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K9 Search and Rescue

A Manual for Training the Natural Way

Resi Gerritsen author Ruud Haak author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Brush Education Inc

Published:26th Jan '17

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Training that works by harnessing your dog s instincts. Learn how to: Stimulate your dog s natural hunting drive for effective SAR training. Start your dog s training program with an easy, three-step process. Develop skills in a variety of search operations, including wilderness, avalanche and disaster scenarios. Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak have trained search and rescue dogs for more than 30 years and have taken part in rescue operations around the world. They serve as training directors and international judges for the International Red Cross Federation, the United Nations, the International Rescue Dog Organization and the F?d?ration Cynologique Internationale (FCI). Based on their decades of study and experience, their innovative SAR training method is rooted in a firm, scientific understanding of K9 instincts. Step-by-step instructions, dozens of illustrations and photographs from the field establish a professional K9 SAR program to benefit both beginners and experts. Get a free ebook through the Shelfie app with the purchase of a print copy."

Every once in a while a truly stellar book comes along and this is one of them. [T]his is a book that SAR personnel will want to refer to over and over. - Susan Bulanda, National Search Dog Alliance"

ISBN: 9781550594478

Dimensions: 213mm x 137mm x 15mm

Weight: 476g

288 pages

2nd Revised edition