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...
“When my teammate Guy and I started writing our book “A Dog’s Devotion: True Adventures of a K9 Search and Rescue Team” some 5 years ago, we knew absolutely nothing about the publishing process. Getting an agent, a publisher and getting a final manuscript presented...
K9s Keb (American Humane SAR Hero Dog 2022 and star in soon to be released book: A Dog’s Devotion) and Kili passed their third party Canine Forensics Foundation Historical Human Remains Detection certification yesterday. This work requires fine gridding and dogs...
The AKC Family Dog Magazine (July/Aug 2022) just published an article about Suzanne and her two certified human remains detection dogs, Keb and Kili. You can read the article here.
Vote for Keb Here Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to everybody that voted and helped Keb succeed in becoming a semi-finalist in the American Hero Dog Awards. The formal announcement came out yesterday and Keb is now one of the three top dogs in the United...
In order to break through I had to literally redefine success.
As search and rescue volunteers, some of our motivations differ, but any differences we may have are overshadowed by our common passion for finding the missing. We know we cannot always bring closure to families. Truth be told, more often than not missions I have...
I try to live my life with intention by establishing a "theme of the year" for myself, something I started doing many years ago as New Years Resolutions seldom did much for me. My theme in 2020 was "sisu" (yeh, look it up, it is powerful), and the year before was my...
One of the lesser known facts about the human remains detection (HRD) training we do with our dogs is that our K9 partners need exposure to full bodies in various stages of decomposition, preferably in a controlled environment with seasoned instructors that take us...
In early November, Jay Schreckengost, a respected Deputy Fire Chief in the Seattle Fire Department, went missing on a hunting trip in the mountains of eastern Washington. Suzanne, with K9s Keb and Kili, and Guy supported what would become one of the longest,...