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The National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF) is a nonprofit organization that recruits and trains rescue dogs. It was established in 1996 by Wilma Melville . As of 2024, there are 94 search teams trained by SDF that can be deployed regionally and nationally.
The 203rd Engineer Battalion is a combat engineer battalion of the Missouri Army National Guard.. The 203rd Engineer Battalion can trace its history back to Missouri volunteer militia units that formed in 1883, when the militia units in southwest Missouri were reorganized into the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the National Guard of Missouri in 1890 and mustered into federal service during the ...
The complete gundog training manual. Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press. ISBN 978-1-904057-05-5. Hudson, David (1995). The shooting man's dog: a complete guide to gundogs. Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press. ISBN 1-85310-560-0. Morgan, Diane (2009). The encyclopedia of dog sports and activities: a field guide to 36 fun activities for you and your dog ...
A dog trainer with the United States Navy, which primarily trains using positive reinforcement. [1] [2]Dog training is a kind of animal training, the application of behavior analysis which uses the environmental events of antecedents (trigger for a behavior) and consequences to modify the dog behavior, either for it to assist in specific activities or undertake particular tasks, or for it to ...
The term hunting dog is broad and includes all breeds and skills of hunting canines, but "gun dogs" refers to canines that are trained to work alongside a loud firearm while hunting or retrieving game. [2] Gun dogs are divided into three main categories: pointers and retrievers, setters and spaniels, and water dogs. [3] [failed verification]
The Braque Saint-Germain (translated into English as the St. Germain Pointing Dog) is a medium-large breed of dog, a versatile hunter used for hunting as a gun dog and pointer as well as for hunting other small game. Braque is a term meaning pointing dogs. The breed was created around 1830 by crossing English and French pointing type dogs.
A retriever is a type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter. Generally gun dogs are divided into three major classifications: retrievers, flushing spaniels, and pointing breeds. Retrievers were bred primarily to retrieve birds or other prey and return them to the hunter without damage; retrievers are distinguished in that nonslip ...
An advertisement for a New England Kennel Club dog show. A kennel club (known as a kennel council or canine council in some countries) is an organization for canine affairs that concerns itself with the breeding, showing and promotion of more than one breed of dog.