Long Island Search and Rescue

Some Wilderness training on this beautiful Sunday for all K9s

Our trailing K9s are trained to -scent discriminate- which means they follow the trail of one specific human. To tell them who we want them to follow, we give them a -scent article- with the subject’s scent. The most common type is a clothing article, but we got creative with our scent articles and changed things up a bit. Swipe through to see what we used! 1. Sharpie 2. Nerf ball 3. A piece of string 4. A body, after being hugged by the subject. ... By creating a solid foundation and making it clear that whatever we target with them is what we want them to follow, our K9s easily took the scent from each article and completed their trails. What unique articles should we use next time? Comment below with some ideas! #LISAR #SAR #K9 #K9SAR #trailing #KocherMethod #INBTI #rescuedog #rescuedogrescuedog #workingdog #workingk9 #dogsofinstagram #thenoseknows #longisland #cutelablucy @letsgobos @ Long Island, NY

Throwback Thursday!!! The team 8 years ago!!!

Sunday February 21st training at Nassau County Fire Academy.

Check out Alex and Lucy #casting. In this component, the trail does not begin at their start point- they have to cast into it, so watch Lucy’s body language as soon as she picks up the scent- first a quick heads up followed by a full change of direction, and off she goes! #LISAR #SAR #K9 #K9SAR #K9training #mantrailing #sardog #workingdog #rescuedog #rescuedogrescuedog #rescuedogsofinstagram #INBTI #KocherMethod #cutelablucy

Big thanks to the Nassau County Fire Service Academy for welcoming us to their campus for our training today. Our team was able to run a variety of scenarios and introduce our K9 partners to some new environments! #LISAR #K9 #SAR #K9SAR #k9training #longisland #workingdog #workingdogsofinstagram #cutelablucy @ Nassau County Fire Service Academy

We got to follow Baxter the Bloodhound around New York City as he followed his nose and showed off his trailing skills.

Congratulations to Alex and Lucy for passing their INBTI mantrailing evaluation

CPR training today with team members

Amazing training today with all the mantrailing teams... Alex & K9 Lucy, Ed & K9 Buster, and Kim & K9 Ella all did 72 hour trails. They worked off a transfer from the original scent article and casted in to start their trails. There were 2 subjects at the end and they all correctly ID the correct subject. Maryah & K9 Quincy and Julio & K9 Bos did 40 hr aged trails also off of a transfer and started their trails with a Cast. Heidi & K9 Breezelle who is just starting her mantrailing career did a series of intensities.. Our oldie but goodie Retired Bella who is 10 years old ran an intensity with Heidi as well to prove she has still got it!.

Mantrailing training on Sunday... volunteers that want to hide for some of the dogs welcome.. we will be doing 72 hour aged trails, 40 hour aged trails, intensities, blind intensities, and split trails. Message us if you want to hide for a dog or see what we do.

Some members at the INBTI mantrailing seminar in Horsham PA

LISAR members are attending the Horsham PA mantrailing seminar beginning tomorrow Friday 10-2 and going through Sunday. 10-4