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NOTHING COMPARES TO THE FEELING OF BRINGING A MISSING LOVED ONE HOME.
The closest buzz LandSAR dog handler Dave Krehic can relate it to is the first rugby try of childhood.
It’s an emotional high that’s kept him volunteering for 19 years, and it never diminishes.
Even now, after nearly two decades, Krehic is experiencing career highlights.
Just last month, he and his dog Enzo – a German wirehaired pointer – were deployed to find a tramper lost from a trail around Ashburton Lakes.
A search team found prints in a riverbed, and Enzo was brought in alongside tracking dog Zeke to scour the valley.
“We cast areas where he we thought he might have come out of the riverbed, and checked around huts near that area. By finding nothing, it told us that he hadn’t come out,” Krehic says.
LIKE SAR DOGS, GADGET’S BIGGEST MOTIVATOR AT WORK IS PLAYTIME – THE POT OF CHEW TOYS AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW.
The search returned to the riverbed, where eventually Enzo alerted on the scent.
“Enzo picked where he’d walked out of a gorge and started heading up the hill through scrub we didn’t think a human would have pushed through,” Krehic says.
A team searched the higher terrain with binoculars, while Enzo led Krehic up
