Learning to get down (a poem by Taylor Graham)
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,...
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SOMERSET SUNSET
Hatch Graham & Judy Taylor Graham
Welcome to Somerset Sunset, adventures with our search & rescue dogs and Taylor Graham's poetry
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In the air with dog
an article first appearing in the NASAR (National Association for Search and Rescue) magazine, RESPONSE, in 1983
Search dog acrobatics (a poem by Taylor Graham)
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...
A dog and handler on search (a poem)
In the Dark I catch a glimpse, then lose it – green wand floating dog-level through the black woods: Cyalume light-stick attached to her...
Picking a Puppy for SAR
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...
Our heroes (3)
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....
For Prissy, a poem by her handler decades later
Letters from the Dead How to translate into words? In dream, you cross your paws, primly, German-Shepherd odalisque on the couch, and...
Our adventures with search & rescue dogs and poetry
We'd like to share photos and memories from our years training and searching with our dogs, and writing and publishing poems.
Our heroes
Part of our family, and our search partners over the years, German Shepherd Dogs (and one "international shepherd"...). Here's Major...
Our heroes (2)
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...
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