Carrying on the theme
of giving thanks this week, especially for animals, I got involved in the #DontDitchTheDogs trend on
Twitter yesterday. It seems that there’s a trend of a different sort in the UK,
to cut funding for K9 units (as well as to police forces in general), and some
of the various cops I follow started a campaign to raise awareness.
They actually made
the number one UK trend during the period they had it going.
Anyhow, it got me
thinking about service animals in general, and public-service dogs in
particular. (Look, cats make excellent companions; none better. But training them
to take on citizen-facing activities? Erm, not so much.)
Police dogs, drug dogs,
rescue dogs, cadaver dogs, bomb sniffer dogs, military dogs, guard dogs--we owe
them all a debt of gratitude.
Think about it: they
do a hard and often dangerous job, going into harm’s way alongside serving
officers. They go into gunfights, knife fights, riots, collapsed buildings, meth
labs, war zones, scenes of terrible carnage. They face pissed-off protestors, hopped-up tweakers
and crack heads, insurgents, unstable terrain, toxic substances, extremes of weather and every other kind of bad
thing. Their human partners put their lives in their paws, relying on them
completely; and they don’t let them down. They often are killed or wounded in
the line of duty.
And they do it for
love.
What the hell more
could you ask from anyone?
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