Bob becomes a teenager

Bob is pictured with his handler Mick Nield

Oldham Mountain Rescue Team’s search dog Bob has become a teenager, as he celebrated his 13th birthday over the weekend.

Bob was nine weeks old when he became part of Mick Nield’s family and a member of the Oldham MRT.

Mick, his handler, wanted to train a dog when he first joined MR back in the late 80’s, but after becoming Team Leader in the early 90’s the dream was pushed back until 2008 when he became Bob’s proud handler. 

Bob came off working stock from a farm near to Appleby in the Eden Valley. 

He began his first training weekend in November, 2008 and graded as a search dog with SARDA England in January, 2011.

Since then he’s attended most incidents with Mick, until last year when he began to take a back seat on the operational side.

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