Charity Carlson has raised service dogs for the disabled for many years. While she loves training service dogs and plans to continue this work, she was looking for something more challenging to do. She contacted the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF) to inquire about becoming a Prep Home volunteer, …
Congratulations to SDF’s three veteran Canine Disaster Search Teams who achieved FEMA Certification on October 21: Brent Brainard & Decker, Linda D’Orsi & Haley, and Julie Padelford-Jansen & Ricochet! SDF Program Manager Debra Tosch was in College Station, TX, to support SDF’s Search Teams testing and shared that all three …
Charity Carlson had raised service dogs for the disabled for many years. While she loved training service dogs and planned to continue this work, she was looking for something more challenging to do in 2003. She contacted the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF) to inquire about becoming a Prep …
Ellie was born on August 4, 2004 and was an eager ball of energy right from the beginning. At just three and a half months, this Yellow Lab was exceeding any “normal” activity levels. Due to her energy level, it was apparent that Ellie needed to be more than a …
Partnered with Eric Hanzelka Monterey County Regional Fire District Oakland, California Task Force 4 (CA-TF4) Donated by: Roxanne Bohn Prep Home: Mary Lippman Sponsors: Diane Wolcott Guardians: Len Hanson, Jamie Kitz Ellie was born on August 9, 2004 and was an eager ball of energy right from the beginning. At just three and a half months, …
From SDF Head Trainer Sonja Heritage We just returned from Oklahoma City, where we worked on agility, obedience, direction control, and building searches with the teams we recently partnered on September 1 at the National Training Center. The teams all are on track and the dogs had a great time …
Team Info Task Force: Oklahoma Task Force 1 (OKC) Agency: Oklahoma City Fire Level: SUSAR Type I Certified Most Recent Certification: May 27, 2016 Search Dog Info Breed: Black Lab Mix Sex: Male Born: March 26, 2008 Crossed Rainbow Bridge: September 9, 2017 Recruited from: Humane Society of Del Norte – Crescent City, CA Recruited by: Laura Rathe …
On September 1, SDF’s training team passed the leashes of five Search Dogs to their brand new Firefighter-Handlers: Brandon Andersen & Winnie (California Task Force 5 – Orange County), Jeff Hanlon & Willy (Oklahoma Task Force 1 – Oklahoma City), Mike Toepfer & Deacon (California Task Force 2 – Los …
On June 20 and 21, SDF welcomed Dr. Erin Perry and her team to the NTC to conduct Working Canine Research for Southern Illinois University. Dr. Perry is testing a new canine decontamination (DECON) process for handlers to use after searching each day on deployment. Dr. Perry’s study seeks to …
Meet two of our canine candidates in training: Deacon and Frisco! DEACON Deacon was privately donated to SDF and he arrived at our National Training Center (NTC) in Santa Paula, California on December 26, 2016. What a present Deacon has turned out to be! The young Black Labrador is as …
