Full Description
"Dog-world devotees will find this as gripping as any thriller."-Publishers' Weekly. A revised paperback edition, with new photos of rescue dog operations at the World Trade Center and other sites First published in 1991, "Search and Rescue Dogs" is the definitive guide to training dogs for search and rescue operations. Created by the nation's oldest search dog organization, ARDA, it shows dog owners and rescue teams how to train dogs properly for all kinds of missions, including water, wilderness, disaster and avalanche. For this first-ever paperback edition, ARDA has updated the book with new information, a more user-friendly interior design, and a salute to 9/11's hero dogs. Photographs of ARDA members who participated in searches at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Oklahoma City illustrate -The Crucial Importance of Rescue Dog Operations.
Contents
Acknowledgments. Foreword. Introduction. 1. Forming the American Rescue Dog Association. 2. Before You Begin. 3. Selecting the Air--Scenting Search Dog. 4. Basic Training, Obedience and Agility. 5. Beginning Search Training. 6. Advanced Search Training. 7. Handler Standards and Equipment. 8. The Search Dog Unit. 9. Unit Training. 10. Responding to a Search. 11. Conducting the Search. 12. Special Applications. 13. Avalanche Training. 14. Cadaver Training. 15. Disaster Training. 16. Disaster Missions. 17. First--Aid for Search Dogs. 18. ARDA Searches. Appendix: Lost Person Behavior. Index.
