SWGDOG terms

Daryl Ehret · 11-27-2006, 11:55 PM

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It is evident that often times when trainers and handlers discuss training, terminology is the stumbling block. It's the reason the Scientific Work Dog Group, funded by a host of federal agencies and being conducted by Florida International University is working on standardizing terminology for working dogs. I believe their interests are more focused on working dogs ie, police, SAR etc. Their definitions will be based on science and "industry standard" for those areas science applicable. Personally, I see differences in terminology and how it's used between sport and, for example, law enforcement canine.

DFrost

This statement piqued my intrest, so I researched it a bit to see what developments have been made.

Scientific Working Group on Dog and Orthogonal detector Guidelines (SWGDOG)
http://www.swgdog.org/

"Subcommittee 1" is responsible for Unification of terminology
some term descriptions can be found at the following links...
http://www.ifri.fiu.edu/SWGDOG/SC_1_Guidelines.htm
http://www.ifri.fiu.edu/SWGDOG/SC1a%...for%20site.pdf
http://www.ifri.fiu.edu/SWGDOG/SC1b%...for%20site.pdf

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