My name is Gayle Wilde and this is my urban search and rescue dog called Taz.
To be perfectly honest I don't know what I'd do without him.
He's a brilliant dog.
He's a fantastic working dog.
And at home he just likes to curl up, in a wee ball,
sometimes on your lap, and run after a tennis ball like all Collies.
Taz is a search dog that's been trained to do
urban, rural and coastline riverbank searches.
So my role is he'll come back and he'll tell me where he believes a casualty is
and he'll lead me to that particular spot.
In this kind of environment he'll have boots on,
Just to protect his feet.
And his jacket on with light so he can see where he's going.
Do you know what, looking back the proudest I could have been was at The Clutha.
I remember en route we were told that the
police helicopter had landed on The Clutha and tasked with searching
the rubble pile and surrounding area to locate people within the rubble pile itself.
The building came down in such a way that it almost came down in three stages.
So it needed someone who was very small like a dog
to actually get into those spaces.
And the dog was perfect.
When he's actually on the job and he's got his coat on,
he hears his bell, has his harness on and hears his bell,
he goes straight into work mode - no question.
It showed immense courage to actually go into something
which was still dynamic.
Round about it there was rubble falling, there was still dust everywhere.
It managed to save lives in the sense that people who were working there weren't put at risk.
It was indispensable.
You train as best as you can in all different environments,
but that night he just showed what a wonderful dog he was.
I think Taz is just a hero.
It's a remarkable dog, and when called upon to serve, it's absolutely
unique.
Training Taz has been a long journey.
He has gone above and beyond what I expected of him.
He just overcomes every hurdle that we show him.
To be Taz's owner makes me unbelievably proud of him.
It really, really does.
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