Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Testing: Day 3

DOG:
Syn
DATE:
08.21.2012
SCENT TYPE:  (clothing/saliva/swab/other)
spit
 spit
Old dry teabag to increase confidence
ORIGIN:
Donor 1
Donor 1

DATE OF CAPTURE:
06/09/2012
06/09/2012

AGE WHEN USED:
Day 3 of Sample 4
Day 3 of Sample 4
2 weeks
SAMPLE CONDITION: (frozen/refrigerated/room temp/other)
Room temp
Room temp
Room temp
SAMPLE STATE: (gauze/dental cotton/cloth/hydrated/other)
Gauze/hydrated
Gauze/hydrated
Dry teabag
INTENSITY:  (# of holes)
Open


Open


Open
Cap, 8 holes
Cap, 8 holes
CONTAINER TYPE:
Pill bottle in tin can


Pill bottle in tin can


Glass vial in tin can
Glass vial in tin can
Glass vial in tin can
# of CONTAINERS:
5


5


6
6
6
# of SCENT OPTIONS:
1


2


6
6
6
MODE of PRESENTATION: (hand/surface/wheel/other)
wheel


wheel


wheel
wheel
wheel
SESSION:
1


2


3
4
5
Reps:
10


10


10
10
10
% Success Rate:
90


30


100
100
100
Time:



fast


2:29
1:42
1:14
Description
A*


B*


C*
D*
E*


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:
A*       Excellent, working hard to get it right. One false positive. I think this is difficult but she definitely has a scent.

B*       AHA. I put the seizure scent in can 3, and an empty pill bottle in can 1 and 5. Syn confidently and positively alerted 30% of the time on each of the three pill bottles. Great. My dog can find plastic pill bottles. Getting some glass salt and pepper shakers and washing the tin cans again. I’m going to say that this sample is dead.

C*       Fast and accurate on the tea bag. Now I’ll put the shaker caps on for the first time.

D*       No trouble with the caps on. She’s reliably circling the wheel, usually counterclockwise, taking a close, fast whiff of each can.

E*       I switched the teabag vial to a different can, thinking she might alert on the original. While she did a double take on the original twice, she didn’t stop and went on to choose the correct one.



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