Search & Rescue Articles Listing

All articles, with the exception of "Want to Be a SAR Dog Handler?" by Vikki Fenton-Anderberg, Chris Dover, and Kerry O'Connell, and "Training the Airscent Dog to use Voice Contact" by New England K-9 and Nancy Lyon, are by MESARD Training Director, Deborah Palman. The authors provide these articles for non-commercial use to advance and promote the use of working dogs in law enforcement and search and rescue. Any duplication or use of these articles or quotations from them for commercial purposes requires the permission of the authors.

Advanced Tracking

Backtracks

Environmental Conditioning for Police K-9s

Evidence Search

History and Perspective on SAR Dogs in Maine

Mealtime

Negative Punishment

Negative Searching

Not Using Force in Police Dog Training

Picking a Working Puppy

Search and Rescue Dogs and the Ground Searcher

Searching Contaminated Scenes for Evidence

Searching for the Mentally Disabled

Teaching Scent Discrimination

Teaching the "Handler Proof" Find / Refind

Temperament and Personalities in Dog Training

Timing Is Everything

The Start is the Most Difficult Part

To Fetch or Not to Fetch

Tracklayer Instructions

Tracking Handling

Tracking in Four Dimensions

Training the Airscent Dog to use Voice Contact

Want to Be a SAR Dog Handler?

Working Dog Management