Skye is a Border Collie and Search & Rescue Dog with SARDA Wales. I have had her since she was 7 weeks old and have trained her specifically for Search & Rescue since I got her. I am a self employed Mountaineering Instructor and member of Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team and she often comes to work with me during the day. You can find links to the various teams and to expeditionguide.com below.

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Skye Qualifies as a Search Dog

This weekend Skye and I were being assessed as a Search Dog team with SARDA Wales in the autumn assessment.


The assessment took place in Snowdonia over 3 days and I am very pleased to say that we both passed. Each dog and handler has to search 5 areas over 3 days. The areas varied from forest search to open hillside and each one was different. In each area was hidden a number of bodies, we did not know how many until we had searched it and obviously we did not know where they were hidden either! If we missed a body, missed any part of the area from our search or if the dog failed to indicate a find then we would have failed that area. We had to pass four of the five areas to qualify. This first assessment is made of lowland areas and we are now qualified to join call outs to lowland/rural areas. The next level of training and assessment is Mountain Searches which is what we are working towards now! 

1 comment:

  1. Well done Rob & Skye, I'll look forward to training with you both again soon hopefully!

    Stephen (from October SARDA Wales weekend)

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