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Susan Stone's Blog – August 2008 Archive (2)

13 years today!

Today we are celebrating our Top Dog Shannon's 13th Birthday!

Officially known as Marquiser Shannon by Caskeys (Sh. Ch. Caskeys Blarney x Marquiser Rossoa) she was born on Augst 28th 1995 in Camberly, Surrey and came to Switzerland aged 8 weeks. Shannon was trained and fully qualified as a Search and Rescue dog. I remember her very first call up one night at 23.00hrs to go searching… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on August 28, 2008 at 5:55am — 30 Comments

Training weekend in the Swiss Mountains

Normally our dog training group (search & rescue training) spends their sunday morning in 'lowland' forests. Last weekend was special as we had a two day training session in the mountains of the Berner Oberland .

In Switzerland there is a competitive form of 'search and rescue' training where the dogs are trained to search an area for 'missing' people or articles with human scent. Our… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on August 25, 2008 at 4:19am — 17 Comments