Join Laurie Lawless for an exciting webinar, "From Shelter to Service: Identifying Working Dog Potential," featuring renowned dog behavior consultant Maria DeLeon. Discover how to recognize traits in your shelter dogs that align with successful working dog careers, opening new doors for placements and life-changing opportunities.

Discussion Resources:

• Search Dog Foundation - has trained evaluators all over the country that will come out to evaluate in person.

• Sectory K9 / Rescue 2 Resource - will train rescue dogs (may require fundraising) and then donate to police K9 handlers at no cost to the police department dogs for

• Better Lives - Maria has not worked with personally

• Animal Farm Foundation - no longer have a program, but still maintain contact and can direct you to a variety of leads

• Facebook group/ Adoptable Sport and Working Dogs - excellent place to network with handlers and dog sport enthusiasts

• Another way to network with working dog handlers is to volunteer! SAR teams are always looking for people to hide (act as lost persons) for their dogs to find during training scenarios.