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Publisher: Mercier Press
Edition: 2011 Paperback, 283 pages
ISBN: 9781856356916
Item: DGT274
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Summary: Renowned as one of the most skilled search dog handlers on both land and sea, Mick McCarthy has over twenty years experience of searching for missing persons. This is the captivating story of his dogs, his life, and his adventures in the field, in search of missing persons.
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Expanded Description:
Renowned as one of the most skilled search dog handlers on both land and sea, Mick McCarthy has over twenty years experience of searching for missing persons. He has experienced first-hand the dangers, thrills, tragedies, and triumphs of search and rescue operations, which he has carried out on flood-swollen rivers, raging seas, through woodland, bog land, and on treacherous mountains, often in the dead of night. This is the captivating story of his dogs, his life, and his adventures in the field, in search of missing persons.
This story of an unusual job for working dogs and their human trainers well may inspire a new generation of search-and-rescue dog handlers.-Booklist
McCarthy is brutally honest when he describes how his obsession for Search and Rescue work took over and affected his personal life.-Library Journal
Search-and-rescue dogs perform a highly specialized, valuable function. They are trained to locate missing persons, usually in mountainous or other difficult terrain. McCarthy had been interested in dogs since boyhood in rural Ireland and, after a period of playing in a band in the early 1960s, returned to training dogs. But it wasn't until he observed a true search-and-rescue dog that he formed the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Ireland, and his career as a handler and trainer of these specialist dogs began. Training different breeds (German shepherds, collies, bloodhounds), not to mention himself, required time and great physical fitness, and he freely admits that he became obsessed with the work. Tales of mountain searches, using bloodhounds to search for bodies in rivers, and of coordinating searches for lost people give the reader a feel for the difficulty of the work for dog and handler. This story of an unusual job for working dogs and their human trainers well may inspire a new generation of search-and-rescue-dog handlers.(-Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.
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