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Phases of the Training Process Arcon Method

STEPS IN THE METHOD OF TRAINING PROCESS ARCON

A) SIGNAL

1) Exposure in the chest

2) Hidden in the chest

B) SIMPLE SEARCH (a buried person)

1) Introduction trash

2) Working trash

C) Chained SEARCH

1) Two persons buried

2) Three or more people buried

A) SIGNAL (EXPOSED AND HIDDEN chest)

The objective of this phase is the condition of the barking dog issue to a human visible meter is not located. The dog must have previously used to playing to share with strangers, and the act of barking fluently, by the simple natural impulse generated by the desire excited to share this work with a object. It should be noted that conditioning the dog to bark at anyone seen to play should be avoided because the barking dog can learn to achieve goals in other situations. I also believe that the crust must not be subject to a prior order, which would generate an expectation in the wrong dog.

The dog would been subjected to several days of deprivation of fun activities and exercise. In doing so, we encourage the necessary impetus to energize the implementation of these guidelines first while increasing the positive effect of reinforcement. The extra (specialist) should be a person that the dog knows (but not the guide), thus enhancing the degree of confidence initial and necessary stimulus. From the beginning, the dog is dissociated from the guide as a possible element "primary goal. The dog must first be familiar with the environment where Place the chest. We must use what provides the greatest motivating incentive for the dog (ball, roller, toy, stick, etc.), specifying that it should only be used in initial learning phase for the purpose of dog associates the smell of specific simple as encouraging discriminatory only responds to the signal and avoid signs to the person buried, they will not have this incentive. We should avoid working in adverse weather conditions (high temperatures, heavy rains, etc) that could stimulate negative reactions or distraction in dogs.

Observers must be at least 15 meters from the work area and prevent movements, positions or sounds that may distract the animal behavior. At this early stage, the dog will be especially susceptible to any kind of distraction, however, fundamental to perform successfully.

For this stage, I feel a special predilection for the use of boxes in paved surfaces (asphalt, concrete, etc) with no traffic. Obviously, with the pavement that substantially minimize the potential presence of interfering olfactory stimulants, which, however, would be inherent in what we call the field. We must remove any object or surface material that could hypothetically wrong dogs attention (tools, clothes, manure, etc.) Originally, a hard wood or plastic cap should be used, as they are more manageable and durable (with a handle in the center). The first dog to be kept in a area away from the work area for a few minutes so you can urinate, defecate and relax. This is a common rule throughout the learning phase. topless: The 1st step guide with the dog on a leash should go to a place about 20 meters in front of the chest (variable depending on the motivational state observed in the animal).

During the walk to the release point belt, remove the guide dog must activate emotional, mental warm-up for the job. The guide should not suppress any possible valuable momentum shown by the animal, avoiding, for example, the use of extensible cables or pull back in front. The extra will be waiting for the guide means between the chest and the release point. S / he must make moves to encourage the dog, the dog showing the motivator and the taking of voices that really stimulate until a positive effect of attraction in the dog.

When the extra believes that the dog has been brought to a sufficient degree of excitability and impulse, s / he will move quickly towards chest and go back into the chest, in view of the dog, repeating the movements of stimulation before immersing himself completely in the hole and covered himself with cover. The instructor must carefully observe the behavior of dogs out and tell the hidden extra (through a transmitter-receiver) the right time to reinforce the issue Bark (although more could hear the barking of a dog, s / he can not tell if the barking is wrong direction to the guide or other item, and therefore if s / he should stop signal not based on the possible state of inhibition or other aspect of the dog. Thus, technical guidance from the outside is necessary.) The extra non-verbal must praise the dog just as s / he is recommended as it may dovetail with a pause of silence. This praise must, to the extent possible, be simultaneously the next bark issued in order to promote the contiguity and time necessary to enable the proper association and conditioning. Immediately after withdrawing the additional cover and immediately praise the dog by petting it and encouraging it to approach to increase their level of confidence in this new strange situation. This is where the guide can contact the dog to praise and pets too. The extra chest can go to share the euphoria and play with the dog side of the fence.

The extra verbal reinforcement always begin from inside the hideout, where possible rectify the delay between the crust may be signaling the dog and the opening of the chest. The reason why the guide does not reinforce verbal or approach the dog until it has extra is for the dog to identify clearly the extra (S) as the meta-element, and therefore dissociated the guide with this role and the possible means to get reinforcements. This is the main reason that the method ARCN does not include the possibility of taking the guide on the extra role, although this is a widespread practice in the initial phase. So firmly manage to avoid the risk that poor dog accident leaves the cue point and returns to the guide from time to time.

In addition, we preserve the potential dogs priceless for autonomy in the search process. .

The dog learns to bark at the person lurking below the surface thanks to its basic mechanism of learning associations.

Exhibited at the chest: Step 2 launch point is maintained, but in this case the dog can distinguish the chest covered by a cap without the prior of additional.

Hidden Chest: 1st step

- The lid is partially covered by rubble. The instructor should check that cover more or less in the year to this coming year based on the possible degree of inhibition observed in the dog before adding the new hidden element, to the point where dog signs of confidence and fluency to a cap that is completely covered with debris.

- When the figure and guidance to reinforce the dog must be taken into that it is essential to convey the necessary emotion, expressing their movements, voice intonations and cuddling with the emotion necessary to be responsible for stimulating intensely the dog.

Hidden in the chest: Step 2 - The phase signal is terminated when the dog performs satisfactorily in this exercise with another chest that is completely hidden and in a different location. Thus, you should check if the debris element has acquired sufficient strength for the predictive stimulus dog. - The debris is used with the second breast should be different from that used for the first, although it is clear that they share the same basic features that allow the dog to generalize. - One of the key factors to take into account in the preparation of these exercises is to predict where the extra should be able to remove the lid covered in rubble without assistance. Thus, the weight and position of the elements lying on top of it should be tested and the tests necessary to open the chest to be held before exercise. - With stocks with hidden chest, all extras must wear suitable protective helmet and its safety gear needed. The additional part must move the cap give an immediate reinforcement. .

O During the signaling, the following techniques should be applied whenever necessary:

- Gradual technical autonomy dummy effect

- Technique of restoring sound innocuous insertion

- Technical localization feasible by offsetting negative factors

B) SIMPLE SEARCH (A person buried)

(PRELIMINARY AND DEBRIS RUBBLE HEAP OF FORMATION SITE HEAP) Introduction pile of rubble

- A pile of rubble is input not exceeding an area of approximately 50m2 and has a moderate height. Emotional arousal factor should be applied in all periods of search, such as prior stimulus is key during the walk (several meters) before releasing the dog. The distance from the launching point for the pile of debris should not be more than 25 m. For the first cover of the den, a fragment of the board or something similar should be used, and debris should be placed on it to achieve an airtight seal that prevents the dog from catching any glimpse of the extra (specialist) or to reach him / Her.In burials should also try to avoid any distinctive features that could boost the dog any type of visual discrimination in areas for future work and its consequent deleterious association. When the extra eliminates the closure could be very harmful for the dog to get any negative impact of any part of the debris and generate the resulting negative conditioning in the animal.

This should be prevented and controlled by tests earlier, as mentioned above. Dogs must be on the inside of their cages for transport in the waiting room, with no possibility of seeing the work area. Extras (doubles) are still people that are familiar to the dog during the rubble pile of introduction and the first phase search heap debris in the training center to continue later with extras that are total strangers.

The dog must not be allowed to become familiar with the center training to build capacity to adapt to new environments. The dog must be attracted at first by the naked eye the pile of rubble that once the phase occult breast has become a powerful predictive stimulus. .

Sometimes you can see that when certain dogs perceive the source of human scent of the person urinating or defecating buried after the inevitable relaxation of the sphincter, caused by the subsequent emotional reaction. In some dogs there is a deterioration of its capacity Bark that can not adequately control and harmfully hindering the flow of signal barking. The feeling of frustration or anxiety during the search can sometimes be expressed with repeated chewing of leaves of herbs or other items. pile of rubble on-site training

- The dog that manages to successfully locate and double signal film buried in the rubble pile of introduction and then will work in larger areas, called rubble pile sites for training.

- Gradually, the dog must push further search, starting with a moderate distance from the point of release of the person buried.

- If the motivator to be an object whose smell can be harmful to the ability of search dogs, must be replaced by a simple stick or other innocuous element (odorless), acting not for reducing the intensity of reinforcement. Thus avoid the future risk of avoidance actions signaling possible when people buried.

- The source of human odor that comes out of the rubble has now become a powerful stimulus predictive for the dog. - Like other species, dogs have the capacity to respond in the same way to different stimuli that have some similarities. For this reason, it is feasible for them to generalize to any pile of rubble or different odors human.

- On site training in the rubble pile, the distance from the release point to the location of the buried person should gradually increase because it is the motivational state that will drive dogs to carry out the search olfactory human scent molecules that guide to the emerging source of the debris emanating from the extra buried.

- The instructor should determine:

- Possible adaptation of the rubble zone

- Location den

- Position of each point relase dogs.

The dog must get used to searching for people buried by inhalation. To accomplish this, little little should try to reduce the possibility of using existing trails in the area of the head towards the goal, and traces of these should not be associated with localization signals key. Smell is the only reliable procedure for finding people buried after a landslide. The people moving around the area of debris during the set-up dig out the hiding place and hide the extra must adhere to a predetermined route in and out of this area. The release point must always be on the opposite side of this route. Another resource is considered valid ground enigma with multiple traces in a premeditated fashion. Similarly, I discovered that some dogs even used the traces by the dog that went before them as a resource to guide the person buried.

This may be easily solved by a methodical control of shifts in the search dogs. Realizing that some dogs had symptoms of stress (lack of vigor, poor concentration, increased salivation, etc) in their search behavior for no apparent reason, I managed to detect that the origin is in the prefetch of pheromones by the male who had been excreted by a female in heat in another place and time (air, urine, etc.).

This state can last up to several weeks, during which it should the dog be removed from any activity that requires psychological effort.

The hiding place should not be used more than once for the same dog, or the pile of rubble once the burial has been made viable. Under no circumstances should the dog never upbraided in the area of debris, among other consequences avoiding the possibility that this area becomes a conditioned inhibitory stimulus for the dog, which may decrease slightly possible state of motivation or concentration.

I note that even though I favor dogs learn by orders given direction (a relatively simple operation), I strongly opposed the use of these orders during the daily training, and could harm dogs initiative and autonomy to a greater or lesser degree, since it could identify harmfully as a resource guide for guiding possible search operations and situations, so visibly damage the necessary level of concentration.

O The following techniques are applicable at this stage simple search:

autonomy gradually by the effect dummy-restoration techniques safe insertion of sound.

Feasible technique for location-compensation of the negative factors.

Support non-application approach restricted.

C) Chained SEARCH (two or more people buried)

- We start the search chained with extra learning process only two buried.

- The respective caches should be located at the site of rubble pile formation, separated by an average distance of 50 meters.

- Once one of the extras have been brought by dogs, chained search technique by mimicked dissuasion of the buried person must apply, so as soon as the extra has been located and noted on the other hand is one that reinforces the dog as described in the simple search. After reinforcing the dog and then removed, The guide puts the leash on the dog and has up to half point to the second person buried, and released the dog again. Thus, we strive to ensure success in locating dogs second and subsequent incorporation of this new work arrangements in its report and behavioral repertoire.

- The instructor should carefully monitor in order to use the transceiver to warn must be strengthened further as it will be impossible to fully predict who buried the dog catch and the first signal.

- When it was confirmed that the dog properly carried out the search behavior of two people buried in chains, a third and extra cache should be added, keeping the average distance of 50 meters from the other two.

- We must continue to apply the same basic mechanism, deterrence imitated the first two extras marked and greater (especially pronounced) in the case of the third and final additional signal. Following this, several different search operations a variable number of people buried (one, five, six, etc) should be performed. The reinforcement gives extra should also vary, but always bearing in mind that the search chained ends for each dog with the appearance of the main truss (the guide and extra).

- The dog gradually this new scheme includes search chained in their repertoire of behavior, the development of the new expectation of possible follow-up search after a variable number of signaling acts with the main truss contained in an unpredictable way. This type of facts becomes the incentive for the dog.

- The dog must come gradually to be launched from the point of the signal itself.

- Before each search statement, the dog will always be placed on the belt with the aim of progressively get used to restart the search without having to wait to guides.

O The following techniques will be applied at this stage search chains:

- Gradual autonomy technique the effect dummy - tracking technique Feasible offset negative factors When seeking behavior chains is considered to be consolidated in the dog gradually be subjected to different types of discriminatory practice (olfactory visual, etc.) and have to take aa records without the presence of adverse factors (confinement, noise, etc.).

A moderate intensification individualized should always be applied. Once the initial training process is completed, the dog show a particularly robust and effective level of autonomy, motivation and concentration in searches.

From now on, the following techniques should be applied consistently:

- Gradual technique autonomy dummy effect

- Grading triple booster control technique

- Technical Search imitated chained by deterrence of the person buried.

Approved by Resolution No. Legal 1998/41/12727 on May 5, 1998 by the Ministry of Education and Culture Spain, in accordance with Royal Decree (1 / 1996, April 12) that the Arcon Method (including among other matters, the innovative set of behavioral techniques, stages of formation and the corresponding names), written by Jaime Parejo Garcia, is duly registered and legally protected as scientific copyright in the General Registry of Intellectual Property under No. 23,474.

Jaime Parejo Garcia Animal Behaviour Researcher and Instructor specializing in Training Disaster Search and Rescue Dogs

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About the Author

Jaime Parejo is Canine Rescue Expert of the Firefighters of Seville, Spain. He is regarded as an internationally renowned expert in the speciality of canine catastropherescues. To date, he has been given numerous official awards, distinctions and congratulations both nationally and internationally from different governments and institutions (the Spanish Committee of the Mankind Programme and UNESCO's Biosphere, the UNESCO Centre in Melilla, the governments of Spain, Colombia, China, etc.). Specific examples include the First Prize for Research granted by the Spanish Royal Canine Society in 1998, and the Sasakawa Certificate of Distinction from the United Nations in 2005, both entailing worldwide recognition of his transcendent international research and teaching efforts as well as the scientific advances of the Arcón Method in reducing the number of disaster victims. In both case, he was the first Spaniard to earn such prominent distinctions.

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