Category: News
Estate Donors Welcomed to Our Campus for a “Day in the Glade”
Congratulations to SDF’s six newest search teams!
We were thrilled to welcome a large crowd of friends, family, supporters, and staff to our campus earlier this month to help us celebrate the latest additions to our search team roster. Two Oklahoma and four California first responders were welcomed into the SDF family as America’s six newest search …
Rugby (2009 – 2023)
This handsome, long-legged Chocolate Lab was donated to the Search Dog Foundation (SDF) in September of 2010 by SDF volunteer Penny Woodruff. After finding an ad in the local newspaper about this high-energy dog, she evaluated him for SDF and determined he was a perfect candidate. SDF volunteer Jamie Kitz …
SDF’s Rescue Partners Visit Campus for “Evaluating Working Dogs” Training Event
Finding the Right Spot for Every Dog
From Roaming the Streets to Patrolling a Beat: Meet K9 Zeva
Lilah (2010-2023)
In January of 2011, SDF received a call from volunteer Andrea Bergquist (whose husband Chris was a handler with California Task Force 7 based in Sacramento), letting us know that she had discovered an excellent Search Dog candidate at the Sacramento SPCA. Lilah, a one-year-old Black Lab, had been picked …
“It Was All Because of My Dog:” Former Search Dog Lexi and Her Adopter, Lisa, Find Purpose as a Therapy Team
The Spring 2023 Bark Alert magazine is unleashed!
Read all about it! See which search teams deployed halfway around the world to help the citizens of Türkiye, find out how our Canine Recruitment team builds the relationships that help find hero dogs in our nation’s shelters, and get an update on Max, the former search dog candidate …