My Training and Experience
Missing Pet Partnership and K9 Pet Trackers, 2014
- Missing Animal Recovery Technician Course – Completed 10 week program on missing
animal recovery best practices and techniques in June 2014
- Missing Animal Recovery (MAR K9) Boot Camp – a 3-day dog training event designed
to meet the training needs of beginner, intermediate, and advanced MAR attendee,
May 2014.
Lost Pet Recovery
- Assisted in searches for Alley, Ellie, Gizmo, Rolo, Zoey, Midori, Shelby and Chance
- lost dogs in CT - YTD 2014
Intro to K9 Nose Work Seminar, Tails U Win, Manchester, CT, 2010
- Attended as a working handler
Wilderness Search Training, 1996 - 2003
- Participated in team training events, seminars, and certification testing in New
England.
Lost Person Search Experience
- Participated in several lost person searches in CT
- Attended Mantracking Course
Cadaver (Human) Search Training
- 2003 - NEK9 Training. Instructor: Alice Hanan – Maryland Park Police K-9 Handler
- 2001 - Cadaver Dog Workout Weekend. Instructors: Jonni Joyce Master Trainer – National
Police Working Dog Association and Alice Hanan – Maryland Park Police K-9 Handler
- 2000 - Maine Search & Rescue Conference. Instructors: Keith Heavrin, (MESARD);
Dr. David, Chief Medical Examiner and K-9 Handler, State of Maine; and Matt Zarrella
RI State Police K-9 handler
- 1996 - Basic Cadaver Search, K-9 Specialty Associates. Instructors: Andy Rebmann
(retired head of CT State Police K-9 Unit) , Marcia Koenig, and Matt Zarrella, RI
State Police K-9 handler