Comments on: YODOGS: Yosemite’s Four Footed Heroes http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2005/08/17/yodogs-yosemites-four-footed-heroes/ The Insiders Guide to Yosemite Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:01:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Martha http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2005/08/17/yodogs-yosemites-four-footed-heroes/#comment-63 Martha Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.yosemiteblog.com/wordpress/?p=309#comment-63 Loyd, thanks for putting this up! The dogs were huge in Fred's search. There are several on the YO team that belong to CARDA (Ca Rescue Dog Assoc.) also, which is the group I am a member of, in training with my German Shepherd Gimli. I had the pleasure of meeting Noreen and Ursala last summer. We were up at Twin Lakes during the same weekend and connected at the trailhead. Until I saw the dogs at Fred's search I had no idea there was this little army of volunteers doing this work. Like the SAR groundpounder work, it is a calling and pretty much life consuming. People don't hear much about most of the searches because many involve suicides and dementia subjects. One of our CARDA dogs located the remains of a suicide victim in the Mojave desert last weekend. Here's one of my favorite dog rescue stories, involving an "untrained" dog doing what these noble helpmates do naturally: http://monosar.org/article19990930dog_chief.html Peace, Martha Loyd, thanks for putting this up! The dogs were huge in Fred’s search. There are several on the YO team that belong to CARDA (Ca Rescue Dog Assoc.) also, which is the group I am a member of, in training with my German Shepherd Gimli. I had the pleasure of meeting Noreen and Ursala last summer. We were up at Twin Lakes during the same weekend and connected at the trailhead. Until I saw the dogs at Fred’s search I had no idea there was this little army of volunteers doing this work. Like the SAR groundpounder work, it is a calling and pretty much life consuming. People don’t hear much about most of the searches because many involve suicides and dementia subjects. One of our CARDA dogs located the remains of a suicide victim in the Mojave desert last weekend.
Here’s one of my favorite dog rescue stories, involving an “untrained” dog doing what these noble helpmates do naturally:
http://monosar.org/article19990930dog_chief.html
Peace, Martha

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