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Ripley   1992 - 2005

Ripley was my introduction to everything - obedience, tracking and eventually search work.  She taught me a lot about training, patience and a dog with a true confident personality.  She was originally a rescue and I had her for over 12 years.  We were a great team and I will never forget her.    Darcy

Sampson  1995-2006

Sampson was one of our founding dogs.  He was a dog who absolutely loved his mother and was impossible to keep in a crate.  Ana eventually solved the seminar problem by having a crate made that was welded together and had multiple locks on the front door.  He career was unfortunately shortened when a kennel accident cost him a leg, but he lived a long and family-dog career after the accident.

Chester  1993 - 2008

Chester was Candace's first search dog.  His age and his personality didn't lend him to becoming a search dog, but Candace trained him for about a year before replacing him in a search capacity.  His personality, did, however, make him a great and unique friend as he loved everybody and was incredibly easy going.  He lived to the ripe old age of 15!

Calculus  1994 - 2008

Calculus was another of our founding dogs.  He was 2 when we started the team and taught us all a lot of things.  At his first seminar, David was told Calculus might not make it as a search dog.  At his second, a year later, the same instructor couldn't believe it was the same dog.  He was actually a mix but looked like a large red shepherd, but had no shepherd personality.  Independent, stubborn and willful, it took patience and sometimes equal bull headedness to get him pointed in the right direction.  But he turned out to be a nice working dog.  This picture was taken our first year, and has been our front page emblem since.   He got his name when he was a puppy, and those giant ears didn't stand.  David, the engineer, decided that's what he felt like in Calculus class - and the name stuck.