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Scent of the Missing
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Trisha LOVES this beautifully written book about the search for partnership and expertise while raising and training Puzzle, a Search and Rescue dog who arrived with an attitude, yet turned into a highly skilled working dog and Susannah's respected colleague and best friend.
Scent of the Missing is the captivating story of one woman's relationship with her remarkable partner, a Golden Retriever named Puzzle, whom she trains from puppyhood to become a highly skilled search-and-rescue dog. Between Susannah's initial trepidation and Puzzle's outsize puppy antics, readers are swept along on their adventures together as they learn to pursue the rescue and recovery of human victims fallen prey to crime, misadventure, or catastrophe. A teen gone missing. An Alzheimer's patient wandering in the cold. The debris of the space shuttle Columbia disaster. From the earliest air-scent lessons to her final mastery of whole-body dialogue, Puzzle emerges as a fully communicative, collaborative partner. Along the way, Susannah and Puzzle learn to read the clues in the field, and in each other, to accomplish together the critical work neither could do alone.
- Author:
Susannah Charleson - Publish date:
2010 - Number of pages: 320
"A riveting view of both the human-animal bond and the training of search-and-rescue dogs. All dog lovers and people interested in training service dogs should read this book."
Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human
"A fascinating woman has written eloquently about her fascinating colleague and the critically important search-and-rescue work that these two faced together. I LOVED this book."
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs
"A mesmerizing close-up of dogs. . . Charleson's prose is palpably alive, showing how each job, like life, entails placing 'one food before another, hoping for good but prepared for grief, and following the dog ahead anyhow.'"
People
"If you want to read about a dog who's a real hero, try Susannah Charleson's refreshingly grounded memoir, Scent of the Missing."
Washington Post
