Search
and Rescue Dogs!
Search
and Rescue Dogs and their handlers
are devoted to locating missing people.
Most canine SAR teams are trained
volunteers and they train their search
dogs year round and respond to calls
suited to their training, their service
could be locating missing people in
remote areas such as a national forest,
or locating a Alzheimer sufferer that
wandered away in a suburban neighborhood,
searching for drowning victims, or
searching for buried survivors of
an earthquake.
Most SAR dogs and their handlers are
part of a local or regional training
group dedicated to support the various
public agencies that utilize search
dogs.
Training Search and rescue Dogs
Training
search and rescue dogs certainly requires
patience, determination, dedication
and people to seek a dog who are willing
to work. The task can be daunting.
A good dog can learn fast, however,
finding the right balance in training
which maintains the dog’s drive
is important. A qualified and experienced
handler can train a dog in about a
year and longer for a new handler.
This includes 4 to 5 training sessions
a week from 1 hour to many hours depending
on the complexity of the search skill
desired.
The
payoff is when your dog assists in
finding that missing person. My hat
goes off to the dog and handler and
the many groups that formed and continuously
train in their skills to help save
lives.
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