Several of our CSD members have had the great honor to work alongside members of the Yakama Nation in the search for unmarked graves on the site of a Native American Boarding School just outside White Swan, WA. To date our team has been to the site twice with our dogs...
On April 3, 2023 our very own K9 Keb was honored during the Seattle Mariners "Bark in the Park" home game with the Los Angeles Angels at T-Mobile Park. Keb is now 13 years old and has spent her life find the missing and the lost. She has been recognized as the 2022...
K9 Keb, along with CSD Members Suzanne Elshult and Guy Mansfield, recently gave an educational presentation to the Seattle branch of SWEA (Swedish Women's Education Association). While these 3 are on their book tour for A Dog's Devotion, they are enjoying engaging the...
The 2023 ACVO/Epicur National Service Animal Eye Exam Event will be taking place during the month of May. This event is a philanthropic event that provides free, ocular screening eye exams to qualified Service and Working Animals each May. These exams are provided...
Recently CSD Members Suzanne Elshult and Guy Mansfield. accompanied by K9 Keb, did a presentation for employees at the Arc'teryx headquarters in Vancouver, B.C. They gave a formal presentation entitled "An Inside View of K9 Search and Rescue Teams: Making a Difference...
As we leave 2022 behind and jump into 2023, we hope that you will take a moment to read our "Reflections" on this past year. You can read it here. We are grateful to all who have supported us and we look forward to lots of new quality trainings in the New Year!
Finding space to train our search dogs is always a challenge, so we were so grateful to be able to train recently at a wonderful spot courtesy of Harold and Moira. They generously allowed us to use their fabulous Sniffspot for an evening of training! You can book...
Why are we thankful? Because not only did we meet our $1,000 goal for #GiveBIG, we exceeded it! We are so grateful to have a community of people who believe in our mission. Without you, we would not be able to do what we do. Thank you!!!
We are so grateful to have received a grant from The Tulalip Tribe to support our workshop this summer. We will be bringing in 2 Master Trainers from the Center for Forensic Training and Education to work with local search dog teams! It is this type of community...
Our very own K9 Keb was recently nominated for the American Humane Hero Dog Awards which is an annual, nationwide competition that searches out and recognizes America’s Hero Dogs. You can read more about Keb and vote daily for her in the search and rescue category to...
Suzanne Elshult, who is a National Search Dog Alliance (NSDA) Principal Evaluator in multiple disciplines, recently returned from a three-day trip to Mission, British Columbia, where she tested K9 SAR teams wanting to get the NSDA Human Remains Detection (HRD) Land...