SAR News Published by the National Search Dog Alliance January 2018 Vol. 12, No. 1

CONTENTS Article page 2018 BOD Meeting Dates 1 HRD Training Log; Pick of the Pack 13 Notices and Updates 2 Human Feet Still Washing Up 14 Is Your Dog a Hero? 3 Mars Officially Warmer than Canada 15 NSDA Certifications 4 Things I learned Since I Joining SAR 16 PODCASTS 6 K & B: Psychological Effects of a Mission 17 Scotland’s Oldest Avy Dog 6 Training with SEADOGS 19 Want to Live Longer-Get a Dog 7 Forensic Body Farm Opens 20 and 7 Placer County-Mission with a Twist 21 Colorado’s Ski Rescue 8 Louisiana 21 Everyone Should Know Canine First Aid 10 The Last Howl 24 Documentary ‘SearchDog’ 11 Tests, Seminars & Conferences Board of Directors 11 We Need Your Photos 12

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2018 Board Meeting Dates February 1 Bucky Says: March 1 If you’re running at the head of April 5 the pack, May 3 June 7 Look back now and then to Contact Secretary, Sue Wolff, at make sure it’s still there. [email protected] for the call in number for the meetings

NOTICES AND UPDATES

NSDA BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED

Between January 1st and March 1st, 2018, any individual who has been a voting member of NSDA for one full year may file to be on the ballot for our elections. Contact the Nominating Committee Chair, Robyn Moug at [email protected] for more information.

5 NSDA EVALUATORS EARN A $45.00 VOUCHER for One FREE YEAR’S MEMBERSHIP or Store merchandise or NSDA testing fees

JANUARY 15 IS NATIONAL HAT DAY

National Hat Day is an unofficial holiday which falls annually on January 15th. It celebrates one of the oldest human accessories. Hats have been worn all throughout history for a variety of different purposes: to indicate social status or branch of military service; to indicate the wearer has a position of authority; for religious purposes or to denote nationality; for ceremonial or fashion purposes; or to protect the wearer from sun, rain or other hazards. It’s such an important article of clothing that millions of people all over the world will celebrate this day by dusting off their favorite hat and wearing it proudly in public. Will you be among them?

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IS YOUR DOG A HERO? SHOULD SOMEONE ONE YOUR TEAM BE A HERO?

Nominations for the 2018 American Humane Hero Dog Awards® are now open!

Submit a nomination for your in the Search and Rescue category. You could be featured on the Hallmark Channel next fall and win a donation for the National Search Dog Alliance!

The 2018 Hero Dog Awards nominations are open to U.S. residents at least 18 years of age. Only one nomination can be submitted per household, and the person submitting the nomination must be the dog’s direct owner or handler. Nominations will remain open until Wednesday, February 7, 2018. If there are any questions about your nomination form, contact Norma Snelling at [email protected].

Each of the eight finalists’ charity partners will be awarded $2,500 from American Humane and the grand prize winner’s charity partner will receive an additional $5,000. Please select one of the partners listed for your category of which NSDA is one. The charity partner you select does not need to be the organization that certified your Hero Dog.

Go to herodogawards.org to apply and please remember to name the National Search Dog Alliance as your Charity Partner.

MEMBERSHIPS IN NSDA

NSDA is moving to a quarterly membership system and will be prorating your fees over the next year. Starting October 1, the cards for everyone joining NSDA in October, November or December will show their membership extended to February 1, 2019. January, February and March will be extended to May 1, 2019, etc. You will be issued a wallet size plastic card that will reflect your name, address, membership number and expiration date.

Please also be aware that beginning January 1, all individual memberships will be $35.00.

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NSDA CERTIFICATIONS ALASKA ALASKA Stacie Burkhardt and K-9 Myka Marty Williams and K-9 Maya Land HRD; Area II; Area/Lg. Source HR Land HRD, Area II, Area/Lg Source HR

GEORGIA ALASKA Beverly Benton and K-9 Bonnie Lisa Jaeger and K-9 Mak Trailing II Land HRD

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IDAHO PENNSYLVANIA David Forker and K-9 Loki Kim Grimm and K-9 Ren Area II Trailing III

WASHINGTON ALASKA (Left) Tracy Wessel and K-9 Carmelia Patty Howell and K9’s Ziva and Abbey (Right) Misty Wegner and (Center) K-9 Akivah Land HRD Water HRD

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NSDA PODCASTS The black Labrador was trained for the role as a pup and has found over 100 people buried in snow during practice sessions.

The National Search Dog Alliance Podcast for January 15, 2018 is a chat with Terry Brown of Nordic Myst about nose work – a way to have fun with your dog’s scenting abilities. Although somewhat peripheral to search and rescue, it is a way to have fun during the long winter months. Or perhaps it is something to do with your older dog, an injured dog, or a dog who isn’t going to be trained in SAR for another reason.

And as the Cairngorm Mountains experience You can listen (and subscribe) to the Search the first significant snows of the season, video Dog PODCAST through iTunes and also find shows him playing with his counterpart, Druie, the PODCAST on Podbean at a two-year-old . www.saroc.podbean.com. Druie is still being trailed for the job and will And the PODCASTS stay up indefinitely. replace Coire when he finally retires. Stay tuned. Eva Briggs Owner Colin Matthew, operations manager at Cairngorm Mountain in the Highlands, said the young-at-heart dog still loves a “good old roll SCOTLAND’S OLDEST AVALANCHE around” in the snow.

RESCUE DOG (103 DOG YEARS) Playing like a dog half his age, Coire is seen pushing himself along the ground wearing a high visibility coat. An adorable video shows Scotland’s oldest avalanche rescue dog playing in the snow like At one point in the video the greying a – despite being the equivalent of 103 even begins to eat some of the snow as Druie years old. bounds around in the background.

Coire, who turns 15 in two months, remains an http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2017/11/17/adora active mountain search dog despite the life ble-video-shows-scotlands-oldest-avalanche- expectancy of the breed being 10-14 years. rescue-dog-103-playing-snow-like-puppy/

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Want to live longer? As a single dog owner, an individual is the sole person walking and interacting with their GET A DOG. as opposed to married couples or households with children, which may contribute to greater (CNN)The benefits that come with owning a protection from cardiovascular disease and dog are clear-- physical activity, support, companionship -- but owning a dog could death, said the study. literally be saving your life Owners of hunting breeds, including , Dog ownership is , and scent hounds, were most protected from cardiovascular disease and associated with a death. However, owning any dog will reduce reduced risk for an owners risk of death, just to different cardiovascular disease extents. and death, finds a new Read the full report at: study published Friday in Scientific Reports, a http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/17/health/dog- Swedish publication. owners-heart-disease-and-death/index.html

According to the study, people living alone, owning a dog can decrease MISSING PERSON? their risk of death by 33% and their risk of Horses, Hounds join forces to find them cardiovascular related death by 36%, when compared to single individuals without a pet, South Florida authorities have a new weapon according to the study. Chances of a heart in the search for missing people: a team of attack were also found to be 11% lower. and horses. This month, they trained for the first time on ways to work Multi-person household owners also saw together without stepping on each other’s benefits, though to a lesser extent. Risk of paws or hooves. death among these dog owners fell by 11% and their chances of cardiovascular death were 15% lower. But their risk of a heart attack was not reduced by owning a dog.

A very interesting finding in our study was that dog ownership was especially prominent as a protective factor in persons living alone, which is a group reported previously to be at higher risk of cardiovascular disease and death than those living in a multi-person household.

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“It was seamless, the horses and the dogs Maines has a core group of about a dozen were like ‘OK, whatever. This is cool.’ They did riders and their horses who are volunteering to great,” said Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Kelli search for abducted babies, teen runaways and Covet, who trains Macie. She is wandering seniors with dementia or one of three sheriff’s handlers responding to Alzheimer’s. missing persons cases throughout Broward. The other bloodhounds in the unit are Macie’s Most of these volunteers have shown off their brother, Wyatt, and Amber. horses at parades, schools and other community events. It’s the first time they’ll During their first encounter, horses from the pitch in with search-and-rescue missions and all-volunteer Mounted Posse lined up behind investigative work. trail-sniffing bloodhounds. They served as the dogs’ eyes and ears, combing for evidence. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-sb- Dogs remained razor-focused with wet noses bloodhounds-search-missing-people-20171121- to the ground. story.html

“When I’m tracking [a scent], I’m just looking where my dog is going,” Covet said. “If I’m in a big open field, she’s taking me on a track and I’m watching her. Of course, I’m not going to always see what’s to the left and to the right of me.”

That’s where the Mounted Posse jumps in, looking for clues to help guide the bloodhounds.

“We’re sitting on horses. We’re high up in the air. We can see way down the trail or we can see over fences into people’s backyards or into swimming pools,” said Don Maines, a sheriff’s civilian employee who runs the posse. “We can COLORADO’S SKI RESCUE DOGS see down canal banks if anything is on the trail are the real-life or if there might be someone floating in the canal bank. So that’s our advantage: being on ASPEN, Colo. — For avid skiers and top of the . snowboarders, it’s the most wonderful time of year — the winter ski season has officially Horses can also walk through brush to check begun. on a trail that a dog can no longer follow because of dense foliage. But it’s not just vacationers and action sports buffs hitting mountains across the country.

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“If there is an avalanche and we’re not sure somebody is in it, we send the dogs out to search that area,” Spence said.

Teams of skillful ski patrollers are reporting for work on the slopes, including a small but mighty contingent of avalanche dogs (or “avi dogs,” as they’re called in ski communities).

At Snowmass, nine miles from downtown Aspen, two Nova Scotia Duck Tolling retrievers and a Labrador work on the ski patrol team.

The ski resort and town celebrates its 50th “The dog’s nose is tens of thousands of times anniversary this winter, and festivities will mark better than our nose, so if people [who are the occasion throughout the season, starting lost] are not wearing an avalanche transceiver with a weekend of special events from Dec. beacon, then our best bet to find them alive is 15-17. to get the dogs our there first.

As one of the cutest sights on the mountain, http://kdvr.com/2017/12/06/colorados-ski-rescue- you can be sure the avi dogs will be in on dogs-are-the-real-life-paw-patrol/ some of the celebrations.

Lori Spence of Aspen Skiing Company works with her own avalanche puppy, Meka, on Aspen Highlands, and heads up the avalanche dog program across three of TOP 10 FEMALE & MALE DOG NAMES the company’s mountains — Snowmass, Aspen FOR 2017 Mountain (where an Airedale and a cattle dog mix are on the patrol team) and 1. Bella Max Aspen Highlands (where the team includes 2. Lucy Charlie three Labrador retrievers). 3. Daisy Cooper 4. Luna Buddy Spence explains that all ski patrollers who work 5. Lola Jack with a dog on the mountains take their dogs 6. Sadie Rocky home at night, creating an incredibly strong 7. Molly Bear bond and sense of trust that is crucial when 8. Bailey Tucker they’re on patrol. 9. Maggie Oliver 10. Sophie Duke They might look cute, but being an avalanche dog is serious business.

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Minninger, a veterinarian who was teaching the EVERY DOG OWNER SHOULD class. She and Detweiler own Telford KNOW ABOUT CANINE FIRST Veterinary Hospital. AID For working dogs with a strong drive to work, it is important their police partners know when An injured dog will bite, even if it is your own. to give them a break so they don’t overheat. If there was one Hyperthermia or heatstroke can happen any takeaway at the time, said Detweiler. “This is huge. This is first-aid class for 100% preventable.” K-9 police “We had a dog die this week,” she said about officers held at a case at her veterinary practice. The family Gladwyne Fire pet was accidentally left outside in the sun all Company day without water. “They start with a higher recently, it was body temperature than us. It doesn’t take long this: Don’t take to get to a high level.” risks when a dog’s teeth are You can’t tell by just feeling a dog if its inches from your temperature is elevated. Those ear face. thermometers are built for humans and useless in because of their anatomy. “They have some deeply wired behaviours,” said Jon Detweiler, an emergency medical Instead, look for symptoms such as altered technician who was instructing about 15 behaviour. A pet may collapse or vomit as well. officers on how to recognise and respond to Placing ice bags under the pet’s armpits, medical emergencies involving their four- covering them with a wet towel, cooling the legged partners. “Please be ready for that.” pads of their feet with alcohol swabs, or placing them in a pool or stream will help bring The officers and their companions from down high body temperature, she said. Montgomery and Delaware Counties gathered for the three-hour class and practice sessions. The class included CPR instruction, recognising An afternoon class for paramedics, emergency signs and symptoms that would signal a medical technicians, and nurses addressed medical crisis, basic first aid, and emergency issues the group might encounter when planning for transportation and hospital responding to emergencies involving working treatment before it is needed. canines, each valued as high as US$50,000 http://www.star2.com/living/2017/12/08/every (RM203,800). The classes were sponsored by -dog-owner-should-know-about-canine-first- Narberth Ambulance. aid/ Much of what the professionals learned about canine injuries due to car accidents, heatstroke, and penetrating trauma would be useful for owners of household pets as well, said Scott Kramer, a paramedic with Narberth Ambulance. “Anything anybody can do in an emergency situation will help save a life,” said Sharon

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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals staff member made a last-minute call to SCREENING FOR AWARD WINNING Zarrella. DOCUMENTARY, ‘SEARCHDOG’ GETS TAILS WAGGING "I said, ‘This is it, you know? You're her last chance,’" Joe Warzycha, who is the director of operations for RI SPCA, said. "I think Ruby exemplifies the story of someone who was unwanted, and discarded, and like a lot of us, we all just need a second chance," said Jamiel.

The Rhode Island premiere of "Searchdog" included a red carpet event at Providence Place Mall, followed by two separate screenings.

http://turnto10.com/news/local/screening-for- award-winning-documentary-searchdog-gets-tails- wagging

A screening event for an award-winning documentary, "Searchdog," was being held Board of Directors Thursday evening in Providence. OFFICERS The movie was made by Rhode Island Norma Snelling, President, Washington filmmaker who is also a professor at the [email protected] University of Rhode Island. Susan Fleming, Vice-President, Pennsylvania [email protected] "Filming dogs was an incredibly satisfying and Sue Wolff, Secretary, Tennessee challenging learning experience. Following [email protected] search and rescue K-9 teams on live person Heather Proper-Van Valkenberg, Treasurer, PA searches was as an intense experience as [email protected] watching the film," said Mary Healey Jamiel.

The documentary highlights the journey of DIRECTORS several Rhode Island State Police search and Jen Skeldon, Wyoming rescue K-9 officers, along with a few from the [email protected] state of Maine. Many of the dogs were Roy Pescador, Canada transformed from unwanted shelter animals to [email protected] heroic search dogs. Sherry Scruggs, Georgia Making that transformation happen was a [email protected] specialty of retired Rhode Island State Police Sgt. Matt Zarrella. "I have always felt that dogs Founding Members had a higher purpose on this earth and that it K-9 Thor, Eileen M. Nobles, Susan Bulanda was up to the humans to make that happen," K-9 Roo, Leslie Godchaux, Brian R. Hendrickson Zarrella says in the movie. Continental Kennel Club, Inc., K-9 River, K-9 NBC 10 News recently profiled one of the K-9s that Persha; Jan Thompson, K-9 Cali, Peggy Ann featured, Ruby. Seven years ago, she was saved Buchman; K-9 Geis from euthanization after a Rhode Island

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WE ARE STILL COLLECTING PHOTOS

NSDA will be starting a program to attend conferences around the country to show SAR coordinators and law enforcement what a dog can do. An information board with high-quality pictures of our dogs is a must. Therefore I would like to feature dogs owned by our membership.

We have had some excellent photos already submitted but we would like a variety to choose from, depending upon the expected audience.

I will be putting together presentations for NSDA representatives to use at different public functions to showcase what our Alliance does. Please submit action pictures of your dog(s) engaged in search activities. The pictures will need to be of high resolution so that they can be enlarged. If you have a good photo of your dog working in any discipline (not posing for the camera), we would love to have a copy.

Submit pictures in JPG format to Sherry Scruggs at [email protected]

Your submission of a picture grants NSDA worldwide, irrevocable rights to copyright the photograph in the name of the Alliance and to use and re-use, publish and re-publish the photograph, in whole or in part, individually or in conjunction with printed matter, or in composite form, and in any medium, for editorial, commercial, promotional and/or trace purposes..

Thanks in advance, Sherry Scruggs NSDA BOD/Testing Administrator

RUN FOR THE NSDA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

If you are willing to work a minimum of 4 – 6 hours per week to help NSDA grow, if you believe in showing teams across the country how well their dog could work if trained to a national standard, if you believe dog teams should be certified by Evaluators outside of their own team members, if you would like to work with, and learn from, dedicated people from across the country, if you want to reach out to isolated, dedicated handlers who need help in their training, if you would like to oversee the planning and organizing of seminars, if you just love to do fundraising at a national level, if you do NOT want to just enhance your resume –

Contact Robyn Moug at [email protected] for more information.

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Human Feet Still Washing Up Basically, feet washing up in the Pacific In Pacific Northwest, Northwest — while not an everyday occurrence But Don't Panic — is not particularly unusual, let alone a sign of something sinister. NPR's own Mark Memmott wrote about this mystery back in BREAKING NEWS FROM NPR INTERNATIONAL 2011, with some help from Ellison, then a On the shores of Vancouver, Canada, and reporter at NPR member station KPLU. across the Pacific Northwest, there is an unusual but not uncommon occurrence: feet Ellison, examining the mystery of the floating washing up. Last week, another human foot feet, opened his story with: "There are likely washed ashore near Sooke, Canada, on hundreds of dead human bodies in the waters Vancouver Island — the 13th foot found in of the Northwest at any given time." British Columbia in the last decade. Human "According to Jake's reporting, the Northwest's feet have also had a tendency to wash ashore cold waters can help preserve human remains in Washington state. for long periods — sometimes years. But

eventually, bodies do break apart. And then, if The most recent foot (with lower leg bones tibia and a foot happens to be in a type of shoe that floats, it can end up getting carried ashore. fibula attached) was encountered by a man Parker MacCready, an oceanography professor walking his dogs in the at the University of Washington, said the story town of Jordan River, the is simple. “Things that float at the ocean CBC reports. surface move with the currents, but also are pushed a bit by the wind, and this can be The man picked up the foot and took it home significant in getting them to shore,” he wrote before calling police. Mike Johns, the man who in an email. “The prevailing winds here found the foot, told The New York Times that [around the Salish Sea] are west to east, and he carried it home out of concern that, as the so floating stuff in this part of the Pacific gets Times put it, "it would have washed back into blown to the coast effectively.” the ocean or attracted the bear hanging around town" had he left it. And why feet? It turns out that in water, human bodies naturally disarticulate, or come For the record, the authorities say, if you find a apart at the joints, so hands and feet often foot on the shore, you should call the disconnect from corpses after soaking in the authorities and they'll retrieve it — no need to ocean for a while. hand-carry the foot home. “Feet easily disarticulate and when they are You might have some questions about why attached to a flotation device such as a Canadian police would be calmly advising running shoe, they are easily washed ashore,” citizens of proper foot-spotting protocol.

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PS: Yours truly appeared on “National Geographic wrote Gail Anderson, co-director of the Center Explorer’s “Mystery of the Disembodied Feet” c/o for Forensic Research at Simon Fraser UTube, with my cadaver search dog recreating a look for other feet on the Washington state shore University in British Columbia, in an email. in 2008. When the dog finally got frustrated by re- “Notice there are no feet washing ashore in takes and licked the camera lens, they decided stiletto heels or flip flops. Also today’s running they had enough footage. Editor shoes are much more buoyant than in the past.” Mars officially warmer

Tennis shoes also keep decaying feet in a neat than Canada package rather than letting toes and heels disperse, and footwear protects feet from Saturday, January 10, 2015, 11:32 AM - NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover is currently exploring the Gale hungry sea creatures, which end up gnawing Crater. On Thursday, the daily high in that region on other exposed areas like ankles instead. of Mars hit -8C, making it warmer than parts of “[A]rthropods will skeletonize and disarticulate Canada and the U.S. Mars is known for its chilly conditions, with an average temperature of -60 a body quite quickly depending on oceanic degrees Celsuis. conditions,” Anderson wrote. She found this out last year in a study using pig In Canada, daytime temperatures hovered in the - carcasses immersed in the Salish Sea. Previous 20s and -- in some places -- the -40s with the wind studies using carcasses approximating a chill Thursday. It's part of a trend that's grabbed human body reported that a corpse could hold of the country, and it will be around for a few survive for weeks, even months, intact more days at least. underwater. However, Anderson concluded that the well-oxygenated waters of the Strait of Georgia support a vast amount of aquatic life that in turn could skeletonize a carcass in less than four days.

"That's a rather unexciting explanation for something that's gotten people speculating that there's a killer on the loose. But sometimes facts do get in the way of good stories."

Eight of the 12 previously discovered feet have @MarsWxReport been identified, Canadian authorities say, and Mars Weather tied to six individuals. "In none of the cases Dec 27, 2017 Sunny, high -19C/-2F, low 80C/-112F was any foul play involved," officials wrote last Snow piled up in Erie, Pennsylvania, on year. Citizens along the Canadian coast are Wednesday after two days of record-breaking taking the latest foot with a shrug of the snowfall that had already surpassed 5 feet (1.5 shoulders. And a nearby cafe owner told the meters), breaking city and state records, Times that the scientific explanation of feet according to the National Weather Service. floating off from decomposing corpses is The storm broke a 59-year-old record for two- satisfying to residents. day snowfall recorded anywhere in December 12, 2017 Camila Domonoske Pennsylvania, totaling 58 inches when Tuesday's barrage was added and beating the 44-inch record set in Morgantown in 1958. CNBC Dec. 27 Cheryl Santa Maria

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THINGS I HAVE LEARNED SINCE I JOINED SAR

1. I did not join for the fine dining. 11. In every search there is a swamp crossing.

2. Twisted ankles and sore feet will take you 12. The dedication and professionalism shown farther than you thought possible when on an by most searchers is a close second to active search. sainthood.

3. The gruffer the searcher the bigger his 13. Knee deep is better than waist deep. heart.

14. You can never have too much flagging 4. Search managers do not appreciate tape. measurements being given in “cubits”.

15. Know the Command Post cell number. 5. We can teach the military a thing or two about “hurry up and wait”. 16. Nothing is waterproof.

6. A cold rainy night is the most common time 17. Teammates will share the food in their for a call-out. pack with you.

7. Don’t piss-off the field team leader, he 18. Friends will share the GOOD food in their knows the best places to hide a body. pack with you.

8. Everyone in SAR has a purpose-Even if it is 19. Even 91 YO men can go over, under, nothing more than being a bad example. around or through 5 strands of barbed wire. 9. 10% of the team members do 90% of the work. 20. No drug can duplicate the high of bringing

a lost person home to their family. 10. Anything you need in a hurry will always be at the bottom of your pack. Submitted by Jamie Harper

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KIBBLES & BITS by Susan Bulanda

Psychological Effects of a Mission

The following is based on discussions with other SAR personnel and my personal experiences, not on formal research. However, I would like to add that my undergraduate degree is in Psychology and I have part of a Masters in clinical counseling and behavioral sciences which has given me insight about these issues.

I have been in touch with units throughout the United States and Europe and without exception, they all had the same basic three feelings. A need to respond to every incident, a feeling of guilt for not responding to a mission and an emotional reaction to a specific mission.

Some of the circumstances that caused these feelings lie in part because in the early days of SAR, there were only about 20 units throughout the United States. This caused a unique situation. First, many police, and fire departments did not believe that dogs could help and that the volunteers were not properly trained. Keep in mind that there were few resources to help K9 SAR handlers get the training that they needed. The other issue was that there were no standards, so you had one unit that was well trained and another who was not. Besides training and maintaining your unit, you had to educate other agencies about what you could do and to call you out.

Over time more units were formed, many were good and agencies started using them, but until about the 1990’s there were not enough units to cover many areas of the US. Added to the scarcity of units, many did not have enough qualified members to meet the demand. This put pressure on the

In those early days, it was not unusual for our unit to be on one mission and get called out to another at the same time. I recall finishing one mission only to rush to another without a break. Of course, there were down times, but we averaged about 2- 3 missions a month. Because SAR was often not recognized by employers, many of our members had to use vacation days to respond during working hours.

For Larry and I, we did not have a true vacation for years because Larry used all his sick and vacation days on missions. Interestingly, when we could get away for a long weekend, we always had our dogs and basic gear with us. Without fail, wherever we were, the local police would find out about us and we would be called to an incident in that area.

Although we did not “ambulance chase,” which was strictly forbidden in our unit, we were in a situation where many local towns did not know we existed. K9 SAR, not being a recognized rescue service, was not listed in the local or county call-out systems. This meant that if we learned of an incident, we had to call the police or fire department that was handling the incident and let them know we were available. SAR DOG NEWS January 2018 Page 18

If there was an incident where someone died or suffered because they were not found in a timely fashion, often our team members felt guilty or grieved. We knew what we could do and under the circumstances felt that we could have saved the missing person. This added pressure on us as a team.

In all the units I have talked to, without exception, people expressed their feelings of guilt if they planned to go on a “real” vacation where they were unavailable to search. Larry and I experienced that when we planned a trip on VIA (passenger train) across Canada. To make matters worse, my dogs were in the kennel and we got a call out. Since it was local, I rushed to the kennel, got the dogs, did the mission, returned the dogs and was barely able to make our deadline to leave for vacation. Needless to say, this increased our anxiety about going on vacation.

I have heard it said that there is always one mission that gets to you. This can happen no matter how experienced you are, what debriefing or support you get or how well trained you are. I have known all types of rescue personnel, fire fighters, police, EMT’s, etc. who have experienced this. Today we recognize it in our combat military personnel as PTSD. In those days, it was called Critical Incident Stress.

For me it was an out-of-state incident. A young boy had drowned and the state police were searching for the body. I arrived on scene and found that a tidal river that raised and lowered quite a bit, was where the child had drowned. A road ended by a concrete overlook with a railing. The river was at the bottom with a dock for a boat. It was a long drop from the top of the overlook to the river. Because the river had sharp bends at that location, there were deep channels and strong currents. One child, (as I recall was a preteen or just 13), jumped in and was swept down the river by the current. The child’s friends watched him trying to grab branches of trees that were overhanging the water until he was sucked down.

After I completed my search, I asked the incident commander why the child jumped. He told me that it was a community tradition to jump off the overlook. That the child’s parents and grandparents probably did it. I suggested that they put life preservers there. I was told that it was not possible because of a liability issue.

After I finished the mission and was driving away, a crowd of local kids, I assumed they were peers of the one that died, were lined up along the yellow tape. I felt so angry and outraged that I wanted to get out of my vehicle and shake each one by the shoulders and forbid them from jumping into the river. For months, this incident bothered me. It haunted me both awake and in my dreams. As time went on I got over it, but it was an important lesson for me and helped me understand other people when they went through the same thing.

As we got more callouts, the stress kept building. The need to try to save everyone mounted. As our unit grew, we all earned more certifications and could help in different types of rescues. As part of the fire department we had access to the same training that the fire fighters had. Not that we participated in firefighting, but we had training in other disciplines. Our members included people who were a doctor, veterinarian, Navy Seal, fire chief, nurses, ski patrol, high angle rescue, heavy rescue, water rescue and military. To Be Continued in the February issue - SAR DOG NEWS January 2018 Page 19

To get the SEADOGS certification, Sage had to Training with SEADOGS: How clear a 60-acre area, finding each of the humans in the area. The dogs don’t know how Juneau’s search and rescue many people they’re supposed to find. They dogs sharpen their skills also have to clear an empty area. “They have to have two or more people that they find within a two-hour period,” Poulson A named Panzer, a golden explained. “They never know the number of retriever named Sage, a skinny, fast looking people they’re looking for.” dog nicknamed the “brown bullet”: Just about any dog, so long as they like to play, can learn The dogs’ job at the workout that night was to to track humans. find three people hiding in separate spots in a large rock quarry next to The Home Depot. But it’s a lot of work to do so reliably. The Southeast Alaska Dogs Organized for Ground The dogs learn by incentive. Owners typically Search (SEADOGS) work once a week to stay take a toy away from the dogs and use a key sharp, and dogs not yet certified can expect to phrase to let the dogs know it’s time to work. Dogs will naturally seek out new scents, which train every day with their owner. the hiding or lost humans have.

If you get lost around Juneau, SEADOGS is If they receive the toy after locating the source part of a multi-agency search and rescue effort of the human scent, they start to learn that that includes the Alaska State Troopers, they’ll only get the toy back after finding a Juneau Mountain Rescue, Juneau Police human. Department, the U.S. Coast Guard and Capital City Fire/Rescue. Poulson takes a length of rope, used for tug- of-war, away from Sage and says the words The Empire tagged along for a recent workout “find him.” Sage knows she has to lead to learn how Juneau’s working dogs train to Poulson to any human in the area before she’ll save lives. Learning to do so requires the same get the toy back. skill it takes to get to Carnegie Hall. Mostly, it’s just practice, practice, practice. Sage puts her nose to the ground and starts moving quickly. Dogs search by scent. Their About 10 people and eight dogs met at the eyesight isn’t great but their noses are corner of The Home Depot parking lot on a approximately 20 times more sensitive than recent Wednesday. They were there to humans. sharpen their skills doing what’s called Human scent does one of two things: It’ll drop wilderness training. That’s the type of training to the ground to be caught by vegetation or dogs will use to clear an area, volunteer Stacey float up in the air. Ground scents offer the dog Poulson, owner of Sage, explained. a straight line to a human. Scents in the air Dogs can be certified in several different skills, form “cones” that spread out behind a human. including finding human remains, avalanche Dogs will follow an air scent in a zig-zag search, and rescue and water training. pattern, bouncing from one side of the cone to SEADOGS trains at Eaglecrest and by the the human. Mendenhall Glacier and other spots around town. Sage is trained to find human remains, people caught in avalanches, water and wilderness. SAR DOG NEWS January 2018 Page 20

Panzer, a 96-pound German shepherd owned http://juneauempire.com/news/local/2017-12- by U.S. Coast Guardsman Liam Higgins, 21/training-seadogs-how-juneau-s-search-and- tracked his third find of the night through an rescue-dogs-sharpen-their-skills air cone scent. It was tough going for the energetic 7-year-old: swirling air currents carried Panzer far away from where Higgins Forensic 'Body Farm' Opens In was pretty sure the human volunteer was hiding, on the bank of a creek next to an old Florida - Becomes Seventh In truck weigh station. US Panzer had found the first two humans quickly, A new forensic "body farm" is finally in the but the third human was much tougher to works in the state of Florida -- just the seventh locate. human decomposition research program in the United States. The state-of-the-art facility will Panzer looked to Higgins for clues. He’ll do that include body donation, but will also serve as a if he doesn’t know where to look next but training ground for K9, ballistics and remote Higgins doesn’t want to taint the process and sensing, among other cutting-edge forensic distract Panzer from working it out through his techniques. nose. Announced in a press conference yesterday by “I’m just going to ignore him for a second and Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco, the new talk to you,” Higgins said, turning away from facility will be located just north of Tampa, the dog. Panzer then let out a frustrated howl. Florida, and is known as FIRST -- the Florida Forensic Institute for Research, Security and “Show me,” Higgins said. The dog led him Tactical Training. It already has strong support down the embankment by the river to where from the county Board of Commissioners, from the volunteer was hiding. Pasco-Hernando State College and from the Institute of Forensic Anthropology and Applied Both Sage and Panzer found all of the hiding Sciences, which is headed by forensic humans they were tasked with finding during anthropologist Erin Kimmerle of the University the workout. That’s part of the design of of South Florida. training, volunteers want their dogs to get used to finding humans, to reinforce the cycle Kimmerle is a real-life Temperance Brennan -- of work and reward. They don’t get that same she and her team at IFAAS routinely partner satisfaction from an actual search and rescue, with local law enforcement and help crack cold where dogs don’t always locate lost humans cases using forensic science. But Kimmerle also directly but are part of a team that helps does research into historical cases, such as the narrow down vast search areas. Mariana Boys School, and into the complicated process of human decomposition. When somebody is actually lost, the Alaska State Troopers are the lead organization. The idea behind a "body farm" -- a term They’ll run an incident command which popularized by novelist Patricia Cornwell in her coordinates the search and rescue effort. 1994 book based on the original facility at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville -- is that SEADOGS has its own incident command that body donations are used in service of works with AST. Each dog wears a GPS collar understanding what happens to a corpse after which allows the team to track where they’ve death. Sometimes, a body is placed in a been. If a dog hasn’t found a human in an specific environment in order to help figure out area, they know to focus resources elsewhere.

SAR DOG NEWS January 2018 Page 21 time since death in a particular murder excited by the current partnership and by what investigation. Other times, one or more bodies the FIRST facility will mean. "This program is may be studied in order to provide more essential for bringing much needed research, precise information about post-death processes technology and forensic training to our area," that can be generalized across a region. she told me. "It is an opportunity for us to Until now, there were only six outdoor forensic build capacity as a national service provider in anthropology research centers in the U.S. -- forensic identification and for the state of two in Texas and one each in Tennessee, Florida to become a leader in these areas, North Carolina, Illinois and Colorado. While the bringing economic growth, innovation to STEM climate of Florida is similar in some ways to education, and researchers here from around Texas, the fact that the entirety of the state is the country." within 100 miles or fewer of water means a different set of forensic issues to solve. The education angle was also important to Opening the FIRST facility in Florida fills a Mike Moore, Chair of the Board of County state-wide need for increased research into Commissioners, and to Sheriff Nocco. Both human decomposition. reiterated in the press conference that educating law enforcement personnel, training In the press conference, Nocco also noted the forensics specialists and showing teenagers the economic development that the FIRST facility rewards of a STEM-based job are priorities for will mean to the county, envisioning it as the this area. "Silicon Valley of forensics." With over 16,000 cold cases in the state, a facility that brings In the end, though, Kimmerle points out that together community, business, law "the result of this program is that our enforcement and academic leaders will also community, state and the victims of some of provide closure to many people whose loved the most tragic crimes benefit enormously." ones were victims of homicide. The Pasco County Sheriff's department is Kimmerle notes that, along with the body spearheading the effort to raise funds to donation program, she and her team will be construct the facility on the land that has been focusing on innovative technologies. She plans acquired, along with assistance from state to employ virtual autopsies, which use 3D senator Wilton Simpson and state scanning and CT technology to look inside representative Danny Burgess. When bodies and document trauma in a novel way. complete, FIRST will include a classroom, Additionally, Kimmerle and her team have been morgue, training facility, research and service pursuing techniques in geochemistry, using labs, and evidence storage. And USF is in stable isotopes found in the teeth in an charge of the already popular body donation attempt to narrow down where a deceased program. individual was born and when they moved https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/ around. They may even begin to use 3D printing to replicate injuries or other physical 2017/02/28/new-body-farm-opens-in-florida- evidence in order to present it to a jury during becomes-7th-in-u-s/#4ec760128645 a trial.

It has been about two years since the previous plans for a "body farm" in Florida were tabled while a new location was scouted. Kimmerle is

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Placer County Search and Rescue Dogs Undergo Training Mission with a Holiday Twist

"Takes a certain type of dog to do it."

Pollyanne is used to getting pats on the back for finding people who are lost in the forest. But Tuesday night, she and her pack of search and rescue dogs are up to something funny. Elf running away

"We have a special mission. We are going on a special search because Santa and his elves In this case, Jasmine first passed the elf she crashed so we have to go find them." was looking for. But it only took a few minutes for her to circle back for another sniff, pull Kona is taking it very seriously. hard on the leash and track that scent to The elves on the other hand -- not so much. exactly the right spot.

"Our job was to find all the presents that they To glimpse the real elves, see: lost and find all the elves that got away from http://fox40.com/2017/12/19/placer-county- Santa. Uh, to save Christmas," said Cyndee Schwartz, Placer County Search and Rescue search-and-rescue-dogs-undergo-training- Dog Team trainer. mission-with-a-holiday-twist/

It's a festive way to teach these working dogs the skills they need to save lives. "What we're doing is evidence search," Schwartz said. Instead of using articles of clothing, they're Louisiana Search and Rescue using Christmas presents. Dog Team So Jasmine the bloodhound and her trainer Jeff A unique bond helps others Landre are hot on the stuffed animal trail. by Catherine Freeman Jasmine found four toys in just as many minutes. Rumor has it, this hound has the best Teamwork. The word swirled in my head as I nose in Placer County. Even so, trailing observed the partners’ focus on the mission someone's scent in a secluded area, in this awaiting them. Messi took sniffs of a piece of case Snowy Peaks Tree Farm in Foresthill, is cloth covered in the girl’s scent while Trey difficult. And it can end down a very dark path. surveyed the woods nearby. And then, with Trey’s command to begin we took off behind "They could also unfortunately find people who an eager Messi, hoping to locate the “lost” girl. have passed away, but they're main job is to get them while they're still alive," Schwartz said. SAR DOG NEWS January 2018 Page 23

Her nose leading the way, we followed her variety of breeds, including 1-year-old through a field, down a fence line and into Charlie just two months into training, the more thick woods. And then just when we seemed to experienced 5-year-old Australian Shepherd stall, it happened … Messi’s nose caught a Niko and the energetic Belgian Malinois scent and within seconds triumphant barking Katrina, all practicing in their specialized areas. signaled her find. She rushed back, excitedly LaSAR isn’t a calling one finds accidentally; I alerted Trey with her trained indication to laughed when avid outdoorsman Trey shared follow and then led us to the girl. After praise his introduction to the group by friends touting and treats from Trey, Messi barked celebrating LaSAR would offer an opportunity to “hunt” another successful search and rescue training with his dog all year – and for a worthy cause. mission. But LaSAR is more than a hobby for Trey and

the group of multi-generational volunteers who Trey Todd and his 7-year-old Labrador Messi truly are “committed to assisting the are just one of the handler and dog teams community by training dogs and their handlers volunteering with the Louisiana Search and to excel in the rescue or recovery of those in Rescue Dog Team. Following two years of need. They work in conjunction with law research and subsequent development of a enforcement agencies as a team to bring about training program, LaSAR was founded in a successful conclusion to the search.” LaSAR January 1991 by Lisa Higgins as a volunteer has answered more than 650 calls to provide based, self-funded nonprofit focused on the their services following natural disasters, search and rescue of lost or missing missing persons reports, urban disasters and individuals. The program requires tremendous FBI cases across eight states and Canada. dedication by teams who must complete Although the team is based in St. Tammany intense training, tests and strict national Parish, LaSAR is available to all local, state and certification standards before participating in federal agencies at any time, with no cost to searches. Additionally, each pair trains to the agency or family. perform searches in one or more of the SAR disciplines, including live wilderness and urban One volunteer shared, “If I could help just one searches, and human remains detection at person in my lifetime through canine search disasters, homicides and drownings. and rescue it’s worth all the 6 a.m. wake up Every Saturday volunteer teams meet at calls, night searches and endless training.” I Louisiana area locations to work in each of won’t soon forget witnessing the unique bond these disciplines. This particular morning, I had between each dog and owner and will remain the privilege of observing a joint training of inspired by and thankful for LaSAR’s mission LaSAR K-9s and the LA Task Force 1 K-9s and service to our community in times of need. exposing the dogs to different settings: a http://www.myneworleans.com/St-Charles- building, a trailer, a rubble pile and abandoned Avenue/January-2018/Louisiana-Search-and- vehicles. I was surprised to see the incredible Rescue-Dog-Team/

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There are all sorts of things we can think of to THE LAST HOWL do…lose weight, eat healthier, etc., but are By Sue Wolff these really significant to you? Are they just something to say you’ll do every year and then Opinions expressed in this column are those of the forget? author and not necessarily those of the National Search Dog Alliance What about your commitment to search and rescue? Are you really dedicated to training It’s a New Year! The ball has dropped in a your dog consistently? Are you going to team frigid Times Square. It’s training regularly? Are you attending seminars time for New Year’s and conferences to better your knowledge and Resolutions. learn more about field operations?

If you’re like I Do you have a local team or do you need to am, you don’t establish one? Are you a member of NSDA? Is make any. I your team a member? Do you need to bring prefer to look Evaluators to your area for certification back at the testing? (If you’re a member of NSDA, these previous year services are considerably cheaper!) and take stock of what I’ve done right. What can NSDA do for you? Are we supplying I’ve taken good care of my animals, feeding you with the knowledge you need to certify them well (and on time or they’ll hound me to you and your K-9? Are enough tests available? death!), making sure that their food is Close enough to you? What subject matter is nutritious and supplying water for their needs. important to you and how can we provide it I provide them with a comfortable space that’s easily? How helpful is social media and should all their own whether it’s in my home or in NSDA use it more? their own kennel/stable. Here, at the beginning of 2018, there’re I volunteer with NSDA lending them my significant considerations to mull over. Let experience in administration…and in formatting NSDA help you and, in return, you can documents! While I no longer work in the enhance the Voice of K-9 Search and Rescue. field, I provide the knowledge that I have to teach handlers and their K-9s.

I’m sure there are other things like I’ve been good to my family, I’ve helped Boy Scouts cross the street and I’ve provided supplies to the local animal shelter but have I done enough???

This is where contemplation and evaluation comes in. In Yoga we’d assume the Lotus position and meditate. In real life, we’d probably think about it in the car driving to work.

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