Jennifer Coulter

Hey all,

Thought I would share a couple of clips from a training session at my work last week.

Nothing special about this search except fellow patroller was kind enough to take a few clips with my camera during a live burial practice.

Note:

The shovelling you see in the video is NOT how it would be done in real life. We practice shovel techniques for speedy excavation and the dog is not part of the digging effort, but here we are letting the dog show pursuit for the victim/reward.

http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t...ive_0001-1.flv

The second vid us continuing to search (after the live) for a buried article. I am holding the camera so it is a bit shaky (I am carrying other stuff and skiing).

In this part of the search my goal was to test his commitment to the source by moving away from him when he has indicated and giving his change direction command "this way"...

This is to ensure that if I should make the error of NOT WATCHING MY DOG or if he is behind a pile of debris and I can't see him, I know I won't mistakenly call him off....

Moving away from him is also a good way to differentiate the difference between surface human scent and buried human scent, as if it is just surface scent the dog may dig a paw or two to investigate, but will then move a way to continue the pattern, but if it is getting stronger he will commit to the source.

http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t...fattemp t.flv

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