Lowland Search Dogs – Sussex

It’s been a busy time for the team recently with callouts on Christmas Day, New Years day and again on 5th Jan.

All of these incidents are co-ordinated by specially trained police officers known as a Police Search Adviser or POLSA.

Sergeant Lorna Dennison-Wilkins was the POLSA on 5th Jan and she has provided an excellent and informative write-up of the search incident from the police perspective on her blog. The write-up includes videos with our own Chairman and two of the senior members of our collegues from Sussex Search & Rescue (SUSSAR).

Many thanks to Bognor Regis and District Dog Training Club for their fantastic efforts during 2011 raising funds for Lowland Search and Rescue Dogs Sussex.

They put on a wonderful dog show during the summer, there was an amazing sponsored bicycle ride too amongst other great efforts for all their members.

We had a great time at their Christmas party on the 2^nd of December at the Village Hall where they train and were made to feel very welcome. We were even invited to take part in their Christmas Games and Jet, Morgan, Roxy and Cain had a wonderful time and put up a good show for the search team, Cain winning “Hunt The Sausage”!

The Cheque was enormous £1660 and we cannot stress how much donations help our work, being a 100% funded by donations!! Thank you so much to all those involved.

Further details of the club and committee can be found on their website: http://www.bognordogclub.org.uk/about_dog_club.htm.

Meet Cain, he is an 8 week old Border Collie. Cain is going to be working for Steve our Chairman as he grows up.  Cain’s Mum and Dad are both working sheep dogs. He is a very confident loving little boy. He is a bundle of mischief but is also very bright and already knows the ‘Sit’ command and will come when he is called.

We have been back to both the East Grinstead and Haywards Heath Joint Emergency Service Days.

Fingers-crossed for the good weather we had last year. Not only lots of things to see and do throughout the day, but you can usually get a burger and an ice-cream too.

Come and say hi if you do visit either/both of these.  We are expecting  our very own Buster to make appearances throughout the days. Both he and the smaller four-legged dogs are usually a big hit with the smaller children.

Dates, times and location details can be found under the “Meet The Team” section to the right of this article. (Hover your mouse/cursor over the event for details).

Our very own Naomi has been invited to judge the dog show at this years Rodmell Summer Show.

The show is on tomorrow (Saturday 20th August) and starts at 2pm. Children get in free and it’s only £1 for adults.

The dog show itself starts at  2.15pm, entries are £1 per class paid on the day.

Classes:

• Prettiest Bitch
• Most Handsome Dog
• Best Veteran (over 7 years)
• Best Youngster (under 18 months)
• Dog Most Like Handler
• Novelty Obedience
• Trophy for Best in Show

Full details on their website at www.rodmell.net

Remember to look out for Naomi and say hi. She will be in the teams distinctive red t-shirt and no doubt she’ll have or two of her dogs with her.