--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 204 SEARCH & RESCUE Ref: C3500012Date: 02/28/95 From: DEANNA JOHNSON Time: 08:49pm \/To: MARTIN COHN (Read 2 times) Subj: training HOWDY!!!!How ya'll doin down ther?? I am sure glad you picked up my message. Been able to use any of those nifty skills they taught us? How's the weather down there? Would you like a little of Minnesota windchills to liven things up a little. I am almost tempted to head south just to warm up. Do you still have a list of the participants in San Antonio? I am trying to find Mike Shertz's address. He told me that when I got to clinicals in medic school to give him a jingle, and now I can't find the list. If you are able to find it, would you leave it on E-mail? Did you hear about the detection of human remains school we are doing in June? Andy Rebmann is teaching it. Should be good. Let me know if you want more info. Please keep in touch. Let me know how the pup is doing. DeAnna --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.11 * Origin: The BACKDRAFT BBS! * USR V.34 28.8 * (1:282/4014.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 204 SEARCH & RESCUE Ref: C3500013Date: 02/28/95 From: DEANNA JOHNSON Time: 09:13pm \/To: BRIAN KODISH (Read 2 times) Subj: rescue dogs Several suggestions for you. Your echo comes from Texas? There are several good SAR K-9 teams in Texas. Find one of them. In the mean time, get yourself enrolled in a good obedience class and don't stop with just basic obedience. Everything we do with dogs requires exceptional control. If you do not have control of your dog, both on and off leash (in close and at a distance) nothing works well. The next step, in my humble opinion, is to find a good tracking class. All the dogs in my team are cross trained for tracking and airscenting ( YES!!!! you can train for both!!), however, we have had the best luck by starting with tracking. New handlers become accustomed to training in an orderly and managable manner, and the dogs become accustomed to learning. If you have a good training officer on the team you join, you may be able to train for both at about the same time ( start with trackingfirst though). Our dogs are keyed to the skill they are to use by the collar/harness (ie the bell collar for airscenting and the tracking harness for tracking), however, they do have the latitude to intermix the skills on area searches as they are need. As for books, there are several out there, but the one I would recommend is "Search Dogs" ("the red book") that was done by the American Rescue Dog Association. I have several major disagreements with it, however, for a new handler, it's not bad. Last, but not least, I would strongly recommend you not put any aggression work on this dog. Rotties have a hard enough rep to deal with without adding that (especially for a SAR dog). I failed a handler and a Rottie about 18 months ago because the handler tried to train for search work and aggression (mastering neither adequately). When he tried to test out, the dog decided he was expected to bite, and did just that....biting a sheriff's deputy K-9 handler that was kind enough to hide for the test. The dog is lucky he wasn't shot on the spot. Hope I've been of some help. DeAnna --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.11 * Origin: The BACKDRAFT BBS! * USR V.34 28.8 * (1:282/4014.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 204 SEARCH & RESCUE Ref: C3500014Date: 02/25/95 From: MICHAEL MCRIMMON Time: 09:28pm \/To: STEPHEN DOERK (Read 2 times) Subj: KCSAR on the air! El Paso Combined Search and Rescue El Paso Texas on-line --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Health Professions (1:381/61) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 204 SEARCH & RESCUE Ref: C3500015Date: 02/24/95 From: STEPHEN DOERK Time: 08:31am \/To: STEVE HORNING (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Echo Test SH> -> This is a test from the Dallas area. > -> If this works I will be back online with SAR! > -> SH> JC> I don't know about Dallas and the surrounding areas but you are > JC> getting to Memphis, Tn. and its surrounding areas..... LOUD and EAR! SH> And Shreveport, LA! Close to Dallas anyway. And Bremerton, WA..... not so close to Dallas!! --- * OLX 2.1 * To poldly bow air mobius gumby four: Trek on novocaine! --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The OS BBS * Bremerton, WA * 360-405-0367 (1:350/215.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 204 SEARCH & RESCUE Ref: C3500016Date: 02/24/95 From: STEPHEN DOERK Time: 08:31am \/To: STEVE HORNING (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Echo Test SH> -> This is a test from the Dallas area. > -> If this works I will be back online with SAR! > -> SH> JC> I don't know about Dallas and the surrounding areas but you are > JC> getting to Memphis, Tn. and its surrounding areas..... LOUD and EAR! SH> And Shreveport, LA! Close to Dallas anyway. And Bremerton, WA..... not so close to Dallas!! --- * OLX 2.1 * To poldly bow air mobius gumby four: Trek on novocaine! --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The OS BBS * Bremerton, WA * 360-405-0367 (1:350/215.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 204 SEARCH & RESCUE Ref: C3500017Date: 02/24/95 From: STEPHEN DOERK Time: 08:31am \/To: STEVE HORNING (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Echo Test SH> -> This is a test from the Dallas area. > -> If this works I will be back online with SAR! > -> SH> JC> I don't know about Dallas and the surrounding areas but you are > JC> getting to Memphis, Tn. and its surrounding areas..... LOUD and EAR! SH> And Shreveport, LA! Close to Dallas anyway. And Bremerton, WA..... not so close to Dallas!! --- * OLX 2.1 * To poldly bow air mobius gumby four: Trek on novocaine! --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The OS BBS * Bremerton, WA * 360-405-0367 (1:350/215.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 204 SEARCH & RESCUE Ref: C3500018Date: 02/24/95 From: STEPHEN DOERK Time: 08:31am \/To: STEVE HORNING (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Echo Test SH> -> This is a test from the Dallas area. > -> If this works I will be back online with SAR! > -> SH> JC> I don't know about Dallas and the surrounding areas but you are > JC> getting to Memphis, Tn. and its surrounding areas..... LOUD and EAR! SH> And Shreveport, LA! Close to Dallas anyway. And Bremerton, WA..... not so close to Dallas!! --- * OLX 2.1 * To poldly bow air mobius gumby four: Trek on novocaine! --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The OS BBS * Bremerton, WA * 360-405-0367 (1:350/215.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 204 SEARCH & RESCUE Ref: C3500019Date: 02/24/95 From: STEPHEN DOERK Time: 08:31am \/To: STEVE HORNING (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Echo Test SH> -> This is a test from the Dallas area. > -> If this works I will be back online with SAR! > -> SH> JC> I don't know about Dallas and the surrounding areas but you are > JC> getting to Memphis, Tn. and its surrounding areas..... LOUD and EAR! SH> And Shreveport, LA! Close to Dallas anyway. And Bremerton, WA..... not so close to Dallas!! --- * OLX 2.1 * To poldly bow air mobius gumby four: Trek on novocaine! --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The OS BBS * Bremerton, WA * 360-405-0367 (1:350/215.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 204 SEARCH & RESCUE Ref: C3500020Date: 02/24/95 From: STEPHEN DOERK Time: 08:31am \/To: STEVE HORNING (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Echo Test SH> -> This is a test from the Dallas area. > -> If this works I will be back online with SAR! > -> SH> JC> I don't know about Dallas and the surrounding areas but you are > JC> getting to Memphis, Tn. and its surrounding areas..... LOUD and EAR! SH> And Shreveport, LA! Close to Dallas anyway. And Bremerton, WA..... not so close to Dallas!! --- * OLX 2.1 * To poldly bow air mobius gumby four: Trek on novocaine! --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The OS BBS * Bremerton, WA * 360-405-0367 (1:350/215.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 204 SEARCH & RESCUE Ref: C3500021Date: 02/25/95 From: MICHAEL MCRIMMON Time: 09:28pm \/To: STEPHEN DOERK (Read 2 times) Subj: KCSAR on the air! El Paso Combined Search and Rescue El Paso Texas on-line --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Health Professions (1:381/61)