For the SEADOGS, urban disaster search and rescue is an important skill set. But their handlers say it's not the only skill these dogs have to know.
Tilly, the oldest dog on the SEADOGS team, sniffs out a fake avalanche victim that’s hidden in the car
Wren is one of the most experienced canines with Southeast Alaska Dogs Organized for Ground Search, or SEADOGS. She was part of thedeployed at the site of Wrangell’s deadly landslide last November. “There’s going to be refrigerators out there and there’s going to be laundry,” said handler Marcy Larson. “We don’t want our dogs alerting on that. We want our dogs alerting on people.”
“For Southeast, since we’re kind of in a bubble here, you know, we don’t have the road system, so if anything happens, we’re it,” Pilling said. “And we’re one of the few places in the country – few teams in the country, that we kind of have to do it all.”
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