[KYHAM] body parts

Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:53:02 -0400

While not strictly amateur related, I'm forwarding this request for any
amateurs interested in volunteering to help with the training of rescue,
wilderness and cadaver dogs.  In the event of an actual emergency, we'll all
be there together.  Rescue dogs find the living among ruins (as in after a
tornado or 9-1-1), wilderness dogs find lost people in the wilderness, and
cadaver dogs locate the remains of those not found by the previous two.
Kidding aside, cadaver dog work is no less important to the families of the
deceased.  All these dogs have important work to do and benefit from having
a variety of different scents to train with.  Training sessions are always
very short so the dogs don't become tired or frustrated.  In most cases
sessions take up less than an hour of your time.  I hide on occasion and
always find it to be fun and fascination.  As for body parts, if you don't
need them any longer, please consider donating them for the purpose of
training as well.  If interested, please contact me at
[email protected] and we'll make arrangements for you to get
involved.  73, KG4QFW

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Trotter, Pat (GOPR/KIC) 
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:37 PM
> To:	Johnson, Marc A  (FW)
> Subject:	howdy
> 
> Mark-
> 
> Next time you chat with your ham radio folks can you tell them that not
> only do we need people to hide for the dogs (even to the point of
> arranging an afternoon out in the woods somewhere to place people for the
> wilderness dogs), but we need to find abandoned buildings to train in.
> since some of these folks are probably connected with fire and police they
> may know how to get access to unoccupied wharehouses, empty houses or
> apartment buildings, etc.  For instance, there is a huge building on
> Manchester  just past where Pine intersects that was for sale last year
> and now seems to sit empty.  It looks like it would afford some REAL
> challenges for the dogs.  And of course we also need teeth and bones (and
> body parts like gall bladders, etc.) for the cadaver dogs and buildings
> for them to train in as well.  So - if anyone can help we'd appreciate it.
> I'm thinking if we can find enough resources we may be able to convince
> our trainer to hold a seminar in the Lexington area some long weekend in
> the fall.  BY the way if anyone is having teeth pulled or hips replaced,
> etc. and can give us their teeth or bones they can't have any
> preservatives in them....they  must come straight from the people to a jar
> or container so they decay naturally.
> 
> Thanks - see you at practice tomorrow night.
> Pat
> 
> Pat Trotter, MPA
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