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Chocolate Labrador Retriever

Name of Handler: Jayne Zmijewski
Name of Canine: Kodi To Ho
Year of Birth of Canine: 2014
SARDUS Certifications: Air Scent, Human Remains Detection, Water
Local Team Name: Search & Rescue Dogs of the United States, Larimer County Search & Rescue Team
City and State: SARDUS: Colorado Division, LCSAR: Ft Collins CO.
Kodi’s favorite toy is a rubber bone-shaped squeaker toy…
How he tells me of a find: Runs to me, eye contact, bark with a jump.
Favorite Memory: Think so far is his first find on an assignment from a Law Enforcement agency. Searched for clues to a crime. He was very successful with trained responses, trained search behaviors, and “find” conclusions.

Black German Shepherd

Name of Handler: Jeff Hiebert
Name of Canine: Dax
Year of Birth of Canine: 2012
SARDUS Certifications: Urban Trailing/HRD
Local Team Name: SARDUS/ Boulder County Parks and Open Space
City and State: Lyons, Co
Dax loves his tug toy as a reward, he will do anything for it. When he finds a person alive or not, he sits patiently for his reward.
Favorite Memory: Dax attended a memorial for a child that he had helped locate.  The child’s family and schoolmates wanted photos with him on a bench named in memorial for the child. A very sad day but a reminder of the powerful tool the dog’s nose is and how it can help to heal in tragic circumstances.

Black German Shepherd

Name of Handler: Jake Udel
Name of Canine: Java The Mutt
Year of Birth of Canine: 2018
SARDUS Certifications: Wilderness Trailing Type I, Suburban Trailing, HRD, Large Source HRD, Evidence.
Local Team Name: LCSAR/SARDUS
City and State: Fort Collins, CO
“Java the Mutt” is a SARDUS dog through and through. While she never knew her father, her mom, SARDUS’s Trinity, passed on great searching and face licking skills. Java will bark and bring her handler to the missing person she just found. She loves playing keep-away with a tug and toss toys afterward.
Favorite Memory: Every day makes a beautiful new memory with Java. She loves her work, her play, her companions, and life!”

Black & Tan German Shepherd- SOLD OUT

Name of Handler: Linda Nichols
Name of Canine: Angus
Year of Birth of Canine: 2012
SARDUS Certifications: Type III/IV HRD, Large Area/Source HRD, Type II Urban Trailing, Type II Suburban Trailing
Local Team Name: Jackson Co SAR
City and State: Medford, OR
A favorite reward is a tennis ball; stands & stares at the subject.
Favorite Memory: Trailing with elderly subject’s son as my flanker on their rural property. Angus heads off a dirt road into the forest. Son says, “My dad never walks off of the roads”. About 5 min. later Angus finds the subject in the brush!

Black & Tan German Shepherd

Name of Handler: Jody Gruys
Name of Canine: Billie
Year of Birth of Canine: 2016
SARDUS Certifications: Type III/IV Suburban Trailing and Type III/IV Human Remains Detection
Local Team Name: Garfield County Search & Rescue, Inc., SARDUS
City and State: Rifle, Colorado
Billie was originally my husband’s K9, but when he was injured and had an extended recovery, I stole her!!! She is a ray of sunshine and a pleasure to work with, being both very responsive and reliable. She just loves to work!!! When she finds her subject, they had better be ready to give a full body massage and bring on the treats!!!
Favorite Memory: My favorite memories include the view from behind when David gets home from work. I have never before seen a dog wag their whole body!!

Black & Tan German Shepherd

Name of Handler: Melissa Kindt
Name of Canine: Hawk
Year of Birth of Canine: 2014
SARDUS Certifications: Wilderness Air Scent II, HRD III /IV, HRD Aux
Other Certifications: SARDOC Wilderness Air Scent
Local Team Name: Larimer County Search and Rescue/SARDUS
City and State: Ft Collins, CO
Hawk is obsessed with his work of finding lost and missing people. He is trained to find them alive or even deceased. His reward varies and he chooses which toy he wants to play with before each training session. He has a rubber Frisbee, a Chuckit Breath Right Stick, and a Nero ball-on-a-rope. At home, his favorite toys are his collection of rubber duckies, and his Holee Roller. He also has a plush toy that he likes to fall asleep nursing on. When Hawk finds the person he is searching for, he runs back to his handler at full speed and barks loudly at her. Sometimes he has to do this many times because he is so fast, and he leaves her behind when he gets the scent! Then he leads her back to the lost person and loudly demands his reward.

Black Labrador Retriever- SOLD OUT

Name of Handler: Wendy McIlroy
Name of Canine: Moira
Year of Birth of Canine: 2014
SARDUS Certifications: Suburban Trailing type II, HRD type III/IV
Other Certifications: CGC
Local Team Name: Region 3 K9 SAR
City and State: Corvallis, OR
Moira is a tiny lab, only 40#, but she is a pocket rocket!
There is no question about her favorite reward—Moira loves her tennis ball and considers all other balls unworthy. If a rope is attached to a tennis ball, it is broken.
Moira loves trailing, and her tail never stops wagging when she is on a trail. As she approaches her subject her tail wag turns into a helicopter and, when she arrives, she stares at the subject in expectation of her ball magically appearing. Walking behind that happily wagging dog on a trail is one of my favorite things.
We added HRD to her repertoire, and she took to that as well. Her alert is a sit, although she will sometimes bark as well.
A favorite memory: there are so many that it is hard to pinpoint one. She is a loving companion and works at least as hard as she plays!

Black Labrador Retriever

Jenner was a 60-pound male Labrador Retriever, who was certified as a FEMA Type I Disaster Canine, a Wilderness Search Canine, and was also a certified Park Ranger Service Dog. He earned his Canine Good Citizen and a Started Hunting Retriever Title as well. Jenner went on many wilderness searches, and also several disaster searches, including the Fort Collins floods, the Scottsbluff Sugar Plant Explosion, and several fires in the area. We also searched at the World Trade Center, where he served to help locate people and also gave much comfort to the search responders and families. Jenner loved his job as a search dog, and was incredibly strong at tugging for his reward ….. pulling most people right out from their hiding spot! He was also very thoughtful and kind to all he met …. he was a gifted ambassador to park visitors and new handlers in search, showing people how to train their dogs and be good citizens. My favorite memories of him are just looking into his eyes and sharing our love for each other. Jenner has many offspring who are also searching dogs.

Black Labrador Retriever

Name of Handler: Niamh Coleman
Name of Canine: Clancy
Year of Birth of Canine: 2009
Year of Death of Canine: 2020
SARDUS Certifications: HRD, water
Other Certifications: Water, Air scent, HRD previously through CCSAR
Local Team Name: SARDUS
Clancy loved his Kong! He was so high drive, even as he got older.
His alert for HRD was either a down at source, or a refind when I was further away. His alert for a refind was to jump up and put his paws on my chest, so I preferred when he just did his down!!
Favorite Memory: One of my favorite memories of Clancy was that as much as he loved working and was extremely high energy, his body language was very quiet around anyone who was special needs. My son has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair part of the time. Clancy loved him so much and would instantly calm his body so as not to knock him down.

Black Labrador Retriever

Name of Handler: John Beck
Name of Canine: Jasper June
Year of Birth of Canine: 4-19-12
SARDUS Certifications: HRD
Other Certifications: Yes
Local Team Name: Independent
Jasper is named after the dog in Daphne du Maurier’s novel, Rebecca. The book makes frequent references to Jasper’s tail thumping on the floor when his people enter the room. As an unnamed puppy on her first ride home she and my other dog, Iva were riding in separate kennels in the enclosed back of my pickup. On the first break stop on the drive, as I walked to the back of the truck, I could hear her tail thumping on the side of her kennel.

Dutch Shepherd

Name of Handler: Karen Williams
Name of Canine: Arya
Year of Birth of Canine: 2017
SARDUS Certifications: Cadaver, Large Area/Large Source Cadaver
Local Team Name: Larimer County Search and Rescue/SARDUS
City and State: Fort Collins
Her favorite reward is a food treat – a cookie called Wiggles & Wags Oven Lovins’ – she’s crazy about them! Her alert is a sit and look.
Favorite Memory: I have so many great memories with Arya, but probably the most recent was our time traveling together to Mesa University Forensic Investigation Research Station for a two-day workshop. She worked so hard in her class and made me so proud. Another great memory was on a search in Casper, WY where she got to ride on a UTV for the first time. She’s such a trooper at trying new things.