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| Boguslaw Gorny will be at SARSCENE 2003 to make a presentation and to sign copies of his book. |
I have just finished the best book on tracking for Search and Rescue dogs that I have ever read. Tracking for Search and Rescue Dogs: A Practical Manual for Novice and Advanced Handlers by Boguslaw P. Gorny is a must have for any tracking dog enthusiast.
Mr. Gorny has a unique gift of being able to explain complicated methods in a very easy to understand and readable format. Tracking for Search and Rescue Dogs: A Practical Manual for Novice and Advanced Handlers is a small hardcover book, 88 pages long. It has just been released and is published by Detselig Enterprises, Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The book is divided into 87 topics that range from selecting the dog to advanced training. Mr. Gorny explains the different theories for teaching a dog to track and the pros and cons of each theory. He covers different methods of motivation, scent theory, and track laying. He emphasizes the need for the tracklayer to have good skills and to understand how to lay a proper track.
Mr. Gorny walks us through the tracking problems from puppies all the way to adult dogs, from novice to advanced. How to use the tracking leash to guide the dog as well as communicate to the dog is thoroughly explained. He gives us tips about how to make the scent available to the dog. He also tells us how to teach the dog to determine the correct scent article when given a choice among two wrong articles and one correct article.
What I found most intriguing was a method he developed which uses a string to show a dog how to track over hard surfaces. One thing that I thought was excellent was the fact that Mr. Gorny includes a section about how to take a dog off of a track to rest and then restart the dog. The book concludes with a progress chart, bibliography and a note from the author.
Overall, this is a very well written and researched book. What makes it extra special is that Mr. Gorny is an experienced dog trainer and SAR dog trainer and handler. He is a biologist at The Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. He also formed and runs the Dog Training Centre in Lethbridge and founded the Lethbridge Area Search and Rescue Dog Association. As if that is not enough, he is a certified handler for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Civilian Search Dog Association of Alberta and the Search and Rescue Dog Group STORAT in Poland.
Susan Bulanda is an Incident Commander and the Head K-9 Trainer for Phoenixville Fire Department K-9 Search and Rescue Unit. She is the author of two books, READY! The Training of the Search and Rescue Dog and Ready to Serve, Ready to Save: Strategies of Real Life Search and Rescue Missions, both published by DORAL Publishing.
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