Benefits Our Team Provides You and Our Community

The SWFL Florida K-9 Search Unit can help build skills that allow you to understand humans and animals better.  You will learn about our canine partners, their immense olfactory abilities, their emotions and needs, along with health and care. Most importantly, you will see how treating the environment, fellow teammates, canine partners and the community are a selfless act of kindness and guide you forward in the future. 

Overtime, this may build your life skills,  survival abilities, perseverance in hard times and unity in many aspects. It may also allow you to receive volunteer hours that will help your high school credit. Overall, this is a team that isn’t typical of other teams that most teens are accustomed to being a part of.  This team has saved children’s lives from building scent and DNA kits to finding them missing after hours in the wilderness.  You will be a part of track laying, watching, learning and the overall picture to what makes our canines successful.