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  2. Video Showing How Avalanche Rescue Dogs Find People ... - AOL

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    A properly trained search and rescue dog can scan an area as big as two football fields in about thirty minutes. The same area would take a team of twenty people over eight hours to search ...

  3. Search and rescue dog - Wikipedia

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    A search-and-rescue (SAR) dog is a dog trained to respond to crime scenes, accidents, missing persons events, as well as natural or man-made disasters. [1] These dogs detect human scent, which is a distinct odor of skin flakes and water and oil secretions unique to each person [1] [2] and have been known to find people underwater, snow, and ...

  4. Search and rescue in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Search and rescue in the United States. Search and rescue in the United States involves a wide range of organizations that have search and rescue responsibilities. In January 2008, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the National Response Framework (NRF) which serves as the guiding document for a federal response ...

  5. Guide Dogs for the Blind - Wikipedia

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    San Rafael, California. Revenue (2020 [1]) $77,919,348. Website. www .guidedogs .com. Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) is a guide dog school located in the United States, with campuses in San Rafael, California, and Boring, Oregon. It was founded in 1942 by Lois Merrihew and Don Donaldson [2] to help veterans who had been blinded in World War II.

  6. Colorado Training Facility Helps Rescues Become Service Dogs

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    Training facility gives rescue dogs second chance at life in Colorado. Michelle Abel has been training dogs for more than three decades, as Fox 31 reports. In 2021, she began rescuing and ...

  7. International Search and Rescue Dog Organisation - Wikipedia

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    The International Search and Rescue Dog Organisation (IRO) is the worldwide umbrella organisation for search and rescue dog work and partner of the UN organisation INSARAG. It unites more than 250,000 people worldwide with about 4,000 certified search and rescue (SAR) dogs. The headquarters are in Salzburg.

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    Manitoba Underdogs Rescue Inc. in Winnipeg, MB, runs a 600-volunteer-strong foster home-based dog rescue serving the province of Manitoba. To date, they’ve rescued more than 3,500 animals.

  9. Dog training - Wikipedia

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    A dog trainer with the United States Navy, which primarily trains using positive reinforcement.. Dog training is a kind of animal training, the application of behavior analysis which uses the environmental events of antecedents (trigger for a behavior) and consequences to modify the dog behavior, either for it to assist in specific activities or undertake particular tasks, or for it to ...