8th Annual Search Dog Training
Weekend
The 8th Annual Search Dog Training
Weekend was held in Pope County, Arkansas the weekend of May 18-21,
2007. Base camp for the weekend was at Camp Caudle located in
Scottsville, Arkansas. The terrain in the area provided
opportunities to train on a variety of obstacles including Big Piney
Creek, Illiniois Bayou, numerous other small creeks & streams, the
Ozark National Forest, and urban areas.
A total of 17 teams attended the weekend from Arkansas, Kansas,
Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Oklahoma. Most of the teams
attending the weekend are volunteers who donate their time and money to
serve their communities to search for missing or lost persons and in
some cases assist with criminal man-hunts. K-9 teams attending
the weekend are deployed by the law enforcement agency having
jurisdicition over the report. Search teams have to be prepared
to search in all types of terrain in any weather conditions. All
disciplines of search dogs were represented during the weekend
including trailing dogs, tracking dogs, area search dogs, and cross
trained dogs.
Handlers attending the weekend received training in scent theory, K-9
emergency first aid, scent article collection, navigation, and scene
evaluation along with other topics. Along with the classroom work
handlers participanted in intenstive field training each day throughout
the weekend. The weekend conculded Monday morning with a mock
search exercise in which all disciplines came together to find their
victims.
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Last updated: 24 May, 2007
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