Taos Search and Rescue K9 Unit

Watch as AkioYodasan digs out the subject he has just found after searching a 2-acre sector of snow. Our subject, Rob, is a foot or so beneath the late spring snow, which is very wet and dense, unlike earlier winter fresh powder, wherein we can dig 6-foot deep snow trenches with side-caves at the bottom, place the subject in and re-fill. However, even this shallow trench beneath the wet snow is a great look into how the dog can locate and dig out a subject. The TSAR K9 Unit trains for all types of circumstances, weather and terrain.

See our search dogs performing an area search from the birds-eye view of our TSAR drone. The Drone Unit practices keeping up with the dogs as they move in and out of trees across the landscape, making their finds in 50-acre sectors in this particular TSAR K9 Unit & TSAR Drone Unit joint training.

Watch the TSAR K9 Unit train in forensic human remains detection along a mountain stream in the fall of 2020. Learn a little about how the dogs work to do this amazing search service for their communities.