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SCEMK9 participated again in the 2004 5th Grade Fire Prevention Zoo Adventure at the Sedgwick County Zoo on September 30th. All the dogs were phenomenal with meeting over 3,000 5th graders, zoo keepers, parents, and teachers. The dogs behavior goes to show the positive effect our temperament evaluations, obedience and socialization training has had on our team. The dogs behaved beautifully being constantly surrounded and pet by children, loud and chaotic noises and other animals. Photos by S. Guinn.

     Handler Amanda Ford visits with children and talks about what the dogs do and how they are trained, while K-9 Prymer and K-9 Clarice soak up some attention!

          These pictures show the multitude of children that were constantly surrounding the dogs at all times. K-9 Anne is always a big hit with kids! The last photo is K-9 Poncho with one of her youngest fans!

      K-9 Prymer soaking up some attention and belly rub. K-9 Reuben is not far behind. K-9 Sadie's soft silky coat attracted many curious children!

      K-9 Rici peeks out of the van to see what's happening and visits with Firefighter Bob and a group of children.

  Team Photo after a long afternoon.

The 2004 Public Safety Expo and Health Fair Photos can be found at this link.

SCEMK9 was invited to participate in the CERT Disaster Drill in Oklahoma this past August. This scenario was a bombing of a welfare building with persons trapped. We look forward to providing the canine assistance in next years drill! Photos by DeAnn Konkel. Look for video that was shot by our team later!

     SCEMK9 and CERT Team Member Mike Jackson helps walking wounded leave the scene of the disaster, assesses a critically injured patient and extricates them on a long spine board with the assistance of the Sedgwick County Fire Department firefighters . 

  Several members of the National Guard, Wichita and Sedgwick County Fire Departments, KS Fire Marshall's Office, CERT Team and SCEMK9 meet to discuss the plan at the scenario. 

     CERT and SCEMK9 member Mike Jackson and the Sedgwick County Fire Department survey the site and Terrie Clark (CERT and SCEMK9) assist in Patient care in the treatment area.

      SCEMK9 and the Sedgwick County Heavy Rescue Team gather a plan for searching the building with canines and Handler Stephanie Guinn prepares with Clarice, a disaster search dog. 

      K-9 Clarice searches the area for scent of a live victim, first finding cadaver scent then pinpointing live scent under the rubble by sticking her head through cinder blocks to where the victim is located. Both canines searched the buildings and rubble in 100 degree heat with high humidity in the middle of the day. It was a difficult task to ask of them with the surface temperature of the pile reaching over 110 degrees. 

        Handler Terrie Clark and Angus prepare for their search of the same area and go to work in side the building and on the pile. Angus is a building search and area search dog, but mastered the rubble well. 

    CERT, SCEMK9, and Sedgwick County FD Heavy Rescue extricate the victim from beneath the rubble!

CERT Members in SCEMK9 are Mike Jackson, Tui Jackson, Tom Pletcher, and Terrie Clark. 

Bill Weppler and Barry Guinn are CERT Instructors as well as SCEMK9 members. 

The 2004 Public Safety Expo and Health Fair Photos can be found at this link.

SCEMK9 Dogs take a break after a long evening of training. Photo by M. Handzo.

Hanz finds human scent in a business warehouse. Photos by M. Handzo.

These photos were taken by Barry Guinn at the October 2003 training session with the Wichita Police Mounted Unit at the Wichita Riding Academy. 

Two of Wichita's finest equines stand ready to train!

The dogs and horses warm up before the training session. 

Dogs getting accustomed to horses after the exercise and warm up.

Several short training sessions were held for the dogs with the officers on horseback as flankers. All the dogs ignored the horses when it came time to search. Good job guys!

An officer caring for his horse and getting ready to train. Alvin meets one of the horses up close and personal. 

The group shot.

The following photos were taken during a recent Wichita weekend training session. All photos taken by S. Guinn and A. Pitcher from Lincoln, NE. 

      This is the pallet pile we have access to thanks to The WOOD Recycling Plant. It is great for teaching the dogs unstable footing and negotiating obstacles. The second photos is Steph navigating part of the pile to hide for AndyDog of NETF-1. As the sun sets, Steph and Rici take a break.

    Steph hiding for Andy at Ripley Power Plant. Andy waiting for Steph to come out and give him more viddles!

  Clarice searches for Terrie Clark at Cornejo and Sons concrete crushing plant. After the correct bark alert, Rici is rewarding with her favorite floppy tug toy.

Animal Training and Behavior at the Sedgwick County Zoo 8-2003. All photos taken by Capt. Barry Guinn.  

     Curator of Animal Training and Behavior at the Sedgwick County Zoo, Dr. Emily Weiss, demonstrates how target training, clicker training, and food rewards work with "Speedy" the Aldabra Tortoise. 

         Dr. Weiss demonstrates target training and positive motivation with one of the resident bears at the Zoo and K-9 members (Lt. Terrie Clark shown above) get up close and personal with "Bo". 

     Dr. Weiss gives us an up close and personal look at the Zoo's male African Lion, Mojo, and he engages with play (behind the glass!) 

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