Mounted search and rescue

[ALLEN SNYDER <allendana1@sbcglobal.net>]

Well this is just one example of how my email "packrat" system is useful!  I hope this may be some of what  you are looking for.  You might want to contact the poster below, Pam Williams.  The other person who I recall has expertise in this area is Irv Lichtenstein.  I hope they don't mind that I volunteered them.

 Would  you let me know what is currently available because our new unit is organizing and preparing to begin training once the SOPs are approved?  This would be good for us as well.  Dana Snyder, OPMSAR, Overland Park, KS

--- On Wed, 5/16/07, The Hitchn Post <hitchnup@msn.com> wrote:

From: The Hitchn Post <hitchnup@msn.com>
Subject: [MSAR] Air Scenting Horse's
To: "msar-riders" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 3:39 PM

Hello I've been reading now all the comment on Helmet vs. Cowboy hat for the last couple of weeks now I think we have covered all the issues. Bottom line: Helmets ugly... but safer......use them.

 

I would like to talk about some training our group has been doing with air scenting. I have been working with my Mare from Terry Nowacki's book. So I have started with the ground work but most of the group have not had the time, so with some of our practices we have set out people to hide and sent one rider in at a time (downwind).

 The riders are learning how each of their horse react or alert when they hit the scent, when the horse moves towards and reaches the person hiding he is then rewarded with a treat from both the rider and hider. All horses alert differently as do K-9's (I also train search & rescue dogs) so the rider needs to learn their horse's alerts.

 This has been fun for both horse and riders. By training your horse to air scent then he becomes a partner and a tool not just means of transportation on on a search.

 

Pam Williams,

Commander Iron County MSAR

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