According to Norwegian media, Geere and Mir, together with their handlers Morten and Kristin, used their noses to find a 24-year old woman in Kathmandu who had been buried deep under rubble (4 floors down) for 5 days. The rest of the Norwegian team together with rescue workers from Israel and France were able to pull out the young woman alive and give her medical care.
Deployment update: According to the UN, the death toll from the April 25 earthquake now stands at 5,006 with an additional 10,194 people injured. An estimated 8 million people remain affected across 39 of Nepal’s 75 districts. Authorities expect these figures to rise as rescue efforts continue. Today, members of …
Lola, a Black Labrador Retriever, began her saga as so many of our dogs do – at a shelter. Lola was on 24-hour euthanasia alert, meaning she had just that amount of time left to be adopted. She was sick with kennel cough, a common contagious illness among shelter dogs, …
In June of 2009, Hula, found herself in the Humboldt County Animal Shelter in McKinleyville, CA, picked-up as a stray. The shelter staff evaluated this energetic Catahoula and thought she might have some of the qualities we look for in a Search Dog. Hula’s evaluator had these things to say …
Jeff & Justice and Vincent & Magnum search for survivors in OklahomaTwo SDF Search Teams were deployed overnight to a deadly tornado in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, just outside Tulsa. It was reported that one person was killed and 12 people injured in the storm. The teams arrived at the scene …
Late in the afternoon of March 16th, Dennis Clark & Rugby and Gary Durian & Tanker were deployed to search for a vehicle that had plunged 800 feet over the side of a cliff in Mt. Baldy, in Southern California. One person was airlifted out immediately, but Rugby and Tanker …
In the early afternoon of Friday, March 6th, Eric Darling & Ben were called out to search for a missing teenager in Newtown Township, PA. Together with 7 other local canine search teams, the team scoured 20 acres in snowy conditions all day Friday and Saturday. Eric also served as …
In June of 2008, Karen Klingberg, SDF’s then Program Manager, made her first trip to Idaho to look at a few canine candidates and build partnerships with shelters and breed rescue groups there. Guided by Jan Peterson and Nick Demarco, both puppy raisers for Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), she …
