Julie Wilson Webboard User Reg: 07-12-2007
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OUTSTANDING!! Congratulations to you! That is a lot of hard work. I was lucky enough to get buried alive last winter for an Avalanche certification test and was extremely impressed with what those dogs do. Do you have a hard time finding subjects? People thought I was nuts but I found it beautiful, I was under 5 feet of show and the light was blue through the snow. I could hear people walking above me and their talking. The MOST fun was hearing the dog dig-dig-dig and you see their happy face poking through the snow into your cave!
OUTSTANDING!! Congratulations to you! That is a lot of hard work. I was lucky enough to get buried alive last winter for an Avalanche certification test and was extremely impressed with what those dogs do. Do you have a hard time finding subjects? People thought I was nuts but I found it beautiful, I was under 5 feet of show and the light was blue through the snow. I could hear people walking above me and their talking. The MOST fun was hearing the dog dig-dig-dig and you see their happy face poking through the snow into your cave!
I have not had issues finding people. We do train with large human scented articles in Canada (as well as with live people) to simulate deeper and longer burials than would be acceptable or possible with human quarry. To have no surface scent/tracks associated with the buial we bury them 24 hrs before hand.
Snow conditions can change alot in 24 hrs and articles can get pretty sealed in by some conditions such as wind packed snow on the surface as one example. The dog can only indicate what it can smell, and I have had my dog not find deeply burried articles in certain conditions. I do not know an avi handler (in Can) that has not experienced this kind of thing.
It is cool that you can hear things on the surface, but yell as you might the folks on the surface can't here you... Nice of you to volunteer to go in the "hole". Not everyone is willing to do that
Julie Wilson Webboard User Reg: 07-12-2007
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Yeah, my friends thought I was nuts. And I was trying to keep the 'scream all you want and they can't hear you' on the QT...lmao! That REALLY discourages people.
I was also saddened to learn that most Avie searches are actually recoveries due to the time required to DEPLOY the team. Got to see a presentation of that at DogMeet in Yakima WA this fall....
I am very interested in Avie work, but fully realize the EXTRA effort the handler and dog need to make in order to be properly prepared. It stuns me actually. You Avie teams do great work, which is why I am such a trusting fool....
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