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I am currently in training with a private security bomb dog. I am wondering on the xm products the silica crystals, which we just recieved, how is the Distractor suppose to be used/trained?
Your odor materials are suspended in silica, so the tube of silica you have is a proofing odor. When you train drug dogs in dope in plastic bags, and you reward with a tennis ball, you always proof off plastic and tennis balls right? This is the same theory. You are actually imprinting the explosive odor, plus the silica that it is suspended in. This allows you to take that odor out and "proof" the dog. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact me, and I will try to help.
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Use actual substances and you won't have this problem. I've heard this argument with both the pseudo drugs and the xm products. Yeah I know the xm products are actually real stuff suspended in, yada yada, yada. Call it want you want, if it was real, it would be marked high explosives.
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Any behavior that is reinforced is more likely to occur again.
I have been at a conference in Germany where they spoke about SOKKS. similiar approach to using micro quantities of substance in training EDD's.
I have also spoke about a small test done by a federal agency using the XM products.
Neither provided a bunch of confidence in using these products, there were serious issues in applying them in training.
I have played around with the XM products myself and found the dogs didn't recognize real explosives when exposed to them when trained with the XM products. It was not a "study" in that I didn't have a control group or statistically relevant numbers but it did tell me to watch carefully what happens in the future with these products before I apply them in dog training.
I think XM is a good idea but may need to rethinking to make it applicable in the arena of dog training. It is an adaptation of a product designed to test mechanical "sniffing" devices.
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I've toyed with the stuff myself. I've also been part of some studies albeit in it's much earlier day. The same training advice is always given with XM products as with psuedo drugs, that is to test with real material. If that advice is necessary, then why bother. In my opinion it's nothing but a convienence for those that don't want to bother with all that is required to possess and use actual substance. It's still like shooting blanks for qualification.
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Any behavior that is reinforced is more likely to occur again.
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