Mounted search and rescue

[Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>]

Chris Pennington wrote: 
>[...] Large dogs have to be treated as if they are unconscious 
>humans. In effect with their size its the same type of carry.

Hm.  I think they would have to be treated as if they were uncooperative
or potentially uncooperative humans.


>Heat would be an issue I think. And stabilization.

Human subjects often are heavily packaged, precisely for stabilization.


>I suspect that in a real emergency a SAR dog would be helo'd out just as 
>human SAR personnel would be.

Maybe, if that's possible, but often it isn't.  More generally, a large
dog presents similar transport issues to a person, due to weight alone.
Too bad an injured SAR horse is not in the same ballpark as an injured
SAR dog, weight wise.

        Una