A video about the training of search dogs for New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue (USAR). The video includes an interview with dog handler, Brenda Woolley, and Tim Drennan, the President of the New Zealand USAR Search Dog Association. Woolley talks about what they look for in search dogs, as well as how they train them. The video also includes footage of a dog being trained in the rubble from a demolished building in Christchurch.
Missing dog poster, it reads "Missing. Small white dog with limp. Bichon 'Scampi'. Call [Contact details listed]".
A PDF copy of pages 102-103 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Dog Park Art Project Space'. Photo: Stacey Weaver Photography
A photograph of an SPCA Field Officer carrying a dog to safety after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of a veterinarian giving a puppy a full health check after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A student in the Student Volunteer Army stops to greet a dog.
An infographic giving details of a rise in dog bite complaints following the earthquakes.
A photograph of an SPCA animal attendant and veterinarian attending to a puppy after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of Donna Allfrey's dog Niko, sitting on the front porch of her house on Oxford Terrace. The photographer comments, "Niko found Doug Sexton, Allfrey's neighbour, after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. Sexton had a heart attack during the earthquake and could not leave his damaged house".
A media release produced by the General Manager of SPCA Canterbury about the SPCA's "Desex in the City" campaign which offered to desex cats, dogs, kittens and puppies in Christchurch for free after the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. The campaign was created in order to help reduce unwanted animal numbers in Christchurch.
A sticker produced by SPCA Canterbury for residents to stick on their doors, indicating that there is an animal inside the property. This was produced after the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes to help emergency personnel determine whether an animal is inside the building.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Melissa Skurr and her partner, JC Anderson, with their dog, Shady, who was fed by the people who burgled their empty home following Canterbury's earthquakes".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Melissa Skurr and her partner, JC Anderson, with their dog, Shady, who was fed by the people who burgled their empty home following Canterbury's earthquakes".
A document produced by SPCA Canterbury outlining a plan for pet owners to follow in order to prepare for a disaster.
University of Canterbury law student Sean Scully and his dog Guiness, who were recognised at the 2012 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards for helping people in the aftermath of the 22 February earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kingston the guide dog puppy with his puppy walker Diana Wilson. The earthquake of 4 September created a few upheavals in family life after the family house became unliveable".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kingston the guide dog puppy with his puppy walker Diana Wilson. The earthquake of 4 September created a few upheavals in family life after the family house became unliveable".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kingston the guide dog puppy with his puppy walker Diana Wilson. The earthquake of 4 September created a few upheavals in family life after the family house became unliveable".
Guiness the dog, who along with his owner, University of Canterbury law student Sean Scully, were recognised at the 2012 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards for helping people in the aftermath of the 22 February earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kingston the guide dog puppy with his puppy walker Diana Wilson. The earthquake of 4 September created a few upheavals in family life after the family house became unliveable".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kingston the guide dog puppy with his puppy walker Diana Wilson. The earthquake of 4 September created a few upheavals in family life after the family house became unliveable".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Locksley Avenue houses in Dallington. Owen Moore, aged 90, and dog Min laugh in the face of this afternoon's aftershock. His house was built on compacted earth alongside the Avon River".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Locksley Avenue houses in Dallington. Owen Moore, aged 90, and dog Min laugh in the face of this afternoon's aftershock. His house was built on compacted earth alongside the Avon River".
A photograph of Donna Allfrey, her husband Lex, and their two dogs, Niko and Zeus, sitting on the front steps of their house on Oxford Terrace. A green sticker on the door behind them indicates that the house has been inspected and is safe to enter.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Ovena Murray (front) and Leonie Dehn, with Roger the dog, inspect work being done on the Charles Street pump house in Kaiapoi. Waimakariri District Council staff are deferring low-priority works to free-up funds for earthquake recovery work".
A digitally manipulated image of the Gap Filler Monopoly board square on Manchester Street. The photographer comments, "On the site of a demolished earthquake damaged building in Christchurch, New Zealand is a Monopoly game square for giants. The Gap Filler Project makes the bare land where once a building once stood into something both interesting and unique and this time they created a massive Monopoly board square. In the game of Monopoly you move your player with a dog, shoe or maybe the hat, but as the most common thing in the City are diggers they have the placed one on the square. There are also two houses on Manchester Street, which is priced at $240".
A motion-blurred photograph of houses, with the Port Hills in the background. The photographer comments, "This I hope gives you a feel of what it feels like in an earthquake. When you spend your whole life thinking that you and your home are built on solid ground, it can be quite a shock when you find it is not. You can feel the house shaking like a dog with a toy, rising up violently underneath you or the most gentle form which is when the ground moves gently like a wave moving under a rowing boat. It is not just the movement, you often get a rumbling sound which can precede a violent shake or can result in no movement at all. This means that some vehicles can sound like the rumbling initially and in the early days would get your heart racing. Another form of stress is when big excavators as heavy as a tank move as you can feel the ground shake from streets away, but you do not always hear the engine. For most of us the problem when the shaking starts, is wondering if this is the start of an extremely violent earthquake or will it peter out".