ANSC 250 1st Edition Lecture 23 Outline of Last Lecture I. Beth Finke- Guide Dogs Outline of Current Lecture I. Officer Chew- Roles of police dogs Current LectureOfficer Chew speaking about roles of police dogs -His old dog Nala lost feeling in her back leg oNala is a bomb dog- finds bomb; also do article searches (retrieve what the bad guys left behind) -He has three kids and married; worked with dogs since he was 21; He's the only one with access to the explosives here-His job: lots of overtime; take-home swat car where he and his dog spend most of their timeoImportant to understand behavior of his dogoSwat car has a hot-dog system (alarm goes off when too much heat) -Dog's behavior changes to certain odorsoDogs can separate each individual odor of a scent otail slows down when they're getting close to a scent -If dog has good play drive, you can train it to do anything - Nala has a good ball drive -Dog usually takes over personality of handler -Trained to detect 5 categories of bomb- nitrate, chlorate, peroxide, TnT, semtex (DMDNB) -Dogs can detect explosives buried 4 ft. deep -Tracking: oLess than 1% of tracks are successful at Urbana -Training bomb dogs:oUse boxes to train dog to track explosives- put ball into one of the boxes with the bomb- dog sits or lays down next to box with ball- gets reward- repeat- finally, take the ball away but leave the bomb odor -Types of dog: oGerman shepherds, Belgian Malinois- work hard until they can't anymore, so need to be careful working with them- goes after everything even if it is life threatening oDual purpose dogs- track and fightThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.oSingle purpose dogs- one task- finding bombs, etc. -Dog can get injured if a decoy doesn’t know what he's doing -There's only bomb dogs in 4 areas in Illinois-Dog get's "paid" for their work by being allowed to
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