Kimball, Shanon
Shanon resides in Anchorage Alaska. She started in search and rescue (SAR) in 2008 with the Anchorage Search Team, in 2009 a bloodhound came into her path. Current k9 Partners, Abbie 9 year old bloodhound and Raven a 2 year old bloodhound. When she is not teaching Search and Rescue trailing here in the US or overseas in Germany, she operates, trains and evaluates the dogs of North Paw K9 Search and Recovery, which she founded as an urban trailing team, to be a resource for the State of Alaska in 2016. They are deployed by the Anchorage Police department, the Alaska State Troopers, the FBI and other various law enforcement agencies to aid in lost person cases and locating evidence. As of 2023, she is with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as a Team Adam Consultant.
Background USAF Security Police – 4 years ODS, Vet Tech , Court Security – current 24 years , , NASAR Evaluator/Instructor Trailing, HRD, Urban Search Management, MLPI , Critical Incident Team training
Class: The Trailing K9 – How Scent Theory, Environment and Time Play a Role and How to Trouble Shoot
Topics to be covered in this class include:
- Trailing focus, how to set the track making it productive to learning for handler and k9.
- Developing skills, how scent theory and discrimination plays into the details of track composition.
- How that scent theory plays into the environment, terrain.
- Trouble shooting.
- What are the environmental influences, training methods utilized for that scent discrimination.
- Surface changes, how to maximize your training, with discussion on how to set up the training, what it should look like, how to trouble shoot.