David Morris Webboard User Reg: 11-28-2002
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Should cadaver dogs be taught to track too, or just air scent? If someone wants a cadaver dog on their SaR team should it just be trained to air scent cadaver or should it first be a tracking dog that is trained to recognize and indicate cadaver scent?
Stop making excuses for your dog and start training it!
I'm not sure I understand your question, but I would be curious to read the responses. If I understand your question correctly, I believe there are some philosophical differences of opinion on whether a dog should be taught both live (either airscent or groundscent) and cadaver scent work. There are many dogs that do both successfully.
Hmmmm, I didn't realize that Cadaver Dogs were a breed. I thought locating human remains was a trained behavior? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
I have bred quite a few Malinois that have gone on and become certified as working cadaver dogs. Not one or two but several who amongst other types of working avenues are placed in real working jobs achieving success in the skill set they were taught.
David Morris Webboard User Reg: 11-28-2002
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And to respond to Jerry, I know dogs dont track a cadaver scent or a track so old that there is a decomposed body at the end of it! I wish I could train a dog to track a 3 week old track though!! But like I said earlier should a cadaver dog have any tracking skills or just remain a purely air scenting dog?I know the dog doesnt need tracking skills to air scent a cadver but is there any good reason why the dog might be trained to have some tracking skills too.It seems some SaR people want one dog that does both. I feel like they should have their dog do one or the other. Seems to me it would be a conflict to teach a dog to track on the ground and then teach it to airscent cadaver too.
Stop making excuses for your dog and start training it!
hey david
The cadaver dogs I watched work at the SAR team i wanted to join were all pure air scent-as were all the SAR dogs. None of them did tracking like I think you mean-head down, nose on a trail. I guess there isn't time for that kind of tracking maybe in SAR situations? It was kind of like working a deer or a rabbit dog...We all got a map and a basically a grid to search and the dogs circle air scenting in that grid, once they pick up the scent you can see it in their expression and then they just close in on it-cadaver training was just in a smaller area. They'd put the cadaver jar in places like a drain pipe or a bunch of deadfall, like where a body might be, and once those dogs hit, then they start snuffling to get an exact-but before then it's all air.
Other SAR might do it different-this is just what I saw.
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