As a volunteer for the Search Dog Foundation (SDF), Judy Mize became familiar with the characteristics that make dogs ideally suited for SDF search and rescue operations. Judy shared this information with her daughter, Sarah Clusman, who works for the Longmont Humane Society in Longmont, CO and in December of …
Floods, bombings and disasters call her K9s Wilma Melville and Murphy, her black lab, had time after Wilma’s retirement in 1988 to train together as a team and become one of only 15 Advanced Certified disaster search dog/handler teams in the United States. She never imagined that on April 19, …
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In February of 2006, SDF was contacted by Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) of Oceanside, CA about a canine named Hattie that they felt had Search Dog potential. CCI knew what to look for in a candidate – they had evaluated and donated Search Dogs Val and Kura in prior …
Brutus, a male German Shepherd was born on June 21, 2002 in Gilroy, CA. Donated by breeder Deleta Jones, Brutus comes from a long line of large, strong canines with intense energy and drive. His father was a national competition-level German Shepherd named Honda; and his littermate, Kona, was also a Search …
Glacier, a fun-loving Yellow Lab who was found wandering the streets of Montana not far from Glacier National Park, owes his good fortune in finding a place with SDF to two “dog nuts,” a little bit of chance and sheer destiny. In January of 2004, Kellee Mathews, a vet tech …
On the weekend of November 17th, 13 Search Teams from Oklahoma and Dallas gathered for a Regional Training hosted by the Tulsa Fire Department and Oklahoma Task Force 1. SDF was proud to send Master Trainer Sonja Heritage and Canine Recruitment Manager and Trainer Darrell Wilkerson to Tulsa to observe …
A beautiful Black Lab with loving eyes and a wagging tail, Jezzie had been sitting for many weeks at the Sacramento County Animal Control. Thankfully, Jezzie’s last day at the shelter was different from the others. She was given a second chance at life. On that fateful day at the …
Who doesn’t love to be welcomed by a friendly face when they step off a plane, train, or bus? How about the subway? Well, if you’re a regular commuter on the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) disembarking at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, you have the pleasure of being greeted by …
