How to Train Your Bear

Question 1

Who is the first sweep for?

Answer 1

Berry

Question 2

What area is searched in the first sweep?

Answer 2

Eye level and below

Question 3

Who is the second sweep for?

Answer 3

You

Question 4

what is the purpose of a second sweep?

Answer 4

To catch anything Berry may have missed

Question 5

How long is the 1st search and rest?

Answer 5

Search for 20 min; rest for 25 min

Question 6

How long is the 2nd search and rest?

Answer 6

Search for 12-14 min; rest for 30 min

Question 7

How long is the 3rd search and rest?

Answer 7

Search for 8-10 min; done

Question 8

What are the different types of containers?

Answer 8

Training aid container, super scent container, and negative aides container

Question 9

What is used in the negative aide container?

Answer 9

One of everything!

Question 10

Where does a Negative Aide Container need to be placed?

Answer 10

In a room or car that is free of narcotics

Question 11

Describe U.S. vs Parada

Answer 11

Rico (such a goody boy) alerted the officer to the driver’s side door by stiffening his body, breathing deeply, and attempting to jump into the window. A random dog sniff is not a search for Fourth Amendment purposes, and a positive dog alert gives officers probable cause to search.

Question 12

Name two alerts to look for that can be anywhere from subtle to dramatic.

Answer 12

Changes in breathing and body posture.

Question 13

What is the final indication?

Answer 13

Scratch, sit, bark or bite

Question 14

What is proofing

Answer 14

When you didn’t see the initial odor response, so Berry gives the final response/indication.

Question 15

When do you do a sweep?

Answer 15

Any time the dog shows interest

Question 16

What is your search radius when doing a sweep?

Answer 16

Two to three feet on either side

Question 17

What drives a K9?

Answer 17

Survival. A genetic inherent desire that prey requires a hunt.

Question 18

What is the inherent genetic desire for chase and capture?

Answer 18

The prey drive

Question 19

Survival Drive contains _________.

Answer 19

Aggression

Question 20

What is the basic stimulation for the prey drive?

Answer 20

Food and hunger. All hunt is in prey.

Question 21

When are the prey and hunt drives fulfilled?

Answer 21

When the dog fills its mouth (with a bad guy booty).

Question 22

When is stimulation strongest?

Answer 22

When the prey escapes or is hiding.

Question 23

During what “drive” does a dog use ALL of his senses?

Answer 23

During the hunt drive

Question 24

Describe the Pack Drive

Answer 24

The inherent genetic desire to fit into a social structure

Question 25

what is the inherent desire to fit into a social structure?

Answer 25

The Pack Drive

Question 26

All _____ and _____ corrections are done in the Pack Drive.

Answer 26

Verbal; physical

Question 27

The Pack drive is fulfilled by the _______.

Answer 27

Alpha

Question 28

The alpha fulfills the Pack Drive via ____ and ____.

Answer 28

Praise; punishment

Question 29

What is the inherent genetic ability to act aggressively in a situation other than food gathering situations?

Answer 29

Civil/Defense drive

Question 30

Describe the Civil/Defense drive

Answer 30

The genetic ability to act aggressively when not in a food gathering situation.

Question 31

The purpose of the Civil/Defense drive is _______ and ______ as well as containing _________.

Answer 31

Survival; protection; aggression

Question 32

Name three things that stimulate the civil/defense drive:

Answer 32

pain, the threat of pain, or an attack

Question 33

True or False: the civil/defense drive is part of the Hunt Drive

Answer 33

False! the Civil/Defense drive contains no hunt. Strictly survival and protection. No prey or chase involved

Question 34

Because the Civil/Defense contains no hunt (no prey to chase and therefore no clear purpose or end-game) it causes a _______ drive

Answer 34

High stress drive

Question 35

How do you fulfill the Civil/Defense drive?

Answer 35

Create distance from the high stress situation

Question 36

What is a primary reward?

Answer 36

The reward/toy comes from the object that Berry indicates on strongest. (He chased the bad guy he got the bad guy)

Question 37

What is a secondary reward?

Answer 37

A reward that comes from you! Give that good boy a treat!

Question 38

What is the main way that a dog communicates?

Answer 38

Body posture

Question 39

How do you test a hunt?

Answer 39

Make the dog think that a toy has been placed/thrown in an area; watch the dog hunt for 3-5 minutes

Question 40

List the six factors that affect how an odor disperses throughout a room

Answer 40

Time, humidity, temperate, quality, quantity, and other masking agents