http://www.clickertraining.com/taxonomy/term/154/9 en http://www.clickertraining.com/node/709 <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-5"><div class="flexinode-textfield-16"><div class="form-item"> <label>Animal Breed: </label> Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-17"><div class="form-item"> <label>Honors/Wins: </label> <p>Certified Human Remains Detection Dog, Land and Water, with National Narcotics Detection Dog Association - Police Association - Cadaver Division</p> <p> One of 5 PBGVs with WISARK9, searching for missing people.</p> </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-18"><div class="form-item"> <label>Comments: </label> <p>Clue has been <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary#term205"><acronym title="Clicker: A toy noisemaker. Animal trainers make use of the clicker as an event marker to mark a desired response. The sound of the clicker is an excellent marker because it is unique, quick, and consistent. You can find several different types of clickers in our store.">clicker</acronym></a> trained for all of his search work. He had an unfortunate accident when he was young, a serious dog attack. <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary#term240"><acronym title="Positive reinforcement: (R+) Adding something the animal will work for to strengthen (increase the frequency of) a behavior. For example, giving the dog a treat for sitting in order to increase the probability that the dog will sit again. ">Positive reinforcement</acronym></a> and <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary#term213"><acronym title="Counter-conditioning: Pairing one stimulus that evokes one response with another that evokes an opposite response, so that the first stimulus comes to evoke the second response. For example, a dog is afraid of men wearing hats. When a man wearing a hat approaches, the dog is repeatedly fed his favorite food. The goal is to replace the animal’s apprehension with the pleasure elicited by the food. Counter-conditioning must be done gradually, however; if the process is rushed, the favorite food may take on the fear association instead. ">counter-conditioning</acronym></a> brought him back to a </p> </div> </div></div><p><a href="http://www.clickertraining.com/node/709">read more</a></p> http://www.clickertraining.com/node/709#comment Agility Search and Rescue Therapy Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:31:06 -0500 Charlotte Allmann 709 at http://www.clickertraining.com http://www.clickertraining.com/node/686 n/a<p><a href="http://www.clickertraining.com/node/">read more</a></p> http://www.clickertraining.com/node/#comment Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 -0600 at http://www.clickertraining.com http://www.clickertraining.com/node/680 n/a<p><a href="http://www.clickertraining.com/node/">read more</a></p> http://www.clickertraining.com/node/#comment Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 -0600 at http://www.clickertraining.com http://www.clickertraining.com/node/656 n/a<p><a href="http://www.clickertraining.com/node/">read more</a></p> http://www.clickertraining.com/node/#comment Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 -0600 at http://www.clickertraining.com