Julie Murray - Search-And-Rescue Animals

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Title: Search-and-rescue animals / by Julie Murray. Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Abdo Zoom, 2020 | Series: Working
animals | Includes online resources and index. Identifiers: ISBN 9781532127335 (lib. bdg.) | ISBN 9781532128318 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781532128806 (Read-to-me ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Working animals--Juvenile literature. | Search dogs--Juvenile
literature. | Rescue dogs--Juvenile literature.

Classification: DDC 636.7--dc23

Table of Contents Search-and-Rescue
Animals Search-and-rescue animals
do important work. They
look for people who are lost,
trapped, or missing. These animals need
special training. They work
with their handlers as part
of a team. Dogs are the most
common animals used.
Horses can be used too. Some animals work after
a natural disaster .

Ace
looks for people after
an earthquake.

Types of
Rescue Dogs Many dogs are trained
for a certain situation. Air-
scent dogs pick up smells
in the air. Trailing dogs sniff an
item belonging to the lost
person. Then they sniff
the ground to pick up the
persons scent. Snow search dogs find
people buried in the snow.
They can find a person
under feet of snow! Water rescue dogs save
drowning victims .

They help
get them to a safe place.

These animals work hard!
They save thousands of
lives each year. More Facts St. Bernards were the first
search-and-rescue dogs.
They were used around 1665
in the Swiss Alps. Cadaver dogs are used to
find dead bodies. They pick
up the bodys scent.

About search-and-rescue
dogs worked at the 9/11 site
after the deadly attack.

Glossary handler a person who trains and
has charge of an animal. natural disaster a natural event
such as a flood, earthquake, or
hurricane that causes great damage. victim someone who is hurt, injured,
or killed by a person, group, or event. Index air-scent dog dogs ,
earthquake
handler
horses
snow search dogs trailing dog
training
uses water rescue
dogs Online Resources To learn more about search-and-rescue
animals, please visit abdobooklinks.com or