NH Canine SAR Resources

08/23/2023

02/09/2023

New newsletter!!

One month down and we are busy and bustling! We are looking forward to a great year!

02/09/2023

02/09/2023

American search and rescue team worker John Morrison details the rescue efforts from the earthquake zone as they utilize technical equipment, K9s and medical supplies to find and help survivors. “This country is incredibly resilient the people that we’ve come across are very thankful that we’r...

11/04/2022

10/26/2022

It is so important to know the signs and symptoms of a GDV in the field! The actions done by this handler in exemplary!❤️

Bogie is a search and rescue dog who has a case of bloat where his stomach completely flipped. In orde… Richard Bouchette needs your support for Rescue Bogie

10/26/2022

10/26/2022

The ESWDA was invited to instruct this past weekend at Laurel Mountain K9 Search and Rescue first K9 trailing and air scent seminar in Mansfield, PA. They did an excellent job of organizing the seminar. It was a pleasure to instruct such an outstanding group of handlers and their K9's.

10/26/2022

Heartfelt thanks and sincere gratitude to Wegmans for their very generous donation - what a boost for our 50th anniversary! Your support is helping to save lives, reunite loved ones, and make our communities safer during times of disaster. Thank you!

10/23/2022

Congratulations to K9 Vig and K9 Peggy (Uli), both Calgary TF-2 on passing their certification testing. They are now both certified Level 2 canines for USAR (Peggy re-certified). We are so proud and happy for these two teams. What an accomplishment!

10/14/2022

Pretty amazing!

10/03/2022

Stay safe Tuula! Tell mom to get you steak dinner when you get home!

10/03/2022

New set of certificates going out!

09/14/2022

New business cards!!

09/10/2022

Amazing lecture with Dr. Zoran about SAR canines!

09/10/2022

08/29/2022

My condolences to Brian’s family. Thank you to all the teams involved.

08/23/2022

The nose knows!❤️🥰

Ever noticed those slits at the sides of a dog’s nose? Why do dogs have them?

Once again, nature proves her elegance in the design of our dogs. When we humans inhale and exhale, air comes in the same way it goes out. Any smells that come in through our mouths are forced out as we exhale.

When a dog exhales through his nose, however, the exhaled air is released through those slits and off to the side so that nice, smelly air going into the dog’s nostrils doesn’t get diluted with the outgoing air. Put another way, the slits allow the dog to avoid smelling what he just exhaled.

The slits help the dog hold scent particles in the nostrils even as exhaled air passing out the slits creates a swirling air turbulence allowing interesting odors to be inhaled directly into the centre of each nostril. Since dogs breathe faster when trying to sniff a certain smell, they widen their nostrils to pull in more air which makes it possible for a dog searching for smells to have a steady stream of air coming in for up to 40 seconds, maybe even longer.

The slits also allow dogs to wiggle each nostril independently which gives them the ability to know which nostril a smell entered. This is how a dog can pinpoint where a smell is coming from, and why a dog searching for smells on the ground will weave back and forth as he follows a trail.

We all know the superb smelling abilities of dogs, but let’s use an analogy between scent and sight to really put it into perspective: What we as humans can see at a third of a mile, our dog can see more than 3,000 miles away and still see as well.