Search Dog Tali

16/08/2025

Any of our northern followers please can you keep an eye open for our mate Tarn x

***NOW FOUND SAFE AND WELL****

Thank you for all the help!!!

We need your help! Please Share!

One of our colleagues trainee search dogs has ran off from a house in Claife Avenue, Windermere. Trainee Search Dog Tarn, English Shepherd . Any sightings please ring/message Rachel on 07540 226687

Thank you, 🙏

19/06/2025

Absolutely amazing!

17/06/2025

Dave is still going well, Tali is still hoping her barks of encouragement can be heard that far up the Pennine way!

If you can share the fundraising page Tali would be very very grateful x

This is my third trip out onto the Montane Spine Event. Some say it’s a… Dave Mason needs your support for 160 ish Miles Montane Spine Challenger for MRSDE

08/06/2025

Sorry for the lack of updates! Tali is in fine form and I am gradually getting back to full fitness after picking up an ankle injury earlier in the year (never again will I say it's only a sprain)

Last weekend we took part in a search exercise hosted by Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team (BPMRT) . Working with a Nav, finding casualties, providing cas care, it was a brilliant training exercise and we are so grateful to BPMRT for taking the time out to help us train and for looking after us so well.

This weekend was Nav practice with Derby Mountain Rescue Team ,of course Tali came with me. She is better at finding the markers than I am (the nose knows) but we also managed to sneak in a bit of property work on the way round. Thanks to David and Chris for mixing Nav practice with bodying.

And finally after hearing that her beloved Search dog Bolt has retired she has decided she needs to up her training to fill the position of Swamp Dog in his honour.

20/04/2025

Sorry for not updating the page, all is well just been busy.

After the intense concentration (anxiety) during training Tali and I are now learning how to relax a bit more and work better as team to find our fabulous dogsbodies.

She is also far more responsive when she's not working meaning our walks are a lot more fun for us both.

That doesn't mean she isn't keeping me on my toes, if anyone can explain why she is so offended and very vocal when I crack a raw egg please let me know- It's clearly a Tali thing 🤣

31/01/2025

And that's a wrap on a brilliant 2025 Winter week with Mountain Rescue Search Dogs England

She absolutely loves the ground up here ( she also loves throwing herself in snow drifts up to her nose) and has been ranging out, working things out for herself and doing a lot of shouting at me to tell me where her amazing bodies are hiding.

Snow holes, open ground, woodland.... none of it has phased her this week. So proud of her

11/01/2025

A lovely couple of chilled training days in the lakes. It's been really good just to take a step back with smaller areas and known body locations and really watch how she works the scent and then for me to try working her a different way.

All in all a very happy dog handler and a very happy dog. The less control more trust approach is working well for us.

05/01/2025

Snow stopped search training today but that doesn't mean it stopped our training. I generally only take Tali to the park in bad weather or when it's dark I've always said it was too busy at other times until now.

Over the Christmas break Tali has been showing me how much self control she now has around other dogs and what a well mannered girl she can be and I have been more relaxed and letting her range out even in busier areas.

As I have may have said before we have passed the driving test, now we learn to drive and I'm loving it.

31/12/2024

Well that was a year and half!! I can't begin to explain how much our working relationship has grown this year since I found the confidence to stop trying to control her and just let her run.

Of course that is only possible with hours and hours of working together and that is only possible with the support of a very understanding family, who come second to training and who conintually pick up the pieces, tolerant friends who know what my answer will usually be when they suggest meeting up, amazing colleagues who never know from one week to the next what I'm up to and of course our Dogbodies and fellow handlers- you are all amazing!

Happy New Year all, from us both and Thankyou x