Another news story about lost pet detection.  This was a video interview Buck attended in Reston VA.  His part starts about 15 minutes into the program.  We were back there last weekend helping to look for a lost cat.  She fell out of a second story window when the screen popped out of the window in the middle of the night.

The link to the story http://video.aol.com/video-detail/dogand39s-best-friend-9-20-07/1125575772

An Article by Emily Leman in the Washingtonian magazine.  She does a nice job summarizing what to do if you loose your pet. 

http://www.washingtonian.com/print/articles/3/177/6724.html 

A very detailed article by Ron Cassie of The Frederic Post. 

Mr Cassie wrote a very useful article about recovering lost pets.  He included some good pointers for people to help them.  One thing his article illustrated  the value of a good start article. We need something that smells like your missing pet but not other animals or people that may have been walking through the area recently.  We have been in the position of not able to assist when a veterinarian lost a rescue dog they called us a week later everything had been washed and reused the transport crate was long gone.  and it was an urban environment without a start article we can not tell the trailing dog what they are looking for.  If you are doing transport for a rescue it may be prudent to wipe a cotton swab on the animal and put it in a zip lock baggie.  The cost is pennies the time needed is seconds, with luck you will never need any of them. 

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/archives/fnp_display.htm?StoryID=75023¤t=true 

A nice article by Kathy Ansell of The News Journal about recovering your lost pet.  she has some good pointers in the article for recovery and especially the value of a quick response to a missing pet. 

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070202/ENG17/302020012/-1/NEWS01

One of Chewy & Brando’s searches for Bingo, a lost hound from a local rescue. I am asked frequently about the percent of success for our dogs when they search. My response is that the actual walk up find and recovery by a searching dog was low probably 20% HOWEVER the successful recovery of animals we help I believe is relatively high probably as much as 70 or 80%. I like to believe it may be because of our dogs contribution, getting the owner in the right area, or it may be because the owners that are committed to using all the resources available and call for a search dog are going to go the extra distance and get the job done. At any rate I believe the single most significant factor is the owner. Anyway here is a link to Bingo’s story as well as some other critters PAWS has in their rescue.http://www.paw-rescue.org/PawNewsletter/PAWShakes2006Fall.pdf

an article about our efforts to help with the Katrina disaster animals.

About a cat we helped find article by John Kelly

An article about Xena and Chewy and their pet detection work in the Washington post.

Search for 87 year old man

This is an article about a search that Torrie participated in. She was fortunate enough to be able to help locate the missing man. The success of most SAR dog rescues is based on good teamwork. There are usually many different resources involved in successful searches.

Also, Check out CROCKET SAR an informative web page loaded with technical search and rescue information.

“Maryland Shelter finds Value in a Good-For-Nothing Dog.” An Article about Nautica and Brian — a pretty incredible team.

I started an informal program at the Humane Society of Baltimore County to help shelter dogs learn manners so they would be more likely to find and succeed in new homes. Nautica was one of the dogs that came through the program. Her success story is entirely due through the hard work of the volunteers and staff at the shelter. They do an awesome job with all the critters they help.