Ready!: Training the Search and Rescue Dog

By Susan Bulanda

Book Overview

Professional search and rescue workers consider Susan Bulanda's Ready Training the Search and Rescue Dog "the bible of Search and Rescue (SAR)," the most sought-after book of its kind detailing canine search and rescue. This second edition, expanded and revised with new color photography, provides readers with the necessary training methods for dogs in various SAR disciplines, including wilderness, evidence, cadaver, water, avalanche, and disaster searches. The author, an experienced SAR professional, details the goals, target skills, and potential problems at each training level of every SAR discipline. Ready provides descriptions of every type of search, including specific training methods to accomplish each SAR discipline. Professional and volunteer SAR workers will profit from the Bulandas' expertise on training the dog to alert, managing the search mission, choosing and socializing a SAR dog, and how to train dogs for specific commands (such as bar, turn around, go to an object, check, slow, crawl through and others). Readers curious about the fascinating work of the SAR canine will enjoy the general chapters about the history of SAR, an explanation of how dogs use scent to locate people or objects, and the functions of the SAR dog. This highly specialized training manual offers precise direction for SAR workers for every possible kind of mission, identifying the goals, target skills, methods and problem solving for each type of search. Color photographs and line drawings help to elucidate difficult concepts explained in the text. A resources section and index conclude this 254-page volume.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159378726X
• ISBN13: 9781593787264
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Kennel Club Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Guide to beginnning your SAR canine

Great book for gettting the basics for beginning Search and Rescue work with a canine. Book gives a step-by-step approach to training the canine as well as the handler. I recommend this book to anyone that needs information in canine SAR work.

Great book, begginers first choice!!!

This is a great book if, you're either starting SAR work or just want to know what's it all about! It's clear, well written, with many b/w photos and drawings. It's easy to follow and to understand all the basic's. However, if you want to buy something, very complete, you have experience, etc. This may not be what you're looking for. Still, I'll add it to my collection!!!

clear,concise, easy to follow, a beginners delight

As a dog lover just starting in the training of a golden retriever I found this book to be clear, concise, easy to follow. In fact a beginners delight!Each section is full of "how to" information that follows a logical step by step process to achieving the goal of a superbly trained dog/handler.

Excellent training in an easy format

Susan Bulanda's READY! is an excellent book for begineer and expert alike. The methodologies of dog training outlined in the text have provided our team with an invaluable resource. The training "problems" outlined for the reader are also an excellent training tool for canine rescue teams.

THIS IS "THE" BOOK ON SEARCH AND RESCUE!

This easy-to-read, well-researched book by an obviously experienced search and rescue person covers everything from the history of Search and Rescue through every possible aspect of training, including the basics of how a dog begins to learn. Illustrated with photos and sketches, this book provides a wonderful resource for anyone interested in Search and Rescue. It's no wonder this book was nominated as a Best Book of The Year by The Dog Writers' Association of America! It's a job well-done by an author with first-hand knowledge of her subject.