Search & Rescue Dogs

hi guys,
im realy intrested in SAR at the moment and am currently a protection dog handler in the army been so for about a year now and i love it.
just woundering if there is or has been any one from a military working dog background with you guys and if the training of the dogs was similar or completly diffrent
will be attending next week hopefully just waiting for the email
thanx in advance
lew worley

ps excuse my lack or computer and spelling skills

also wondering what your dog teams do for vet care do u have discounted vet care or your own vets just genral intrest if its not to intrusive
thanks again
lew

Hi Lew

Which team are you looking to join?

There are quite a few teams represented here.

I would guess its either Berkshire , Surrey or Hampshire....

hi Daryl

been looking at berkshire its close looks profesional and the website anserwed lots of my questions about starting and what i need
my only drama is being in the army i might not be able to make every week
would u be able to help me out if i was to attend on the tue 29th what kit would i nee to bring i train dogs at work all day so dont mind a few scrapes and bruise and geting wet and dirtys a daily ritualy lol
so all that side of things im sure i will injoy
thanks again
lew

In which case I can probably answer most of your questions...

Firstly, welcome to the forum! The forum is used by people all of the world, but predominantly from the UK.

We don't have any Military Dog Handlers in the team, however the experience of the team is varied as well as the background of some of the dogs.

Regarding vet care, we are sponsored by Moor Cottage Vets in Bracknell who provide a good price to our members who are registered with them.

Quite a few of our members are employed within the emergency services and we are therefore used to members not being able to make it down every week. We do have a minimum membership attendance requirement, but if you think that its going to be difficult to maintain you can speak to the Membership Secretary.

With regard to when to come down and what to bring, you need to talk to Mel, the membership Secretary as she co-ordinates these things - her email address is membership@k9-sar.com

Hopefully we will see you soon.

If you have any other questions either about Berkshire or Search and Rescue in general, please feel free to post it here.

nice one
1 last thing what sort of training areas do u have ie are u limited to where u can train or do u get free reign over were you go
we were very ristricted up intill earliy this year but now we got a lot of areas just a genral intrest of how it works in civvi street
thanks mate
lew

We have permission to use certain areas as others are restricted due to nesting birds etc. but the areas that we use we tend to be able to go where we like.

In your own time, as long as the land is private and you have permission, or public access but you abide by local bye laws you should be OK to train anywhere.

ok thanks mate

not been on the site for some time, i am ex RAVC 85-95 and would recommend going out working with search and rescue dogs even if you dont train one, you will learn so much that you can then use in training army dogs, i was at Buller from 90 - 93 and did a lot with civvie groups, learnt loads. having met with a few of the lowland search dog teams all i will say is get out there and enjoy your self their not that bad for civvies. Mike Dermody

cheers mike
Lew