Ready!: Step-by-step Guide for Training the Search and Rescue Dog - Tapa blanda

Bulanda, Susan

 
9780944875414: Ready!: Step-by-step Guide for Training the Search and Rescue Dog
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0944875416 ISBN 13: 9780944875414
Editorial: Doral Publishing,U.S., 1998

Sinopsis

Professional search and rescue workers consider Susan Bulanda’s Ready! Training the Search and Rescue Dog ?the bible of Search and Rescue (SAR),” the most sought-after book of its kind detailing canine search and rescue. This second edition, expanded and revised with new color photography, provides readers with the necessary training methods for dogs in various SAR disciplines, including wilderness, evidence, cadaver, water, avalanche, and disaster searches. The author, an experienced SAR professional, details the goals, target skills, and potential problems at each training level of every SAR discipline.

Ready! provides descriptions of every type of search, including specific training methods to accomplish each SAR discipline. Professional and volunteer SAR workers will profit from the Bulandas’ expertise on training the dog to alert, managing the search mission, choosing and socializing a SAR dog, and how to train dogs for specific commands (such as bar, turn around, go to an object, check, slow, crawl through and others). Readers curious about the fascinating work of the SAR canine will enjoy the general chapters about the history of SAR, an explanation of how dogs use scent to locate people or objects, and the functions of the SAR dog.

This highly specialized training manual offers precise direction for SAR workers for every possible kind of mission, identifying the goals, target skills, methods and problem solving for each type of search. Color photographs and line drawings help to elucidate difficult concepts explained in the text. A resources section and index conclude this 254-page volume.

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Reseña del editor

A well researched and practical resource for training a search and rescue dog. Written by an experienced search and rescue person who also is a keen student of animal behaviour. Susan Bulanda introduces the reader to dog training by helping you understand first how a dog learns. Then she explains a step by step method that leads to the development of a dog who is eager to carry out the vital functions of search and rescue.

Biografía del autor

Susan Bulanda

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Editorial
Doral Publishing,U.S.
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0944875416
ISBN 13 
9780944875414
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
170
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