Great event tonight at L'Alliance Francaise (or so my human tells me!). Volunteers from Golden Beginnings Golden Retriever Rescue served up refreshing wine and beer and Bayou City Seafood N' Pasta catered a wonderful meal complete with Étouffée, shrimp, chicken tacos, and dessert. His 4 white retrievers joined the party later too!
Susanna Charleson, author of the book Scent of the Missing, gave a very informative talk complete with insight on what real search and rescue dogs go through, not just what's portrayed in Hollywood. The sadness some dogs went through during the Columbia space shuttle recovery brought tears to many eyes.
The presentation was interactive too having members of the audience smell from one bag and ten minutes later smell three bags and say which one they smelled first. One participant also had to "search" the crowd to find a very low iPod playing.
My human asked a good question about if other animals can do this type of work. Of course I think CATS can do it, Susannah said bubble bees and pigs are actually used in some searches as well!
It was fun meeting Puzzle, the star of the book, in person, and my human looks forward to reading the book!
Contact L'Alliance Francaise http://www.afdehou.org/ for more information about the book and tell them Cleo sent you! >^..^<
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