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Dog Heroes: Saving Lives and Protecting America Paperback – January 1, 2006

by Jen Bidner (Author)

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Aptly named mans best friend, dogs often perform extremely heroic and dangerous roles in their jobs. Dog Heroes is the first book to celebrate these brave dogs and their handlers. In addition to high-profile disaster dogs, the U.S. has a wealth of search dogs performing numerous critical jobs, including seeking out bombs, drugs, land mines, criminals, and finding abducted children.

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A wealth of loyal and dedicated search dogs perform critical and often surprising jobs every day, including finding lost or abducted children, identifying unmarked Civil War grave sites, recovering avalanche victims, discovering dangerous gas-line leaks, and pulling drowning swimmers to shore. Search dogs have even been used to find skin cancer with better accuracy than doctors!
Images of canine heroes finding the victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks and rescuing people from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina provide dramatic proof of their worth, yet it s usually the search dogs in local
communities that capture our hearts and proudly demonstrate the important role that working dogs play. Search dog trainer and photographer Jen Bidner brings her knowledge of the field to Dog Heroes, the first book to celebrate the stories of these brave dogs and their handlers and highlight their capabilities with dramatic photographs. In addition to rousing real-life tales, Bidner writes about the history of canine search and rescue, complete with photos and artwork from the turn of the century. Detailed information on getting started in canine search and rescue rounds out this terrific book.

About the Author

Jen Bidner is a volunteer K9 handler with Illinois- Wisconsin Search & Rescue Dogs (ILL-WIS), a not-forprofit canine unit that helps law enforcement agencies and fire departments in the Midwest find lost and missing people. She is the author of over a dozen books.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lyons Pr; 1st edition (January 1, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 138 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1592289584
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1592289585
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.5 x 8 inches

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Anne E. Rehfeld

Honoring those who serve

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2007

This book beautifully demonstrates the many servcies provided by some of the most unlikely dogs, as well as the "normal" breeds that are an active part of the search world. I really appreciated the history given especially for the young readers. My families and friends have enjoyed this book immensely. Some children included it in their book report for school!! A group of "would be" handlers respected, reconsidered and found great value in the context referring to becoming a handler. Jen did a wonderful job of relaying the real world of the working search dog and the intensity of handler involvement. We enjoy chauffeuring our SAR K9 to each assignement and watching him work; maybe we can soon teach him to drive!