Mounted search and rescue

["Lila Corey" <Caballera@embarqmail.com>]

I will be going on my first "mounted search" this weekend.  Any advice of to 
do's and not to do's???

Lila
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Una Smith" <una.smith@att.net>
To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Change of e-mails and some news from Iceland


> Irv wrote:
> > What Una refers to as air scent is not the same as most air scent search
> > dogs in my experience. Dogs tend to use their nose as the primary sensor
> > where horses tend to fuse their nose, eyes, ears, and maybe a sense of 
> > being
> > hunted.
>
> Dogs from scenting breeds tend to have olfactory tunnel vision ... but I
> have watched sight hounds search and their attention zone is far broader.
> That may explain why some breeds are used mostly for scent tracking and
> scent discriminating, and other breeds are used mostly for air scenting
> and without scent discriminating.  There is a trade off there:  it isn't
> good to have tunnel vision (and maybe pass right by the subject while
> following the subject's trail), but it also isn't good to pay attention
> to too much and loose focus.
>
> I think 20 or 50 or 100 years from now (if people don't all wear embeded
> tracking devices from birth), we will have identified some horse pedigrees
> that excel at air scenting.
>
> Una Smith
> New Mexico
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