Search Dog Training

Search Dog Training by Bryson, Sandy. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780910286947.

Dogs, with their amazingly keen sense of smell, can sniff out and sense people and things that cant be found in any other way. This book tells how they do it, and describes, in a clear hands-on way, how to train dogs to high performance. It is a manual for the city police, sheriffs deputies, ski patrols, hikers, and all who move about off the beaten path, and for parents of children who get lost. The author tells how to select and train a puppy for search work, what commands to give, how to reinforce the dogs response, and how to interact with the dog to keep it "interested" in the mission. She discusses how to organize a search mission, how to coordinate the various elements in a search effort (including equipment), how to work with city police, county sheriff, and other law enforcement personnel (including legal aspects), and how to conduct search missions from the training stage to real life situations. Anyone interested in dogs and dog behavior will find this book thought provoking. It should stimulate the discovery of new applications for the dogs remarkable sensitivity to odor and its ability to understand and respond to human language.