In the March 14 article “A dog we can depend on,” the Sun failed to acknowledge that Santa Barbara County has a second canine search-and-rescue team. Juanita Smith and her dog Blaze, of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department, are also certified and are regularly called out to incidents.

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