If I’m an employee, I’m hoping my employer will treat me like a dog.  Not any dog.  A search and rescue dog, and not because search and rescue dogs are lavished (if anything they manage through some of the most dangerous environments).  I really have only two reasons.

1) As I understand, (I could be wrong) search and rescue dogs are given at least some praise when they fail.

2) To qoute from canismajor.com…

“As long as it remains a game, they’ll work until they drop,” said Gina
Flannery, a search and rescue handler and trainer from the Cincinnati
area. “When it becomes work, they’ll quit.”

Now to explain.  When a search and rescue dog fails repeatedly, she gets depressed.  The dog is hard enough on herself.  In fact the dogs can become so depressed as to be unable to work.  So, the solution is to praise the dog even when she fails.  See, the dog is happy to try again, and work even harder and work for the praise as opposed to work out of fear or threat of punishment or being fired.  I’ll take that setup any day.

The second point explains itself.   If you don’t get it, read Ackoff.  If you do get it, read Ackoff.

If you would like to support the training of search and rescue dogs, please donate to the National Search Dog Foundation.  Their mission is to…

“produce the most highly trained canine disaster search teams in the nation.”

Go Sparky!