May 17, 2011
Can a protection dog be used in search and rescue work?
Full Question:
I have a male GSD that I have started trailing work with for SAR. I would also like to get into one of the Protection sports, such as NAPD. My questions is this: Can a protection dog be used in an SAR environment? People have hold me that he would be fine for trailing, but could not be trusted, due to his bite work, in air-scenting, when he is running free. 
Ed's Answer:
Police service dogs with proper training are used for off leash searches all over this country. It would be very simple to do S&R with a sch sport dog. Most sport dogs will never bite in a real situation anyway.
If you want to learn how to do this, get my video that I did with the RCMP, Training Tracking Dogs S&R - Police.
They are the experts on S&R and all of their dogs bite - isn't that an interesting point?
If you want to learn how to do this, get my video that I did with the RCMP, Training Tracking Dogs S&R - Police.
They are the experts on S&R and all of their dogs bite - isn't that an interesting point?
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