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This pages covers some of the things and events we've been participating in.  Please note that we do not post searches on the website.

May 2008 - Grace Lutheran Spring Fling

Grace Lutheran invited us to be part of their Spring Fling, where they invited a number of safety and search and rescue groups to participate.  The dogs were a great hit!

Janet, Lisa and Megan with the dogs - Baxter, Brandy and Scout.  Terri's taking the picture.

April 2008 - NASAR K9 SarTech III Test

Congratulations to Candace and Gage, and Bud and Bruno, who passed their K9 SarTech III Area search dog tests!

April 2008 - Take Your Child To Work Day - Raytheon

Terri arranged for us to be part of Raytheon's take your child to work day.  Janet, Darcy and Terri gave a quick presentation on what the dogs can do, a quick recap of the Lost in the Woods Program and some technical talk about GPS and other technologies the dog teams use.  Darcy did a demo outside with Rogue and Scully.  The kids thought all of it was "cool".

Darcy and Rogue and Scully with some of the kids participating inside.

Darcy and Scully outside

for an HRD demo

March 2008 - NASAR K9 SarTech II Test

Congratulations to Terri and Brandi, Len and Rudy and Mary Margaret and Scout, who all passed their K9 II Area search dog tests!

February 2008 - BAMA Breeze Airscent Seminar

We hosted our airscent seminar in Rogersville Alabama.  It was great.  The instructors (Norma Snelling, Dee Wild, Denver Holder, Robert Noziska and Natalie Castle) were excellent and we can't thank them enough.  We definately hope to do another airscent seminar in the future!

Here's just a couple of pics from the seminar of a few students in Norma's class and a group picture of Robert's.

February 2008 - Dog Days at the Huntsville Botanical Garden

We helped kick off the Huntsville Botanical Gardens - Dog Days, where they let dogs into the park for the month of February and have certain walks and fountains available to the dogs.  It was a fun PR day and we did a little demo as well.  Here's a nice picture of Brandi in front of one of the fountains. 

December 2007 - Decatur Christmas Parade

We once again participated in the Decatur Christmas Parade, where Snoopy and Charlie Brown helped our "float", or is that "boat", win Best Decorate Animal Theme.  And don't be fooled, they don't mean Daniel...

 Daniel and the "Float" award

Len and Rudy, with

Brenda in the background

Mary and Sadie

          River in the H2

and Snoopy and Charlie Brown

November 2007 - Lost in theWoods at Wheeler Wildlife Refuge

We were asked to participate in Wheeler Wildlife Refuge's 75th Anniversary celebration by being part of their monthly educational program.  We did a Lost in the Woods program and also did a demonstration of both live and HRD training.  We had quite a turnout (over 70 folks) and a large number of cub scouts (and their parents) who found the program very useful.  Many thanks to George Ponder, who is a volunteer photographer for the refuge and took the pictures reproduced here.  You can see these pictures (in larger format) and others of the demonstration and the refuge by clicking HERE.

The group in the auditorium (left)

Rogue on the run for

 the live demo (right)

Candace and a helper showing off the uses of a garbage bag (left)

Scully giving her bark,

jump, COME-ON alert

on the HRD.

October 2007 - Walk Your Paws - Decatur

We once again participated in the Walk Your Paws event in Decatur, helping raise funds for a local humane society.  We participated in the walk and also did a demo for the crowd.

The group that participated.

Mary Margaret and Scout ready to go with their demo.

Len and Rudy ready to go with their demo too.

October 2007 - NOCDS Seminar

Len, Terri, Lisa and Mary headed over to Mississippi for the NOCDS seminar.  Mary had a great time at her first seminar and Len had a "learning experience" in his first cadaver class.

September 2007 - CSAR Seminar

Darcy, Terri, Larry, Bud and Mary Margeret headed off to the CSAR seminar at Black Mountain NC.  It was an incredibly beautiful week, if warm for NC late September but everybody had a great time.  It also included two callouts during the course of the week!  Altogether we were in the beginner and advanced airscent classes and the water cadaver class.

Larry and Cotton in the Water Class

The group, before and after, note MM's broken wrist!  I don't think we look as worn out as we felt.

Mary Margaret and Scout on the helicopter load (left) and Terri and Brandi loaded up too.

September 2007 -  AARS Yearly Get-Together

The AARS (Alabama Association of Rescue Squads) did their yearly hands-on training at Oak Mountain State Park in Birmingham.  They had a lost person presentation, packaging discussion and a mock search scenario.  Pictures are of Terri being packaged during the Cave Rescue Portion of the training.

June 2007

Len and Terri were part of the SERT class in Decatur.  They did a small scent discrimination demo during the course of the day.

Some of the folks who attended

Rudy, Len and the subject

June 2007

We participated at the Will Rogers Festival in Guntersville and had a lot of fun.  We were there to support some of the canine "competitions" and also do do a demo for the crowd.  We ended up winning some of the events, namely popcorn eating (Rogue and Darcy), largest dog (Nereus) and took second in a few of the events too.  Darcy and Mary Margaret later donated their rather large dog food winnings to the Athens Dog Pound. 

The group that went to Guntersville

Scout enjoying the sand pit and

 Brandy enjoying the shade

Darcy and Rogue in the popcorn eating contest, which they won.

It was one bag for each of them, and Darcy was the slow one.

While it's "impressive" they finished first, all the other competitors

were small dogs, who, quite truthfully, would have exploded if they

had to eat their bag of popcorn.