Speaker1: [00:00:00]: Activity ten Listing four Main Ideas Page 168.

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and follow the directions in your book. Animal Science lecture. Canine colleagues. Speaker2:
[00:00:16]: Let's start out by looking at the history of the relationship between two species.
Dogs known as canines, familiars and human beings or Homo sapiens. Does anyone know
the saying about dogs and man? Well, man. Meaning humans. Speaker3: [00:00:36]: Man's
man's best friend. Speaker2: [00:00:39]: Yes. That the dog is man's best friend. Well.
Archaeologists have found the dogs or humans. Oldest friends to archaeologists think that
dogs lived with humans over 10,000 years ago, not only as friends and companions, but also
for protection and for assistance with hunting. This relationship evolved over time.
Nowadays, dogs help humans in many more ways than just herding sheep or hunting birds.
Humans are taking advantage of dog's natural talents and characteristics to train them to
help them. I guess I should say us in a number of ways. So the four types of dogs that we're
looking at today are guide dogs, assistance dogs, search and rescue dogs and detector
dogs. The first two types assist the blind and the handicapped. The second two kinds you
might consider federal employees because they help out the federal government. Search
and rescue dogs are certified by FEMA. Anyone know what FEMA stands for? Speaker3:
[00:02:01]: Federal Electric. Speaker2: [00:02:04]: Federal? That's right. Electric? No. It stands
for the Federal Emergency Management Administration. The people who help out after
emergencies like earthquakes, floods, tornadoes or hurricanes. And the last kind detector
dogs works for government agencies like the DEA and the USDA. The DEA stands for.
Anybody know? The Drug Enforcement Agency and the USDA. Any guesses? Department.
Speaker3: [00:02:42]: Department of Agriculture? Speaker2: [00:02:44]: Yeah. The United
States Department of Agriculture. We're going to look at the work that these dogs perform.
The best breeds of dogs for each type of work. And a little bit about the extensive training
that they go through. Okay, let's look at the first type, the guide dogs. How many of you
have seen guide dogs at work? Raise your hands. Good a fair number of you have. Now,
how did you know that it was a guide dog. It was wearing a. Speaker3: [00:03:17]: Of colored
coat on. Speaker2: [00:03:19]: Uh huh. Guide dogs were a specially designed harness that
the handler holds onto and the dog guides or leads the handler. The job of the guide dog is
to provide the blind person with safety. Did you know that there was a blind man working
on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, whose guide dog led
him down to safety? That was a Labrador retriever. What other breeds are used for guide
dogs? Speaker3: [00:03:51]: Police. Dog. Speaker2: [00:03:52]: Uh huh. Police dogs. But
what's the breed called? Right. German Shepherds, also golden retrievers. Those are the
most common because of their temperament or basic personality and their intelligence. Any
questions so far? Speaker3: [00:04:11]: Yeah. Like, what's the difference between a Labrador
retriever and a golden retriever? Speaker2: [00:04:17]: Good question. Both breeds. The
Labrador retriever and the golden retriever are hunting dogs. They retrieve or get and bring
back birds. A Labrador retriever or lab for short can be black, yellow or chocolate colored. It
has shorter and thicker hair called a coat than a golden retriever. A golden retriever is only
one color golden, and it has what is called a feathered tail and legs. All right, So Labrador
Retrievers and golden Retrievers are also used the most for the second type of dog we're
going to discuss today, and that is assistance or service dogs. These dogs assist people who
are physically disabled in some way, maybe paralyzed and in a wheelchair. So the dogs are
trained to pick things up, retrieve or get objects, turn lights on and off, open and close
doors, pull a wheelchair, find another person, help the person get dressed, bark to warn the
person of possible danger. I've already said that the best breeds for assistance dogs are
Labrador Retrievers and golden Retrievers. Both guide dogs and assistance Dogs go
through extensive training with their handlers before being accepted. The dogs are
evaluated. For their temperament and their ability to follow basic commands. The last two
types it will examine today are. The last two types are the search and rescue dogs and one
kind of detector dog. As search and rescue dogs, also known as disaster dogs, have special
training to find live victims. These dogs use their keen sense of smell to locate humans who
have survived a disaster such as a flood, an avalanche, or an earthquake. They do this by
sniffing or smelling the disaster site and locating the human scent. The best trained disaster
dogs are certified by FEMA and have gone through a demanding test to get the
certification. Most search and rescue dogs. Most search and rescue dogs are Golden and
Labrador Retrievers, border collies and mixes of the three breeds. That's all for today. We
don't have time for the last group, the detector dogs. But you can read about them in your
textbook. Don't forget to turn in your papers before Tuesday's deadline