Search and rescue dogs

Explore the journey of preparing your dog for search and rescue work, including the training process, certification requirements and mission roles dogs can play.

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Thirteen Search and Rescue dogs came from Search Dog Foundation following the tragedy. Show your support here: www.searchdogfoundation.org/how_to_help/

The great thing about training is that, given the right combination of human and dog, you can take it as far as you want to. And training to become a search and rescue dog team definitely takes it to the limits. When it comes to assisting and serving others, search and rescue dogs (SAR dogs) and handlers are certainly

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When Scout the Labrador Retriever was a puppy, she loved her wool blanket toy. Her owner, Bill Vore, would drag it around as she chased it. Then they would play hide-and-seek with it out in the snow. Sounds like a devoted owner having fun with his pup, but it was far more than that. Vore […]

It has been four days since the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria.As of February 10 at 8 AM, 100 hours had passed since the trage…

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Not all SAR (search and rescue) dogs perform the same type of searches. Some dogs are tracking dogs, while others are air-scent dogs. Tracking (or trailing) dogs work with their noses to the ground, following a trail of human scent. They need a starting point where the person was last seen and/or an article with the person's scent. These dogs can follow trails that are several days old, even distinguishing between different trails and following scent over varied terrain. They can even track…