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Show As soon as the dog develops a dislike for the search, an objeot easy for the dog to find should be buried at once. As soon as the dog finds this object, the search is called off with moderate praise. It is definitely wrong for the dog leader to keep up a search with an unwilling dog in order to satisfy his own wish for success and his own false ambition just so he, rather than someone else, receives the accolades. Causes of failure: 1. General unwillingness of the dog to search. 2* Fatigue of the dog. 3* Very cold weather or strong storms. 4. Compact avalanche snow ( the scent cannot penetrate the snow). 5* Dissapation of the scent by wind ( foehn) at sunrise and sunset* ( comparison : chimney). 6. Loss of scent by contamination. 7* Great depth of the buried victim. APPENDIX The mission report* Theavalanche mission report is not a red- tape burden with which the dog leader is saddled. It is an absolute necessity for the preservation of evidence, for the reimbursement of mission expenses; and it serves mainly as a highly important source of information for the teaching of detection methods. The fact that it has been possible to evaluate the current missions of our dog leaders has been responsible for raising early rescue experiments to present modern standards. Thus, every dog leader makes an important contribution by composing his avalanche mission report truthfully and well and by forwarding the same immediately to his group director. In order to facilitate this " avalanche homework", report forms have been prepared which only have to be filled in. A sample of the report forms is shown below* As a matter of principle, the avalanche dog leader should inform the director of his group by telephone as soon as he sets out on a mission. The written report should follow as soon as possible. - 71 - |