Training that works by harnessing your dog’s instincts.

Learn how to:

• Stimulate your dog’s natural hunting drive for effective SAR training.
• Start your dog’s training program with an easy, three-step process.
• Develop skills in a variety of search operations, including wilderness, avalanche and disaster scenarios.

Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak have trained search and rescue dogs for more than 30 years and have taken part in rescue operations around the world. They serve as training directors and international judges for the International Red Cross Federation, the United Nations, the International Rescue Dog Organization and the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI). Based on their decades of study and experience, their innovative SAR training method is rooted in a firm, scientific understanding of K9 instincts.

Step-by-step instructions, dozens of illustrations and photographs from the field establish a professional K9 SAR program to benefit both beginners and experts.

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Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak are world-renowned specialists in the field of dog work and the authors of more than 30 titles on dog training. They serve as training directors and international judges for the International Red Cross Federation, the United Nations, the International Rescue Dog Organization and the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI).

Finally, a SAR book that actually presents proven and scientific training methods, not just a collection of “war stories.” A trainer or handler who follows the advice in this book should find success.

Bill Dotson, President, Search Dog Organization of North America; President, Applied K9 Technologies

There are few instructional manuals that go into as much detail as this one for a step-by-step learning process in certain behaviors.

Tricia Heldmann, Canine Search and Recovery

Every once in a while a truly stellar book comes along and this is one of them.… [T]his is a book that SAR personnel will want to refer to over and over.

Susan Bulanda, National Search Dog Alliance

With this new book, Ruud and Resi once again make an important contribution to the development of training search and rescue dogs.

Frans Jansen, President, FCI Rescue Dogs Commission