Category: Canine Recruitment

Canine Recruitment, News, SDF Features

SDF’s Rescue Partners Visit Campus for “Evaluating Working Dogs” Training Event

In recruiting canines for our search program, we've developed relationships with other organizations that employ working dogs in numerous fields, such as law enforcement, conservation, and wilderness and avalanche rescue, to name a few. Thanks to these contacts, we can find placements for candidates who don't choose to pursue disaster …
Canine Recruitment, SDF in the Media

Seeking Shelter Dogs, Together: SDF shares canine recruitment insights on K9 Conservationists Podcast

SDF's very own Katie Brennan was recently invited to speak with Kayla Fratt, host of the K9 Conservationists podcast, where they discuss, in-depth, one of the most important aspects of our work: sourcing canine recruits for our program. Katie, a certified dog behavior consultant and Canine Recruitment Outreach Manager for …
Canine Recruitment, News, SDF Features

Once Abandoned Himself, Search Dog Gordon Ensures No One Will Be Left Behind 

Gordon's owners had to move out of the apartment they were living in, so they packed up their belongings and left—without Gordon! The property manager discovered him later, alone inside the empty unit. Gordon was happy to see someone after being left alone for so long and happily greeted the …
Canine Recruitment, SDF Features

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, …

Canine Recruitment, SDF Features

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 …
Canine Recruitment

I am Jack

I was unloved. I was untrainable. I was surrendered by my family. Jack was turned over to the Columbia Humane Society in Saint Helens, OR, after he proved to be too high-energy for the family who adopted him from a shelter in Washington State. Dogs like Jack are not easy …