Canine Search and Rescue Association – St. Louis, MO

Canine Search and Rescue Association (CSARA) is located in the St. Louis Missouri area and is a team of volunteers who provide certified teams for missing person searches to law enforcement and other agencies at no charge. Our team has over 45 years of experience with over 2,600 hours of instruction in Search and Rescue and K9 Search and Rescue training. There are ten dogs on the team.Our team has successfully completed over 30 national K9 evaluations in the area of trailing by the North American Police Work Dog Association, North American Search Dog Network, National Association for Search and Rescue, National Narcotic Detector Dog Association and the National Search Dog Alliance.The team has participated in over 130 searches which were conducted for the FBI, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Missouri DNR, Missouri Water Patrol and the Saint Louis Major Case Squad. The team has also participated in search with several agencies in the Saint Louis County and Franklin County areas. We are fundraising for cooling vests that aid in regulating the body temperatures of the search dogs ($250 value / each) and GPS tracking collars that help locate the dogs while allowing them to expand their search area faster ($650 value / each).

Three search dogs were vested with a cooling vest ($250/ea. value) on December 28th, 2013.  An additional dog was vested with a cooling vest on July 23, 2014 ($250 value). 

We purchase two GPS units and tracking collars ($1300 value) and presented them on Sept 15, 2015.