The Center for Forensic Training and Education and Spike's K9 Fund disaster training at the Menlo Park rescue site in California was a great experience for Suzanne and Kili and included a fitness test, a talk by Michael Ellis and 4 training stations, each with...
We are excited to have a signed contract with Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot. Lyons Press is one of the top outdoors publishers in North America. We are very grateful for the guidance our Literary Agent Regina Ryan has provided over the last year and a half....
Suzanne is delighted to have received a Spike Foundation Scholarship to attend a Disaster Response for Wilderness Handlers Workshop. This training will be held at the FEMA California Task Force 3 Menlo Park Facility in California January 8 and 9, 2022. The program is...
Guy is a Director with the WA State SAR Planning Unit that provides planning and operational support to SAR groups across the State, as well as our 3 National Parks. Recently that group, with Guy as the on-scene contact, helped in a successful mission to locate a...
Last week A Dog's Devotion: True Adventures of a K9 Search and Rescue Team (our soon to be published book) won 1st Place in the PNWA (Pacific Northwest Writers Association) 2021 Literary Writers Contest (Nonfiction/Memoir Category). There were over 400...
A Dog's Devotion is a finalist (selected from over 400 entries) in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association 2021 Literary Contest. We will be participating in an Awards Ceremony on September 18.
In July 2021 K9 Kili and handler Suzanne attended three days of water training with Deb and Joe Hurlburt to find drowning victims at the Teton Dam In Idaho for a second year this Summer. New skills were acquired and there was also an encounter with an enormous...
NSDA Crime Scene Certification Event. Suzanne Elshult and Kili have now certified at the Crime Scene level with the National Search Dog Alliance. Book News. Guy and Suzanne have submitted their final edited manuscript for their adventure memoir to Literary Agent...
Scholarship and Training Opportunity. Suzanne, Keb and Kili are the happy recipients of a $500 K9 Redden Memorial Training Scholarship.This scholarship was used to attend an Advanced Bone Scatter Workshop instructed by Mary Cablk, PhD and hosted by the Okanogan...
Suzanne, Keb and Kili participated in an IPWDA (International Police Work Dog Association) three-day testing event with great success. Suzanne and Keb recertified in Land and Crime Scene HRD and Kili received his first Land HRD Certification.