Search and Rescue Dog Training Secrets and Guide in 2021 | Dog Training Craft

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Search and Rescue Dog Training Secrets and Guide
in 2021

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Introduction

• SAR refers to Search and Rescue, dogs have
  extraordinary ability of hearing, night vision,
  and most important sense of smell.
• Dogs are considered lifesavers in SAR in natural
  disasters or any other environment to find lost
  and injured people.
• If you compare dogs and humans in terms of
  searching or locating people, A single dog is
  more than enough to compare to 15 to 25 people.
• This unbelievable set of skills and reliability
  make them valuable assets for humans.
• We will introduce some tips and tricks of SAR
  dogs that will help your dog build trust and new
  craft.

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History of Search Dog

• The Latin word Canis means dogs, the history of
  the dog is much familiar to the wolf community.
• The dogs are descendants of the grey wolves,
  their origin relates to the wolf community.
• 15000 years ago hunters bring up the dog as a pet
  for the first time.
• It Is European people who came to know the use of
  dogs in search of people who lost in the wood,
• and after this people started to consider the dog
  as an important part of the rescue mission.
• Their long duration with the human being leads
  them to adapt human behavior exclusively.
• Dogs have an important role in human affairs like
  in hunting safety, tear the loads, comradeship
  military, and in many ways.
• They are familiar to human beings, so thats why
  they are called the best companions to human
  beings.
• Their specialty of sense of smell makes them
  different from other animal and their different
  color, size, shape make their breed much larger.

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Types of Search and Rescue Training

• Cadaver Dog Training
• Urban/ Disaster Dog Training
• Tracking/ Trailing Rescue Training

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Cadaver Dog Training

• Cadaver dog training helps officers and police
  personnel to find buried or hidden humans in
  natural disasters or crime with the help of human
  scent.
• This training is based on the natural desire for
  food searching, dogs are trained to find the
  humans take no notice of food.
• Dogs are trained to recognize the smell and
  perform the task with incredible efficiency to
  find the Humans being.
• A few controllers would rather that their dog
  does a bark alert at the sign of a dead body,
  others would rather that their dog will scratch
  at the dead body.
• Every dog cannot become a rescue dog this needs a
  great physical ability and shape, German
  Shepherds, Rottweilers, Dobermans, Labradors, and
  Golden Retrievers are the most used dogs for this
  training.

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Urban/ Disaster Dog Training

• In a natural disaster like tornadoes,
  earthquakes, or other disasters (collapsed
  buildings and other structures), dogs are trained
  to find the missing or injured human beings in
  this environment.
• They are trained to give bark alerts to their
  charge hand when finding some buried victim, a
  major goal in this environment is to search a
  maximum number of buried or injured people in the
  shortest amount of time.
• It takes more than 600 hours of hard training for
  a dog to be ready for this field and Disaster
  dogs are skillful to perform in the hard
  situation which is created by natural disasters.

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Tracking/ Trailing Rescue Training

• Dogs are naturally gifted with a great sense of
  smell with good motivation and training, dogs can
  easily find hidden things.
• The sense of smell of a dog is 100,000,000 times
  more powerful than humans and a dog can sniff a
  drop of blood in 55 gallons of water.
• Tracking training is commonly used by police to
  track criminal or buried human bodies but you can
  also train your dog for fun at your home.
• You can start with your dogs favorite toy and
  recall again and again, for example, a dog often
  plays with a ball, so you need to repeat the word
  ball.
• Keep repeating this until your dog connects with
  the word ball and starts acknowledging this
  object call ball.
• Now, you can hide this ball to anywhere one or
  two places at your home and give instructions to
  your dog  Find it or Find now

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Training Requirements

• SAR training takes time to train a dog, the
  training duration depends on the life expectancy
  of a dog.
•  Its not only the dog who requires some quality
  to get trained but the owner should also have
  the patience during the whole training. 
• If you want to make your dog a SAR material then
  your dog must have these qualities if he does not
  have then you have to build them in your dog.
• Patience First it is up to you to keep patience
  during the training of your dog after that your
  dog must have this quality if he does not have
  then keep your training session short. 
• A long-duration pet is not also a SAR material if
  he doesnt have the potential and patience.

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Stability

• If you want to give your dog a new skill you must
  train your dog regularly.
• It gives him perfection in training and leads him
  to become a pro in search and rescue because it
  takes a long time to be a pro in training
  requires an enormous amount of your time to spare
  for the training.
• At first, you need to train your dog two or three
  days a week after some months passes of training
  it will go daily.
• Discipline is compulsory while training your dog.
  So you need to keep consistent with the
  discipline to make your training effective and
  productive.

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Efficiency

• Maybe it is not your pet dog for SAR training who
  is staying with you for the last five years,
  because only some specific breeds are compatible
  for the SAR training select a perfect match for
  SAR you have to examine the life expectancy of
  your dog.
• The working life of a dog would be affected by
  training he should be a devotee for the SAR
  mission.

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Training Local Workshops/Seminars

• Take participate in local training seminars would
  make your training enjoyable.
• Local training seminar offers the different type
  of training like, advance SAR, finding lost
  victim, command system.
• This will help your dog to get the new skill in
  training when you attend the seminar as a team
  with your dog.

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Time Freedom

• SAR training is not just a piece of cake and not
  an exercise that you can perform in your free
  time.
• It requires a lot of time, as often most of the
  searches run through the whole night and will
  continue for the next days, weeks, and months.
• It may be midnight when you need to go out from
  your house to provide SAR service.
• So you need time freedom from your family because
  some its the family who doesnt support you to
  go out from the house in odd timing for training.

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Financial Stand

• SAR is not free training sometimes it is
  self-funded by the owner or maybe partially paid
  by the organizer.
• It requires enough money to spend on training and
  many types of equipment that makes the training
  more enjoyable and interesting.
• You should be financially able to purchase these
  types of equipment, equipment are like
• Pouch
• Meals
• Attire Uniform
• Tour Expenses
• SAR Special Equipment
• Dog Collars
• Harness

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