Helpful guidelines to ensure you and your canine are effective and respectful during your urban search and rescue deployment.

Keeping canine teams safe by identifying hazards in their search environment.

A recent Williams grant enabled us to provide preventatives and supplements to 28 canines. Three dogs joined the Shelter to Search Program.

What do you need to keep in mind when you are briefing the squad you will be working with at a new search?

Catch up on the canine teams deployments! Alumni K9 Nala and K9 Meshe passed their certification events.

The Mystery x Spry puppies all passed screening for Texas A&M Task Force 1! K9s Poe and Zeke are training for their future jobs.

Step through the FEMA Scene Safety Checklist from the perspective of a canine handler just getting on scene. Why do we ask these questions and what should we worry about?

Petco Love supports the rescue for our 3rd year! And we have two new dogs join the Shelter to Search program.

That canine search teams of CAT5K9 and TX-TF1 will receive deployment medical kits thanks to Williams generosity!

The Search Team members have been busy this summer.

Dogs that Make us Drink Fundraising Competition starts May 1st. Isabelle and Rookie got adopted.

CAT 5 K9 search teams pass their FSAs and two dogs join the Shelter to Search Program.

Petco Love awarded Category 5 K9 a $5,000 Helping Heroes grant.

Category 5 K9 partnered with Texas Task Force Foundation and Maroon Out to fundraise for TX-TF1 Retired K9s.

Category 5 K9 members respond to Hurricane Ian. Dallas passes screening and Rusty joins the team.

Alumni Captain Noodle makes his first find. K9 Zara heads off to training and Dallas joins the Shelter to Search program.

Read about Category 5 K9’s new partnership and foster dog updates for August 2022.

We accomplished so much in 2021!

We are honored to receive at Helping Heroes grant from Petco Love!