Video Gallery
A Tribute
This is a tribute to the people and dogs that have shaped German Shepherd Search and Rescue Dog Association into the organization that it is today. Some are fellow searchers, some are past members, some are current members. They show our dogs and some of their accomplishments in their true environments - on searches, at trainings and in our homes. We selected the music from Queen "You're My Best Friend" because that is who these dogs and people are, our best friends. This is a tribute to Babe, a schutzhund trained German Shepherd search dog and part of the search team of Gssarda-IL, German Shepherd Seach & Rescue Dog Association of Illinois.
Building Drive in a Puppy
this is a live building search with Lektor, a search a rescue German Shepherd with GSSARDA, the German Shepherd Search & Rescue Dog Association of Illinois. This is a practice of a disaster & recovery training when the German Shepherds assist search team members in urban disaster situations. The GSSARDA of Illinois assist law enforcement, fire departments and emergency management agencies in searching for lost and missing persons. To find out more, please visit our site at www.gssadra-il.org. After a long winter off Belle starts to train for her schutzhund 2. She earned her schutzhund 1 in November and this is March. The dog is working in play drive and does heeling, group, sit, running down and starts stand on a motion exercises. This canine was started with a forced retrieve with negative results. In this exercise the retrieve is being retrained with encouragement. Exercises are at a minimal level. Video demonstrates the need to set realistic goals for each training. The objective was to complete the flat, wall, and A-frame retrieves with enough success that the dog could be rewarded and look forward to the next training. There are multiple issues in the performance. The key is selecting which issues to address and which to ignore for a later training. No training is perfect the first time, it is prgression. Chuck and Anna do a trail hasty out to an open field sector after 20 minutes of searching they find the subject An experienced German Shepherd is working approximately 150-200 acres of open field looking for a live subject. The dog is worked off lead and allowed to range out of the handler's sight. This training actually took over 15 minutes but portions where the dog was out of frame were edited for the sake of time. This video shows legally purchased HRD material being placed for the training of German Shepherd search and rescue dogs. It addresses how to bring up the scent and protect the scent sources from contamination by the person or the dog. This video was filmed in an unused school. Some groups classify the searching for bones as forensics HRD training. For more information go to www.GSSARDA-IL.org
