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Lets you discover how helping dogs are trained to aid their handlers in leading independent, happy lives. This book contains stories that explain how a guide dog can lead a blind person safely across a car-filled street, a hearing dog alerts his deaf handler to her crying baby, and a service dog helps a person in a wheelchair prepare for bedtime.

Hunting and herding dogs come in all shapes and sizes. Some have a natural ability to do their work, but training with humans is also important. This book teaches you about how a miniature dachshund forces a rabbit into the path of his hawk-hunting partner, and how the well-trained dogs of Deer Search, Inc track wounded deer.

Covers the training exercises and heroic real-life stories of search and rescue dogs, their handlers, and their brilliant teamwork. This book contains tales including that of a disaster search and rescue dog that leaps from metal beam to concrete slab while trying to locate an earthquake victim trapped beneath the rubble of a fallen building.