The first dog rescue (type Molossian dogs) appeared a few centuries ago and were used to find the wayward during a snowstorm. Over three hundred years, the dogs bred by the monks of the monastery of St. Bernard as a result of successful breeding of Newfoundland and a Great Dane, helped find of missing travelers. These dogs - St. Bernard - are often portrayed with a small keg of brandy around his neck.St. Bernards have saved thousands of people. A story about one of them - named Barry - has become a legend. This St. Bernard rescued from snow and forty-four people were killed and forty-fifth, which in the darkness took him for a bear. Irony: "Barry" on one of the German dialect means "little bear". In Paris, Barry was a monument, and for many years, Saint Bernards also called barrihundami.
Nowadays, for rescue work after avalanches and earthquakes are most common for a German shepherd, it is easier to the most rigid training. In Water Rescue Newfoundland used, which can operate successfully even in the most violent storm at sea.
