A little about Neil...
As a volunteer, Neil has spent over thirty years training dogs to locate people who have become lost on the mountains, trapped and buried in collapsed structures, or who have drowned and are still beneath the water surface.
In fact, recently, Neil was invited by the National Search and Rescue Dog Association of the UK and Ireland, (NSARDA), to write the assessment standards for handlers of Drowned Victim Search Dogs. These have now been accepted by NSARDA and are the benchmark against which, the competancy of all future DVSDs will be measured.
The United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service provide a team which will travel anywhere in the world to the site of an earthquake or other major disaster. Neil is part of that team and has responded to four major earthquakes in different parts of the world, Turkey twice, Algeria and Kashmir. Read More...
I now run training classes for basic and advanced obedience at venues in Newcastle, Kilkeel and Newry.
Neil and Charco with USART.
Neil with Fern and Charco.
NSARDA Logo.
Fern at work.
