Any house dog can help its human family during emergencies and disasters.
The most
important aspect of learning how your dog can help your family during a disaster
or afterwards is that while you and your dog learn these exercises in my book you will
begin to understanding the fundamentals of surviving the aftermaths of
emergencies and disasters.
You will learn
what to do to save yourself and family.
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| Freddie Knows! |
House
dogs do this every day by showing us when they want to play with a favorite
ball or go outside for a walk. Most dogs are not obedience or police dog
candidates; they are pets whose owner takes the time to show them what we would
like them to do.
House
dogs are preforming search dog skills all the time without us recognizing or
knowing they are. When the family dog follows the children around the yard or
comes to find you at dinner time they are doing what search dogs do.
One of the
easiest ways to find a lost person is to give a dog the person's scent and
watch him find the scent. The dog is only looking for the smell and not for the
actual person. They do not necessarily associate the scent with the
person unless the person is somebody they know with that scent.
To a dog, a scent
is a scent.
Therefore, the
fastest and surest way to teach or ask a dog to find a person is to use the
person's scent to show them who we seek. No two people smell alike. Everybody
smells different and we smell slightly different at various times during the
day or if we are sick.
