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The North Carolina Highway Patrol is starting from scratch when it comes to its canine unit. The department is getting rid of all its German Sheppard Malinois dogs and going with a new breed.
source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
Yes, poodles. Those prissy, pampered, coiffured canines usually associated more with fur coats, diamonds and penthouses than blaze-orange hunting garb, shotguns and muddy fields. But don’t smirk. These dogs can hunt.
source: Pizza Marketplace.com, KY
Federal law guarantees the right for service dogs to enter all places where customers are allowed and sets the recourse for a handler who is denied access. Some state laws make denying access a criminal matter, making compliance even more important.
source: Dallas Morning News, TX
The Coppell-based team is a volunteer organization that operates in conjunction with – and at no charge to – government agencies. It has 33 members, who care for 22 dogs.
Search One’s executive director is Paul Lake, who founded the group in 1983. The team searches for missing people and human remains. […]
source: McKinney Courier Gazette, TX
“The Guide Dog Foundation’s began in 1946 and their mission was to provide second sight to World War II veterans,” said Donna Wright, area coordinator for Dallas area puppy-raiser for the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind. “Now it has kind of come full circle with a totally new program called VetDogs.”
source: San Jose Mercury News, USA
Cody is so good at his job “he’s saved my life at least three times a month and saves me from being really ill about three times a week,” said Devin, who lives in San Leandro and takes Cody to work with her in San Francisco.
source: KPAX-TV, MT
A memorial has been dedicated in Fort Benton to the more than 4,000 military working dogs that served in the Vietnam War. …The dogs first served as sentries to guard American and South Vietnamese installations, but also served as scouts, guard dogs, trackers, messengers and drug detectors. They also sniffed out explosives, land […]
source: San Francisco Chronicle, USA
The dogs and handlers work as a team. Maude was trained to sniff out fisher poop. Fishers are endangered weasel relatives that are secretive in their habits and notoriously hard to observe. …
If that wasn’t amazing enough, the UW scientists have even been able to train dogs to find floating whale […]
source: USA Today
Southwest Florida International is among about 20 airports nationwide using dogs for some form of wildlife control, according to Rebecca Ryan, owner of Flyaway Farm and Kennels, which has supplied dogs to both military and commercial airfields.
Stakes are high for keeping birds at bay. … Reported losses from bird strikes alone totaled $291.1 […]
source: Times of India, India
The two German Shepherd dogs began their lessons in April 2008 and turned experts this month to sniff out tiger and leopard skins, bones and bear bile among other animal parts.
… ‘‘This was a pilot project and all of us were apprehensive about the outcome. We are now sure that the […]