SAR K9 Log

About this app

What SAR K9 Log does

If it isn't documented, it didn't happen. Every search-and-rescue dog handler hears it in their first season: the dog doesn't keep the record — the handler does, and that record is what gets examined. SAR doctrine and records-management guidance agree on the same standard: logs must be complete and unedited, corrections annotated rather than erased, and the whole history producible on short notice. Yet the standard tool is still a paper logbook in a plastic bin, and the digital alternatives are cloud team subscriptions that need a signal you don't have at the trailhead. SAR K9 Log is the working-dog record book rebuilt for the field. It runs entirely offline on your iPhone and iPad — no account, no team plan, nothing that stops working when your unit changes software or you lose bars in a drainage. And it takes the integrity standard seriously: entries are append-only. Once saved, a session is never silently edited. Corrections are recorded as dated, annotated amendments beside the original, so the log reads as one continuous, trustworthy history instead of a page of erasures. Log a session in under a minute: discipline (air scent, trailing, tracking, HRD, avalanche, article search, obedience), duration, location, weather and wind, the problem you set, how the dog worked it, and what you'll train next. Hour totals roll up by discipline and by month automatically, so certification renewals and unit reviews stop being an evening of arithmetic. Deployments get their own record: incident, requesting agency, hours, area covered, task, outcome, and your dog's finds — with photos attached. Certifications and evaluations live beside the log with expiry dates, so a lapsed cert never surprises you at a callout. And when someone asks for the record, you produce it in minutes, not days: a clean, chronological PDF of training and deployment history, hour totals by discipline, and every amendment shown with its annotation. Your dog's career is eight to ten years of work. It deserves better than a spiral notebook — and it should belong to you. • Append-only training journal across seven working disciplines • Dated, annotated amendments — originals are never overwritten • Automatic hour totals by discipline and by month • Deployment records with photos, tasks, outcomes, and finds • Certification and evaluation tracking with expiry dates • One-tap PDF of the complete record, amendments included • Fully offline — no account, no team subscription, no signal needed