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Wolfpack Working Dogs Search and Rescue, Search and Recovery

We finally got the chance to go training after over a month of horrid high temperatures, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, a...
09/01/2026

We finally got the chance to go training after over a month of horrid high temperatures, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, and Cool Deadwood Nights (both of which make travel nearly impossible in the northern Black Hills. We went up to a higher elevation to escape some of the heat. Dogs did well, er... except for Eli the Aussie who did his search with wonderful speed, going out, finding his victim, and running back at full speed. Then he decided to forego his final alert behavior and just whizzed on by his handler. So remedial training was his reward to teach him that not bothering with his trained alert behavior is NOT an option. The turd. After a long break in training, a little sloppiness wasn't a total surprie.

Well, now we are in the middle of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, and travel is extremely difficult due to about 300,000 ...
08/09/2026

Well, now we are in the middle of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, and travel is extremely difficult due to about 300,000 motorcycles on all the roads. Plus daytime temperatures are still in the mid-90's, which isn't good for the dogs. We will return after temperatures cool and the bikers go away! See you soon!

Sunday was hot, so our training session was relatively short. We did not set up long searches for odor. Rather, we work...
06/11/2026

Sunday was hot, so our training session was relatively short. We did not set up long searches for odor. Rather, we worked on specific skills and socialization of puppies. Chaos wore herself out with all the new things to see and smell.

Some training days are more interesting than others. We started with Eli the Aussie taking a stroll rather than hunting...
06/04/2026

Some training days are more interesting than others. We started with Eli the Aussie taking a stroll rather than hunting for his victim. His handler was about ready to put him back in the truck since he obviously wasn't searching when he ran into the scent cone of his victim. THEN he began his search and found the victim. This counts as a failure because a good search dog begins hunting as soon as he is told to do so. Then we were introduced to a lovely 4-month old Dutchie puppy related to Kathy's two dogs. A little blood was spilled with those sharp puppy teeth! As all this was happening, the sky got darker and darker. When the storm finally arrived, complete with hail, 3 people and Kathy's 10 month old pup were a quarter mile away from the vehicles. They ended up hiding under a tree to avoid the hail, and they were all soaked to the skin when they finally made it back to the vehicles. An interesting day!

A hot and windy day, but at least the trees have finally leafed out. We trained near Bear Butte (in the background). Co...
05/29/2026

A hot and windy day, but at least the trees have finally leafed out. We trained near Bear Butte (in the background). Cowboy got to hunt for a trail biker's lost cell phone, although I'm sure he thought he was searching for HR. The cell was finally located at his own home through his girlfriend's "find my phone" app. Well, it was a good negative search. Eli did find/refind drills rather than a long search.

Sunday was a nice spring day for training on BLM land near Sturgis. We had a visitor with a poodle trained in HRD join u...
05/15/2026

Sunday was a nice spring day for training on BLM land near Sturgis. We had a visitor with a poodle trained in HRD join us for training.

We spent a lot of time helping Kathy getting her ginormous new Ruffland Titan crate into her vehicle so her other XL cra...
04/21/2026

We spent a lot of time helping Kathy getting her ginormous new Ruffland Titan crate into her vehicle so her other XL crate would also fit, along with all her dog training gear. AND we also did a lot of odor detection in Deadwood. Teamwork!

The dogs got to spend a lot of time playing on Sunday, along with searching for odor and obedience.
04/14/2026

The dogs got to spend a lot of time playing on Sunday, along with searching for odor and obedience.

Training during false spring #3 on Sunday.
03/31/2026

Training during false spring #3 on Sunday.

We did mostly grassland searching on Sunday, right at the edge of the Black Hills.
03/11/2026

We did mostly grassland searching on Sunday, right at the edge of the Black Hills.

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