All the recent News from Neil his Dogs
September 2011
Neil's book, called 'Search Dogs and Me', is currently being profiled on Amazon and will be in the shops from 30th September. It has taken Neil 3 years to write and a further year to have published.
But it today on Amazon.co.uk
August 2011
Neil recently qualified his bloodhound cross, Paddy as a novice trailing dog in Scotland under the watchful eye of my two assessors, Tom Middlemas and Iain Nicholson. Tom is the leading Trailing Dog trainer in the UK and Iain, one of his protégés, has had numerous successful finds since he qualified as a trailing dog handler with his own dog Midge.
July 2009
Charco is shortlisted for the Hero Dog Award, part of the Dogs Trust Honours 2009.
Neil recently attended a convention for teams involved in search and rescue dog work from, Northern and Central Italy, Slowenia and France. Neil was one of four delegates from the National Search and Rescue Dog Association of the UK and Ireland. The convention was based at Lago Maggiore (Luino)in Northern Italy and was hosted by one of the Italian Search and Rescue Dog groups there. It examined dogs which specialized in searching for survivors in collapsed structures and on mountains.
The dog teams represented were from the Fire Service, Civil defence, Forestry Rangers as well as top class volunteer teams.There were demonstrations from dogs used to rescue people from water.These dogs were also able to pull small pleasure boats to shore when their engines had broken down.
March 2010
Neil was invited to the Cesa Milan show at the Belfast Odyssey and Dulin O2. Neil was asked to be on his seminar in the Belfast Odyssey last night, 16 March and again this evening at the O2 in Dublin. Neil and Charco was delighted to be invloved. He asked Neil to bring his dog Charco on to the show to talk about his search work in Algeria and in Pakistan. It was a great honour.
