Correct Answers for the Starting Question

For the starting question, you must answer it correctly for it to continue. Getting this first try is a big factor in getting a good time.

Walk Tutorial:
- The owner
- Calm and submissive
- Exercise
- Beside or slightly behind the owner
- Once or twice per walk, but only for a short time
- Establishing your role as Pack Leader
- Any of the above
- None of the above
- 45 minutes
- As soon as the dog begins to fixate on the distraction
- Anytime during daylight hours

Fears Tutorial:
- Remove the source of the fear until the dog calms down
- Give the dog a soothing belly run while the experience is still fresh
- Discipline
- Hyperactivity
- Gradually desensitize the dog to the source of the fear
- None of the above **only if "Both A and B" is not present**
- Obsessions/Fixations
- In both ways
- They live in "the now" and don't dwell on the past
- Useful
- Both A and B
- All of the above

Sep. Anxiety Tutorial:
- Give affection
- Only when the dog is calm and submissive
- Gradually condition the dog to tolerate you absence
- The dog wakes up in the morning
- Overeating
- Doing to will condition the dog to expect it, which can increase separation anxiety why you're gone
- Thinks it has been abandoned
- It is an outlet for their pent-up frustration
- Because it will maximize the time it might take for the dog to become anxious
- After the dog has been exercised
- Can help in addressing separation anxiety
- Both A and B

Fixation Tutorial and Obsession Tutorial:
- Gradually **NOT "NONE OF THE ABOVE"**
- Very important to overcoming issues of obsession and fixation
- Discipline
- Obsessions and fixations can be overcome by judicious use of affection
- A key cause of obsession and fixation
- Essential to overcoming obsession and fixation issues **NOT "NONE OF THE ABOVE"**
- All of the above **ONLY WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NOT "EXERCISE" "DISCIPLINE" OR "AFFECTION"**
- A strong pack leader
- The dog is more of a trusting of its Pack Leader than anyone else
- Establishing your ownership over the object of obsession
- Pent up, unreleased energy
- None of the above

Feeding Test:
- Affection
- The one in the calmest state
- After getting exercise
- It's a problem that needs addressing **NOT "NONE OF THE ABOVE"**
- Should be properly managed by a strong Pack Leader **NOT "NONE OF THE ABOVE"**
- Discipline and affection
- Rare
- Both
- None of the above: **It's feeding time! As soon as you reach for the bag of dog food, the dog starts barking. What should you do?**
- Both A and B: **Dogs can be very possessive of their food because...** or **When the owner prepares the dog's food with his or her own hands, the bond between owner and dog strengthens because...**