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Define Genetic Behavior

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

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Define Environmental Behavior

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Behavior that is learned through environmental conditioning.

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Define Instincts

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Instincts form the basis of canine behavior and are expressed through the canines drives and enhanced by the character traits.

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Define Species Preservation

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Behaviors associated with the survival and reproduction of the species.

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Define Self Preservation

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Behaviors associated with the survival of the individual dog.

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Define Drives

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Subconscious impulses to react to stimuli. Genetic. Can be enhanced or diminished through training but never created or eliminated. A dog will revert to his drives not training when under stress.

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Define Hunt

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Drive to pursue out of sight stimuli.

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Define Air Scent

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Drive to follow wind born odors.

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Define Tracking

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Drive to follow ground disturbance odors.

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Define Activity

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Drive to move and act.

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Define Play

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Drive for physical contact with pack members.

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Define Pack

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Drive for emotional contact with pack members.

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Define Survival

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Flight and self defense.

Flight.
Drive to flee from real or imagined danger.

Self Defense.
Drive to attack real or imagined danger.

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Define Rank

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Drive to achieve a higher rank in the pack.

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Define Protection

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Drive to defend Pack members.

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Define Guard

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Drive to defend territorial space from intruders.

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Define Fight

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Drive to measure physical prowess with rivals.

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Define Trainability

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Drive to follow the desires of the pack leader.

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Define Homing

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Drive to return to the pack or territory.

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Define Herding

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Drive to circle and direct prey.

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Define Pointing

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Drive to passively indicate prey.

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Define Drafting

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Drive to pull when restricted.

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Define Character Traits

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Traits that diminish or enhance drive behavior.

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Define Courage

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The absence of fear toward objects or in situations.

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Define Confidence
The environmentally conditioned acceptance of safety.
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Define Hardness
Resiliency toward unpleasant experiences.
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Define Softness
Remembering unpleasant experiences.
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Define Sensory Threshold
The amount of stimuli required to engage a drive.
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Define Sharpness
The tendency to react aggressively to stimuli.
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Define Frustration
Tendency to subconsciously react aggressively when restrained from stimuli.
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Define Temprament
Attitude towards life.
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Define Modular Training
Short simple lessons which work on one facet of a finished product.
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Define Conflict Training
Constantly changing training so that the canine does not become patterned into an incorrect response.
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Define Preserverance
Canines intensity and desire to try and obtain a reward object that is not readily available.
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Define Scent
Gaseous, particulate, and aerosol matter emitting form a substance.
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Define Source
The strongest concentration of a trained odor available.
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Define Relative Temperature
The temperature of the air at source vs the surrounding air.
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Define Olfactory Acuity
The ability to identify and discriminate odors.
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Define Scent Discrimination
The canines ability to identify a trained odor amongst competing odors in the scent picture.
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Define Residual odor
Odor that remains after the source of the trained odor has been removed.
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Define Threshold
The minimum and maximum levels of odor that a canine will identify or trace to source.
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Define Intent
A canines ability and desire to systematically hunt for a trained odor.
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Define Control
Canines responsiveness to verbal commands and presentations during the search.
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Define Alert
A change in body posture and increased respiration when the dog first encounters the odor he has been trained to detect.
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Define Tracing
Post alert behavior displayed by the canine while following odor to source.
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Define Walking Odor
The canine alerts and walks away.
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Define Indication
A trained behavior that pinpoints source.
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Define Passive Indication
Sit, down, point
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Define Active Indication
Scratch, Bite.
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Define False Indication
The canine displayed a change in 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.
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Define Nonproductive alert
The canine displayed an alert in an uncontrolled field environment where no tangible trained substances could be located.
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Define Fringe Indication
The canine prematurely indicates while tracing odor.
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Define Pinpoint
Directing the team to move to source.
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Define Threshold Problem
The canine walks an odor that is not at a quantity previously experienced.
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Define Pre-Stim
Stimulating the canine prior to a search.
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Define Post
Directional command to the handler to prevent the canines forward movement.
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Define Rear Tension
Directional command to the handler to apply rearward tension to the leash.
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Define Knick
Directional command to a third party to provide slight, auditory stimulation from a source.
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Define Verleitung
German term for diversion. | Refers to distraction training.
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Define Initial Training
Basic formal training of a canine.
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Define Maintenance Training
Regular training conducted to maintain a teams proficiency.
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Define Remedial Training
Scheduled on-duty training devoted exclusively to addressing and correcting deficiencies in the canine team.
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Define Hyperthermia
Commonly called heat stroke. | A increase in body temperature to, or beyond a point that the canine can regulate.
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Define Hypothermia
A drop in body temperature related to prolonged exposure to the cold.
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Define Bloat
Gastric dilation or bloat is a condition where the stomach fills up with air, food or water, leading to torsion.
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Define Pseudo Narcotics
Safe, non-controlled, manufactured chemical compounds, that simulate the odors of cocaine, heroine, methamphetamine, and ecstasy.
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Define Fixation
When the canine, by the chaining of unrelated stimuli with a reward object or correction becomes patterned into an incorrect behavior.
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Define Visual Fixation
Canine responds to an unrelated visual stimulation to obtain a reward or avoid a correction.
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Define Olfactory Fixation
Canine associates an unrelated odor with either a trained odor or with a reward.
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Define Auditory Fixation
Canine associates an unrelated sound with a correction or command to obtain an indication behavior.
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Reading an Alert
the handler recognizes a canines alert ans responds accordingly.
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Define Threshold
The minimum and maximum levels of odor that the canine will identify or trace to source.

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