Its scorching here today and much to hot to take the two G's for a walk up the road, so instead we've been up to the top of my land exploring ... you never know what might be lurking under the hedges! Be careful Gwylim and keep your eyes skinned! Help! I've been attacked by the brambles! Watch out for bees Gwylim! Waiting for Georgina. Safe at last!
I also had a really good day today. It was the AGM of our Working Trials club - not usually an event to set you on fire - but our guest speaker was Steve, a Police cadaver dog handler/trainer. We were given a Powerpoint talk, with lots of gory information about training, case studies, and detail of how bodies decompose over time! This was followed by a demo by his drug/money search dog, and we then moved outdoors to view his human remains dog working. Steve had set a minute
Sorry Edit time had expired. Continued................. Before the talk, Steve had set minute pieces of human bone and tooth into the pointing of the building that we use as a trials base, and a garage. The speed with which his cadaver dog located these remains was truly amazing. He explained how much police time, expert opinion, and therefore money, these dogs had saved. The piece of tooth had to be pointed out to me - I couldn't see it at first! There are currently 38 of these dogs working in the UK. If you ever get a chance to watch one of these demo's, do go. Sandwiched between our usual dog walk, and a shorter one in a different area, we had a really brilliant doggy day out.
I'm jealous Carole! Police dogs, their training and the different types of work they do fascinates me. The two G's trainer is an ex Police Dog Trainer and Handler and we're doing a modified version of the basic obedience course for Police Dogs The thing I like most about it is the way dogs are trained to concentrate on their handler and to ignore any outside distractions, whether it be food, other dogs, people.or noises. We can train in the same field, whilst another group are doing schutzhund and with several chained dogs (in for rehabilitation) scattered around the perimeter. The noise is sometimes deafening but neither of mine, bat an eyelid!
When I was doing a college course, we had a demo by a drug sniffing team. All the students knew they were coming, but one still nearly got expelled from the course when the dog indicated and drugs were found in her pocket. Confirmed my belief that you really do have to be stupid to take drugs and this girl really proved it
