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A Dog’s Devotion

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IBA Winner: Animals/Pets: Narrative Nonfiction
Foreword Indie Awards: 2022 GOLD Winner for Adventure, Sports & Recreation
IBA Winner: Animals/Pets: Narrative Nonfiction
Foreword Indie Awards: 2022 GOLD Winner for Adventure, Sports & Recreation

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.

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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.

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