This month's workout was based around crime scene preservation and documentation. We did a classroom session yesterday and put our new training into action today. We had 5 "crime scenes" that were set up and they were life like since we dressed up mannequins for the dogs to find!

Obedience training

How many dogs can you fit in a pick-up?

Ready to go to work!!

Doing some runaways on the dirt piles!

Subject #1 found 'em!

Subject #2 - good girl Stella

The poor mannequin was clearly murdered in this scenario...

Marie and Batman working

Subject #3 - buried

Great day of training!

Labels: cadaver dog, crime scene, k9 sar, rocky mountain rescue dogs, Search and rescue

Rocky Mountain Rescue Dogs - level 3 testing

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8:05 PM

I am a Level 3 on my search and rescue team, this means I have a speciality above our normal level 2 certification test . I have my speciality in human remains detection (HRD). As part of being a level 3, it means you take on candidates to mentor and evaluate other peoples certification tests. Today I went to evaluate another teammate in his level 3 area test - 2 subjects in moderate to difficult terrain in 250 acres in 5 hours.
While Dee and Pastis ran their test and i kept tabs while watching "doggy tv" aka my Astro, Oak and I trained HRD.

Starting to work source #1 - in the rocks to the right

Flying pup!!

Workin hard

Right on it

Good alert!

Second source

Under the log, good alert!

Dee and Pastis passed! 2 subjects found in 2 hours 50 minutes

Our subjects graciously stayed in place so Oak could could find them

Searching through sage brush

Labels: air scent, area scenting, k9 sar, nose work, rocky mountain rescue dogs, scent work, Search and rescue

Rocky Mountain Rescue Dogs (RMRD) Avalanche Training

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8:06 PM

We had our avalanche training this weekend, but since we have had such a mild winter we had to drive almost all the way to Idaho to find deep enough snow to play in!