Rescue Services for Missing People and Pets

Since 1986, Oakes has logged more than 24,000 hours on more than 4,000 search-and-rescue missions around the world. He has spent more than 11,000 hours looking for lost or stolen pets, and he has found 1,515 of them. He has been asked to locate cats, dogs, goats, turtles, snakes, horses, birds, llamas, lizards, rabbits, ferrets, hedgehogs, rats, miniature cows and an otter, elephant, possum, raccoon — even a lion.

* For more information about International K-9 Search and Rescue Services for Missing People and Pets, visit www.k9sardog.com, or send an e-mail to searchdog.tdn.com