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Search Dog Foundation named one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For in 2025

We’re excited to share that the Search Dog Foundation has been named one of the 2025 Best Nonprofits to Work For! This recognition comes from The NonProfit Times: The Leading National Business Publication For Nonprofit Managers, in partnership with Best Companies Group. Each year, this program highlights nonprofit organizations that …
Lifetime Care, News, SDF Features

Kiinii protects waterways from invasive mussel species, one sniff at a time!

Kiinii came to us from the Lassen County Animal Shelter, which took him in after a good Samaritan found him wandering nearby. At the shelter, staff saw that Kiinii loved playing with any and all toys—a key characteristic SDF seeks in potential recruits. Noting this toy obsession, the shelter reached …
Deployment Reports, News, SDF Features

SDF-trained teams deploy to assist victims of Midwest storms

  On April 2, 2025, an outbreak of deadly storms cut a path across the southern and midwestern United States, leaving destruction in their wake. In response, SDF-trained teams Adam Schaaf & Dodger and Mark Schroeder & Koda of Nebraska Task Force 1, and Jeremy DeMott & Chirp from Virginia Task Force 2, along with their …

Lifetime Care, News, SDF Features

Happy Tails – Walnut helps protect pond turtles through his volunteer job!

Walnut was generously donated to SDF by Kaiser K9, Inc., and arrived on campus full of excitement and ready to get to work! His trainers were immediately enamored with this adorable, charming Lab, and he earned the affectionate nickname "Woo-Nut" because he couldn't help but woo all his trainers with …
Rainbow Bridge

Tanner (2010 – 2025)

Tanner was recruited from the Golden Gate Labrador Retriever Rescue (GGLRR) in San Francisco in December of 2012. Originally discovered starving to death and full of parasites, wandering on a golf course in Salinas, CA, a local woman nursed him back to health before taking him to the rescue. Named …