So, as many of you know, I have a German Shepherd that I have been training to work with HRD search. (Human Remains Detection...aka... Cadaver dog) It's been a long journey and have faced many trials and obstacles including from members of my own team. We have moved to a new team as a result of the ongoing issues we faced. The new team opened up a vast world of resources and opportunities to us. As a result, I found and became a member of NCPDA. (North Carolina Police Dog Association.)
On May 14, we went to one of the NCPDA HRD certification tests. They set up a number of training aids in a section of a junkyard/wood lot. I had 30 minutes total time to find 75% of the hidden sources. I put Lilly into the search area and in 3 minutes time, she had located and indicated 100% of the hidden HR sources. The facilitator of the certification turned to me and said.... "That dog knows what she's doing... it's a PASS for me. Excellent job!" So, now, Lilly is officially a certified HRD K9 and I was so proud of that girl on the job she did.
Thought some of you might like to know what we've been doing.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.com Add nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.
The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
Brian Cadoret BIAB 2024 Pro with BIAB2023 UltraPAK build 1111. Samplitude Pro X4 Suite. Mixcraft 10.5 Pro Studio Focusrite 2i2 Scarlett Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.20 GHz Installed RAM 8.00 GB
Way to go Lilly and Herb! It has always amazed me how much the evolutionary paths of dogs and humans have integrated together. We depend on them, they depend on us. Unlike any other human-animal relationship.
We've been busy around here and I haven't had a chance to reply. My apologies. She tested on Tuesday and then we had a team training set up and that was held Saturday at my farm. We had 4 HRD dogs and several tracking/trailing/air scent dogs. We had a large time, and were at it for 10 hrs. We also had some of the support ground search members and they were working a scenario and running shorter trails for the dogs that track live people.
We all had fun and I know quite a few learned some new things.... one lady said "I've never seen my dog do THAT before". Another tracker dog suddenly veered off the track and into the creek, face down in the water, snapping at the water and just having a fun time. The handler mentioned that little episode. She was puzzled. I asked her where exactly this happened. She described the location. I told her that's where I had submerged one of our training aids and the dog knew it but since it wasn't trained for HRD, didn't have a response that the handler would have known. We had 2 visitors from other teams. I got a feeling they will be back again. It was hot, but we worked a number of search sectors in the woods with nice deep shade and a breeze.
Now... it's kinda back to normal. I have to build some bee box accessories.... two screened bottoms and a solar wax melter. I'll be in the shop if anyone needs me.......
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.com Add nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.
The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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