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Nurturing Life-Saving Guardians: Los Angeles Search Dogs, P1/2
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Welcome, gentle 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.
In his book “Wilderness
Search and Rescue,”
former US
park superintendent
Tim Setnicka states,
“One trained search dog
can patrol a track
in six hours that would
take 106 workers
370 man-hours to comb
with the same probability
of detection.”
On today’s program
we feature the benevolent,
selfless work of
the non-profit, canine
search-and-rescue group
Los Angeles Search Dogs
based in Southern
California, USA.
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.
Please tell us a little bit
about the history
of the organization.
This organization was
founded in 1985,
so it’s been around
for almost 25 years now.
(It) started as a
very small group of folks,
three or four people,
who were all very much
involved in search
and rescue and wanted to
take it to another level
with the dogs.
Back in the time
that this started,
there wasn’t a whole lot
of training guidelines.
There wasn’t really
a whole lot of
understanding about how
the dogs could work and
getting them to work.
But most of the folks
had had some experience
with dogs in general,
so they started to develop
these guidelines,
figuring out ways to
train dogs to be able to
perform specific tasks
like cadaver
as well as trailing.
And those were
the main disciplines that
they started with.
The human members of
Los Angeles Search Dogs
are busy people who
work full-time jobs
besides performing
their duties
with the organization.
The members pay for
all search-related costs
including those for
equipment, supplies,
fuel for vehicles
and veterinary care
for the dogs.
We generally get about
80 to 90 callouts a year,
and we’re an all
volunteer organization,
so none of us get paid
to do any of this.
We all do it because
we love working with our
dogs and it’s a great way
to give back
to the community.
I’ve only been doing this
maybe about 10 years.
We have other people
who (have) been
around (for) maybe
just a couple of years.
So it takes a lot of time,
takes a lot commitment.
So how do you get
new members to
come into your group?
A lot of times
they come from other
search-and-rescue
groups and they know
we exist and they start to
get interested in maybe
the canine aspect of it.
Others are (from)
police agencies; some
people get interested and
they don’t necessarily
want to do patrol canine,
which is a whole different
deal than what we do.
We really don’t
do criminal (searches).
Sometimes cases
turn into that but initially
we don’t deal with that.
Fire department
personnel sometimes
get interested and
come over and learn
to train their dogs.
And that provides
another dog in the field.
Others are volunteers
just like myself that
get interested,
come on board,
start training, and get
their dogs out in the field.
The searches that
the team conducts vary
greatly with regard to
nature and setting.
We worked a train wreck
that happened
about a year ago
in Chatsworth (USA).
That was very difficult,
very challenging,
just due to the nature
of the accident itself
and the environment.
Some of the other things
are more
wilderness-related;
there was the fires
up in Sylmar (USA)
the recent fires
that we’ve had.
What are some skills
that humans and canines
must possess in order to
carry out effective
search-and-rescue
operations?
First of all, you have to
learn mapping, compass
and GPS (Global
Positioning System).
You have to know
the gridding of an area
and you also have to do
scent theory;
you have to do first aid.
The dog has to
go through all
the socialization skills.
He has to learn how to
climb the rocks, do a lot
of that agility stuff.
Just basic obedience,
for instance, can take
a little bit of time,
depending on the dog.
If you’re new,
for instance, you have
a lot of things that you
need to do in order to
get yourself up
certifications that
you have to do, and
you’re training your dog
at the same time.
So that can take you
maybe two to three years
to do all of that.
But once you get up on
the curb and you become
a mission-ready handler,
it should take you
no more than eight months
to a year to get a dog up
and actually on the curb
and out and working.
When we return,
we’ll have more about
Los Angeles Search Dogs
and its fine 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.
(We) just would like to
do a brief introduction
of the team and the dogs.
Over here we have Jerry.
He is actually one of
our founding members.
He was instrumental
in starting this team back
in the early 1980s.
He currently has a hound
and he does trailing.
I’m Agneta Cohen and
I have been with the team
for eight years,
and have had two dogs.
I am looking for
a new dog now to train,
so I’m doing support and
helping the team out.
This is Laila and
we are a trailing team.
How old is Laila?
Laila is three,
she’s still a baby.
(I am) Shirley Smith and
this is Flash Gordon.
For those of you who
remember who
Flash Gordon was,
(an) early rocketeer,
and that’s how he got
his name because he
rockets back and forth.
He is now 12 years old,
and he does nothing
but cadaver now.
Flash has four finds
in that area.
He has a blue eye
and a brown eye.
Both the canine and
human members of
Los Angeles Search Dogs
spend many hours
on the job, so
the work requires great
passion and dedication.
And how much time
do you devote to
this organization,
say, every week
or every month?
It’s actually quite a bit
because I also sit
on the board
as the vice president
so that does take
a lot of time.
And with the trainings
as well with search
callouts, it turns out
to be quite a bit a time.
Over the year I probably
drive maybe six to seven
thousand miles
in my vehicle,
personal miles,
just going to searches
and trainings.
Time-wise, my goodness,
I mean it’s probably
a few thousand hours
a year.
I think, most volunteers
with the Sheriff’s
department, it takes
several years just to get
500 or a 1,000 hours
of volunteer time.
Well, most of
the members of this team,
when you join
this organization,
you generally clear that
within almost two years.
Most people who
volunteer at stations
and things like that,
takes five, six years,
seven years for them
to reach that.
So that kind of gives you
an idea of how much time
and dedication
it really takes.
All types and breeds of
dogs can participate
in search and rescue,
but selecting dogs
from the start that
have a natural talent
for searching generally
shortens training time.
We usually use
the working dogs like
Border Collies,
Labradors, Bloodhounds
and so forth.
Those are basically
the dogs we use, but
there can also be mutts
that can be trained
to anything.
It just depends (on)
their drive.
Dogs are trained in
particular search specialties
such as trailing,
area search and cadaver.
Two olfactory skills
are employed in canine
search and rescue –
trailing and air scenting.
A trailing dog follows
the residual scent
left on the ground
as a missing person
walks around an area.
A trailing dog
is a certain type of dog.
They’re trained to take
an object, which we call
a “scent article,” which
could be your shoe,
could be a toothbrush,
could be a pen that
you’ve handled,
your watch for instance,
whatever.
She’ll take a scent
off that by sniffing it,
and then she’ll follow
that trail that you walked.
Area dogs identify
human scents within
a space and can follow
a scent in the air
emanating from
a lost or missing person.
We use them especially
in the wilderness area,
like this huge park here.
Somebody can be lost
and they can be
in the brush and so forth,
where the trailing dogs
have difficulty to get in.
They may find the trail
up to the end of here and
then they lose the trail,
and we deploy
the area dogs.
When the dog has
any human scent,
we can tell
in their body language.
There is something,
the dog will take off,
find the person,
come back to us and
do their specific trained
alert, and then bring us
back to the person.
If we have
a missing person
and we know that
the missing person is
unfortunately deceased,
we then deploy
the cadaver dog so that
we can find
that individual and bring
closure to the family.
The circumstances of
some missions require
a combination
of these skills.
Some of our dogs
are cross-trained.
After they’ve been
trained in either trailing
or area, they can
cross-train in the cadaver.
But they first have to be
certified in either of
the other two disciplines.
We thank the human
and canine members
of the Los Angeles
Search Dogs for helping
to locate missing and
lost persons
in Southern California.
Their noble, selfless
efforts on behalf of
others deserve
our highest praise.
For more details on
the Los Angeles
Search Dogs, please visit
Distinguished viewers,
thank you for your
company today
on Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants.
Please join us again
tomorrow for Part 2 of
our program featuring the
compassionate work of
Los Angeles Search Dogs.
May Heaven grace
all beings
with infinite blessings.
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all the microbial kingdom.
What differences
do people see when
they use vegan organic
skincare products?
They’re biggest, change
that we have seen
in people’s skin,
in reducing eczema
and that sort of thing
has been from a switch
from a chemical
to an organic product.
Trevor Steyn
of South Africa,
the vegan founder
and owner of
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and African Organics,
shares the secrets of
healthy and vibrant skin
on “Esse Organic SkinCare –
Vegan Beauty,”
this coming Monday,
January 18
on Healthy Living.
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