Bentley the SAR Dog

10/31/2026

BENTLEY PUPDATE: "It's time for some doggie trick-or-treating! HAPPY HALLOWEEN everyone!"

10/19/2026

10/08/2026

BENTLEY PUPDATE: Busy start of the week for Finley and Bentley. We did a couple of presentations followed by K9 demonstrations first on Sunday in Gobbles, MI "Intro to K9 SAR". Monday I had the privilege to observe several Therapy dogs in action. Ended with a busy day on Tuesday, presenting in Kalamazoo at WMU class followed by demos. To top it off Bentley got the opportunity to find several kids in thier fort making obstacles at Unified Clinics. Great 3 days of sharing, meeting new friends and educating about K9 SAR!

10/05/2026

It's official!

09/28/2026

BENTLEY PUPDATE: First let BENTLEY and I thank all our teammates, family and friends for all your support as today was a big milestone. We have logged our entire journey on this fb page for the past 1.5 years to get to this place. Successfully completing our final certification with National Search Dog Alliance, Area Search for Live and Deceased. This means we are now a deplyable K9 team; however this doesn't mean our training has ended. Actually completely the opposite as now the "BIG WORLD" training continues! Please continue to follow, like and share our journey as it means so much to Bentley the SAR Dog !

09/28/2026

Congratulations to Chris and her SAR K-9 Bentley, they passed their 80 acre NSDA Area Search certification test! They are now a deployable resource.

09/21/2026

BENTLEY PUPDATE: In preparation for our National Area Search Certification, a couple of our teammates setup a "Mock Test" yesterday for us to run. 80 acres of wilderness area with hills, stream, swamp areas which allowed us to work all our skills in preparation. Bentley the SAR Dog did great with endurance as we had 2 hours to complete in finding 1 live subject and 1 large source of Human Remains. Very proud and happy to be Bentley's handler! Thank you, Becky, Anna and Heike!

09/19/2026

BENTLEY PUPDATE: "Had a great day training with all my SAR Peeps. Silly humans think they can hide from me. Nope!"

09/19/2026

Great day of training! Refining skills and working dogs!