Gidget: Possible SAR candidate :)
 

Gidget has a medium working drive. She's not bounce off the wall nuts, but she's your typical tenacious terrier. She's always had a great nose and solid nerves. She has no issues with various floor surfaces nor romping around in the woods. I had worked SAR dogs several years ago, and next weekend, we will be taking her to a SAR team for an aptitude test.

She has, as of late, decided to rid our backyard of moles *sigh* When we came home the other weekend after our friend watched our dogs at our house, there were deliberate tracks dug around the backyard (kind of wish our friend would have paid closer attention when they were outside.) At the end of one of the tracks was a hole with *ahem* part of a mole (deceased.) In our house, she has decided to track something through the floorboards (mouse, maybe?) and will snort and sniff her way in a deliberate trail.

Because of her want and willingness to work and please and her stellar nose, I think she'd make a great SAR dog. She'd be one of the few SAR pit bulls in the U.S.

Kris Crawford is primarily well-known as being a SAR handler who works her pit bulls: http://www.forpitssake.org/sar.html

Very cool, tracking is a fun game regardless of wether you make it all the way to SAR or not!

Cool! I'm thinking next year, Lily and I might try our hand at it. I simply don't have the time. It's 10-15 hours of training per week for 1 year.
It's pretty awesome though, and I wish I had the time to invest in training ($10,000 worth of free training).

That's really cool! I've thought about SAR for Wilson, he sounds similar to Gidget, doesn't care about any "weird" surfaces, medium level energy, loves to work. I just have no clue if we have anyone local that does training for it.

If you go to nasar.org, you should be able to find a SAR group in your area. When I was active in SAR, all of the training was done ourselves and among group members. I never took my dog to a trainer, etc.

I'm grateful to have an employer that is understanding when it comes to SAR and the like. They let me off for two weeks in '06 for a search.