K-9 Down

Life-saving emergency training to protect our working dogs is offered through K-9 Down.

Your donation to Frankie’s Friends helps underwrite this special community education seminar, a highly specialized two-day program in advanced first aid and emergency procedures for emergency rescue personnel and for professional handlers of working military, police and search/rescue dogs.

K-9 Down was developed to address the unique set of risks canine teams encounter in their work. While many course participants have training in human first aid and emergency life support, in the past the lives of some of these highly trained animals were lost because their human partners did not know how to correctly administer life-saving veterinary techniques.

The course is tailored for police officers, firefighters, medics, search and rescue teams, military dog handlers or other canine handlers with specialized training. The course is two days in length. A series of lectures are presented the first day on topics ranging from the normal canine physical exam to toxicities and heat exhaustion. On the second day, the group is divided and assigned to one of two half day sessions, which offer hands-on training in small group sessions.

Please refer to the course schedule for seminar dates and more information.