In history, it is not uncommon for the dog savior to take revenge on the Lord. There are mountain life-saving pills searching for passengers in distress in the ice and snow, and dogs in the raging fire, giving their lives in search of young children. Dogs; there are dogs who rescue the drowning people in the bathing beach by the sea; there are loyal dogs who fight poisonous snakes beasts in the deep mountains and forests to protect their owners from disasters; there are dogs in In the collapsed gravel and rubble, sniff out the exact location of the buried living person, deliver food, oxygen, letters to them, and make them meet the life-saving dogs who survived, etc., then how can your pet dog better Training? Is it possible to become an excellent rescue dog?

1. Training of snow rescue dogs

The purpose of training snow rescue dogs is to more quickly and accurately detect and locate people buried in snow and carry out rescue work. Avalanche search detectors and searches based on annunciators carried by climbers are also methods of avalanche rescue, but they are limited to only after the snow has melted. According to statistics, 90% of avalanche victims are alive within 15 minutes, and the probability of survival after 35 minutes is 30%, and the probability of survival decreases rapidly with time. Adequate search of the field, quick response and training safety are three important factors in this training.

First develop your dog's search ability. Choose an open ice and snow mountain, the trainer and the trainer will bring the dog to the destination. The trainer will first tease the dog with food or items. After the dog is excited, the trainer will take the food or items and run away in front of the dog. hide.

Then, the trainer issued the search password to it, instructing the dog to search the ground. When the dog found the trainer excitedly, the trainer immediately gave it food to eat.

At the same time, both the trainer and the trainer enthusiastically encourage and reward the dog, so that it will form the impression that after finding the trainer, he can get delicious food and the trainer and trainer's favor. With such regular training, the dog's search enthusiasm will become higher and higher, and the interest will become more and more great.

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2. Rescue dog training in gravel and debris

For crushing The training method of rescue dogs in rocks and ruins is basically the same as that in snow rescue training, except that the training site should be selected in collapsed buildings or other gravel and bricks. When the dog finds a buried living person, it should bark and train the dog to bring rescue items such as food and oxygen to the victim when people cannot enter or leave, so as to avoid the threat of starvation and suffocation. , quietly waiting for rescue.

Even in today's peaceful environment, a group of rescue dogs should be trained in cities for emergency rescue in various unforeseen events.

3. Training of marine rescue dogs

Anti-smuggling dogs and anti-drug dogs have long been known. Have you ever heard of a rescue dog in the sea?

Training begins by developing the dog's conditioned reflexes to swimming commands, gestures, or the cry for help from a drowning person. At first, the trainer pretended to be a drowning person and made a struggling cry for help in the water. The trainer gave the dog a swim password and waved to the drowning person. Immediately swim with it to the trainer, and when the trainer grabs the handle or the lifebuoy, let the dog swim to the shore, and the trainer and the dog will rescue the drowning person to the shore. When practicing, both the trainer and the trainer should sincerely reward the dog.

Italy also has marine rescue dogs. Pirenga has opened a school to train marine rescue dogs. He proudly said: The rescue dogs I trained are the only dogs in the world that can jump from a helicopter to the sea to save people. For them, learning to jump into the water from different heights is difficult, but learning how not to be disturbed by noise and wind It will be even more difficult if the waves interfere. His life-saving dogs can not only complete life-saving tasks with people, but also perform rescue work alone when people cannot rescue them. For example, for some reefs that cannot be approached by boats, the rescue dog can be tied with a rope and let it swim over with a lifebuoy to drag the victim back.

4. Training of life-saving dogs in fires

The dogs used for life-saving in fires are called fire dogs. At present, some countries in Western Europe have begun to train and use it, and have achieved good results. The fire dog mainly relies on its unique sense of smell and discernment to help firefighters quickly search for children who are hiding or fainted in the fire scene. Dogs used to save lives in fires must be bold, docile, brave, hard-working, and not afraid of flames.

The training can be divided into 2 stages:

1. Cultivation of basic ability

The basic ability of rescue dogs in fire is mainly to search for children in buildings And training for climbing, overcoming obstacles, and fetching valuables. For specific methods, please refer to the relevant chapters of this book.

2. Actual combat training

Mainly train dogs to repeatedly enter and exit burning buildings to search for hidden or fainted children. At the beginning of the training, only smoke was used to fill the entire building, and the trainer and the dog entered the search.