About the Search and Rescue Dog Foundation

Search and Rescue workers are your neighbors, your friends and strangers. On a moment’s notice they disrupt their lives and many times put themselves in harms way.

All of them are volunteers. The government does not pay them or supply the dogs that have saved lives or brought closure to many families.

The Search and Rescue Dog Foundation was established by Sarah Atlas in 2005 to assist volunteer K-9 handlers in the replacement of their dogs that are no longer able to perform search work.

Sarah, a K-9 handler herself, was inspired to start the foundation when over 700 elementary school children, parents and other caring citizens who raised money to replace her dog Anna. Her k-9 partner became ill and was unable to continue her work after serving at Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks.