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On-Call Search & Rescue/Cadaver Recovery

Providing a service I hope you or your loved ones never need. 

 

LOST or MISSING:

Either way proper, prompt response means everything. We strive for the best results in a focused effort with you and/or local authorities. Our commitment to perpetual readiness means practice and experience will guide us on a moment’s notice.

 

Call in the Reinforcements:

The nose knows what the eye cannot yet see. Dogs’ keen senses of smell and hearing can assist our human partners in locating distressed, injured, and/or deceased loved ones.  We feel utilizing this team approach gives us the best chances.

Our canine team members 

Physique: Pound for pound our canines average stronger lifting and pulling capabilities, useful in lifting or carrying equipment packs or rescue sleds. Four legs, opposed to our two, give them greater speed, agility, and balance, allowing them to go places we cannot. They come better equipped for extremes in conditions. Dogs can maintain an average of 17-30 mph under conditions when humans average about 5-8 mph. Canines can even dig with greater discrimination and efficiency than mechanical means in many cases!
Smell: Dogs possess nearly 50 times the amount of scent receptor cells as humans, clearly superior when combined with their ability to process this information in an area comparatively spoken of as 1 sq. yd. to 1 sq. in. in humans. Distinct to our canines, the VNO, vomeronasal organ, allows them to perceive pheromones, or the chemical signals, indicating criticalities such as gender, emotional state, and physical wellness. Tracking, trailing, and air sniffing, the nose, dominating all other senses, guides dogs more reliably toward answers than specifically designed equipment and a human’s most refined sense, vision.
Hearing: 60Hz – 45 KHz vs. 20Hz – 23 KHz, 18 vs. 9 muscles, and 100k vs. 25k vibrations/second; You guessed it, all three wins go to the dogs! These numbers help dogs hear at higher frequencies, capture more sound waves, perceive height and depth of sound, and perform accordingly. Dogs’ hearing can detect at 4 times the distance of humans, with acute sense of direction and distinction between even highly similar sounds. Remember, the next time you turn up that TV, realize it may sound as much as 4 times louder to your canine companion!
Sight: Dogs possess nearly 50 times the amount of scent receptor cells as humans, clearly superior when combined with their ability to process this information in an area comparatively spoken of as 1 sq. yd. to 1 sq. in. in humans. Distinct to our canines, the VNO, vomeronasal organ, allows them to perceive pheromones, or the chemical signals, indicating criticalities such as gender, emotional state, and physical wellness. Tracking, trailing, and air sniffing, the nose, dominating all other senses, guides dogs more reliably toward answers than specifically designed equipment and a human’s most refined sense, vision.
Touch: I guess I would equate a dogs’ paws to a hardworking field hand; toughened over time, but not completely insensitive. The toughness can be an advantage on irregular surfaces and in unpredictable conditions. Considering how powerful the nose is, it is also no great surprise that a dog’s muzzle and tip of the nose can be more adequately equated to our fingertip sensitivity. Finally, similar to the way babies first explore their world, tacitly, by putting everything in their mouths, dogs, too, explore in this way, but with logic that far exceeds the comprehension of our crawling selves!

What does all of this really translate to?

Better Odds, for Retrieval and Survival!

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