Category: <span>SDF Features</span>

Changing careers and still changing lives: Meet Rebar

Rebar began life as a service dog trainee with Retrieving Freedom, a nonprofit that places service dogs with disabled veterans and children with autism. (His unique name came from the steel company that sponsored his training at Retrieving Freedom.) While Rebar was still a puppy in a volunteer foster home, …

Topa: Heart of a hero

From October 2020 through August 2021, SDF-trained teams served in ten deployments across California, Louisiana, Nebraska, New York and the island nation of Haiti. While our teams’ missions typically focus on searching for missing persons and survivors after a disaster, the positive impact of their human-canine partnerships extends far beyond …

Holy conservation, Bat-dog! Ptero changes course to help protect bats

Ptero of Rogue Detection Teams Cauldron was picked up as a stray by Animal Care of Davis County in Fruit Heights, UT, when he caught the eye of SDF Recruiter Trevor Lawrence. With his exceptional hunting skills and strong toy drive, Cauldron looked like a great search dog candidate. And …

Ty (2009 – 2021)

This huge, handsome Black Lab was rescued by Southern Oregon Humane Society’s “Saving Train” – a converted bus that travels throughout Oregon and California, picking up dogs and cats at shelters where they are destined for euthanasia and transferring them to their shelter in Medford, OR. It was clear that …