"When Dusty, starving and sick, is picked up on the side of the highway after losing his pack, he's lucky to be alive. The tiny Chihuahua is small enough to fit in two hands and needs special care to be nursed back to health before he can be adopted out to a forever family. Dusty recovers at the Sterling Center, where they train Search and Rescue dogs. Though the Sterlings don't think a dog as small as Dusty can do the tireless work of a SAR dog,...

Left tied in the backyard when his owners move away, a lonely and hungry border collie puppy is rescued by a home inspector and taken to the Sterling Center, where his fear of leashes complicates his training as a rescue dog in the wake of a plane crash and snowstorm.