Atuação do zootecnista no serviço de cães de busca no Corpo de Bombeiros Militar do Estado do Ceará

Abstract

The objective of this work was to present the importance of the zootechnician's job in the area of animal behavior with regard to the planning and execution of training and training, as well as in zootechnical control and feeding activities, contributing to the good development of the dogs, allied to animal welfare. In addition, explain the training of search and rescue dogs, their efficiency and the benefits that these animals can bring to society. It can be said that the human odor is unique and each individual has his own, like a fingerprint and is due to the difference in proportions of common compounds and the genetic individuality that are perpetrated by highly polymorphic genes. In addition, odor particles are modified by the environment and can be dispersed by the wind, decomposed by heat, accumulating in some places depending on the terrain, etc. The main system used by the dog in a search is the sense of smell, and it can even differentiate them by individuality and time of dispersion in the environment, in this way selecting strategies to reach that source of odor. Search and rescue dogs can act in specialties, which are: Rural search, Urban search, search for specific odor, underwater search and search for mortal remnants. Each specialty has specific techniques for the dog to be conditioned and its behavior in the search must always be observed. Currently, Brazil has 191 operational dogs and 121 dogs in training distributed in 72 barracks, of which 79 have some national certification.