The Ohio Federation of K9 Search Teams

02/14/2025

2025 Ohio Federal Resource List

11/12/2024

Just a note to all that are interested in volunteering at 2025 evaluations. We will need approximately 5. Many of the folks that volunteered in 2024 will need to test next year and will not be able to hide.

11/11/2024

We want to congratulate all the members that came out to test and passed their certifications.
We also want to thank all the volunteers and support staff that made this event run smoothly. It takes a tribe to put on one of these events and make them successful, and we had a fantastic tribe this last week.
We are proud of all of you. Stay safe and healthy till we see you again. ❤️🐾❤️

08/10/2024

12 days left on the t-shirt fundraiser. So far we've made $1060!

We have a new Fundraiser! A t-shirt sale to raise money for the Ohio Federation K9 certification evaluations.

Thank you to Jennifer Stokes for creating this awesome design and making it available for this fundraiser.

It captures K9 SAR's spirit of unity. Handlers, their K9 partners, and multiple SAR teams working together towards the common goal to bring home those who have gone missing.

Ohio Federation of K9 Search Team’s main goal and priority is to arrange a highly credible certification opportunity for our K9 teams at an affordable cost. All of our valued members are volunteers and pour an extensive amount of time, effort, and money into these efforts. With the multitude of ex...

05/14/2024

The following message is from Mark Chapman, president of the Ohio Federation of K9 Search Teams:

During the Federation business meeting on Sunday, May 12th we discussed the upcoming Federation/IPWDA evaluations which are scheduled to be held at Camp Friedlander November 7-10. Participant costs are undetermined as of this time due to a pending decision on a grant that Gloria Napier has applied for, as well as potential proceeds from fund-raising. There will be more information coming, hopefully within several weeks, regarding both of those matters.

In order to try and plan for the upcoming evaluations I’d like everyone who believes they may participate (this is in no way a commitment but rather will be used only to assist in planning) in the November evaluations submit the following information to me ([email protected]) by May 24th:

· Name of handler

· Name of K9 and what tests will they be pursuing certification for (trailing/air scent/land HRD/water HRD)

· If a handler anticipates certifying more than one K9 please submit the above for each

The reason we are doing this is because there are so many variables that impact the cost of holding the evaluations – such as:

· Number of tests – if we have more than 35 scheduled we’ll need to add a fourth instructor, which significantly increases our costs

· At this point in time we don’t know if we’ll get the grant, or how much they may give us. We’ve requested $8,000, but the actual award may be less.

Something we may have to consider is capping the number of evaluations at 35. If we do we’ll set up a waiting list for anything over that. Then, once we determine if we have money to cover a fourth evaluator we’d increase the number of evaluations and add people from the waiting list.

I’m requesting that team leaders make sure everyone on the team is aware of, and responds with the requested information.

Mark Chapman

02/17/2024

This event is a senerio based training with an instructor at all times. Each instructor will have a maximum of 5 students per scenario. All teams will work their scenarios at the same time, there are 3 separate areas to work. The scenarios will have NO waiting for your turn, each teammate will be working together to find the clues establish a plan and execute it. It will be a fast based event made for all levels of knowledge and you do NOT need to be a dog handler.
Multiple prizes will be available to win. Your team will be scored on a predetermined score sheet.
Skills used and clues found will be scored.
You will know your objectives prior to the scenario being played.

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​Orion's Challenge is a 2 1/2 day SAR scenario based training with 3 instructors and an active command center. Extra Challenge games with prizes throughout the weekend.
Sunday will be all instructor time, you will have time to work with the instructors.

11/06/2023

The start of a fantastic weekend with lots of new faces.
What a great weekend of collaboration and corporation of multiple teams.
Congratulations to all🐾🐾

11/05/2023

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11/01/2023

Tune in tonight, Wednesday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 pm, EST to see the FIVE winning tickets drawn for the Guns or Money Raffle.

10/26/2023

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08/29/2023

Silent auction bags are coming together for this Novembers Certification weekend.
All Proceeds will be applied to current or Future group certification weekends.
This is in conjunction with the Guns/Cash raffle we are currently having.
We need to be able to raise the money needed to keep the individual handler cost down or the Price will increase in 2024.

Thank you for your continuous support