Tail waggin fun- Explosives Det. Training

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by GSDfan on 16 October 2010 - 02:10

I was looking through video tonight, was going to say I'm bored but I'm really putting off work that needs to be done lol. Anyways since people seem to enjoy when I post video's I thought I'd post this one. Ema's tail wagging when she works really makes me smile, though I'd share.

Explosives Detection Training with the BSD

by Ruger1 on 16 October 2010 - 03:10

Hey, this is so cute....what a happy worker. What a cool way to train....

Deanna...: )

by Bhall on 16 October 2010 - 03:10

Very nice!!!

by duke1965 on 16 October 2010 - 03:10

nice to view , do you have to train them seperately for every variety of explosives

by GSDfan on 16 October 2010 - 04:10

Thanks all.

Duke1965. You can do scent association separately or you can put them all together in a "salad" as it's called. Ema did the "salad", but I observed a Narcotics course where they did separately. IMO Salad is the way to go.... through the course the odors are then separated in groups or pairs then by themselves and the dogs recognized them no problem. Putting them together doesn't become a new odor to them...they still smell the individual odors even if they are put together.

Here's the best way I can explain why I think the "salad" is best....
If you do 100 scent association throws (throwing a pipe loaded with odor to get the dog to associate that as a target odor)...20 throws marijuana, 20 cocaine, 20 Heroin, 20 MDMA, 20 Meth

If you do a salad you can spend all 100 of those throws associating the dog to all odors. 100 Marijuana, 100 cocaine, 100 Heroin, 100 MDMA, 100 Meth.

Hope that answers your question.

by GSDfan on 16 October 2010 - 04:10

Also when you do them separately...you spend at least the first week or two scent associating to each individual odor. ie Day 1 Morning marijuana, afternoon cocaine...day 2 morning cocaine afternoon Meth etc.etc.

When you do the salad you spend the first week or two doing scent association (with the salad) then later in the course you separate them slowly.

Both work fine...just a matter of preference, I think the recognition of all odors evenly becomes more solid
(Solid-er? lol

) earlier in training with the salad.

P.S. in my explaination I used Narcotics because they are better recognized by the layman.

by duke1965 on 16 October 2010 - 10:10

I already wondered what you wanna blow up with that

by GSDfan on 16 October 2010 - 11:10

Target odor is target odor, they are interchangable (Explosives/narcotics) in the explaination. There are 6 base odors of explosives that the dog is imprinted on in the first two weeks that are components in most other explosives. Later on the explosives in different forms are used to proof the dog and make sure he's indicating on them (ie RDX powder vs RDX det chord).

PS. There is a 7th but since it is unstable (pressure sensitive) we had to use it in pseudo form and didn't have it for imprinting, so introduced it later on in training by paring with known odors to the dog until the dog associated it as a target odor.

by Ibrahim on 16 October 2010 - 11:10

There are two approaches of training a dog to detect explosives, the first is odors and the second is real explosives components. Which one is your dog being trained on?

Ibrahim

by GSDfan on 16 October 2010 - 12:10

Imprinted on real explosive components...proofed later on real explosives in different forms

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