Product Overview
Dogs, with their amazingly keen sense of smell, can sniff out and sense people and things that can't 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, sheriff's 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 dog's 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 dog's remarkable sensitivity to odor and it's ability to understand and respond to human language.
