Mounted search and rescue

["Terry Nowacki" <wwfarm@wiktel.com>]

Hi Lyne

You asked - >   When are you coming out to the west coast?  I'll never be
advanced without attending one of your clinics!
 A clinic is now currently in the planing stage for the west coast, if you
or others are interested please e mail me privately at wwfarm@wiktel.com.

You asked - Were "mounted handlers" working both a K-9 and a scent trained
horse?
Yes all the four dogs and the two horses were scent detection trained and
tested. Each rider/handler was watching two dogs and one horse.

You asked -If someone is working both at the same time, do the dog and horse
communicate and key off each other?
In this search I was told that they did not key off each other but I was
told that at certain times yes, each do key off each other.

I personally choose not to work my scent detection horses with my  scent
detection dog because  I like to read one animal at a time. Now that being
said,  I can not argue with Ponderosa SAR's success. A year or more back,
which
was the last time I was in Northern Nebraska to give a clinic to this group,
I
witnessed them put on a very similar demonstration in front of several
different
law enforcement agencies and they had a complete success in that public
demonstration as well.

TER
Training Officer and Director for Marshall County Mounted Sheriff's Posse -
An 80 plus membership MSAR organization.
 http://equinedetectionservices.com/clinics_&_training.htm


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyne" <lyne612@yahoo.com>
To: <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] MSAR-Riders Digest, Vol 40, Issue 12


> Terry,
>   When are you coming out to the west coast?  I'll never be advanced
without attending one of your clinics!
>
>   One question on the dog and pony show (^_^)... from the exerpted part
below, I'm not at all clear on what the teams were.  Were "mounted handlers"
working both a K-9 and a scent trained horse?  If someone is working both at
the same time, do the dog and horse communicate and key off each other?
>
>   Lyne
>
> As the mounted searchers used human reasoning power to guide their unique
combination search
> teams through the assigned area, it was nothing less than spectacular to
see the well trained scent
> detection search tools (dogs and horses), each doing their jobs. The K-9s
were able to get in to
> every nook, cranny, and washout where the horse could not easily reach,
and the horses were
> using their long necks as a scent detecting probes to catch each wisp of
high flying illusive scent
> that came their way. The mounted handlers had "the best seat in the house"
to observe their
> dogs' indications and to observe, feel and hear their horses indications.
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