Fido Friendly | Rubble rubble, toil and trouble, SDF canine heroes respond to danger on the double.
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Reaching out across the ocean
Ventura County Star | Handler Linda Tacconelli, paired with Search Dog Joe, shares about her heart-wrenching experience in Japan.
L.A. Firefighters, dogs aid Japan rescue
The Patch
A team of L.A. County firefighters and trained dogs from the California-based National Disaster Search Dog Foundation spent a week searching for survivors in northeastern Japan.
In a battered Japan, SDF dogs search for human survivors
San Francisco Chronicle | Eric Gray and Riley comb the wreckage in tsunami-ravaged Ofunato, Japan.
Rescue dogs arrive in Japan
Santa Barbara News-Press | Eric Gray & Riley, and Linda Tacconneli & Joe travel to help in Japan.
Dog from Longmont among search-and-rescue teams in Japan
Longmont Times-Call
Joe is finally making his international debut.
A dogged determination
Miller-McCune | The canine-handler teams produced by SDF are the gold standard in their field.
Rescued dog now an award-winning rescue dog
Ventura County Star
In Haiti, Pearl ventured deep inside collapsed buildings, into gaps in the rubble too small for her 6-foot-6 handler, to sniff out survivors of that country’s devastating earthquake.
Search Dog efforts on 9/11 are recounted
Ventura County Star
If tears shed during the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation’s salute Saturday to those who died and those who searched the piles of rubble that once were the World Trade Center could count as dollars, the Ojai-based nonprofit would have no problem raising the $10.6 million needed to build a national training facility for search dogs and handlers.
Search Dog Teams set sights on new national training facility
Noozhawk
Local teams called in after a gravel truck crashed into a Santa Barbara home recently will attend Saturday’s groundbreaking ceremony.