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Lou Holmes
Lou Holmes became involved with Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs at the organisation's conception in 2002.
About Berkshire SAR Dogs
Berkshire SAR Dogs is a volunteer dog organisation on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist Search & Rescue Teams, the Police and other Emergency Services.
"Our primary role is to assist in locating lost or missing vulnerable people within Berkshire and its surrounding areas".
Berkshire SAR Dogs became a registered charity in the UK in March 2004 and is entirely reliant on sponsorship and donations to exist and carry out its work.
Lou's dogs
At February 2009 she has two level three operational dogs with Berkshire SAR Dogs and two young dogs in training.
Lou's eldest dog Brock had the first ever Lowland Search Dogs find.
All the dogs are trained to air scent and Brock is also trained for trailing and scent discrimination work - especially handy if it's known we know where the missing person was last seen.
Brock won this year's 'Friends for Life' competition, held at Crufts.
Lowland Search Dogs
Lou is an assessor for Lowland Search Dogs.
"All four of my dogs love the CSJ treats Dem Bones"
Lou Holmes - 2009
List of all Search and Rescue Handlers
Lou Holmes
Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs.
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Melanie Lewis
Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs.
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Philip Eichman
Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs.
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Roland Brooks
Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs.
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Ray Greenshield
Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs.
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Jessica Harvey
Lowland Search Dogs Kent.
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Karin Jung
Lowland Search Dogs Kent.
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Paul Mulcahy
Lowland Search Dogs Kent.
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Matthew Dixon
Fire Investigation (FI) Dog Handler for West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service.
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Customers' Views
The most expensive food is not always the best - as Byron knows!
One of our dogs went off to his foster home just before Christmas. He was thin when he came in, but we'd got the weight on him and when he was neutered he weighed 24kg. He went off on foster (along with his sack of Natural Champ!) just before Christmas, and came back about 3 weeks ago to meet a potential home.
His foster home stopped off on route to get his second vaccination. In between the foster home leaving the vets and getting to us, our vet nurse Danni phoned to say that Byron was stick thing and weighed just under 17kg! I was shocked and mortified! I promptly cancelled the potential home, wanting to investigate in case he had a medical issue....
When Byron and his foster mum arrived, he was ravonously hungry and immediately raided a bowl of Little Champ! we had down. I questioned his foster home and asked hadn't she noticed!?!?! I was furious!
It turned out she hadn't fed him his CSJ as instructed, but had put him on 'Xxxxx' because her other half thought it would be better for Byron and their dog to be on the same 'better quality' food - obviously because it is so bloody expensive, it must be better!!!! Their dog has also lost weight. I asked her to show me exactly what she was feeding Byron a day, and she showed me - she was sticking to the recommended amounts given on the back. I told her Byron would be having more than that for his breakfast alone here! He's not a greedy pig and would only eat what he wanted. He immediately came back and went onto his CSJ. I'm happy to say, Byron is now back to just under 24kg - we weighed him last night.
Sarah - Wiccaweys
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