Raising
tomorrow’s
heroes.
Kaiser K9, Inc is a 501c3 non-profit committed to expanding the availability of quality, domestically-sourced working dogs to promote national welfare and security by raising and training puppies for life-saving careers.
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Canine candidates
We RESCUE, RAISE, and TRAIN puppies for search and rescue and other life saving careers and donate them to individuals and organizations that need them!
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Puppy rescue
We work with shelters and rescue organizations to take in at-risk puppies and prepare them to become heroes.
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Training sites
We aim to provide disaster-simulation training sites for search and rescue teams to prepare for real scenarios.
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Saving lives
from coast
to coast.
We need your support.
Become a benefactor
No gift is too small. We accept direct donations to help keep our programs running. Become a flagship donor or sponsor a canine today for permanent recognition from Kaiser K9.
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Donate your rubble
We are constructing the only public rubble pile in the state of Maryland. We are accepting large-item donations for the site and seeking structural engineering volunteers.
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Rubble piles are expertly constructed disaster simulations that help our dogs learn to navigate a disaster field and search and alert in realistic scenarios.
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At close to 1/3 acre, our field is ready to be filled with your donations of concrete, steel, old cars, busses, and boats, or anything else you might have available!
If you are a structural engineer and would like to contribute to the planning and execution of our pile to ensure handler and dog safety, please get in touch!
Encourage fitness
Our puppies start learning fitness the moment they arrive to prepare them for real world scenarios. Donate fitness equipment to help keep our heroes sharp and active.
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Fitness is not only a great enrichment tool, it is also essential for our puppies to stay safe while they learn to navigate search environments, such as rubble and pallet piles, obstacle courses, slick flooring, and ladders.
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We’re accepting donations of treadmills, balance, proprioception, and strength products, place tables, and other fitness equipment.
Enrich our heroes
When they’re not sleeping, eating, or training, puppies like to stay busy! Donate toys, chews and other enrichment items that are key in maintaining happy, healthy puppies.
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Elements of our enrichment program include special products like puzzle toys, soft toys, fetch toys, tug toys, natural and artificial chews, and other items that puppies can interact with on their own or with their trainers.
Help with husbandry
Keeping our puppies and their environment clean and healthy is our top priority. We’re accepting donations of lifestyle and cleaning supplies.
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Any donations of towels (for sleeping and cleaning), bedding, cleaning supplies, grooming supplies, and harnesses, collars, and leashes are greatly appreciated!
Share your services
Are you a service professional who wants to help in best way you know how? Please reach out! We are always looking to partner with community-minded individuals.
Contact us
In the news
View Certified USAR K9 Hope- Kaiser K9 Puppy and Search Dog Foundation K9 Graduate- traversing the rubble pile at Search Dog Foundation’s National Training Center demonstrating the skills and abilities required of Live Find Search And Rescue K9s to rescue trapped lives in the wake of disasters.
Courtesy of KABCTV
Listen to information about how search dogs are deployed to disasters like Hurricane Milton, including Certified USAR K9 Sassafras (pictured here)- Kaiser K9 Pilot Puppy Program Participant and Graduate and Search Dog Foundation Graduate.
Additional Kaiser K9 puppies- K9 Alder, K9 Casey, and K9 Ross- were also deployed ahead of Hurricane Milton.
Courtesy of KCLU
