Fantastic documentary on hero avalanche rescue dogs!
This excellent documentary is well worth your time. It is a moving account of avalanches and their victims, and how a typical search and rescue goes into planned action. The DVD revolves around highly trained rescue dogs and their handlers, and the often dangerous and risky rescue operations that often ensue after a fresh avalanche has buried it's victim(s). If you are a canine lover, you will especially be enamored of these 3 beautiful dogs featured in this documentary (a Lab, German Shepherd, and Austrian Shepherd?). Towards the end, Juergen, a young risk taking snowboarder who was rescued a year before, gets to meet the German Shepherd (and his handler) who found and rescued him! My only gripe based on an observaton was, that despite the dogs being handled with great love and respect, I would have hoped that they get a larger pen to sleep in at night, rather than the cramped crates that are shown in the film. Yes, I know that dogs like a contained, smallish area to settle in at...
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