On a search, dog & handler may need to be lowered - over a cliff or the side of a building, for example. Many handlers learn rappelling,...

an article first appearing in the NASAR (National Association for Search and Rescue) magazine, RESPONSE, in 1983

How She Does It My dog leaps boulder to boulder, perfect balance, not thinking where she puts her feet. Nose to the wind, she factors...

by Judy Graham this article appeared in California Rescue Dog Assn's PATHFINDER newsletter around 1983 This is the big day. I'm about to...

Sardy (Kuskokwim Firebird C.D.) was chosen for SAR from our homebred litter by Ch UDT Tucker Hill's Oracle out of Bee-Jay's Sandy C.D....

Letters from the Dead How to translate into words? In dream, you cross your paws, primly, German-Shepherd odalisque on the couch, and...

We'd like to share photos and memories from our years training and searching with our dogs, and writing and publishing poems.

Part of our family, and our search partners over the years, German Shepherd Dogs (and one "international shepherd"...). Here's Major...

Prissy (Walmar's Caprice von Kuskokwim C.D.) was Judy's first search dog, acquired at 13 months old, a couch-potato who became a fanatic...