With the careful supervision of the Spanish trainer Raúl Martín, the handlers are gaining the necessary skills to direct and guide the movements of their dogs across the field, to effectively manage the phase of the bite identification and a prompt and correct prize-giving after this phase.
The aspects that are strictly connected with the planning of the inspections, with the management of the roles and of the competences of the involved subjects and with the modalities of finding of the materials have been tackled by Alessandra Mango, Chief Superintendent of the Territorial Coordination for Environment of the State Forestry Corps from the Gran Sasso - Laga National Park and handler of one of the Anti-Poison Dog Units activated with the LIFE ANTIDOTO Project, and by her colleague, the officer Luca Festuccia.
Besides the classes regarding this subject, a simulation of an urgency inspection has been carried out by the Superintendent Mango and by Dingo, an expert Belgian Malinois Shepherd dog working for the search of poisoned bites and carcasses since 2010
The training course for the handlers of the Anti-Poison Dog Units of the State Forestry Corps goes on
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At this point of the course, taking place between April and May 2016 at the Marsiliana State Reserve (GR), all the six handlers of the LIFE PLUTO project are establishing a close relationship with the dogs they will work with in the next years.
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- Finding of a poisoned bite
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- Dingo during a searching session
