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NSDA SAR DOG NEWS August 2016 Page 1 SAR Dog News Published by the National Search Dog Alliance August 2016 Vol. 10, No. 8 Article page Board meeting dates 1 Comments and Corrections 1 COMMENTS and CORRECTIONS The Dog Days of Summer 2 Hero Dog Contest 2 In the June edition we ran a story about Doubtful NSDA Podcasts 4 Dog Behavior. In the July edition we printed a Testing, Training Seminars, & Conferences 4 Who Did You Say Was Driving? 6 comment on the article by reader, Lou Castle. The NSDA Board of Directors – Updates 6 comment however was attributed to Len Troman. Bark Ranger 7 My apologies to both Missing Woman’s Family Hails Helpful Unit 8 gentlemen on this error. Cloning Your Pet / Book Review 9 Norma Snelling Missing Hiker Found After 10 Days 10 Kibbles & Bits 11 The Last Howl 13 Board of Directors and Founding Members 14 Bucky Says: Board 2016 Meeting Dates: “NO” to a puppy means September 1 “Wait until you October 6 are not looking” Contact Secretary, Jen Skeldon at [email protected] for the call in number for the meetings. NSDA SAR DOG NEWS August 2016 Page 2 VOTING FOR TOP DOG CONTINUES Voting continues for the 2016 "Top Dog" of all the eight hero dogs and read the other seven hero dog stories. They are all AMAZING HERO DOGS! Vote for the dog that you believe should win the overall Top Dog award. Voting will remain open until noon Pacific Time on IN THE NEXT ISSUE August 24th. Then we all fly to Hollywood on September 8th for the award gala on Saturday A painting by Super September 10. The recording of this gala will air on the Hallmark Channel the end of October, and I Kludde can let you know the date. Kubuk and Elizabeth The super elite Top Gun Dock Dog also paints and we will raffle off one of his beautiful originals. Each of the eight Hero Dog Awards finalists will Who else do you know who can feature a win $2,500 for their charity partners, and the 2016 American Hero Dog will win an additional $5,000 painting by a dog artist on their wall? for their charity partner. Watch for bidding details and dates. Go to http://herodogawards.org/vote/ AND VOTE – every day NSDA SAR DOG NEWS August 2016 Page 3 Because of this tilt, the earth stores up heat and becomes hotter until mid-August when the cooling The Dog Days of Summer cycle begins. According to the weatherman, the "Dog Days" of summer are here - the hot days of late summer that seem to drag on forever. Lots of folks think the term "Dog Days of Summer" stems from the idea that it is the period of extended heat in the mid or late summer that sends dogs staying in the cool shade under a porch, or tree. A dog does play a role in the history of the term but it actually is a dog in the sky. In ancient times, people imagined that the brightest stars formed images of animals like bears, bulls, lions and even dogs. These star groups are called constellations and the constellation Canis Major is one that depicts a dog. The brightest star in this constellation is Sirius or the "Dog Star." Ancient Romans believed that, since Sirius the Dog Star was so bright, it actually Despite the reason for this hottest time of year, heated the earth. this period still causes dogs to try and find a cool Sirius is place. visible in the winter in the southern sky, but between early July and mid- August it rises during daylight with the sun. Since ancient Romans believed that this star added more heat to the heat of the sun, these later days of summer are called the "Dog Days" of summer! Modern astronomy has taught us that the hottest days of the year occur during these "Dog Days" because the earth is tilted more towards the sun. NSDA SAR DOG NEWS August 2016 Page 4 NSDA PODCASTS This month I will be talking with Catherine Louis about scent-specicific area search. Catherine is a member of Wake Canine Search and Rescue (www.wcsar.net) in North Carolina, where she has served both as a board member and president. Her duties have included maintaining a ‘Continuous Improvement’ focus on canine and team standards. She has been an air scent discriminating handler since 2002 and has formed a partnership with North Carolina National Weather Service to create and present a class to provide search responders with effective deployment methodologies that help maximize the probability of detection for canine search resources. You can listen (and subscribe) to the Search Dog PODCAST through iTunes and also find the PODCAST on Podbean at www.saroc.podbean.com. Please send questions, feedback and suggestions to [email protected] These PODCASTS stay up indefinitely. Stay tuned! Eva Briggs Testing, Training Seminars & Conferences Reach over 1,350 SAR K-9 handlers. List your Tests, Training seminars and conferences in the SAR Dog News Contact Norma Snelling at: [email protected] 2016 Tests Location Contact Email/Phone Date Aug 18-19 Area, Land HRD Camp Edwards,WA Chris Terpstra [email protected] Aug 26-29 Area, Trailing, Water & Land HR Wasilla, AK Terry Crooks Closed Aug 26-28 Gun Source Residue Colorado Springs Janet Yatchak Closed Sept 15-18 Trailing II, III, Gun Source Residue Show Low, AZ Michelle Denton [email protected] Sept 30- Area, Trailing, Water & Land HR, Gun Swan Valley, ID Janet Yatchak [email protected] Oct 2 Source Residue Oct 29-30 Land HRD Sarasota, FL Janet Wyatt [email protected] 941-922-3161 NSDA SAR DOG NEWS August 2016 Page 5 Oct. 9-10 Area, Land HRD San Diego, CA Lenore Ceithaml [email protected] Heather Oct. 15-16 Area, Disaster, Land, Water, Trailing Atterbury, IN [email protected] Suedkamp 2016 Date Seminars Location Contact Email/Phone Aug 19-20 Scenarios Workshop (Info here) Cody, WY K.T. Irwin [email protected] K9410 Land Cadaver Camp Atterbury, [email protected] Aug 27-28 Lillian Hardy Techniques K9s Advanced IN 812-526-0013 California SAREX 500+ Attendees from Sept 9-11 Fresno, CA CA & other states K9320 Basic Intro Disaster Search Camp Atterbury, [email protected] Sept 13-14 Lillian Hardy Techniques IN 812-526-0013 K9330 Disaster Techniques Camp Atterbury, [email protected] Sept 15-16 Lillian Hardy Intermediate IN 812-526-0013 Camp Atterbury, [email protected] Sept 17-18 K9430 Disaster Techniques Advanced Lillian Hardy IN 812-526-0013 CSAR 2016 Seminar Air Scent, Trailing, Wisconsin [email protected] Sept 18-23 Rosholt, WI HRD, Water Recovery Lions Camp [email protected] Tim & Suzy 615-452-9116 Sept 25-30 2016 All Breed Canine Multi-discipline Holiday Lake Perry Appomattox, VA Bob Urban 440-413-1973 2016 Date Seminars Location Contact Email/Phone Maryln Allen [email protected] Oct 5-9 NSI K-9 Land HRD Seymour, IN Adams Camp Atterbury, [email protected] Nov 5-6 NSDA Seminar To be Announced Lillian Hardy IN 812-526-0013 Scenarios is 3 days of blind problems using land and They do not know if their subject is alive or dead. water cadaver, air scent, evidence, and trailing. The They must strategize and work together to locate the teams work through several searches per day and are subject or victim. Actors are used. Contact given information from a reporting party at the beginning K.T. Irwin [email protected] of each scenario just as they are on actual search. For more Evaluator information contact Heather at: [email protected] For more Testing information, contact Rena at: [email protected] NSDA SAR DOG NEWS August 2016 Page 6 WHO DID YOU SAY WAS DRIVING? A Wayne, West Virginia Walmart employee said a car that drove toward her in the parking lot, before colliding into a concrete pillar of the building, had a presumably unlicensed driver. When the car came to a halt, shoppers ran to the runaway car to make sure everyone was all right, only to find a dog in the driver's seat. Once the car stopped, a second dog in the passenger seat of the car somehow managed to roll down a window after the crash, the woman said. The car crashed into the store at a slow speed and came to a rest. A Walmart employee said damage to the car and building was minimal. The dogs were not injured. The owner of the car was paged to the front of the store. The owner said she had left the car running so the dogs would stay cool from the summer heat but they had other plans. The car was in good enough condition to drive away from the scene, witnesses said. Since the dogs weren't available for comment, it's unclear how their cruise came about. CNN, TheWrap, fox5sandiego.com, UPI NSDA BOARD OF DIRECTORS – UPDATES Tricia Heldmann has trained and certified her own SAR K9s now partnering with her sixth dog. Her library of dog Tricia Heldmann has owned German Shepherd training books and SAR training books is Dogs since 1960 and has been involved in extensive and she can sometimes be a seminar Search And Rescue (SAR) since 1992, as a SAR “junkie” attending several SAR and dog training K9 handler of GSDs and a Belgian Malinois, events in a year, all in the effort to soak up as almost that long. She has focused much of the much knowledge as possible.