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Dealing with a Torn CCL in a K9 Search Dog- Part II: Recovery and Rehabilitation
In Part II of a series that discusses a SAR K9 team’s months-long process of dealing with my 5-year-old, high-energy Labrador Retriever, Bailey, that suffered a Cranial Cruciate Ligament (similar to the ACL in humans) rupture, I cover the surgery and the eight weeks of recovery and rehabilitation. In Part I, I left off with…
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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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