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Nurturing Life-Saving Guardians: Los Angeles Search Dogs, P2/2
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Welcome, kind viewers,
to Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants.
Throughout history,
dogs have shown
their noble qualities
and worked miracles
by risking their lives
to save humans
out of unconditional love.
The acute sense of smell,
swiftness and agility
of dogs trained for search
-and-rescue work can
often make the difference
between life and death
for lost or injured
humans.
According to
research studies,
a dog’s sense of smell
is at least 44 times
more acute than that
of a human.
Depending on their size,
canines possess
between 125-million
and220-million
scent receptor cells.
By contrast, humans
only have about
five-million such cells.
This abundance of
smell receptors enables
dogs to find microscopic
scent particles even
in extremely challenging
environments
such as disaster areas.
Today, we’ll present
the second and final part
of our series
on a special canine
search-and-rescue team
called
Los Angeles Search Dogs.
Los Angeles Search Dogs
primarily supports
the Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department,
local fire departments
and other
law enforcement agencies
in Southern California,
as well as the
California State Office
of Emergency Services.
The organization’s
free services include
finding missing hikers,
lost children,
injured persons
and disaster victims
24 hours a day,
seven days a week,
365 days a year.
What specific scent
enables a canine to
track a missing person?
Humans continually shed
dead skin cells to form
groupings called “rafts.”
Heavier rafts such as
flakes of dandruff
fall near the body,
but lighter ones
float in the air.
We shed rafts while
sitting, standing,
sleeping and walking.
Dead skin just sheds
off of us, constantly.
It comes up from
our hair, comes down
through our pants.
Then skin goes through
the putrefaction process.
In other words, it starts
to deteriorate
based on the bacteria
that are on that skin raft.
And that process is
where you get scent.
The process is interrupted
on hot, sunny days as
the Sun’s ultraviolet rays
neutralize the bacteria.
So that means
your scent’s not going to
be very strong,
and with the heat,
that’s going to tend to
raise that scent up.
So that’s a difficult
condition at best.
In a cooler, more damp
setting that has more
greenery around it, that’s
a much better setting
because that allows
the bacteria to thrive
and feed on that skin raft
which produces
more scent.
So that’s basically
what they’re following.
The wind and
the weather factors into
how the dog is scenting,
and the scent can (be)
blown off far away,
it can be laying down,
or it can go straight up.
Heat causes scent to rise,
so he may not find
anything
if we do it at 12 noon.
So you also have to
think about the weather
when you do searches.
So the best time to search
is really early
in the morning and
late in the evening.
Just following
a search dog is not
all that’s necessary in
finding a missing person.
Precise understanding
of canine body language
is also essential
to a successful search.
So, it’s very important
that you know how to
read your dog too.
That is one of the most
important things,
his body language.
There he had the head
turn.
And there we go,
he found it.
It’s either the ears are up,
or the neck is stretching,
or the little head turn,
or just a little twitching
of the nose, that you need
to learn about your dog.
See the dog looked up
in the tree sometimes
because the scent goes up,
and gets stuck
in the leaves.
So you have to be aware
of all this scent theory
too.
Search dogs should be
able to climb, balance,
jump and swim and
be adequately trained
in their specialty.
Ms. Cohen now gives an
example of the training
used with area dogs.
So I’m going to tell you
how we train
the area dogs.
What they are looking for
is any human scent
that is out there; they are
not scent specific.
So all of us have
a different scent, but
some are specific to us,
so the dogs know that
there is a human
out there.
We teach them to run
after a person who hides,
and then we’ll call them
back, and we develop
an alert, either a bark
or a sit or a lay-down
in front of you,
meaning that they have
found a person.
Then we tell them,
“Show me,”
and they take us back
to the person.
That is what
the area dogs do.
The dogs love to search
and are well rewarded
with toys or food
for finding a given article
or person.
Shirley and Flash
are going to do
tree cadaver problems.
We have placed three
training aids out there.
So she has deployed
her dog
on the cadaver command.
Now he’s looking for it.
He’s going to let you know
when he has found it.
His alert is a bark.
He comes back
to her and barks, and
then brings her back to
where the training aid is.
Now the dog has found
the aid in the tree,
and he went back to her,
and let her know
where it’s at.
They give him the reward
for finding the training aid.
So now
she is rewarding him.
They love it.
It’s a game for them,
it’s totally a game.
That’s why I like it.
I couldn’t imagine
doing anything else.
I love it.
So I can’t wait
for my next dog.
When we return,
we’ll learn more about
Los Angeles Search Dogs
and its important work.
Please stay tuned to
Supreme Master
Television.
Welcome back to
Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants and
our program featuring
Los Angeles Search Dogs,
an ever-ready
search-and-rescue group
that serves the residents
of Southern California,
USA.
Hi, I’m Dawn Brady.
This is my dog Keller.
Keller is trained
in area and cadaver.
She’s relatively new
to the team.
She’s very high drive.
What she does is mostly
wilderness searches.
So she’s looking for
any human scent.
Good job, good job.
Hi, I’m Bob Veeck.
This is my dog Hilly.
Hilly is a trailing dog.
She’s three years old,
and (has) been certified
about a year now.
My name is Larry Cude.
I handle usually the
radio communications
and anything
dealing with paperwork.
This is my new dog,
Casey.
He’s about 10 months old,
and curious.
Larry handles all of our
base camp operations,
generally at searches
and things like that,
organizing the teams and
getting the teams out
into the field, making sure
that they have
all the right equipment
when they do go out
into the field,
so (that) they’re safe.
So it’s
a pretty important role.
Now let’s look at
an essential piece
of equipment
for trailing dogs.
This is a typical harness
we use for trailing.
It just goes over
their back and then
we hook to that and then
it keeps the leash
off of their neck because
that’s a huge deal.
If you take their neck
away from them,
they can’t freely search
for scents because you’re
tugging on their neck.
So this puts it way down
further on their back
and allows them
to do their job.
Now this little pad,
that’s a scent article.
So you can see
it doesn’t take much.
Search dogs and
their human partners
have to pass several
rigorous tests
before being allowed
to participate in
search-and-rescue
operations.
Agneta Cohen explains
the Mission Ready test
for the three specialty
areas.
We have a test that
they have to take,
what we call
“Mission Ready.”
For a cadaver test,
they have to find
in a one-acre area
a buried training aid,
about 15 inches down,
that has been sitting
there for an hour at least.
So they have one hour
to find that aid.
If they don’t pass,
they have to try it again.
That is pretty deep;
it’s just a small source.
So it’s hard for the dogs,
because it takes a while
for scent pool from
the source to come up
through the ground.
For an area dog (the test)
is a 120-acre area that
you have to find one
to three persons unknown
to you within four hours.
You have to know
how to read the map,
use the compass,
and also look at the dog
at the same time.
So you have four hours.
That’s your initial test.
And then every two years
you have to recertify
the dog with an
eighty- to ninety-acre test.
For a trailing dog,
there are several tests
that they have to
go through before
they even get to
the mission ready status.
They have 24-hour,
48-hour and 96-hour
trails, and just
general interaction with
the rest of the pack
and people, crowds.
In addition,
human team members
have to take several
vital courses required
for certification
to participate in
search-and-rescue work.
You have to
go through things like
helicopter safety,
survival training,
and medical training.
Some of us are EMTs
(emergency medical
technicians); others of us
are what are called
“first responders,”
which is not as intensive
of training as an EMT.
All of that kind of stuff
takes time.
In recognition of the
virtuous contributions of
Los Angeles Search Dogs
to the safety
of their community,
Supreme Master Ching Hai
kindly contributed
$US 1,000 to the group.
On behalf of the
Supreme Master Ching Hai
International
Association,
I am honored to give
this check for US$1,000
to the Los Angeles
Search Dogs.
We’re going to
have each member
buy something that they
really need for their dog.
For example,
booties or cooling vests,
because it gets really hot
here during the summer
and the dogs
get overheated easily.
So cooling vests
are really important.
So whoever doesn’t have
that is free to buy one;
we give them
a certain amount,
and then they can get
whatever they need
for their dog
for their searching.
So that’s what
we have planned to do.
(Wonderful)
Yes, it’s all going to
go toward the dogs.
Agneta Cohen has
a heartfelt message for
Supreme Master
Ching Hai.
Thank you very much.
On behalf of
Los Angeles Search Dogs,
I really thank you
for your organization,
and especially
Master Ching Hai,
for the generous donation.
This will really help us to
further our searching and
training with our dogs.
We really, really
appreciate it.
Thank you very much!
We’d like to convey
our sincere thanks to
all the members of
Los Angeles Search Dogs,
human and canine alike,
for their noble work
of rescuing missing and
lost residents
of Southern California!
May Heaven protect
all the team members
while on duty and off.
For more information on
Los Angeles Search Dogs,
please visit
Benevolent viewers,
thank you for joining us
today on Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants.
Enlightening
Entertainment is next
after Noteworthy News.
May the guidance
of Providence
always be with you.
Did you know
kangaroos grieve for
the loss of their beloved
just as human beings do?
A female kangaroo
who had been hit,
and her partner,
had his paws on her back
and was just standing
there trying to wake her up,
trying to move her. …
In 2008, more than
3.6 million kangaroos
were hunted down
and brutally murdered
for their meat and skins.
You hear stories of
shooters shooting
the kangaroo,
breaking their legs
so they can't move,
and throwing them
in the back of the truck
so they don't die.
They get to
the slaughterhouse,
you know, still alive
so the meat's fresher….
Please watch
“Stop Animal Cruelty:
The Killing of
Australia’s Icon,
the Innocent Kangaroos,”
this Tuesday, January 19
on Supreme Master
Television.
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