Story: Search and rescue

Search dog and handler

An Australian cattle dog sits in the back of a ute with a man covered in mud.

Search dog Jack and his handler, volunteer Malcolm York, rest after an exhausting day in the bush. They were taking part in the search for an English tourist, who went missing in dense bush on the Coromandel Peninsula in April 2006 and was later found dead. Jack, an Australian cattle dog, had been trained to use his hunting instincts to find missing people, then bark to attract the attention of searchers.

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Waikato Times
Reference: 15 April 2006, p. D2
Photograph by Iain McGregor

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Nancy Swarbrick and Dan Clearwater, 'Search and rescue - Volunteers', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/13215/search-dog-and-handler (accessed 24 April 2024)

Story by Nancy Swarbrick and Dan Clearwater, published 24 Sep 2007, reviewed & revised 27 Jul 2023 with assistance from Dan Clearwater