Skiers often unimaginable really at risk, such as a landslide or avalanche. In these areas where skiers enjoy their activity, are measuring equipment that can detect small movements or warn that anticipate the possibility of an avalanche, why not allowing entry to the ski slopes. Unfortunately often emerges unpredictably, when the weather changed suddenly, tourists and skiers are buried under a huge blanket of snow.
From that moment, the dogs involved in these types of bailouts into action.
This type of search is one of the few special relief it needs the immediate participation of the dog. The dogs are accompanied by sounders and shovelers teams, all working simultaneously, although the dog is a priority activity since, because of their speed to exploit the land in addition to their ability to smell, place it as the lead in the search because its mission is to find victims buried under the snow to rescue them and the drags can be started immediately for first aid work.
The dogs used in this type of bailouts with Belgian Shepherd Malinois and German Shepherd.
The selection of these races is justified by physical conditions of these dogs: in addition to its great ability to smell must have a really privileged anatomical construction and strong as they walk in the snow is really difficult and tiring.
These dogs adapt quickly to low temperatures, because among its fur nature provides them with a kind of wool which serves as a coat, the fur of the fingers are thickened and spends less, their pads are hardened and so it seemingly simple, avoid freezing their feet.
The only protection that nature could not provide it is to your eyes. This needs the hand of man, which should put an eye drop to protect it from ultraviolet rays when the days of rescue work takes several hours.
The training of these dogs is always held in the same mountains and snow, where the trail is the main discipline exercised. Watching these dogs track people buried under the snow is really touching. The snow or frozen water, it keeps perfectly the emanation produced by a failing state body. The victim of this disaster to be in a life or death situation, produces physical alterations in the tissues, accompanied by the externalization of particles sweat of the person buried at the site, as well as the heat produced by a living body and the given temperature.
These particles come to the surface due to temperature change. To explain in a simpler term, they are more "hot" environment and therefore are easier to catch the dog. To this we adding to them the breath of the individual (obviously in the case of living persons), easily recognizable to the dogs.
The weather conditions are really incidents in these types of searches.
Once located the disaster area, the dog starts to bark and "scratch" with their hands quickly and almost desperate the location of the victim.
