Talking with Hero Dogs Author Paul Lobo

Plus read excerpt of how a SAR dog learns to excel
Cody training on the wobbly.
Hunter running
Hunter searching in a rubble pile with handler Bill Monahan.
Pluis Davern rewards her rescuer.
Wilma Melville (bottom left), founder of the Search Dog Foundation, and members of the disaster-search dog team.

In Hero Dogs: How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Became America’s Greatest Disaster-Search Partners (St. Martin’s Press, January 2019), co-author Paul Lobo digs into how the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF) works its magic. A national leader in the search-and-rescue (SAR) field, SDF also revolutionized the way search dogs are trained. He shared some insights with Bark editor-in-chief Claudia Kawczynska in a recent interview plus read our book review.


Claudia Kawczynska: The pairing of Pluis Davern and Wilma Melville, which resulted in a program with a remarkable success rate for the SDF’s program, is one of the book’s most interesting stories. How would you explain it?




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