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Expert Advice: Breeding Tips & Best Practices
Finding Safe Pet Transportation for Your Puppies
There have been a lot of changes in the world since COVID-19 appeared. Every day we have to figure new ways to do lots of things differently to protect ourselves and our families. We have always had to think about how to protect ourselves from the bad guys. We know the bad guys are always […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/dog-breeding/finding-safe-pet-transportation-puppies/
| August 17, 2020
Legislative Alerts
Aiken County, SC: If Your Animal is Declared Dangerous, a Proposed Ordinance Seeks to Register YOU— on Agenda Tomorrow, 8/18/20
The Aiken County Council is scheduled to again consider an overreaching animal ordinance at its meeting on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. The most recent version of the proposal (as available on the county website at the time of the legislative alert) can be viewed here. Concerns, commentary, and recommendations: Section 4-22 would require registration of […]
https://www.akc.org/legislative-alerts/aiken-county-sc-animal-declared-dangerous-proposed-ordinance-seeks-register-agenda-tomorrow-8-18-20/
| August 17, 2020
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Participant of the Month
Roxane Dutson is the first Patriotic Puppy Programs' Participant of the Month! Roxane has been active in the Patriotic Puppy Program since its inception in February 2019. With 20+ years of experience breeding and training dogs, Roxane got started with the AKC Hunt Test, and has expanded to obedience, hunt training, and now detection […]
https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/participant-of-the-month/
| August 17, 2020
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References
Assessment Environmental Stability Genetics Health Olfactory Training Play & Possession Puppy Development Records Standards
https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/references/
| August 14, 2020
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Mission & Program Overview
Decrease U.S. dependence on foreign suppliers of dogs by supporting domestic efforts to provide suitable detection dog candidates. Help breeders and trainers raise confident puppies that can become successful candidates for dog training programs. We provide remote support to program participants, guiding dogs’ development from birth through approximately one year of age. We ask participants to gather valuable data on […]
https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/mission-program-overview/
| August 17, 2020
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Theory And Practicality (a short review)
[caption id="attachment_113469" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Skinner in the lab[/caption] This blog is designed to be used as a resource. We have categorized the posts so that you can review what is important to you. Here are some past posts that I hope everyone considers every time they work with their dog. The most important blog posts […]
https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/training-science/theory-practicality-short-review/
| August 15, 2020
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Trying To Simplify
We had a long conversation with one of our participants last week. She told us “I’m overthinking it!” It got me to thinking about simplicity and complexity. If there were four blog posts I would ask everyone to refer to regularly, it would be these: https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/training-science/resilience-core-affect-space/ https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/training-science/behavioral-circuits-motor-patterns/ https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/puppy-development/possession-possession-possession/ https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/puppy-development/training-plans-development-overview/ 1. Your dog is only trying […]
https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/training-science/trying-to-simplify/
| August 15, 2020
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Training Records and Recording Phenotype
https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/trainer-development/problem-training-plans/ In an earlier post I spoke of the problem with training plans. Currently we have three large groups of participants with specific breeds and a smaller group of other breeds not represented in the first few. Training a detection dog is a dynamic process. Specifically, it is not A to B to C to […]
https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/records/training-records-recording-phenotype/
| August 15, 2020
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Training Records And Recording Phenotype
https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/trainer-development/problem-training-plans/ In an earlier post I spoke of the problem with training plans. Currently we have three large groups of participants with specific breeds and a smaller group of other breeds not represented in the first few. Training a detection dog is a dynamic process. Specifically, it is not A to B to C to […]
https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/puppy-development/training-records-recording-phenotype/
| August 15, 2020
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Now What Do I Do? Looking For What Is Next For Your Dog
This program has been helping people to raise detection dogs since February of 2019. That means that we have people now with adult dogs who want to know what the next step is for them to have the dog looked at for purchase. The how of it is a little complicated. It is complicated by […]
https://www.akc.org/akc-detection-dog-task-force/akc-pilot-detection-puppy-rearing-program/blogs/dog-sales-procurement/now-looking-next-dog/
| August 14, 2020