Sunday, July 1, 2012

TESTING: Day 3b




DOG:
Lily
DATE:
7/1/2012
SCENT TYPE:  (clothing/saliva/other)
spit
ORIGIN:
Donor 1
DATE OF CAPTURE:
6/9/2012
AGE WHEN USED:
Day 3 of Sample 1
SAMPLE CONDITION: (frozen/refrigerated/room temp/other)
room temperature
SAMPLE STATE: (gauze/dental cotton/cloth/hydrated/other)
hydrated cotton round
INTENSITY:  (# of holes)
5
CONTAINER TYPE:
film canister
# of CONTAINERS:
6
# of SCENT OPTIONS:
1-4
MODE of PRESENTATION: (hand/surface/wheel/other)
12" scent wheel
SESSIONS:
5
6
7
8
Description
2 option
3 option
4 option
TEST
Reps:
12
12
12
9
% Success Rate:
100
100
88
18


ORIGIN of SAMPLE:  Tonic/clonic seizure; spit samples collected on cotton rounds and a roll of gauze (ran out of cotton rounds).  Clonazepam given after 2 minutes of seizure activity.

COMMENTS:

  • Sample 1
    • hydrated
    • refrigerated between use

Afternoon training sessions.  Changing locations of dummy canisters.  Changing one thing at a time, Session 4 introduces one dummy canister in a different location on the wheel (position #1).  In Session 6. the third canister is added in position #5.   In Session 7, for the first time a 4th option is presented.

NOTE: It appeared to me during all sessions that Lily was actively seeking and finding a viable scent.

Session 7 was a Contamination Test.  Did the "hot" film canister containing the sample contaminate the container that was used solely to hold the scent canister in all previous uses of the scent wheel?  Because the container in position #3 had never been covered with a lid, no lids were used on any containers for this test.



Wheel Session 4
#3: sample
#5: dummy



Wheel Session 5
#1: dummy
#3: sample



Wheel Session 6
#1: dummy
#3: sample
#5: dummy



Wheel Session 7
#2: dummy
#3: sample
#4: dummy
#6: dummy


CONTAMINATION TEST



CONTAMINATION TEST