SAR Dog News Published by the National Search Dog Alliance April 2016 Vol. 10, No. 4
Article page PODCASTS 2 Deer Malaria 2 Hero Dog Award Voting 3 NSDA Testing Passed – AK, OH, AR, WA 5 CA, WA, MI, AR Human Remains Found in Recycling Bin 7 Marine Corp Dog Awarded Medal 8 Book Review: Man’s Best Hero 8 Survival Reality 9 Changing Face of SAR – Drones 11 Dog Sparks Terror Alert 12 Dog Missing at Sea 5 Days 13 NSDA Tests & All Agency Seminars 14 NSDA Contest Winner 16 Did You Know? 16 Explosive Material Left in School Bus 17 How to Save Your Life – or someone else’s 18 Kibbles and Bits: Boxers 19 He Gave All 20 Another Reason to Own Dogs–Schizophrenia 20 The Last Howl – Water Dangers 21 Board of Directors and Founding Members 22
Board 2016 Meeting Dates May 5 June 2 July 7 August 4 Contact Secretary, Sherry Scruggs CENTER for MISSING ([email protected]) for the call in number and EXPLOITED CHILDREN for the meetings.
ACCEPTS NSDA
CMECA has expressed their interest in “trying” some of the certified K-9 teams listed on our website’s Resource List to take part in their Bucky Says: searches. Veterinary docs treat Heads up folks! Those of you who are chosen dogs first will be deciding the fate of all NSDA because humans certified handlers. are gross
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NSDA PODCASTS DEER MALARIA by Susan Bulanda
The April 15, 2016, PODCAST speaker will be Robert Noziska. In this Podcast we will discuss Back- Two years ago while collecting mosquitoes at tracking for K-9s – What is it? How do you train for the Smithsonian National Zoo, Ellen Martinsen it? What are some pitfalls? discovered that 25% of white- tailed deer on the East Coast Noziska serves as the Special Operations Supervisor have two genetic lineages of (SOS) and K-9 Coordinator for the United States the malaria parasites Border Patrol, Special Operations Group, (Plasmodium odocoilei ) which headquartered in El Paso, Texas. He has been are the only native malaria assigned to the special operations unit known as parasites in North and South BORSTAR (Border Search Trauma and Rescue) since America. its inception in 1998 and was the driving force behind the implementation of the Search and Rescue Canine Program for the Border Patrol. The researchers feel that there is little danger to humans from the deer malaria. However, in Agent Noziska developed the techniques and training 1967 one white-tailed deer in Texas did have methods that are currently being used by the Border malaria. It is my opinion that it is reasonable to Patrol SAR and Tracking canine teams today. He has assume that malaria is more wide-spread than been training Canine Teams for the Border Patrol the East Coast. since 2001 and is a certified Instructor for Human Remains Detection, Tracking/Trailing, Search and The article points out that malaria has been Rescue, Obedience and Narcotics Detection. devastating to birds in Hawaii and Bermuda. What we do not know at this point is can deer Agent Noziska is a Master Trainer/Lead Evaluator/ malaria morph into a form that can infect other Instructor for: U. S. Border Patrol, National Search Dog Alliance, North American Police Work Dog animals. Association, National Association of Search and Rescue and the National Narcotic Detector Dog Also, even though the malaria is not killing deer Association. as far as we know, does it weaken their immune system causing them to suffer unrelated SOS Noziska has turned his focus and his unique skill illnesses? set on training U.S. government personnel and other state and local agencies. Due to his unique skill Upon further research, I learned that there are a sets, he has trained dog teams for foreign collection of herbs used world-wide to combat government agencies and has acted as a consultant malaria in humans. Can planting these herbs in for many agencies within the U.S. government. deer feeding areas help combat malaria in deer? Additionally, Noziska has been credited for the training of “Back-tracking Canines” for the Border This would be an interesting research project. Patrol. FMI: Ellen S. Martinsen, Nancy Mcinerney, Heidi Brightman, Ken Ferebee, Tim Walsh, William J. Mcshea, You can listen (and subscribe) to the Search Dog Tavis D. Forrester, Lisa Ware, Priscilla H. Joyner, Susan L. PODCAST through iTunes and also find the PODCAST Perkins, Emily K. Latch, Michael J. Yabsley, Joseph J. on Podbean at www.saroc.podbean.com. Please Schall and Robert C. Fleischer. Hidden in plain sight: send questions, feedback and suggestions to Cryptic and endemic malaria parasites in North [email protected] American white-tailed deer (Odocoileus And the podcasts stay up indefinitely. Stay tuned. virginianus). Science Advances, 2016 DOI:10.1126/sciadv.1501486 Eva Briggs
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AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION
Hero Dog Applicants for 2016 and NSDA Charity Partners
From now until April 27 at 12pm Pacific Time, you can vote each day for one of NSDA’s three charity partners in the Search and Rescue category. The winning dogs in all categories will be flown to Los Angeles where they will be honored on September 10 at a star-studded awards gala. Last year NSDA’s charity partner won $2,500 for NSDA which was well spent toward holding over 150 certification tests around the country. See our dog’s stories and photos below and then go to: http://herodogawards.org/vote/ AND VOTE.
MAXWELL remains on land or water. Maxwell has been on many missions in the southeast searching for
lost humans, both alive and presumed dead on land or water. When his SAR vest is on, he is all about his JOB and locating the missing person.
Maxwell’s work ethic is outstanding and will not quit unless told to do so by his handler. Maxwell has helped bring both happiness and closure to the missing person’s families. Certainly Maxwell is deserving to represent SAR Dogs as a AHA Hero Dog. Handler: Len Troman
Maxwell is a 10 year old Australian Shepherd NASAR Certified in Area Search. Maxwell and his handler have been trained through the years by many well recognized USA Air Scent Area trainers as well as the United States Border Patrol. Maxwell has dedicated his life’s work to being prepared and helping save lost humans. He is also trained to locate cadaver/human
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PIGLET KOBUK
“Piglet” is a 5 year old Catahoula Leopard Dog, the State dog of Louisiana! Rigorously trained KOBUK TO THE RESCUE! Everyone began to and certified to find human remains on feel the urgency knowing we were searching for land/water, Piglet and handler Lori Wells, are a 77 year old woman with diabetes and dedicated volunteers serving many communities. dementia, who had been lost for more than two They’re frequently called on to assist local law nights in the woods of Maine. Ruth Brennan enforcement in their search for the missing. Lori had no water, no food nor her medications so spends 1,000’s of dollars of personal funds the Maine Warden Service with a crew of over yearly as she and Piglet commit 100’s of hours 146 people knew our mission was time sensitive annually to training/ testing. This ensures to locate her…soon! After hours of searching they’re always ready when called. Piglet’s built that third morning, Kobuk’s nose went up into a reputation with LE throughout CA, Nev. and the slight wind now from our north west and he Utah not only for her unswerving work ethic and ran off almost 2/10 of a mile to locate her, talented nose but also for her infectious “smile”. according to our GPS unit that tracks his collar. She makes friends when she appears at PR Kobuk sprinted back to me and gave a loud bark events/fundraisers. Everyone wants to “Kiss the (his trained alert that he has found someone); Pig”. But, it’s out in the field where she’s most then he spun around and bolted with me in full effective, an unparalleled search resource and pursuit. It was so exhilarating! Kobuk had comfort to the families she’s helping. An found Ruth Brennan, just in time to save her example is a recent mission where she deployed life! Kobuk is a certified search and rescue K-9 in a remote wilderness area to find a missing on the Maine Search & Rescue Dogs team father/ husband. Eventually, after long hours in (www.mesard.org) a volunteer non-profit the field, Piglet found the subject who, sadly, 501(c)3 organization, owner/handler is Elizabeth was deceased. Though this is not the outcome Fossett of York, Maine. Kobuk deserves to be wished for on any search, Piglet’s diligence and recognized as the “Hero Dog Award: Search & tenacity in making the find allowed the wife & Rescue Dog” because he is a great ambassador nine (9) kids the answers to move forward. Like for all SAR K-9s. Kobuk searches with her smile, Piglet doesn’t fade or give up! enthusiasm and never quits while someone is still lost in the woods and he loves to give kids his signature “Kobuk-kisses”.
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Alaska Arkansas Chris Illingworth and K-9 Google Vynn Stuart and K-9 Boomer Land HRD Land HRD
Ohio Kathy Adamle & K-9 Bridget Land HRD
Washington Suzanne Elshult and K-9 Keb Land HRD
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Washington Sharon Ward and K-9 Vali Land HRD Washington Kathy Kay and K-9 Pocket Land HRD
Michigan Chris Moe-Herlick and K-9 Elli Missouri Area II Bridget Jackson and K-9 Addie Land HRD
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Arkansas Human remains found in Seattle Vynn Stuart and K-9 Gordi Area and Land HRD recycling bin may be missing mother of three
Ingrid Lyne was last seen Friday night before going on a date with a man she met online. They were going to the Seattle Mariners home opener.
The human remains found in a recycling bin over the weekend were tentatively identified as those of the missing mother of three who vanished Friday night. Seattle police say three adult body parts — including a foot — were found in a homeowner’s recycling bin in Seattle’s Central District.
Investigators later identified the remains as being those of Lyne. In cooperation with the Renton, WA, Police Department, a search warrant was served in their jurisdiction and evidence was recovered, including telephone calls, that helped police identify a suspect. Arkansas Vynn Stuart and K-9 West "The purse, the telephone and everything was in Land HRD [her] house," Lyne's neighbor Edward Franceschina told Q13 Fox. Franceschina told the Seattle Times that detectives had converged on the quiet middle-class neighborhood about 11 miles southeast of downtown with a mobile crime lab early Sunday morning.
Police said, based on that evidence, a 37-year- old Snohomish County man, John Robert Charlton, was arrested in connection with Lyne’s murder and booked into the King County Jail for investigation of homicide.
Investigators determined the remains, which were packaged in plastic bags, had been placed in the bin late Friday or early Saturday. A police spokesman said the bin would have been empty because recyclables were collected on the block on Fridays. http://www.foxnews.com/; FOX 5
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MARINE CORPS DOG who had trained and served with her during two tours in Iraq. He credits Lucca with being the AWARDED DICKIN MEDAL only reason he was able to return home to his A U. S. Marine Corps bomb dog which lost her family and said she helped boost the troops’ front leg while protecting allied morale between missions. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan was honored with England’s Maria Dickin, the founder of PDSA, instituted the prestigious Dickin Medal. In a medal in 1943. The charity says Lucca is the special ceremony at Wellington first U.S. Marine Corps dog to receive the Dickin Barracks, London, K-9 Lucca Medal. In late December 2014, PDSA became the 67th recipient of the posthumously awarded it to a French police dog PDSA Dickin Medal. The named Diesel which died in the terrorist attacks People’s Dispensary for Sick in Paris the previous month. Animals (PDSA), a British veterinary charity, Sources: Tacticallife.com, YahooNews.com, facebook.com announced that Lucca, a 12-year-old German shepherd dog, received the medal — considered the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross — for BOOK REVIEW by Eva Briggs protecting the lives of thousands of allied troops during six years of active service in the Middle Man’s Best Hero – True Stories of Great East. K-9 Lucca completed more than 400 American Dogs by Ace Collins missions and there were no human casualties on Abingdon Press 2014 200 pages her patrols. ISBN 978-1-4267-7661-8
On March 23, 2012, Lucca lost her front left leg I ordered this book because, well, who doesn’t and suffered burns to her chest, neck and head want to curl up by the fire on a winter’s night to while searching for improvised explosive devices be inspired or awed (IEDs) in Afghanistan. Ahead of a foot patrol, by a great true dog she found a weapons cache hidden in a haystack story? But alas, I in a poppy field and later discovered a 30-pound must give this book IED, which was cleared. But a second IED went only 2.5 stars out of off when she was looking for additional hazards. 5. The stories No soldiers were injured in the explosion. themselves are mostly interesting and well Lucca was evacuated to Germany and then to selected. The tales Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base in range from a heroic California, where her recovery was completed. Boston terrier named Her handler stayed by her side throughout the Stubby who served in entire recovery, saying she had saved his life World War I, to a many times so he had to be there for her. seeing eye dog named Roselle who According to PDSA, K-9 Lucca was walking again helped lead her within ten days of the blast and now lives in master and others calmly out of the burning twin California with Gunnery Sgt. Chris Willingham, towers during the 9/11 attacks.
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Sadly, the writing is verbose and melodramatic. It You can always drink your own urine makes the Chicken Soup for the Soul books seem if you run out of water. unemotional by comparison. And the editing – did someone edit and/or proofread this book? Drinking urine when you’re near heat exhaustion It’s full of grammatical errors and awkward or heat stroke adds one more thing to a body constructions. The author’s bio indicates that he already taxed by the heat. Your kidneys now works as a magazine editor, so perhaps he have to process the urine and it taxes your body’s thought he could self-edit. Each story should cooling mechanism. To make your urine useful, have been streamlined to half its length and twice urinate on a bandana and wear it for evaporative as many stories could have been included in the cooling. book. Then it would be worth buying.
Or you can drink water from a cactus.
SURVIVAL REALITY What’s inside cactus is a noxious fluid that is very high in alkalis. The many popular endurance shows on television Adding that liquid to a heat stressed originated with the show Survivor followed by body is going to further tax your ones like Naked and kidneys and may even lead to heat Afraid, Alone, Alone in the stroke. You can drink from a barrel Wild, Fat Guys in the cactus but only one of five Woods, etc. Many people varieties—the fishhook barrel—isn’t think that reality shows toxic. However unless you’re very Fishhook barrel about survival will help knowledgeable about cacti, it’s safer cactus you prepare for a dire to ignore them all as a source of fluids. situation but what do these shows really have to do with surviving on your own if you get lost? Boiled water is always 100% safe to Below are exposures of the myths which are drink. perpetuated by these types of shows.
You still need to be mindful of where your water You don’t need anything with you on a comes from. While boiling water will kill off short hike. After all, you’re on a trail. organisms and germs, it will not clean harmful At the very least, you need to take water and particulates from the water. For instance, no snacks with you. It may take you longer to walk matter how long you boil chemically that two mile trail than you think. Not to mention contaminated that the weather may deteriorate, you may get water it won't be lost or become injured. You might decide to look safe to drink. at the wildlife and wander off the trail so you This same should take an extra layer of clothes i.e. jacket, a principle applies map and compass, a flashlight and a medical kit. to stagnant, dirty It’s always good to let someone know where you water. When the are going and when you plan to return. water you are boiling has not been filtered, then you will end up drinking the dirt particles. If the water you are attempting to purify is visibly dirty or murky, you
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a roof and freezing to death on the cold ground. should filter the water before attempting to boil it. A smart person spends their time building a bed If you don't have a commercial water filter to insulate them from the cold ground and getting available, then you can either pour the dirty water to the roof if they have time. through a clean fabric (towel or shirt) or leave the water to stand until the sediments sink to the You can outrun a bear. bottom. Then pour the clean water from the top...and boil. Running away from a bear is hopeless. The You have to keep moving to stay alive. best thing to do depends on the You will last longer in the heat by holing up in the species. If you shade versus searching for water during the encounter a black afternoon hours. If you do run out of water, find bear, hold your ground and make yourself look a north-facing boulder and sit in the shade; keep big—open your coat up, throw your arms up covered to prevent evaporative sweat loss; stay above your head—and shout and scream. Lots of off the hot ground by sitting on your pack or a times, they’re as spooked as you are and will run pile of debris; and only move around during the away. Take the opposite approach with a grizzly. cooler hours of the morning or evening. If you Avoid eye contact, which a bear will perceive to didn’t tell anyone about your travel plans, rescue be a challenge. If the bear's not approaching, will likely take more than a few hours and you back away slowly. If it charges, simply stand should search for water when the temperature your ground. If you have bear/pepper spray, be drops. ready to use it immediately. If the grizzly makes physical contact with you, cover your vitals and You can eat lots of snow to rehydrate play dead.
If you are in a survival Snakebite should be treated with a situation and in need of suction device. water, it's best to melt and warm snow before ingesting Clinical field-trials done by researchers at the it. Eating lots of snow will University of Arizona decrease your internal body have proven that you temperature which can do more damage to intensify hypothermia. It also the immediate tissue forces your body to warm the of a snakebite victim cold snow upon ingestion which will use up a lot by applying a suction of valuable body energy reserves. While casually device than if you had eating snow typically causes no harm, doing so in left the extremity a dire survival situation in frigid outdoor alone. Don’t apply ice, a tourniquet, a conditions can be deadly. compression wrap, or attempt the Hollywood cut- and-suck method. Use good wound care by Shelter means having a washing off the bite site, covering with a roof over your head. bandage, and getting the victim to the hospital quickly. Don’t waste time—time equals tissue. An inexperienced person Remember: don’t put your hands or feet where spends ten (10) hours building you can’t see and you will avoid most snake
NSDA SAR DOG NEWS April 2016 Page 11 CHANGING THE FACE OF encounters. A dead rattlesnake can still bite you long after it’s been mashed on the SEARCH AND RESCUE highway. The bite reflex within the nervous system is still intact for several hours after the UAV Vision’s CM100 mounted on the Westpac, snake’s demise so don’t pick one up yearning Little Ripper Lifesaver rotary wing UAV, is a for a snakeskin belt. great example of how UAV’s paired with Optical Zoom Cameras are enhancing traditional search Rubbing two sticks together will and rescue efforts in start a fire in the wild. Australia. CM100’s low Modern survival is about being size, weight prepared and carrying at least and power three firestarters (Stormproof make it an matches, spark-rod, and lighter) ideal solution with you at all times when in the for use on backwoods. Survivalist camps platforms teach primitive firemaking skills but only to where payloads need to be compact yet highly show students how to perform the method. efficient and accurate. Even under the best of conditions, it is a Source: uavvision.com challenge and not reliable for most people.
If you get into trouble, you can always be airlifted to a hospital. UAS LEARN TO NAVIGATE FOREST TRAILS IN SWITZERLAND While people may think an air rescue will be available in In Switzerland emergency centers respond to an emergency, that’s not about 1,000 calls annually about hikers lost or always true. There’s the injured in the forests, according to the matter of getting in touch University of Zurich. with someone who could send a helicopter. There are The team recently developed a software that places helicopters can’t enables drones to autonomously detect and reach you i.e. on the side of a mountain and, if follow forest paths - giving them the ability to they can get to your location, there may not be find lost hikers faster than humans can on their a place for them to land safely. Severe own. weather can make air rescue impossible also. Source: The Active Times, msn.com See more at: http://www.uasvision.com/2016/02/26/uas- learn-to-navigate-forest-trails-in- switzerland/#sthash.wHx1VO2t.dpuf Choose garden and house plants to protect your K-9s. Find a list of poisonous plants at For more information on robotics and how it can be integrated into SAR, see several www.ASPCA.org/pet-care/animal-poison- informative articles by Larry Bulanda, MSEE, control/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants starting in the June 2014 issue of SAR Dog News.
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world. The bank stopped payment on the DASH THE DOG SPARKS TERROR check. The payment was processed after ALERT AT A U.S. BANK Francis told the OFAC that Dash was merely the name of his dog.
Bruce Francis depends on his dog, a nine-year- old pitbull mix named Dash for more than just A spokesperson for Chase Bank said it had a companionship. Francis has a rare form of list of terms from the OFAC that trigger muscular dystrophy and Dash is a certified automatic reviews. If a name on the OFAC list assistance dog. appears on a payment, they are required to review it. The Bank said that this is an Francis, who uses a important part of ensuring that crime does not wheelchair, relies on filter through the U.S. banking system. In this nine-year-old Dash instance, the payment was flagged, reviewed and has been paying and eventually released. a dog walker for several years to Despite the mix-up Francis said he supported exercise the pitbull the precautions being taken as efforts to mix. Earlier this combat terror networks. He said, “I think month, as was his anything we can do to stop the terrorists and routine, Francis paid the funding of terrorists, let’s do it. And if it Dash’s dog walker means an inconvenience to me and my dog using his online banking account with Chase walker then that’s a price I’m totally willing to Bank. On the memo line for the check, Francis pay.” March 25, 2016 FOX News had typed in Dash’s name. But when he made KTVU San Francisco the regular transfer with the bank, the dog's Lizzie Dearden Independant name was flagged.
After ten days the dog walker goes to Francis and says, “I haven’t gotten your check”. He found a note on his online account saying it TRAINING STRESS? TAKE A BREAK! was blocked pending a review by the U.S. Treasury Department. Francis looked in his Chase account and there was a message saying, “Please explain what Dash means.”
Francis called the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and surprisingly, he got a call back, informing him that the transaction was flagged because his dog’s name is similar to the word DAESH, a term for ISIS in the Islamic
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DOG MISSING AT SEA FOUND 5 WEEKS LATER As of March 17, 2016 fisherman, stayed in the area for two days looking for his beloved pet but she was never And it will soon be a very tail-wagging moment spotted. He posted this on his Facebook page as Luna, a 1½-year-old, blue-eyed German days later: RIP Luna, you will be greatly shepherd/husky mix and owner Nick Haworth missed. are expected to be reunited today. "I always knew she was a warrior," Haworth wrote. Meanwhile, on the island, Navy crews searched for the dog from the land and from above but never spotted her. “She blended right in,” Navy wildlife biologist Melissa Booker said about the tan-and-black dog. Then some five weeks after the canine disappeared and after everyone lost hope that she would be found, she reappeared.
Booker said that crew members driving along the island’s main road found her sitting by the side of the roadway. “They literally opened up the car door, whistled, and she jumped right in,” she said.
Luna fell overboard from a fishing boat off the The determined dog had apparently swum to coast of San Clemente Island in February and shore and survived on her own for five weeks. was missing for five weeks before she turned She was found to be a bit malnourished but up near a naval facility on the island, said otherwise healthy and uninjured. It appeared Naval Base Coronado spokeswoman Sandy she'd eaten small rodents to survive. And she DeMunnik. Conner Lamb, a friend of soon became the hit of the island, where no Haworth's, picked up the dog after she was domestic animals are allowed. flown to North Island because the fisherman was out of town. Luna was flown to the Coronado base the next day and given to Lamb. The following day she Haworth and his one-man crew were two miles is to be reunited with Haworth, a 20-year-old offshore of the island on the 45-foot boat San Diego State University student, when he "Elizabeth H." before dawn on February 10 returns from a trip to Arizona. “He’s ecstatic,” when they noticed that the 40-pound dog was Lamb said about the coming reunion. missing. “One moment Luna was there and the next she was gone,” Haworth told Navy In the meantime, Naval Air Base Commander officials at the time. Haworth called for help Stephen Barnett bestowed upon the pet a and a search for the missing dog was special dog tag. It read “For Luna, keep the launched. faith.” By Debbi Baker Lamb said that Haworth, a commercial The San Diego Union Tribune
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Contact Editor Norma Snelling at: [email protected]
2016 Date Tests Location Contact Email/Phone Trailing, Water & Land HRD; May 3-8 Stevensville, MT Janet Yatchak [email protected] GSR beta testing Land HRD, Water HRD, Area, June 2-5 Swan Valley, ID Rena Ferguson [email protected] Area/Large HRD June 4-5 Disaster First Responder, Type Springfield, MO Robin Houston [email protected] III (HRD)
August UPCOMING AREA, Land HRD Washington
September UPCOMING Trailing II, III Sow Low, AZ
October UPCOMING Land HRD St. Louis, MO
2016 Date Seminars Location Contact Email/Phone Contact Gail Cramer for April 27- L.E.T.S. (Law Enforcement [email protected] Camp Lakeview, IN 40 hour seminar & May 1 Training Specialists) certification details Superfit HRD/Live Find Muscatatuck Urban [email protected] May 21-22 Eric Darling Canine Disaster Canine Workshop Training Center, IN K9400 Air Scenting [email protected] May 21-22 Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy Advanced Techniques K9s 812-526-0013 [email protected] May 25-29 HRD Water Search Class Dayton, OH Tiffany Williams 937-903-0158 June 3-5 Scenarios Workshop (Info here) Cody, WY K.T. Irwin [email protected] K9310 Cadaver Search [email protected] June 4-5 Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy Techniques Intermediate 812-526-0013 June 10-12 Annual Water HRD Workout Cody, WY K.T. Irwin [email protected]
K9320 Tracking/Trailing [email protected] June 23-24 Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy Techniques Intermediate 812-526-0013
K9420 Tracking/Trailing Search [email protected] June 25-26 Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy Techniques Advanced 812-526-0013
July 8-10 HRD Intermediate to Advanced Cody, WY K.T. Irwin [email protected]
2016 Date Seminars Location Contact Email/Phone July 15-16 NSDA Fundraiser HRD Land [email protected] Cody, WY K.T. Irwin NSDA Event Intermediate and Advanced Superfit Tactical Canine Casualty July 15-16 Virginia Beach, VA Eric Darling [email protected] Care (TC3)
K9500 Water Cadaver Search [email protected] July 15-16 Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy Techniques 812-526-0013 NSI K-9 Land HRD Beginning, Aug 5-9 Seymour, IN Maryln Allen Adams [email protected] Intermediate, Advanced SAR100 Crime Scene Operations [email protected] Aug 6 Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy Blood Borne Pathogens 812-526-0013 Aug 19-20 Scenarios Workshop (Info here) Cody, WY K.T. Irwin [email protected] K9410 Land Cadaver [email protected] Aug 27-28 Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy Techniques K9s Advanced 812-526-0013 California SAREX 500+ Attendees Sept 9-11 Fresno, CA from CA & other states K9320 Basic Intro Disaster Search [email protected] Sept 13-14 Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy Techniques 812-526-0013 K9330 Disaster Techniques [email protected] Sept 15-16 Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy Intermediate 812-526-0013 K9430 Disaster Techniques [email protected] Sept 17-18 Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy Advanced 812-526-0013 CSAR 2016 Seminar Air Scent, Wisconsin Lions [email protected] Sept 18-23 Rosholt, WI k9_specialty@ Trailing, HRD, Water Recovery Camp yahoogroups.com Holiday Lake 4-H 2016 All Breed Canine Multi- Tim & Suzy Perry [email protected] Sept 25-30 Camp, Appomattox, discipline 440-413-1973 VA Bob Urban NSI K-9 Trailing, Land HRD [email protected] Oct 5-9 Seymour, IN Maryln Allen Adams Beginning [email protected] Nov 5-6 NSDA Seminar To be Announced Camp Atterbury, IN Lillian Hardy 812-526-0013 NSI K9 HRD, Air Scent, Trailing Nov 6-8 Camp Lakeview, IN Maryln Allen Adams [email protected] Workshop FILLED
Scenarios is 3 days of blind problems using land and water cadaver, air scent, evidence, and trailing. The teams work They do not know if their subject is alive or dead. They must through several searches per day and are given information from strategize and work together to locate the subject or victim. Actors a reporting party at the beginning of each scenario just as they are used. Contact: K.T. Irwin [email protected] are on actual search.
For more Evaluator information contact Heather at [email protected] For more Testing information, contact Rena at [email protected]
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A CONTEST for NSDA MEMBERS
K-9 Kobuk and Handler Elizabeth Fossett tell school students about search and rescue. “Tell us what you have done to represent K-9 Search and Rescue in your community in 2016” DID YOU KNOW? Elizabeth Fossett and Kobuk are Winners of one year’s free NSDA membership. Did you know that over 3,600 people visited
our NSDA Facebook page last week? This is Kobuk and the Maine Search and Rescue Dog up from about 200 a year ago. team have been very active in the community Have you visited lately? Go to and continually promote K-9 SAR activities and Facebook, type in NSDA and look public speaking events to a variety of groups for the Alliance logo. of adults and children. These include search dog demonstrations. 2016 has started out as Did you know NSDA gave over 150 a very busy 1st quarter, with eleven (11) certification field tests last year? Our goal for Events/Public Relations and search dog this year is 175. As of April 15, we have demonstrations and six (6) Search Incidents already conducted over 65 tests with at least across Maine. six more major testing sessions already
planned for this summer. Kobuk and his Handler Elizabeth Fossett are a certified air scent search team. They were Did you know that you did not run for our deployed along with nine (9) other team Board of Directors this year? Therefore members to a search in Orono, ME on Feb 29, several of our Directors will be appointed. Are 2016, for a missing Maine Maritime student. you going to have a say in NSDA matters next
year? Kobuk also demonstrated search dog techniques to 143 children and teachers at the Did you know NSDA is run entirely by Sea Road Elementary School, Kennebunk, ME, volunteers? How can you help? Think about on March 2, 2016. Jim Bridge presented the it and contact any NSDA Board member as “Lost But Found, Safe and Sound” program to listed on the website (www.n-sda.org) or on these students and together MESARD helped page 22 of this newsletter.
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The CIA said in the statement EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL LEFT IN SCHOOL that the agency accounted for BUS AFTER all training explosives after CIA K-9 DRILL performing a full inventory. The agency statement said they would take “immediate The CIA announced on Thursday it left behind "explosive steps to strengthen inventory training material" on a Virginia school bus it used for a and control procedures in its training exercise but it "did not pose a danger to the K-9 program” and that they passengers on the bus." will investigate the canine training program. The bus then remained in service for two days transporting students to a Now, Loudoun County officials high school and two elementary say the training program has schools before the explosive material been suspended pending a was found. The CIA put the material review. The CIA says it is also in the bus as part of a regular joint conducting an independent exercise to train explosives-sniffing dogs at Briar Woods review of the K-9 program and High School. beefing up its inventory and control procedures. While Loudoun County students were on spring break, CIA trainers placed the explosive material in the engine Sources: BREAKING NEWS FROM NPR, The compartment of the bus and around an area high school to Week, Washington Post test a dog's ability to find it. The dog was able to find the material under the hood, the CIA said, but some of it fell down and became wedged under hoses. Because it was the K-9 EXPLOSIVE TRAINING same color as the hoses, the bus driver did not see the What most people call bomb material during the daily inspection, and it wasn't found until dogs are officially called routine maintenance. explosive detection canines, or EDCs. According to a Sheriff’s Office statement, “The training materials used in the exercises are incredibly stable and, Explosives used in according to the CIA and Loudoun County explosive experts, detection training are the students on the bus were not in any danger from the smokeless powder, training material.” black powder, PETN, C- 4, TNT, RDX, Comp A TNT/dynamite bomb Loudoun schools spokesman Wayde Byard said that it was & B, Semtex, "a 'putty-type' material designed ammonium nitrate, Water Gel, for use on the battlefield and dynamite, detonation cord, which requires a special black powder fuse. Sources: Smithsonian.com, detonator; such putty, or plastic, Worldwidecanine.com explosives — including the well- known C-4 — are used in demolition."
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How to save your life… or someone else’s CPR, or Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is a first If you donate blood once, chances are that you aid technique which can help you save a person can save three lives at the who had a heart-attack or same time. gulped too much water due to drowning. Quick CPR Bone marrow is one of lessons are available online the key things required or via apps. for critical treatments. Ages between 18 and 44 can register for bone A defibrillator may save a person suffering from marrow donation. Between 45 and 60 can do a coronary heart disease in emergency the same after paying a registration fee. situations. Make sure your building has an emergency defibrillator and know how to use it. Donate an eye, donate a kidney, donate any healthy body organ and help out those in dire When you encounter a bleeding wound, don’t need for a medical operation. put a tourniquet unless you are trained to do so. It’s better to apply pressure on the wound with a Having a clear knowledge of cloth until emergency personnel arrive. where the emergency exits are in If someone is having any building can allow you and an allergic reaction, others to get out of the building ask them if they safely if need be. have an emergency epinephrine auto- If someone has fallen from a high injector pen (epi- place, it’s best not to move the body and risk pen) with them. Apply it quickly to the thigh worsening the injury. Immediately call the area to avoid matters getting serious. emergency services and let them take care of the victim. It’s always a good idea to keep a handy emergency kit ready in your car or home. Pack A basic Heimlich maneuver can save lives at the in bandages, scissors, pocket knives, antiseptic most unexpected of times. When a person near cream/lotion, flashlights and other emergency you is choking on food or any other object, this supplies. maneuver can help clear the windpipe and allow Source: msn.com/en-us/health/medical him to breathe normally again. Learn how to do this online or at your local Red Cross.
Editor’s note: Check your local protocols since If someone is having a heart attack, help the some states prohibit anyone from using an Epi- person sit down on the ground comfortably. pen on a subject except the subject himself. Make sure the knees are bent as he sits down. Call emergency services for help and, if possible, give him an aspirin tablet to chew.
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KIBBLES & BITS by Susan Bulanda
To my loyal readers – Do you have any subjects that you would like me to cover? Send them to me at [email protected] with K & B in the subject line.
This month we will look at the Boxer, a dog that is not usually thought of for SAR work in the United States.
Although the German people of Munich decided to create a specific breed of dog called the Boxer around 1890, a Boxer like dog has existed since the Middle Ages. These dogs were kept in the house and were great with the family as well as protective when needed.
By WWII, the Boxers were popular in Europe and the United States and were used as military dogs primarily as patrol and guard dogs. They are sweet dogs despite their tendency to protect the family. If a stranger shows that there is no threat, the Boxer will accept them. With proper socialization they can make a safe, friendly SAR dog. They are typically good with children.
The Boxer has a short dense coat and can tolerate heat and cold, but not extreme heat or cold. They do not have an undercoat and the hair on their underside tends to be very sparse. Also they do not have hair in their ears which can be cropped or left long. If left long, they lay close to the head helping to keep the ears warm in cooler weather.
The Boxer needs variety in his training since he is a serious worker. Like most dogs, when in training, he needs time to think, rest and play. He has a very compact and strong body and is very agile. They can range from 21 – 25 inches at the shoulder. Like terriers, the Boxer has a bouncy gait that gives the feeling of lightness of step.
Although they have a short nose, they can do scent work. Perhaps not as good as some other breeds but good enough for SAR work. Because of their short noses they need frequent rests when working, especially in hot, humid weather. Plenty of cool water is a must for this breed.
Many Boxers are not good swimmers so if they are going to be around water they should wear a life vest for dogs. They are very muscular with little fat, which means they tend to sink.
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As with most breeds, they need positive, reward based training. When teaching them to give an indication they do not prefer to use bringsels or other objects that they are required to carry. However they do enjoy a game of tug. Boxers got their name in part because they like to box things with their feet. An alert signal for this breed that would be natural would be to hit with their front foot or both feet.
As is true with other breeds, there is a difference between European and U.S. Boxers. http://www.worldwideboxer.com/style.html The Boxers that are from England in particular have longer noses. The length of the nose can vary from line to line and country to country. The longer nosed dogs seem to have an easier time breathing. Boxer medical issues are too long to list. They have about 46 - 50 physical defects.
HE GAVE ALL Said Vigor’s handler, Sgt. BJ Johnson, “I slipped and, when I did, he took off. I took
after him. The water was too strong as we were fighting it. As I was pulling him, I was making it worse for him. So I let him go and I figured he would make it to the other side. So I let him go.”
Sheriff Jones said another deputy was able to swim into the river and get Vigor but they were unable to resuscitate him.
Johnson and Vigor served in the Iraq war. Sources: WKRM.com, WATE.com
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K-9 Vigor, a 9 year old Dutch shepherd with OWN A DOG the Monroe County Tennessee Sheriff’s Office, drowned in the Tellico River on March Is there an association between owning a cat 9, 2016, while he and his handler were during childhood and developing tracking a wanted suspect in the Cherokee schizophrenia later in life? To read more, go National Forest. Monroe County Tennessee to Sheriff Tommy Jones said, “Vigor and his http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cat-parasite- handler attempted to cross the river but were toxoplasa-gondii-linked-to-anger-aggression- swept downstream by the strong current.” rage/ OR “His handler was able to make it to shore but Vigor was carried further downstream several https://www.newscientist.com/article/208210 hundred more yards.” 5-explosive-road-rage-like-anger-linked-to- parasite-spread-by-cats/
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THE LAST HOWL By Sue Wolff
Opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of the National Search Dog Alliance.
Searches present all kinds of obstacles of which to be aware. Water is only one of them and it’s good to know that dogs don’t swim well. Therefore Be aware of your breed’s affinity for water. we as handlers need to protect and guide Labs are notorious for going into any body of them when they are around water of any water no matter what. Again, there may be kind. creatures lurking in the depths or a swift current invisible to the naked eye.
When around water of any kind, keep your K- 9 in sight. A police K-9 tracking an escaped felon ran far ahead of his handler and disappeared from view around the corner of a Snakes and alligators are only two of the building. The handler heard a yelp and, dangers to your K-9. Also be alert to the when rounding the building, saw the current in the area where you are working. A swimming felon drowning the dog in the dog (and its handler) can become so river. Officers responding were hesitant to concentrated on the search pattern that they shoot being afraid of hitting the K-9. The dog may forget they are on the water. An struggled but, without any of its feet on a enthusiastic and focused K-9 has been known solid surface, was unable to break free and to jump from the safety of the boat into consequently sank to its death. water.
Sometimes no matter how careful you are, On a canal search in South Florida, there was things go wrong as TN Police K-9 Vigor and a police officer on the bank with a shotgun his handler discovered. The dog and handler aimed at the water where the HRD dog was were chasing a suspect and followed him to swimming in a circle around his alert point. A the river where he jumped into the fast bystander, observing the officer with the moving shotgun, asked, “Why’s he going to shoot current. Dog that dog?” The officer wasn’t going to shoot and handler the dog, only gators who might try to eat it or were on shore the divers! when the handler lost his footing and both plunged into the rushing water. NSDA SAR DOG NEWS April 2016 Page 22
The handler felt he was impeding his dog’s efforts to save himself, let go of the lead and swam safely to shore. The dog did not. Another officer was able to retrieve Vigor but efforts to resuscitate him failed.
Which brings up another point: do you know how to do CPR on your dog? How to breathe into the dog’s nose and where the heart is Board of Directors— for compressions? OFFICERS Susan Fleming, President, Pennsylvania Check with your veterinarian for instructions. [email protected] Also there are several Terry Crooks, Vice-President, Montana online sites such as [email protected] AVMA.org, PetMD.com, Sherry Scruggs, Secretary/Treasurer, Georgia petwave.com which give [email protected]
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