Source: Sunny Skyz
The National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF) is a nonprofit organization that trains dogs rescued from shelters to become rescuers themselves.
SDF was founded in 1996 by retired New Jersey schoolteacher, Wilma Melville, after she and her search dog were deployed to the Oklahoma City bombing site in 1995.
Convinced that America needed more search dogs to meet emergency demands, Melville came up with the win-win idea for SDF: Not only would they create more canine disaster search teams, but shelter dogs would be rescued from an uncertain fate.To create these search teams, SDF recruits rescued dogs from shelters and…
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