When we think of rescue dogs, we’re likely envisioning police canines like German shepherds. Perhaps we picture this muscular ...

"We rescue, reunite, re-home, rehabilitate and repair any retired working dog that has served mankind," Kristen Maurer, Mission K9 Rescue's president and co-founder, tells PEOPLE.

Remembering 9/11 Dogs of 9/11: Therapy, search and rescue canine handlers detail responsibilities in wake of relief efforts Canines Bretagne, Nikie and Willow, along with their handlers, worked at ...

A working dog expert in Pennsylvania says these dogs are an essential part of search and rescue efforts. “They have the best opportunity to find anybody who might be alive,” Dr. Cindy […] ...

Search dogs aren’t the end-all, be-all for search and rescue teams, and only find missing people about 10 percent of the time, Connor said. But what they, along with their handlers, provide for ...

Training working dogs. All the Garfield County Search and Rescue handlers are volunteers, and have to spend years training and maintaining a trained search canine. “It’s not something you can do ...

Corliss’ current working search dog, Taser, is 9 years old and closing in on retirement. ... Search and rescue dogs tend to live longer than other dogs. Related. Pets & Animals.

The rescue dogs are from working-dog blood lines, so the drive to perform is bred into them. K9s can cover a search area akin to having 30 search and rescue volunteers, and they have the ability ...

In all fairness, that job—working as a search-and-rescue (SAR) dog handler—has become something of a full-time vocation over the course of the last 24 years. And the training is what she and her dogs, ...

Tech. Sgt. Rudy Parsons, 123rd Special Tactics pararescueman, and his search-and-rescue dog, Callie, exit a UH-60 Black Hawk as part of Callie’s familiarization training at the Boone National ...

Callie, the military’s only certified search and rescue dog, aboard a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during pararescue training. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Horton ...