of the species

1) seeking out a mate and mating

2) Nurturing and protecting young

B) Self-preservation:

Behavior associated with the survival of the individual dog

1) Seeking food or defending ones self

Instincts form the basis for canine behavior and are expressed through the
canine's drives and enhanced by the character traits.

Drives - ANSWER Subconscious impulses to react to stimuli

1) Genetic

2) Can be enhanced or diminished through training, but never created or
eliminated

3) A dog will revert to his drives not training when placed under stress

Drive: Air Scent - ANSWER Drive to follow wind borne odors

,Drive: Tracking - ANSWER Drive to follow ground disturbance odors

Drive: Prey - ANSWER Drive to pursue, bite, and kill visual prey

Drive: Activity - ANSWER Drive to move and act

Drive: Play - ANSWER Drive for physical contact with pack members

Drive: Pack - ANSWER Drive for emotional contact with pack members

Drive: Survival - ANSWER 1) Flight: Drive to flee from real or imagined danger

2) Self-Defense: Drive to attack real or imagine danger

Drive: Rank - ANSWER Drive to achieve higher rank in the pack

Drive: Protection - ANSWER Drive to defend pack members

Drive: Guard - ANSWER Drive to defend territorial space from intruders

Drive: Fight - ANSWER Drive to measure physical prowess with rivals

Drive: Trainability - ANSWER Drive to follow the desires of the pack leader

Drive: Homing - ANSWER Drive to return to pack or terriotry

Drive: Herding - ANSWER Drive to circle and direct prey

Drive: Pointing - ANSWER Drive to passively indicate prey

Character Traits - ANSWER Traits that diminish or enhance drive behavior

Traits: Courage/Confidence - ANSWER Courage: Absence of fear toward objects
or in situations

Confidence: Environmentally conditioned acceptance of safety

Traits: Hardness/Softness - ANSWER Hardness: Resiliency toward unpleasant
experiences

Softness: Remembering unpleasant experiences

Traits: Sensory Threshold - ANSWER Amount of stimuli required to engage a
drive.

-May be high or low for each drive

Traits: Sharpness - ANSWER Tendency to react aggressively to stimuli

,Traits: Frustration - ANSWER Tendency to subconsciously react aggressively
when restrained from stimuli

Traits: Temperament - ANSWER Attitude toward life

Causes of aggressive behavior - ANSWER Instinctive behavior

- Aggressive drives

Learned behavior

- Unintentional training

- Unknown training

Two basic types of canine organizations - ANSWER 1) National Registries

2) Working/Training/Sporting Clubs

Canine Organizations - ANSWER USA: AKC

Germany: SC - German Shepard Dog Club of Germany

Holland: KNPV - Royal Dutch Police Dog Assocation

5 Rules for Public Contact - ANSWER Never leave a canine unattended with small
children

Never perform any demonstration off leash

During any contact with the public, always be aware of and control the canine's
head

Never allow the canine to jump on any person

Never leave the canine chained or tied to an object

Modular Training - ANSWER Short, simple lessons which work on one facet of a
finished product.

Timely rewards are crucial when training complex tasks. Segments of complex
tasks should be taught in logical series of short exercises with quick rewards.

Hard/Easy - to search thoroughly for trained odors - ANSWER Hard search easy
find: the canine works for a long time and when source is located the canine is
rewarded quickly after indicating

, Easy/Hard - to indicate the presence of trained odors - ANSWER Easy search hard
find: the canine has and easy/short search but must indicate for a long time.

Classical Conditioning - ANSWER Ivan P. Pavlov

- Russian Scientist

- Credited for discovering that reflex responses can be conditioned to be
associated with previously neutral stimulus

- Discovered that if a canine is exposed to a stimulus in a repetition with a reward
the will associate the stimulus with the reward

Conflict Training - ANSWER Constantly changing training so that the canine
does not become patterned into an incorrect response.

Conflict training is used to prevent improper chaining.

All stimuli exposed to the canine are conflicted except:

1) The trained odors

2) Correct handling skills

Components of a command - ANSWER 1) Command itself

2) Tone of voice

3) Method of enforcement

Tones of Voice - ANSWER Command: Short monotone bark

Correction: Low growling

Permissive: High to low

Praise: High Happy

Agitation: Suspicious, whispering

Enforcement - ANSWER For the canine to make the proper association, a
correction or reward must be delivered within 1/2 to 1 second after the command.

Do NOT:

- Give a command that you cannot immediately enforce

- Give a command and allow the canine to disobey the command

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