Authors: American Rescue Dog Association (ARDA)
ISBN-13: 9780764567032, ISBN-10: 0764567039
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: REV
Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, is told in the authoritative voice of the American Rescue Dog Association (ARDA), the nation's oldest airscenting search dog organization. Since its founding, ARDA's standards and training methods have served as the model for dog units around the nation.
Winner 1991 Maxwell Medallion Best Special Volume
ABOUT THE FIRST EDITION
"...the techniques and the case studies here are so interesting that a read will prove rewarding to ordinary trainers and fanciers alike." —Publisher's Weekly
From the devastation of the World Trade Center to earthquakes in Central Asia, search and rescue dogs have proven invaluable in helping to find victims of disasters-whether man-made or natural.
First published in 1991 to critical acclaim, this newly expanded and revised edition of Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, contains original, updated content. Chapters describe cutting-edge training techniques used for wilderness, disaster, cadaver dogs, and water searches, and by state and federal disaster organizations such as FEMA.
Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, 2nd Edition provides:
Extensive photographs illustrate real-life missions, including images of Ground Zero and the Pentagon taken by ARDA volunteers after September 11, 2001.
Acknowledgments | ||
Foreword | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Forming the American Rescue Dog Association | 1 |
2 | Before You Begin | 13 |
3 | Selecting the Air-Scenting Search Dog | 17 |
4 | Basic Training, Obedience and Agility | 35 |
5 | Beginning Search Training | 53 |
6 | Advanced Search Training | 73 |
7 | Handler Standards and Equipment | 89 |
8 | The Search Dog Unit | 103 |
9 | Unit Training | 115 |
10 | Responding to a Search | 133 |
11 | Conducting the Search | 141 |
12 | Special Applications | 155 |
13 | Avalanche Training | 167 |
14 | Cadaver Training | 177 |
15 | Disaster Training | 195 |
16 | Disaster Missions | 215 |
17 | First-Aid for Search Dogs | 237 |
18 | ARDA Searches | 251 |
App.: Lost Person Behavior | 263 | |
Index | 267 |