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K9 Water Training – Where We Go Wrong

By Deana Hudgins | August 19, 2020

HRD Water workshops are among our most requested courses at CFTE. From beginner to operational teams, handlers are always looking for ways to improve their water recovery skills, and more specifically their boat search skills. As a result, we have had the opportunity to work with hundreds of dogs and handlers. THE PROBLEM Water is…

5 Day Trained Final Response Challenge

By Kathleen Kelsey | May 10, 2020

As defined by the Crime Scene/Death Investigation–Dogs and Sensors Terms and Definitions, ASB Technical Report 025, First Edition 2017… final response A behavior that a canine has been trained to exhibit in the presence of a target odor/scent source. This behavior may be either passive (sit, stare, down, point, etc.) or active (bite, bark, scratch,…

No! Don’t Touch That! (Stopping Unwanted Behaviors At Source)

By Deana Hudgins | April 11, 2020

FREE TRAINING WEEK #2 Welcome to the second installment of our free training series. We are here to support your training efforts as you and your dog continue to adapt to the new normal of sheltering in place and doing most of your training at home. How the training works STEP 1: We start below…

Instructor

Fire Science & Emergency Medicine– Sinclair Community College

Executive Director-K9 Karma

President– Ohio Disaster Search Dogs

Founding & Former Member, Search Team Manager; Canine Coordinator- FEMA: Ohio Task Force One

Former, Canine Search Specialist; Canine Evaluator – FEMA: Ohio Task Force One; California Task Force One; Indiana Task Force One

Former, Subject Matter Expert, Instructor– FEMA Canine Search Specialist Course

Region III Rescue Team-Member

Evaluator & Instructor – Indiana Homeland Security Search and Rescue

Tactical Medic & Instructor-Tri-Med Tactical

Athena Haus has 28 years of experience in the field of Search and Rescue with 26 of those in public service, as a Firefighter/Paramedic and Fire Officer. She was a Founding Member of FEMA Ohio Task Force One where she served as a Search Team Manager, Canine Coordinator and Canine Search Specialist when the team was in its infancy, helping to build the training program and current disaster site. She has also served as a Canine Search Specialist for FEMA California Task Force One and Indiana Task Force One, working both human remains detection and live find canines. Athena has deployed as a Canine asset with all three FEMA teams while she was a rostered member. She is the founder of K9 Karma, a canine training business, specializing in the working canine and behavioral canine issues.

For the past 20 years, she has traveled the country as an instructor, evaluator, and facilitator for search and rescue, as well as, tactical medicine classes and workshops. Athena specializes in live find disaster search and wilderness, as well as, human remains detection land and disaster. She has responded to countless disaster and missing person searches for local, state and federal agencies. She has managed several large scale local incidents as the Commanding Fire Officer operating in a Unified Command Structure. She frequently consults as a subject matter expert for large scale disaster training exercises, providing guidance in search strategy and planning and resource management. During her years as a disaster and fire service responder, Athena repeatedly saw that there was a lack of resources and training opportunities to fully prepare canine handlers and teams to manage canine injuries. She established BARK; Basic Aid to Responder K9 program, partnering with Tri-Med Tactical, providing training at the Ohio Fire Academy, Ohio Tactical Officer Association, IDHS as well as other organizations. This training ensures that teams with canines embedded in the disaster and tactical environment have access to basic, real world, hands on canine medical training.

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K9 Water Training – Where We Go Wrong

5 Day Trained Final Response Challenge

No! Don’t Touch That! (Stopping Unwanted Behaviors At Source)

Tim Houweling

Instructor

Registration Opens on November 1st!

Tom Haus

Instructor

Athena Haus

Instructor

Kathleen Kelsey

Online Program Director

Nick Fathergill

Training Director

Deana Hudgins

President/CEO