Partnered with Jim Boggeri Marin County Fire Department Oakland, California Task Force 4 Born November 19, 1999, Recon was originally donated to the Search Dog Foundation by Lab breeders Bethanie and Mike McGahan. Although they loved this beautiful Yellow Lab “Ice”, as he was then called, they saw that he …
Partnered with Debra Tosch Search Dog Foundation Executive Director Former Handler with Los Angeles City Task Force 1 Abby, a female Black Lab, was born October 30, 1997- the only girl in a litter of seven. She was born in the bedroom of the Search Dog Foundation (SDF) founder Wilma …
Mocha was a female Chocolate Labrador Retriever born on March 22, 1999. She started her professional career as a dog-in-training for Guide Dogs of America (GDA). It was soon apparent that Mocha and her sibling Marc had too much energy to be guide dogs. So GDA decided to contact the …
Duke, a male Chocolate Lab, was born on August 22, 1997. Purchased by Doris and Larry Bilderback of Salinas as a hunting dog, Duke demonstrated very early on that he had other aspirations—he knew he was much better suited to the life of a Search Dog. That’s when they decided …
Cappy, a sturdy, energetic Black Labrador Retriever was born on January 13, 2000 to a line of champion competition field dogs. When Ray Goodrich adopted him, Cappy seemed destined to carry on the family tradition. But Ray quickly realized that Cappy’s talents and temperament lay in another direction. Cappy’s physical …
On October 20, 2000 a black and white bundle of furry energy was born that would later become a part of SDF’s first international team from the Mexican State of Baja California, based in Tijuana. Tinker—as this intelligent, energetic Border Collie came to be known—came to SDF through Border Collie …
The black Lab named Billy began his career with the Search Dog Foundation (SDF) staying with SDF Founder Wilma Melville and her late husband John at their home in Ojai, CA. Wilma evaluated his toy-drive and soon found she had nothing to worry about: “Billy was outside the wrought-iron fence …
