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shenmue

(38,506 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 09:49 PM Jan 2015

Heidi the dog certified for Search and Rescue in Northern Ireland

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Who's a good girl? Heidi is! Heidi is! In Northern Ireland, a talented pooch is qualified to do search and rescue work.

From the article:


Heidi was trained to indicate the presence of human scent using a tennis ball as her toy reward.

Heidi is the first qualified search and rescue dog in Northern Ireland, and she is keen to show off her new skills.

She has just passed all the tests to work under the banner of the Search And Rescue Dogs Association (SARDA), which sounds very serious, but for her it's all a game.
In fact, it's all about her soggy tennis ball.
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