Posts by Jay Christianson
Colorado Launches New Co-Op for Streamlining K9 Resources
Colorado has recently launched a statewide coordination effort to streamline Search and Rescue K9 operations. Per Colorado statute, the Sheriff of each county is responsible for search and rescue operations. However, the Sheriff’s Departments in most counties have delegated that responsibility to local non-profit organizations to run these operations, a system similar to those operating…
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Mark Rober tries to evade a scent dog
This is a fun video that shows some of the challenges of escaping a scent K9 and how potent odor is. From my point of view, the real win is recognition of handler and K9 team dynamics and how that is essential to the success of a scent-detecting dog.
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Why I did this: A reflection on becoming a SAR K9 Handler (As written by Chat GPT)
There has been a tremendous amount of press about ChatGPT; below is a quote from the natural language A.I. tool when given the prompt, “Write an article called ‘Why I did this: A reflection on becoming a SAR K9 Handler.’” Comments by an actual human below the quoted article from ChatGPT. “Becoming a Search and…
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