Colorado K-9s participate in special search and rescue training day

Canines in Colorado took half in a particular search-and-rescue coaching.
Fb/El Paso County Search and Rescue

Search and rescue groups in Colorado took their Okay-9s out for a particular coaching day on Saturday.

The groups from three counties — El Paso, Teller and Fremont — got here collectively to take part within the particular coaching in El Paso.

“Yesterday, our Okay-9s and a few fellow Okay-9s from Teller County Search and Rescue and Fremont Search and Rescue, Inc. had an additional particular coaching day on the superior mountain property of a few of our handlers,” El Paso County Search and Rescue wrote in a Fb publish Sunday afternoon.

The canine went via a variety of totally different workout routines, together with air scenting, trailing and abilities required for detecting human stays.

Along with practising these important abilities, the Okay-9s have been additionally capable of expertise a Tyrolean traverse and follow rappelling.

A canine is strapped to a Tyrolean traverse as a part of the Okay-9 coaching.

Fb/El Paso County Search and Rescue

Canines from El Paso, Teller, and Fremont Counties all took half within the coaching.

Fb/El Paso County Search and Rescue

“It was a good time and resulted in plenty of very joyful and drained canine,” El Paso County Search and Rescue wrote of the occasion within the Fb publish.

A canine practices rappelling down a cliff throughout the coaching train.

Fb/El Paso County Search and Rescue