Possible SAR qualification!??! - Page 1

If you are apart of any SAR team or K9 search team please respond... if not please don't as I'm looking for a professional answer. I've just done some very short obedience with both of my dogs. I did Jake last... As I had some few chopped hotdogs left. I thought of a new game to play with Jake.. I call it "Search it". What I did was put Jake on a sitz.. Hold his choke and threw a hotdog ( not very far) across my lawn. I told Jake "Search it" and let dog of jakes choke and there he went... sniffing the grass until he found it without a hassle. I was curious if you do this kind training to get the dog to sniff out either a child/suspect or even a dead body? I'm very curious as I believe my Jake has the potentials of doing this kind of training.

I would like to correct some words of what i just wrote... sorry the heat and the excitment got to me. here goes, Again i aplolgize for the errors. "I've just done with some very short obedience with both of my dogs. I did Jake last... As I had some few chopped hotdogs left. I thought of a new game to play with Jake.. I call it "Search it". What I did was put Jake on a sitz.. Hold his choke and threw a hotdog ( not very far) across my lawn. I told Jake "Search it" and let go of jakes choke and there he went... sniffing the grass until he found it without a hassle. I was curious if any of you guys do this kind training to get the dog to sniff out either a child/suspect or even a dead body? I'm very curious as I believe my Jake has the potentials of doing this kind of training."

Let me start by saying I am not doing SAR at this time but I have and I also am a K-9 Trainer for SAR , POLICE , SPORT , Protection . So with that said is more like Sport tracking , for sport We put food in foot step and teach the dog to smell the track and eat the food With SAR work it is not done this way . We ONY USE PRAISE AND BALL Drive NO FOOD , IF YOU want to train your dog for SAR have a friend go about 50 yards and hide and call your dog from you , and let your dog go and he will AIR sent your friend to fined him / or her . Then you should have your friend praise your dog and reward him with his toy/ball . Air sent is much faster than training foot step to foot step track in real SAR work we use dogs that can track / Air sent and fined someone FAST I hope this helps , If you have any other ? you can e-mail me at spdk9@woh.rr.com or go to my site at www.spdk9.com

Vino, Do you have a book in mind? Spit it out! :D K-9 Helser, Thanks... I'm training Jake right now into doing a SchH1 track.. we are bascially out of helper work at our club so im trying to do things that don't require helper work, like doing a TR1 :) I am doing just that and so far we are doing very good :) I will be starting Jake with articles again.

You should pick a method and stick with it would be my suggestion. You DO NOT want Jake air scenting for any type tracking except SAR.