VSRDA Glossary

• Scent Cones
  Scent Cones: movement of scent away from subject/source -in the shape of a cone.
• Stimulus
  Stimulus: A change in the environment. Dog Training focuses on discriminative stimuli, which causes a change of state in the dog, causing it to perform a specific behavior.   
• Shaping
  Shaping: Building new behavior by selectively reinforcing variations in existing behavior, during the action rather than after completion, to increase or strengthen the behavior in a specific manner o