Lynnwood Chamber of Commerce President Linda Jones with Suzanne and Keb
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True Tales of a K9 Search and Rescue Team
A Dog’s Devotion
Walk in the shadows of disaster, crime, adventure and tragedy with search and rescue K9 Keb and her human companions Suzanne and Guy, as they search the Pacific Northwest wilderness for the lost and the dead. Join them on search and rescue missions, as they are inserted by helicopter to search high snowfields on Mount Rainer or traverse steep forested slopes searching for a clandestine grave. Experience the trials, successes , and failures of real-life search and rescue in Washington State and beyond, where a wrong turn can mean life or death.
Appearances & Events
Keb Spreads Love at the Lynnwood Chamber of Commerce and the Swedish Club
Keb has retired from her career as a detection dog but she still enjoys being the ambassador for all search and rescue dogs. Most recently she was a much celebrated guest at a Lynnwood Chamber of Commerce lunch hour presentation where Suzanne and Guy shared missions...
Keb and Kili are supporting the Yakama Nation community in the search for relatives’ remains at Mool-Mool, or Fort Simcoe Historical State Park
We have had the great honor on two multiday efforts in 2023 (with another planned search in the Spring of 2024) to work alongside members of the Yakama Nation in the search for unmarked graves on the site of the first US reservation boarding school just outside White...
Media, Events, Presentations and Awards
Lynnwood Chamber of Commerce President Linda Jones with Suzanne and Keb
K9 Keb
2022 American Humane
Search and Rescue Hero Dog
Keb is the winner of the prestigious 2022 American Humane Search and Rescue Hero Dog Award!
Grateful WOOFS from Keb for all your votes.
About Us
Suzanne Elshult, MA has been active in K9 Search and Rescue (K9SAR) and deployed on hundreds of missions since 2001. She has held leadership positions with both the Snohomish County Volunteer Search and Rescue K9 Team and Everett Mountain Rescue, and is currently the Past President of Cascadia Search Dogs and a K9 handler with the Canine Forensics Foundation and Mason County Search and Rescue.
She and her K9 partners have been looking for the dead and missing on missions ranging from disaster searches to urban searches looking for dementia subjects and missing children, to mountain and wilderness searches, and old ancestral graves in all kinds of environments. Suzanne has worked with K9 “Keb” since 2010. They have certified in Human Remains Detection, Historical/Archeological Search Airscent Wilderness, Avalanche, and First Responder Disaster search disciplines.
Latest Blog Posts
We Are supporting the Native American Boarding School Cause
Keb, Suzanne and Guy are on the New Day Northwest Show – AGAIN!
Front-page article on Keb in the Everett Herald
Cairn Canine Detection Complete Days 7 and 8 at Fort Simcoe
Burley Cemetery Restoration Project
2023 Year in Review. Big Dreams Ahead…
Our HHRD Dogs Help Solving the Mystery of Long Lost Graves at the Northern State Hospital in Sedro Wooley
With Dogs and Radar We Continue to Volunteer at Mool Mool Looking for Native American Unmarked Graves
Media, Events, Presentations and Awards
Lynnwood Chamber of Commerce President Linda Jones with Suzanne and Keb
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