Happy Half Birthday, Yodel boy! Time is flying! I was hoping to be able to update the blog over the past few months, but search dog puppy mode takes no prisoners! Puppies are demanding little tyrants no matter the breed,…
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Sometimes the universe works in mysterious ways. When we brought Rally into our lives it wasn’t just because we wanted another dog, but because I want to be a search dog handler… and you can’t be a dog handler…
It is with the heaviest of hearts that I share this update. As I write, Rally is laying next to me chewing a bone, one that she picked from the dog store at the conclusion of a tour of…
A few months prior to getting involved with the search and rescue dogs, I started looking for resources that would help me understand how detection dogs work. Professional detection dogs are trained to use their noses to sniff out…
Meet Rally, the newest member of the Hitchcock team. She’s a 9 week old Golden Retriever puppy who joins us all the way from Mexico, New York. As often happens in our life, I am a little bit surprised…
Hello, hello! I looked at my calendar a few days ago and saw that we are officially into double digit months. It seems like just last week that we were flip-flopping between chilly winter mornings and warm spring afternoons,…
Day 8 of our John Muir Trail Honeymoon series… bet you thought we’d never get this posted! Well, joke’s on you (Mom) because here it is. We woke up early to another frosty morning. This campsite – like the one before…
Hey there! Alyssa here with the story of Day 7, our second to last day on the trail. We woke up on the morning of day 7 to cold, cold temperatures. I sat up and hit my head on…
Whenever we go into the woods, we take a calculated risk. We recently took a Wilderness First Responder course and our instructor Daz Stokes loved to remind us of the fact that: “The wilderness is a dangerous place. You should never go…
So far this has been a tough post to write. I’ve been out with an ankle injury for almost three weeks now, since April 12. Since then I’ve sat down to write this post several times and ended up avoiding…