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 Lecture Officer Chew speaking about roles of police dogs His old dog Nala lost feeling in her back leg o Nala 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 time o Important to understand behavior of his dog o Swat car has a hot dog system alarm goes off when too much heat Dog s behavior changes to certain odors o Dogs can separate each individual odor of a scent o tail 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 o Less than 1 of tracks are successful at Urbana Training bomb dogs o Use 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 o German 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 o Dual purpose dogs track and fight These 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 o Single 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 play
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