It's technological, but some of the rescue work is still better than dogs!
The Italian Society for the Training of Lifehounds, which has been training more than 350 lifehounds to date, is the only institution in Europe to provide helicopter rescue courses for dogs. When a person drowns in need of help, the rescue organization sends the lifeguard and the dog to the vicinity with a speedboat or helicopter and then throws the dog into the water. Some of the lifeguards will run ahead and lead the rescue dogs. When there are more people in need of help, the lifeguards can only take care of one or two people, and the rest can hold on to the handles on the back of their chests and stay with them.
As with the survival instinct of sleigh dogs in snowstorm weather, life-saving dogs would have chosen the safest route to bring people back to shore, if not for experienced lifeguards. Many dogs are afraid of heights, but they don't exist for life-saving dogs, and they can even drop off very easily with life-guards.
A life-saving dog is better than a man, especially a giant dog weighing 220 pounds.
Help is always a matter of time, so life-saving dogs must be trained from an early age to ensure that their mandates are accurate. It can be said that the life-saving dog training process is nothing less than a guide dog.
The choice of life-saving dogs is also very harsh:
1. Dogs must be strong enough to swim long distances or even drag one or two people to swim;
2. The calmness of the personality and the fact that most of the drowning people would be in a state of panic, while the dog would remain calm and undisturbed;
3. It must love rescue work from the bottom of its heart, and it is not suitable for excessive fear of excitement, etc.;
From a young age, rescue dogs begin to learn to contact people, then learn to bring back what they throw, then grow up to practice diving, life-saving rings, etc., and then become trained to save people after many skills are mastered. To be a single lifeguard dog, a dog must undergo at least 18 months of training.
A life-saving dog is better than a man, especially a giant dog weighing 220 pounds.
The majority of life-saving dogs in Italian life-saving dogs are Newfoundland dogs. Newfoundland dog is the king of life-saving dogs. Newfoundland dogs weigh more than 220 pounds and bring them with life-saving tools. They can even drag 10 people in one breath. Plus, you're born to be good at rowing, you can't swim like a dog.
But it's not necessarily a Newfoundland dog, it's a life-saving dog's next of kin, Labrador. With hard training, golden hair and German sheepdogs are capable.
Without incident, the Italian Coast Patrol will patrol the shore with dogs, and although most life-saving dogs are large-sized Newfoundland dogs with hairy hairs, tourists on the beach are not afraid and will be more comfortable to see them work.