SmART is a team of six Animal Control Officers and one Registered Vetrinary Technician with extensive experience and training in rescuing small animals in extreme situations. Since coming together in 2004, the current team has a 100% success rate, from cats in trees, to injured animals under houses and even a deer in the Ocean.

SmART is a team of innovative trail blazers taking animal rescuing to a new level. The team is currently working together on deriving standardized guidelines for small animal rescues in an ubran environment and natural terrain, because the services provided are ground breaking and there are no standards set for rescuing animals in extreme situations of distress.

Smart Rescue #22 - "Bear"	Swiftwater Rescue Training
SmARt received a call for a dog named bear that had fallen over af fity foot cliff while hiking with his owner. SmART member utilized skills fine tuned with M.A.R.S. (Mock animal Rescue Scenario) and R.A.K.(Ropes, Anchors & Knots) training to rappel down the cliff side safely. They located Bear, and secured him in a CMC K9 Rappel Harness, before making the difficult ascent up the cliff side with the 100lb. dog. bear was sucessfully rescued and returned to his anxious owner.	SmART is NFPA(National fire Protection Agency) Certified to perform swiftwater rescue operations across the country. In July of 2009, SmART went trhoguh swiftwater rescue training spending two days at Kern River performing mock rescues during the day and night. They have since made modifications to rescue training geared towardss rescuing humans so that it can be applied to saving animals' lives.

Team Leader Navarrete ascends with M.A.R.T.E. during Mock Animal Rescue Scenario (M.A.R.S) Training
	Team Member McCarthy dives into action during Swiftwater Rescue Training
Team Member Ramirez prepares to enter L.A. Sewer sytem to rescue a cat in dying condition