Search & Rescue Dogs

I have only been training Search Dogs for 6 years, maybe not as long as some, but more than others.

I had to learn the hard way, from reading books and trail and error. I found it particularly difficult to get help and advice. Many doors were closed to me as I was not a member of a specific organisation as well as information being pretty sparse.

I have been running a forum for my unit which has worked really well. Our forum has aloud us to communicate and improve our training amongst many things.

I hope that this forum too can help other like minded people, no matter which country you live in, which breed you train or which discipline you train in.

Please pass on the link and get more of your Search Dog colleagues on here to share their knowledge.

If you would like to become a moderator, create a user-group for your organisation, or have a private area that only your members can see please ask.

Hi Daryll, Great idea to create a forum and I can see it becoming addcitive. Thanks for setting this up from Norfolk Lowland Search Dog Team. Deborah

Hi Daryl,

I would also like to Thank you for setting this forum up. We often find in Cheshire, as we are so far North of all ALSAR Teams, that we are very much alone and perhaps we don't have the support network that southern teams have. This forum up to now has allowed me to gain soooooooo much knowledge and the chance to share on other areas such as Human Tissue Act, CATAC Harnesses. I don't intend going anywhere soon

I'm sure Joe and Radar, both Cheshire LSART would agree when I say

THANK YOU

Stop it guys, your going to make me blush!

At the end of the day the forum is only as good as the people that post on it!

So get the word out there and get more people registered and posting on here!

Hi everybody,
I'm Kostas Kastaniotis, member of the RESCUE GR (www.rescue.gr) team, a volunteer ngo from Thessaloniki, Greece.
i participate as a training cooordinator and also as a dog handler. We mainly do USAR and Open area searches,
As a team we are new, but each one have many years in the subject.
I hope i can find helpful ideas in this forum.
All the best
Kostas

please forgive my english...i'm Greek

Welcome Kostas!!

I hopw you enjoy the forum and find it usefull. The forum is new also, so we are always looking for new members to join.

Please don't be afraid to ask questions or post interesting artcles here, after all, we all have something to learn and offer!!

And don't worry about your English....

....its alot better than me Greek!!!

Thanks Daryl for the welcome..
I have so many things and thinks to ask and express ...i hope i can manage.
Glad to be here!!

and a useful link for those who indents to go abroad in an international rescue mission..the proper immunizations
http://www.iamat.org/pdf/WorldImmunization.pdf

Yiassou Kostas,
Great to have a Greek contact on the Forum.
I live in London and belong to Berkshire SAR Dog Team, but have a house in Poros! Poli orea. So if you ever fancy a holiday over there with friends or family you'd be very welcome
Would be great to meet up if our paths ever cross in Greece
Sto calo
Tony

Yiassou Tony,
What a surprise !!! I would be very glad to meet you in Greece or even in UK..
Do you have any Greek relatives?
i hope we have so mauch to talk about Greece and dogs
Na ise panta kala
Kostas

Kostas,
I have sent you an email.
Yia.