Great book for gettting the basics for beginning Search and Rescue work with a canine. Book gives a step-by-step approach to training the canine as well as the handler. I recommend this book to anyone that needs information in canine SAR work.

This is a great book if, youÂ're either starting SAR work or just want to know whatÂ's it all about! ItÂ's clear, well written, with many b/w photos and drawings. ItÂ's easy to follow and to understand all the basicÂ's. However, if you want to buy something, very complete, you have experience, etc. This may not be what youÂ're looking for. Still, IÂ'll add it to my collection!!!

Excelent, very good book, easy to follow, if you know the basics of training. (operational cond.). If you're interested in SAR, this is a MUST. I begin in this, asking for the best books, all the people involved in this, recomended this as the 1st. choice....

I can't imagine being without a copy of The Canine Source Book whether you own a dog, want a dog, rescue dogs, etc., etc. The author has obviously given a great deal of attention and love to compiling this indispensable reference.

Books about Search and Rescue, and those of us who do it, are rare. A non-fiction book with stories of real-life missions is too good to resist.

"Ready to Serve, Ready to Save" by Susan Bulanda contains over two dozen authentic SAR missions from all over the United States, and even beyond. Susan presents stories from seemingly every kind of mission - mountains, deserts, cities, snow and heat, kids and oldsters, people who wanted to be found, and people who didn't. All possible outcomes are here too, so not every story has a happy ending.

However, "Ready to Serve, Ready to Save" is not your typical true life adventure book. It's simultaneously less and more. For starters, Susan didn't really write it. Rather, she solicited mission reports, maps, and pictures from other searchers and collected them in a book. This format makes it hard to read at times (not everyone writes well) but the personal details have a way of drawing you in. When you read about someone longing to go search while a prisoner of their day job, or feeling that rush when the subject is found alive, you are bound to think, "Boy, do I ever know what you mean!"

"Ready to Serve, Ready to Save" is a paradox in other ways. It limits itself to reports from SAR managers and dog handlers - no foot searchers, OHV'ers, mounted riders or other disciplines. Yet the writers are seasoned and experienced, and there's a lot of sagacity packed into 238 pages. Every incident includes a "Search Tips" section, and these alone are worth the price of the book. (Example: "Always ask if the subject is afraid of animals, especially dogs. I thought the rifle was just for rabbits.")

In fact, learning from others' experiences is undoubtedly the highest and best use for this remarkable book. SAR teams rarely share what they've learned, thanks to our volunteer status and County focus. "Ready to Serve, Ready to Save" would be valuable if all it did was breach that great divide a bit. But add the personal empathy this book generates, and it's a must. If you're serious about SAR, especially if you're a SAR manager or dog handler, add this to your library.

In her follow-up to READY, The Training of a Search and Rescue Dog, Susan Bulanda has created a fascinating book filled with accounts of search and rescue missions by the people who experienced them. In story after story, richly detailed accounts not only provide information that will be helpful to those doing search and rescue but will intrigue the rest of us who read newspaper accounts and listen to TV reports of dogs being used to search for someone and wonder how they do that. This book answers that question and so much more. READY TO SERVE, READY TO SAVE is a MUST READ.

One of the best ways to learn are from the true life-stories of other people. Ready to Serve - Ready to Save provides just that vehicle to SAR dog handlers and mission coordinators. It is not unusual to leave mission base after a particularly long and difficult search, mentally recounting all the shoulda, coulda, wouldas. I am grateful that Susan has invested the time and effort to help rescuers learn from the experiences of others who have been there. I highly recommend this book to anyone involved in the exhilerating life of search and rescue.

This Boston Terrier book gives you some insight into the breed's origin and general characteristics but it does not get into true detail. Once you start to get further into the book they discuss general care, medical information, breeding, and training. This could have pertained to any breed of dog it was so general. Also there were not very many color pictures of this breed in the book. They did have some illustration type drawings of Boston's but it's not the same as color pictures of real dogs.

This book was okay but it really lacked the detailed information people need when thinking about purchasing this breed. They also needed to get more into the health issues that actually effect this particular breed. The health conditions that they mentioned are important but they needed to be more specific to the breed itself. When I finished the book I still needed and wanted to learn more. This book did not tell me any more than what I already knew about this breed. I think that they should take more time when making this type of book because except for the few pages that told about the breed history and origin you could have placed the name of any breed of dog in this book and you wouldn't have known the difference. In fact, I have the same book for the Doberman breed, same exact information different breed name.

This is a good starting book for those who are considering a Boston. It provides basic care information, but it is best paired with other books on Boston's so as to get the full picture. This would be a good starting book for someone who is trying to decide which puppy to get and wants a little information on the breed.

Though I recommend it be combined with other books, this is still a good quick reference to have on hand.

This is a well written, and very informative book that covers everything you need to know on how to care for Bostons! House Training, Chew Toys, Dog food, Obedience Training, Breeding...everything! The pictures alone make it worth buying. :)