Emergency Animal Rescue: OHSTAR
Emergency Animal Rescue: OHSTAR Oregon Humane Specialized Technical Animal Rescue Team (OHSTAR) is a skilled volunteer group that responds when animals are trapped, stranded, or otherwise in danger. OHSTAR to the Rescue Oregon Humane Specialized Technical Animal Rescue (OHSTAR) team members with animal first-aid and rescue training are available to respond to animal rescue situations…
Training with the Oregon Humane Technical Animal Rescue Team
On a recent Saturday, I show up at Rocky Butte at 9 am, coffee in hand. I’m there with my Oregon Humane Specialized Technical Animal Rescue teammates to practice high-angle rescue. We do this so we’re ready in case a dog falls off a cliff while they are hiking with their families—a situation we have…
OHSTAR Assists with Horse and Rider Rescue
When animals are in distress, the Oregon Humane Technical Animal Rescue Team (OHSTAR) is ready to deploy. This volunteer team is trained in animal first aid and rescue to help trapped and stranded animals. They coordinate with a network of other agencies throughout the Pacific Northwest that are ready at a moment’s notice to save […]
OHSTAR: Reporting for Rescue
Oregon Humane’s Technical Animal Rescue Team (OHSTAR) is an all-volunteer group who can rappel down cliffs, climb trees and crawl into the tightest spaces to rescue animals in distress. Team members are compassionate, driven and highly skilled. A news crew from KOIN recently accompanied OHSTAR during a training exercise. See how they hone their skills […]
OHSTAR Helps Red-Tailed Hawk
Editor’s Note: This past weekend, on June 24, members of the all-volunteer Oregon Humane Technical Animal Rescue team (OHSTAR) responded to a call to help save a red-tailed hawk. The hawk had been observed stuck high up a tall tree in Vancouver. The Audubon Society of Portland was contacted first about this hawk, which is the […]
Oregon Humane Rescues Stranded Dog in Canby
Oregon Humane Technical Animal Rescue Team, OHSTAR, rescues dog stranded for over a week from dangerous cliff in Canby On Monday afternoon, the Oregon Humane’s Technical Animal Rescue Team (OHSTAR) rescued a dog who had been stranded on a steep hillside in Canby for approximately six to eight days. Concerned neighbors in the area contacted […]
Practicing to Save Lives
Contributed by Cecil Reniche-Smith, Oregon Humane Volunteer & OHSTAR team member It’s an old joke: a tourist in New York City asks a passerby, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” and is told “Practice, practice, practice.” For the OHS Technical Animal Rescue Team (OHSTAR), however, “practice” is no joke. When a life is literally on […]
Oregon Humane Team Rescues Another Dog After 150-Foot Fall in Columbia Gorge
In a nighttime rescue near High Bridge in the Columbia Gorge, an Oregon Humane rescue team last night brought to safety a young dog that had fallen 150 feet into the water below. The dog, a one-and-half-year-old shepherd/husky/Lab mix named Kenny, was hoisted to safety near midnight after falling off the edge of a steep […]
Christmas Rescue in Columbia Gorge
“It never occurred to me that I would see her alive again,” said David Schelske of West Linn, whose dog plunged 150 feet down a cliff during a Christmas afternoon hike in the Columbia Gorge. The three-year-old yellow Lab, Sandy, was trapped on a narrow ledge as Oregon Humane Technical Animal Rescue team (OHSTAR) deployed […]
SMART: Animal Rescue Documentary Screening
Contributed by Cecil Reniche-Smith, Oregon Humane Volunteer There are all sorts of volunteer opportunities at Oregon Humane: volunteers work with the animals, assist in the Medical Center and with the Behavioral Department, help with office work, spread wood chips on the dog paths, and more. One of the more unusual volunteer opportunities at Oregon Humane […]
