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Canine Search Specialist Training

Canine Search Specialist Training. Unit 2: Canine Behavior and Drive. Unit Objective. Upon completion of this unit, you will be able to describe the basic aspects of canine communication, behavior, and drive. Enabling Objectives. Explain how handlers and canines communicate

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Canine Search Specialist Training

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  1. Canine Search Specialist Training Unit 2: Canine Behavior and Drive

  2. Unit Objective Upon completion of this unit, you will be able to describe the basic aspects of canine communication, behavior, and drive

  3. Enabling Objectives • Explain how handlers and canines communicate • Describe common canine signals • Identify the factors that influence behavior • Describe basic learning principles • Identify and describe canine drives • Describe how to apply canine drives to search training

  4. Canine Communication

  5. Canine Communication • Instinctual • Learned

  6. Instinctual • Posture • Facial expression • Breathing • Focus • Intention

  7. Learned • Training • Play • Life experience

  8. “Clever Hans” Learned Myths and miscommunication

  9. Miscommunication • “The guilty look” • “He’s mad at me!” • “He knows this!” • “He’s ignoring me!”

  10. Guilty

  11. What are they thinking? Body Language

  12. Dominance • Signals associated with dominance • Grabbing muzzles • Pinning head and neck • Chin on neck and /or back • Body slamming • Direct stare • Vertical retraction of lips • Tail straight up in the air

  13. Submission Submissive signals • Avert gaze • Lower head and neck • Lower tail • Approach with “C” shape • Submission grin • Ears back

  14. Play • Exaggerated looking away • Paw raising • Play grin • Nibble greeting • Nose pushing • Panting or play face

  15. Fear • Behaviors associated with fear • Shivering or shaking • Salivating • Tail tucked • Immobility

  16. Fear! Aggressive Submissive

  17. Aggression • Ears forward • Direct eye contact • Forward lean • Tail high • Lips retracted • Low growl

  18. Signs of Conflict • Panting • Yawning • Submissive signals

  19. Conflict (continued) Displacement behaviors • Eating grass • Sniffing grass • Grooming • Scratching • Play behaviors

  20. Conflict (continued) Ambivalent behaviors • Looking away • Turning back on you • Sitting down • Marking

  21. Behavior

  22. Behavior • Factors that influence behavior • Genetics • Internal stimuli • External stimuli

  23. Genetically Proven Breeds

  24. Internal Stimuli • Drives

  25. External Stimuli • Training • Experience • Environment

  26. The TRUTH About Dogs

  27. The TRUTH about Dogs • Dogs • Are amoral • Live in the present • Are completely self interested • Will always do what they consider to be in their best interest at the time

  28. More … • Dogs • Will repeat what works for them • Are constantly monitoring our movement for an opportunity to get something for themselves • Learn through Operant and Classical conditioning

  29. Learning Principles

  30. Kinds of Learning • Experience + Repetition • Observational = watching • Classical conditioning = reflexive • Operant conditioning = shaping

  31. Classical Conditioning • A specific type of learning which connects a stimulus with an unconditioned response (REFLEX) • “Conditioned” means “ learned”

  32. Operant Conditioning A specific type of learning where offered behaviors are encouraged or discouraged by their consequences

  33. Operant Conditioning (continued) • Add reinforcement to increase behavior • Add punishment to decrease behavior • The reward or punishment must be immediate to the behavior

  34. Operant Conditioning (continued) • Behaviors that are not reinforced will extinguish themselves over time • Do not take long-established behavior for granted

  35. Generalization • Under-utilized technique • Unrecognized pitfall

  36. Generalization (continued)

  37. Problem Solving 101 • Has the dog LEARNED the command? • Has the trainer supplied adequate MOTIVATION (reward)? • Is there a strong history (FOUNDATION) of rewarded responses to the command? • Has the dog GENERALIZED the behavior in this context?

  38. Problem Solving 101 (continued) • Did you PROOF against distractions (dogs, cats, noise, activity)? • Did you PROOF against competing motivations (drives-food, pack, prey)?

  39. BREAK

  40. Instinct and Drive

  41. Instinct A canine’s innate response to certain stimuli, independent of any thought process • May or may not produce the desired behaviors • Those that have application to search need to be developed and strengthened

  42. Drive • Some canines have predispositions towards certain instincts The STRENGTH of this predisposition = DRIVE

  43. It is important to remember that hyperactivity does not equal drive

  44. DRIVE!

  45. Food Prey Hunt Pack Defense Types of Drive

  46. Benefits of Drive Use of drive in regular training exercises will • Improve physical conditioning • Increase intensity and concentration • Improve focus and attitude

  47. Food Drive A canine’s desire to persist in getting food, is not always related to hunger or biological need for food

  48. Food Drive (continued) • One of the easiest drives to build • Rewards can be given while the canine is in the correct position • Canines can be rewarded without having to break position • Most effective way to control high prey driven canines

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