Established 1992

Search and Rescue Dogs of the United States (SARDUS) is non-profit national association supporting search and rescue dog teams and search managers.

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When a person is lost or goes missing a team of Professionals from law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and rescue organizations work together with the community to reunite the missing with their families.  Search dog teams are a proven lifesaving resource.   





A dog's nose can do what no other resource can:

·        Find a child lost in the wilderness.

·        Follow a patient with Alzheimer’s missing from a nursing home.

·        Locate a skier buried in an avalanche.

·        Assist law enforcement with crime scenes.

·        Find live people trapped in collapsed buildings.

·        Locate drowning victims.



The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children report that 2100 children go missing every day.  58,000 children are taken by someone they do not know each year.  Most of these searches do not have search and rescue dogs to help find them.  


 http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/timeline/flash.html

Most searches go without the benefit of a Professional search and rescue dog team.  If you would like to help click here...

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SARDUS is the financial sponsor of www.disasterdog.org, which is a major communication tool for national and state disaster teams, as well as other countries developing a disaster canine program. 

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SARDUS  we provide certification, training, and education for search and rescue dog teams.





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Search Headlines...

Searchers need help looking for lost elderly man (The Argus-Press)

Yesterday, July 18, 2008, 1:40:05 PM

OWOSSO - The Michigan State Police and the Shiawassee County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue team need volunteers in its search of a missing elderly man.

 

Get close to Rescue Day action (North Devon Gazette & Advertiser)

Yesterday, July 18, 2008, 5:32:29 AM

GET up close to a host of emergency services, rescue helicopters, lifeboats and even petrol bombs without having to be in mortal danger with the return of the popular Ilfracombe Rescue Day.

 

Reward boosted to $7,500 in search for missing teen (CBC Manitoba)

Thursday, July 17, 2008, 10:12:10 AM

The Manitoba Search and Rescue Association has upped the reward for information to $7,500 in the search for a teenager who has been missing for four weeks.

 

Woman dead, man missing at Tongue River Reservoir (KPAX Missoula)

Thursday, July 17, 2008, 6:21:56 AM

Search and rescue crews recovered the body of a woman on the Tongue River Reservoir Thursday morning.   And they're still searching for a man who fell into the water Wednesday night in a separate incident.

 

St. Paul / First, a rescue. Next, a mystery solved. (Pioneer Press)

Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 11:24:41 PM

Kathy Jo Zezza may have saved a man's life and reunited him with his family.

 

Manassas service dogs board the bus (InsideNoVa.com)

Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 8:46:35 PM

Lydia Wade-Prince stands with Cashmere, left, and Nicole Bukowsk stands with Joan as they wait to board an OmiLink Bus during a training session with labrador assistance dogs for the non-profit Blue Ridge Assistance Dogs, which trains dogs to aid people with ailments.

 

Dog joins fire investigation team (BBC News)

Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 5:25:41 AM

A 20-month-old Labrador joins a fire service to help investigate suspected arson attacks.

 

What’s your critter IQ? (The Facts)

Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 12:44:17 AM

The two baby armadillos are busy inside their giant pet carrier. Their pointy pink noses quiver, and their funnel-shaped ears swivel, listening as Dana Simón, founder of Gulf Coast Wildlife Rescue, talks about them.

 

Body found in missing man search (BBC News)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 6:40:49 AM

A body is discovered after a rescue unit is called out to help search for a missing man in the Borders.

 

Recent searches fail to locate missing Pasadena man (The Western Star)

Monday, July 14, 2008, 10:38:48 PM

ROCKY HARBOUR — A pair of search efforts organized late spring and this summer have failed to locate a hiker believed to have been lost on Gros Morne Mountain.

 

Search and Rescue Dogs Water Training (WTOK-TV Meridian)

Monday, July 14, 2008, 10:26:58 PM

Mississippi emergency response teams spent this past weekend training cadaver dogs for work in the water.

 

Dogs have their own language and culture, local expert says (Southampton Press)

Monday, July 14, 2008, 1:43:50 PM

“You speak dog?!” Those are the words that Phillip Levine hears whenever he meets a new four-legged friend. Observers might just hear a bark or a playful growl.

 

Portage la Prairie News (Portage Daily Graphic)

Monday, July 14, 2008, 7:46:50 AM

DAKOTA TIPI FIRST NATION -- The search continued on Sunday to find Jennifer Leigh Catcheway who went missing 24 days ago. "We wake up with hope; we go to bed with hope," said Jennifer's mother Bernice Catcheway, who said she will never give up believing she will find her daughter.

 

Missing woman reward doubled to $5000 (CTV Winnipeg)

Sunday, July 13, 2008, 4:12:01 PM

The reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Jennifer Catcheway has been doubled to $5000, after a donation from the Long Plains First Nation Sunday.

 

Training day for man's best friend (The Pantagraph)

Sunday, July 13, 2008, 3:43:51 AM

HUDSON -- Twelve dogs who are search and rescue teams’ best friends received foundational search training Saturday in Evergreen Lake. | Photo gallery

 

Ohio man missing in the Uintas (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Sunday, July 13, 2008, 12:45:28 AM

Summit County search and rescue teams are looking for a 61-year-old Ohio man who became lost while hiking the King's Peak Trail in the Uinta Mountains on Friday.