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Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
April 2010
On Sale: April 14, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 0547152442
EAN: 9780547152448
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Pet-Lover
In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah
Charleson clipped a photo from the newspaper: an exhausted
canine handler, face buried in the fur of his search-and-
rescue dog. A dog lover and pilot with search experience
herself, Susannah was so moved by the image that she
decided to volunteer with a local canine team and soon
discovered firsthand the long hours, nonexistent pay, and
often heart-wrenching results they face. Still she felt the call, and once she qualified to train a
dog of her own, she adopted Puzzle, a strong, bright Golden
Retriever puppy who exhibited unique aptitudes as a working
dog but who was less interested in the role of compliant
house pet. Puzzle’s willfulness and high drive, both assets
in the field, challenged even Susannah, who had raised dogs
for years. Scent of the Missing is the story of Susannah and Puzzle’s
adventures together and of the close relationship they
forge as they search for the lost—a teen gone missing, an
Alzheimer’s patient wandering in the cold, signs of the
crew amid the debris of the space shuttle Columbia
disaster. From the earliest air-scent lessons to her final
mastery of whole-body dialog, Puzzle emerges as a fully
collaborative partner in a noble enterprise that unfolds
across the forests, plains, and cityscapes of the
Southwest. Along the way Susannah and Puzzle learn to read
the clues in the field, and in each other, to accomplish
together the critical work neither could do alone and to
unravel the mystery of the human/canine bond.
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