The 2025 Spring Bark Alert is unleashed! Catch up on all the latest news from SDF’s National Training Center!
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 …
Merlin had been discovered in Northern California in late 2014, wandering the streets near the Oakland Coliseum. He was picked up as a stray and taken to the Oakland Animal Services shelter. No one ever came to claim him and he was not doing well at the shelter. He failed …
Eva was bred and raised by Southern California resident and canine enthusiast Heather Smith. Over the years, Heather has turned her interest in the natural capabilities of a dog into a passion for agility and tracking training, among other hobbies. In late 2014, due to physical constraints, Heather reached out …
Matt May had lost his pet Lab in October of 2010 and decided that he was not ready to get another dog for a while, but then a friend alerted him to a local ad they had seen online for a male Yellow Lab puppy. The woman who had placed …
SDF-trained human remains detection (HRD) team Jon Munguia & Clifford of Los Angeles County Fire Department and live-find SDF-trained teams Josh Davis & Bosco and Garreth Miller & Reva of California Task Force 3 (CA-TF3), and Patrick Easton & Linus and Eric Lieuwen & Ridge of California Task Force 7 (CA-TF7) …
