Author Archives: Canine Co-Pilot

Flashback Friday

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Enjoy!!

Abby in her platform sit stay

 

Jimmy and Kevin, more then Fugly bargained for!

 

Abby Raina and I last year with Santa

 

Jimmy and Max the malinois with a hat!

 

 

 

Emeline a November trail

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The last few months have been crazy and the dogs have kept us busy!! Eme is progressing nicely with her trailing and this evening we ran one of her on team blind night trails. It was almost a mile in length and we had aged it 6 hours. I had no idea anything about the trail except that my subject was last seen at the chapel on campus. Eme hit on the door to the chapel and indicated to me he had touched it then proceeded to find his direction of travel. Her pace was fast and she banged each of her turns without overshooting anything. Her work in the dark was stellar and I could read her harness and line pressure perfectly despite her all black body being at the end of a 30 foot trailing line.

Red is subject blue is me and Emeline

 

Eme made that trail effortless. All i had to do was scent her, command her, and hang on!!! She rocked it, and I know her K9 mom Maya was smiling down on her trailing puppy tonight!

2012 NYS SAR Comfed K9 Disaster Seminar

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Eagle Valley funded and hosted the K9 disaster portion of this years Comfed. Below is a short video compilation of our 2 day seminar.

 

 

 

Emeline and her first river crossing trail

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I had to try to work on Eme and her trailing work around water before the weather changed. We built up to our first cross the river trail last week and she did great. The basic concept of trailing through shallow water was introduced in the weeks prior with short hot trails through up to 2 feet of rivers and streams. For her first swift water river cross our subject started on land and laid a trail to a point on the shore he entered the water, then fighting the tough current of the Delaware river swam across to Pennsylvania. Eme gave me perfect negatives down both shores and then made the decision to enter the water and “taste” her subjects scent across. Half way through she seemed a little confused especially once we hit the swifter water and began to drift out of his scent a little. The subject emerged and swam to us giving Eme the boost and connection she needed to understand how this moving water trail worked. Enjoy!

 

Abigail New York State of Mind vom Französisch Wald- Therapy dog

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Abby with her official badge.

Well it was a bit of a road to travel, I have never certified a therapy dog before and Abby was the first i decided to work at it. She is naturally a sweet girl, with the personality to match that of a therapy dog. She has been working with the kids for more then a year at the school and is always a welcomed canine in all the offices. So if she is already doing the job why not make it official?

Thats just what we did! I am please to announce Abigail New York State of Mind vom Französisch Wald certified wildnerness airscent, human remains detection, water HRD, CGC, THD,    Certified Bright and Beautiful therapy dog, through one of only 5 nationally recognized therapy dog organizations.

Abby’s certificate

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