Hero Dogs: How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Became America's Greatest Disaster-Search Partners

by Wilma Melville, Paul Lobo, Will Damron, et al.

Book Overview

Lola was a buckshot-riddled stray, lost on a Memphis highway. Cody was rejected from seven different homes. Ace had been sprayed with mace and left for dead on a train track. They were deemed unadoptable. Untrainable. Unsalvageable. These would become the same dogs America relied on when its worst disasters hit.

In 1995, Wilma Melville volunteered as a canine search-and-rescue (SAR) handler with her Black Labrador Murphy in the aftermath...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250179912
• ISBN13: 9781250179913
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.3"