Basic SAR Dog Training Workouts will focus on fundamental exercises to help beginners, brush up the skills of more adavanced teams or address problems.
Advanced SAR Dog Training Workouts are opportunities to test yourself, your dog and your support team in realistic and challenging scenarios. Teams participating will be evaluated without certification. It is not the purpose of the Workouts to qualify teams for real searches but rather to prepare training situations that allow handlers and support personnel to challenge and assess their own capablities.
These events will usually cover trailing, area search or cadaver search. Most will be held and designed at administrator or instructor direction-meaning the agenda and exercises will be predetermined and set up with specific goals. However, in some circumstances particpants may wish to have a 'tailor-made' training session set up. For instance, those preparing for impending certification may want a 'mock certification' with the parameters resembling those of the test they are about to take.
Participants in SAR Dog Workouts will be required to sign a liability waiver and there may be a nominal fee to help cover set-up expenses. Details of upcoming Workouts will be posted as they are scheduled. The purpose of the SAR Dog Workouts will be to assist dog teams in furthering their education level of expertise. The Workouts will usually be held on weekends (1 or 2 days). In most cases, attendees will be responsible for their own food and lodging.
This is a pilot program for the Alliance. We are still developing and organizing the SAR Dog Workout project and hope to have one planned soon. If you have specific needs or questions, please contact us and we will try to assist you.
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Previous SAR Dog Workouts
2011 SAR Dog Workout
Camp Dodge
Johnston, Iowa
November 11-13, 2011
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Iowa K-9 asked us to put on a SAR Dog Workout (with the main purpose of evaluating mission readiness) for area search dog teams. We took advantage of the fact that we had Camp Dodge reserved and held the workout to coincide with the Tracker Dog Clinic. Bob Thielen, Shelly Thielen, Brian Hoffman and Steph Hoffman from Minnesota administered the course and set up complicated and realistic scenarios for the teams.
The students have reported back to us that the instructors and subjects were fantastic and the class was very informative and eye-opening.
Events like this build confidence and experience that help teams advance and become better assets to their communities. We were proud to be able to help facilitate this workout and look forward to doing it again in the future!
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SAR-X 2010
Stearns Scout Camp
South Haven, MN
June 10-13, 2010
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Trailing, Area Search and Cadaver.
Instructors:
Laura Denison
Brian Hoffman
Bob Thielen
Shelly Thielen
K-9 Search Services, Monticello , MN, hosted and facilitated a specialized K-9 Alliance SAR Workout for its unit and members of Iowa K-9 Search Team (also known as Iowa Search and Rescue). K-9 Alliance of Iowa was pleased to be able to help bring these two groups together.
This was an advanced workshop and exercises were designed to resemble real searches and required teams to use search strategy, map, compass, gps, support personnel, communication and interview skills. Scenarios included wilderness and urban settings with moving subjects; simulated suicides, lost hunters, missing impaired adults, hypothermic victims and more! Teams worked from early morning until late at night each day. There was also classroom on all of the skills listed above. The food, provided by members of K-9 Search Services was fantastic!
Participant feedback has been extremely positive.
Thanks to Bob and Shelly and K-9 Search Services for all of your hard work. The Alliance hopes to see this event used as a model for future SAR Workouts. Together we ARE making a difference!
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DISCLAIMER
The K-9 Alliance of Iowa does not certify, endorse or in any other way qualify dog teams to participate in actual searches for missing people or suspects. The Alliance is a communication, information and education-based organization whose intention is to assist dog handlers, dog teams and other associated personnel in furthering their knowledge and capability. However, neither the K-9 Alliance of Iowa nor any instructor or affiliate is or will be responsible for any individual person's or dog team's level of workability. The training ideas, methods and suggestions offered at the Alliance's training events are not the only way of training or achieving working dog goals. Handlers, trainers and other K-9 related personnel should design and establish a full training regimen that works for them and their dog(s).
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