Working Dogs

“Right now, your just a tiny puppy...but one day,

men will be at awe in your presences..”

POLICE DOGS

What breeds are used?

PUPPY TO POLICE DOG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwe2aq-RGjY&list=PL96D54CA5E1806EDB

8 weeks : training starts.- Playing with toys. - Learning how to associate things

6 weeks – 6 months : main period - how to associate with everything that goes on.- Stopping fears : fireworks, thunder. ( Habitation)

8-12 weeks- Learning correct police work- How to get rewarded for certain things- Control

Just under 9 months- Tracking training starts – finding human scent- Following scent pattern to get something at the end of it.- Find property.- Barking to say they have found someone.- Chasing people –run up then just to bark. Then eventually be taught to bit

Refresher course- Out as licence police dogs.- Every year come back for one

week refresher- One week re licensing( tracking, chasing, finding)

Search and Rescue Dogs

• Find missing persons

• Search disaster areas for survivors

• Water, avalanche, wilderness, and disaster rescue dogs

• Use their incredible sense of smell to find people

Training

• Dog is taught to search for the scent and do anything possible to get to it

• Play oriented

• When the dog finds the person, it is allowed to play with a toy

• Toy is the reward

• Dog thinks of work as a game with a toy at the end

Qualifications

• Need to have agility, intelligence, drive, work ethic, and the ability to listen to the handler

• Temperament is one of the most important traits when choosing a rescue dog

• Breed doesn’t matter

• 50-70 pounds is the ideal weight

• Must possess a great desire to play

Pros and Cons

• Save the lives of many humans

• Can find survivors faster and easier then humans can

• Strong bond between the dog and handler

• Fun and enjoyable for the dog

• Dog gets a lot of exercise

•Can be mentally and physically exhausting for the dog •Physically demanding and dangerous•Dog can become injured and can die while on duty

Retirement• Retire when they no longer have the physical

ability for the job

• Usually 8-10 years of age

• Most dogs continue to live with their handler after retirement

• Dog has a happy, fun-filled retirement

Common Military DogsDoberman Pinchers German Shepherd

Labrador Retriever

Dutch shepherdBelgian Malinois

Brief History

• Used in warfare by: Egyptians, Persians,Greeks,Slavs,Britons,Romans,Spanish

Conquistadores

Great Molossian•Greco-Roman

•Extinct

Military working dogs were and still are, classified

as “equipment”• Germany military founded the first

training program for dogs in 1884• WW1• Germany:30,000• France:20,000• Italians:3,000• America :0• WW2 • Soviet union ‘anti-tank dogs’• January 1942- “Dogs For Defense”• Family dogs were called to duty

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• 4,900 served

• 204 returned to the U.S

• 2,700 euthanized

• 1,600 turned over to the South Vietnamese Army

• 10,000 lives saved

• Iraq

• Afghanistan

Chips

• Most decorated dog of World War II

• Purple Heart &Silver Star (Later on Revoked)

• German Shepherd-Collie-Husky mix

• Trained in Front Royal, Virginia, Chips served the 3d Infantry Division in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany

• sentry dog.

• In 1943, he attacked a small fort and, in spite of receiving wounds to the head, forced 4 Italian crew members to surrender. Later on the same day, he helped capture 10 prisoners.

Facts

Robby’s Law-• Passed in 2000• allowing adoption of military dogs by their handlers, law enforcement agencies, and civilians.

• 2,500-2,600 serve today• 400 are retired yearly• 150 lives are saved during a military dogs service

•Should the Military use man’s best friend as a resource in

Warfare?

Sentry• an attack dog, guard dog, or watch dog.• Warning signals such as : a growl ,bark or snarl• Guard against & watch for unwanted or unexpected people

Scout• Look for hidden booby trap trip wires, ambushes, weapons, snipers, mines.• Highly trained to be quiet and disciplined

Messenger• Sending messages• Human messengers being to big of a target

Casualty• Find the wounded, and dying on the battlefield• Equipped with medical supplies

Training

• *HANDLERS MUST MAINTAIN CONTROL*

• undergo extensive temperament and physical evaluations.

Temperament:

• tested for gun shyness

• aggressiveness

• searching behavior

• Their physical examination includes: a blood test for heartworm

disease, radiographs of their hips and elbows and a thorough

physical examination from head to tail.

• basic obedience training

• advance training, which includes: controlled aggressiveness,

attack, and building and open area searches.

• During this training a dog is taught to find a suspect or hostile

person in a building or open area; to attack, without command,

someone who is attacking its handler; to cease an attack upon

command at any point after an attack command has been given.

Age:12-36 months

• Is it unethical to send a living entity into a life-threatening situation when it couldn’t possible

give consent to do so?

Risk Factors

(Cons)

• PTSD- Post-traumatic stress disorder

• Injury

• Arthritis

• death

Pros• Sense of Smell

• endurance

• speed

• strength

• courage

• intelligence and

• The capability to adapt to almost any climatic condition.

Retirement

• Age:7-8 years

done their service :

• Adoption

• Euthanasia

- hearing impaired – autistic people – Blind

* Alerting For Help

* Alerting the owner prior to a Seizure or Diabetics, epilepsy and other types of seizures * Alerting the Owner when Insulin levels are changing

* Alerting when doors, Drawers and Refrigerators are open or closed

* Pick up dropped Items * Assist with mobility issues * Getting owner home safetly* Letting Owner know there is a car, or when the owner is able to cross a Street

* Help with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

– people with Seizures, Diabetics, Epilepsy, Autism

* Helping with Dressing/undressing * retrieves Wheelchair or Walkers * Prevents Falls

- Healing Dogs(Therapy Dog)

- Emotional Support

dog

- Disable

people

- CNIB (canadian national institute blind) will adopted to new home

- Original Owner of Working Dog can keep them as a pet, along with their new working Dog

- Working Dogs normally retire at ( 8 – 10 years of age)

- Friend or Family adopt them

- Working dogs have play time when harness is off. - When not working they can become a family pet. - it is essential for play time, It keeps the bond strong between the person and

their working dog

Do Working Dogs work 24/7 ?

When a dog is working, you MUST ask permission to pet the dog, and you can NOT interact with the dog until the person says other wise, the dog is busy guiding the person when the Harness is on

- Return to the family that raised them as a puppy

Every time you're required for new dog, the person has to be retested, if they fail the testing You do not receive a new dog

- Working dog must graduate from the school, if the dog doesn’t graduate they are put up for adoption

- The person requiring for a working dog must graduate from the school as well,

if they don’t they will not receive a working dog

- To receive a working dog, you must be approved

by your doctor and CNIB(Canadian national institute

blind)

- The training is aggressive, and hard, you are constantly

correcting the dog.

- After graduation of both dog and person, they under go testing to matching of the dog and partner to make sure they are perfect for each

other.

Training Working Dogs

- The training of a puppy almost begins at birth through many socialization programs- At 6-8 weeks puppies learn obedience and house manners- Puppy raiser/Foster Parents, introduce the puppy to the world and get them use to people,

environment, sounds, smells , etc

At 15-18 months guild dog training starts, this takes 2-3 months

1- ½ to 2 years of age is when the partner and dog meet- The partner and dog train together from 2 weeks – 28 days- The training never stops though, they are always learning

- Puppy raiser/Foster parent has the puppy until they are 1 year old.

- At 1 year old, the dog returns to school

When they are training as a puppy they wear something that indicatesthey are a future service dog

- CNIB (Canadian national institute blind) Maintains continuous contact with the graduates and dogs, they help them through their lives together; if the person is moving, facing hard times they come in and help

- Children 12 and under should not have service dogs, unless their parent/gardened consents and takes responsibly for working dog

Children 16 and up do not need consent from the parent/ Garden to qualify for working dog

Pro

- Go places you wouldn’t be able to go- Companionship- Feeling of security- Become you’re other half- Help deal with emotion problems- Help with not being able to see or hear- Life savers

Con

- Cost to keep them- Cost of maintenance- Cost of vets- Animal not having a free life 24/7

Is it ethically right to make a dog work most of their life?

Is it ethically right to for a dog’s life to base around one person?

There are many Ethical questions with Guide/Therapy Dogs

I’m applying Utilitarianism to my beliefs of guide and therapy dogs. Utilitarianism brings the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest amount

of people

- No Suffering- Happy Dogs- Attention- Looked after better than average family dog- Have down time, play time, normal dog time- Using gifts for humans- Apart of the pack- Fussed over and loved

Pear breads, laboratory, golden retrievers, germen shepherd are used for guild hearing and seeing dogs

The most successful type of working dog is a laboratory/ retriever. This is because it combines many of the great traits of both breads together.

Common Breads of Working Dogs

- All of the above, Grey hound, Chihuahua, Poodle, French bulldog, Dachshund, Pugs, Beagle, Yorkshire Terrier, shih tzu

Other types of dogs used for Therapy and Emotional dogs

- Jane and Bill Thornton started Canadian Guide Dogs for Blind in 1984

- The first Guide dog team graduated in July of 1984

- First litter of puppies born in CGDB (Canadian Guide Dog Blind) breeding program in 1986

There is a small amount roughly 10,000 people use guide dogs in the US

and Canada

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Monique would like to see CPP pay as a dependent for working dogs.

- She only receives $76 a month from ODSP for Apple- She wishes she could receive $230 a month for apple

instead, as the dog cost a lot

Monique Has been completely blind for 15 years, she has aggressive Glaucoma, and a nerve disease in the eye; she can’t have surgery because of the disease. She received Apply at 1 ½ because she was a very fast learner, Apple is now 7 ½ years old. She will retire at 10 years old. Monique would like to keep her as a pet after retire, but after the dog retires they no longer pay for the dog, and Monique can’t afford her. Apple has saved her life several times. Apple’s main function is being her eyes, helping across street, getting her home, she can find Bus stops for Monique, she can find curbs, pot holes, she guides Monique up stairs, anything the human eye does, Apple does for her. The only con of Apple is she doesn’t know when to cross, so Monique has to use her ears to hear the traffic to decide when to go.

Apple understand French and English

Monique is none mama to Apple