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Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search and Rescue Dog follows commercial pilot and canine handler Susannah Charleson and her Golden Retriever partner, Puzzle, as they train to certify together as a canine SAR team. While willful, opinionated, high-drive puppy Puzzle overturns the household, matures and is trained and tested beside her partner in hundreds of scenario searches, Charleson also continues to work beside other certified canine units on actual calls-outs for the missing. Abducted children, strayed Alzheimer’s patients, drowning victims, and teens who seem to have disappeared with no trace left behind. The fall of shuttle Columbia adds its own instruction about the nature of 21st-century disaster. As their partnership emerges, along the way Charleson and Puzzle come to understand the urgency that drives their work and the collaboration that allows them to do things together neither one could do alone.

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1. Dogtopia of Tysons Corner, VA Blog » Blog Archive » Dogs to the Rescue says:

   January 21, 2010 at 2:56 pm

   [...] Rescue dogs have been a great help during the devastating tragedy in Haiti.  A special article  The Science of Sniffer Dogs by Alan Boyle describes what makes these talented canines very important during a rescue mission. If you find this article interesting or would like to read more about search and rescue dogs you may  want to check out Susannah Charleson’s book Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search and Rescue Dog. [...]
2. Dogtopia of White Flint, MD Blog » Blog Archive » Dogs to the Rescue says:

   January 21, 2010 at 3:01 pm

   [...] Rescue dogs have been a great help during the devastating tragedy in Haiti.  A special article  The Science of Sniffer Dogs by Alan Boyle describes what makes these talented canines very important during a rescue mission. If you find this article interesting or would like to read more about search and rescue dogs you may  want to check out Susannah Charleson’s book Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search and Rescue Dog. [...]
3. Dogtopia of Cary, NC Blog » Blog Archive » Dogs to the Rescue says:

   January 21, 2010 at 3:05 pm

   [...] Rescue dogs have been a great help during the devastating tragedy in Haiti.  A special article  The Science of Sniffer Dogs by Alan Boyle describes what makes these talented canines very important during a rescue mission. If you find this article interesting or would like to read more about search and rescue dogs you may  want to check out Susannah Charleson’s book Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search and Rescue Dog. [...]
4. Mimi says:

   June 19, 2010 at 3:31 pm

   I am loving this book so much. Thank you for sharing your experience with us! I haven’t been this captivated by a book in months. Thank you again.
5. Book: Scent of the Missing says:

   August 3, 2010 at 6:48 am

   [...] of the Missing Subtitled "Love & Partnership with a SEARCH-AND-RESCUE DOG". Book | Scent of the Missing I really enjoyed this book, and she had me laughing out loud at some descriptions of her dogs' [...]