Enrichment And Training

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1. Behavioral enrichment involves providing shelter animals with opportunities to think and learn and to perform species-typical behaviors.

True

False

About This Quiz

Kelley Bollen, MS, CABC and Behavioral Consultant for the Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, gives an excellent presentation at the 2012 ASPCA/Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Conference. In this presentation she talks about the benefits of enrichment for both dogs and cats as well as the... see morevalue of these programs in enhancing opportunities for adoption. see less

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3. Environmental enrichment involves modifying the environment so that it:

Is more comfortable.

Provides more space.

Provides more choices.

Is more stimulating.

All of the above.

4. Examples of behavioral enrichment include:

Providing scratching posts for cats.

Providing chew toys for dogs.

Discouraging play to prevent overstimulation.

Both A and B

All of the above

5. Enrichment in the shelter means:

Providing an interesting, complex, challenging, stimulating and variable environment.

Encouraging the animals to explore, think, learn and engage.

Be well mentally and physically.

All of the above.

None of the above

6. Empowering staff and volunteers is not part of starting an enrichment program at a shelter.

True

False

7. Providing opportunities for social interaction with members of the same species is important because:

It is not important because dogs and cats are social with people but not with the same species.

Cats are a social obligate species.

Dogs and cats are social animals.

Dogs are a solitary survival species.

None of the above.

8. Enrichment is especially important in a shelter environment because shelter animals:

9. Examples of environment enrichment include:

Soft bedding, platforms and hammocks.

Portholes between cages, utilizing vertical space and the option to perch or have a place to hide.

Auditory stimulation with hard rock music and olfactory stimulation with cleaning solutions.

All of the above.

Both A and B.

10. Examples of visual stimulation include:

A view of the outdoors, bright flashing lights, blowing bubbles, interactive toys, perpetual motion toys.

A view of the outdoors, aquariums in the cat room, blowing bubbles, interactive toys, perpetual motion toys.

A view of concrete walls, aquariums in the cat room, blowing bubbles, interactive toys, perpetual motion toys.

A view of the outdoors, aquariums in the cat room, making menacing motions with hands, interactive toys, perpetual motion toys.

A view of the outdoors, aquariums in the cat room, blowing bubbles, interactive toys, toys that do not move.

11. Examples of providing opportunities for shelter animals to think and learn are:

Food acquisition challenges, ice boxes, tracking games, seek-and-find games, clicker training, target training, manners training and teaching tricks.

Food acquisition challenges, brick boxes, tracking games, seek-and-find games, clicker training, target training, manners training and teaching tricks.

Water acquisition challenges, ice boxes, tracking games, seek-and-find games, clicker training, target training, manners training and teaching tricks.

Food acquisition challenges, ice boxes, tug-of-war games, seek-and-find games, clicker training, target training, manners training and teaching tricks.

Food acquisition challenges, ice boxes, tracking games, seek-and-find games, clicker training, target training, attack training and teaching tricks.

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