These silent heroes serve us daily. An essential part of our safety, health and well being. Police dogs,rescue, detection, assistance, guide, water rescue or search in times of natural and man made disasters : life savers. Dogs work to detect illegal drugs, explosives, weapons, they warn of low blood sugar in diabetics, guide the blind daily and rescue victims from earthquakes, avalanches and floods : Irreplaceable companions. They risk their lives in our service on some occasions. They aren’t useful tools, they are agents, they are family. They care for and enrich our lives every day.
Today we officially recognize their essential assistance and undeniably important relationships with their handlers and owners and pet sitters.
We owe them all the best of care in their working lives and during their retirement years.
We did a sot where one of the dogs was a retired police sniffer dog. He definitely didn’t know he was retired! Adorable but full on and into everything (as he had been trained to be). The owners said we would never wear him out. We took this as a challenge and just about managed it - he was fighting to keep his eyes open!
A shout out to the therapy huskies who are local to me.
They do amazing work with end of life patients, neurodivergent children and adults, those suffering from grief, and children who are non verbal due to trauma.
There are five of them and they make my day when I see them out on their regular walks
Hi @Highfive This post just reminded me of the time my husband and I were on a sit in Spain and ending up saving a Podenco which you can read in this archived post here.
Really interesting post Sam. Lucky you responded how you did. They are an incredible hardy breed! Just as well! Thanks for guiding me to the post. Their big ears and long snout are very characteristic. They make a powerful mix too!
Reminds me of when I used to work in San Francisco — I parked and heard a dog barking frantically. Not normal barking, so I walked around the block looking for the dog. Found him or her next to a homeless man who seemed to be overdosing or otherwise falling out of consciousness, so I made a 911 call. That dog might have saved his/her human, because people were just walking by and ignoring them. If not for the frantic barking, I wouldn’t have even walked in that direction.
