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Rescue dogs of 9/11: The drama's unsung heroes
NY Post ^ | 9-4-11 | GINGER ADAMS OTIS

Posted on 09/04/2011 8:01:25 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

She was a 3-year-old golden-haired beauty when she got the call to respond to her first disaster.

Now, stiffer, slower and a bit gray, 13-year-old Bretagne is one of just a handful of World Trade Center rescue dogs still alive.

"We arrived on 9/12 and started working right away," said Bretagne's handler, Denise Corliss, a search-and-rescue volunteer with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Bretagne had spent more than a year learning how to find survivors in concrete rubble, but her Cypress, Texas, training site was nothing like Ground Zero.

She clambered up ladders to get on top of the huge debris piles, padded across broken glass and twisted steel beams, wiggled into small spaces and crawled into dark holes, all the while sniffing through mounds of pulverized concrete searching for clues that would lead her to survivors. Like all the rescue dogs, she worked without a leash or a collar.

The dogs also didn't wear protective booties, despite the crushed glass

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/rescue_the_unsung_dogs_of_drama_9PI2jS3hnB7Bhi3HzDMa7N#ixzz1Wzo03s7z

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doggieping; herodogs; wtcrescue
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Have tissues handy.

Thanks, my allergies are acting up.....

21 posted on 09/04/2011 11:14:01 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I sur hope someone remembers to put up a monument to these guys someday with a plaque with all of their names engraved into it.


22 posted on 09/04/2011 11:20:23 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Brad's Gramma

Yes rabbit stew! :D


23 posted on 09/04/2011 11:25:02 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Nice doggie! Which brings me to a question. How old is that picture? Who is that dog? Note that he does not have that exaggerated, sloping back that is so prevalent and problematic today.

Thanks for posting.


24 posted on 09/04/2011 1:06:05 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: chris_bdba

Great idea! And hopefully Bloomberg will no longer be mayor. Bloomberg seems to want to banish everyone from the 9-11 memorial. He probably wouldn’t let the dogs in — fearful that they would offend his Muslim friends. s/off


25 posted on 09/04/2011 1:11:50 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Ditter

And does your JRT just STARE at the patients? (Frasier reference — F’s main complaint about Eddie. “He’s looking at me!”)


26 posted on 09/04/2011 1:14:50 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

SHE is Flora Berkemeyer, 1911, legendary “beauty of the breed” - the 1st real beauty with the typical “black & tan” markings, whose influence in the breed is about as inescapable as the “founding sire”, Horand von Grafrath (who himself is several times in her pedigree).


27 posted on 09/04/2011 1:45:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

The breeders should have stuck with Flora’s architecture. She is gorgeous.


28 posted on 09/04/2011 2:29:46 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Hairy was magnificent! He smiled at the patients and was his usual sweet self. Two of the old women didn't like dogs and one of them brushed imaginary dog hair off her pants when ever a dog walked by, she wrinkled up her nose. ha ha! Her loss! Hairy was great and everyone loved him. I am going to try to get a picture posted on one of the doggie threads so everyone can see him.
29 posted on 09/04/2011 2:50:23 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Good job to both of you!!!!!


30 posted on 09/04/2011 2:54:13 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Mr B has a new cousin on the way!)
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To: Ditter

Oh, please do post his picture. I’d love to see your JRT. Congrats to him for a successful first time out as a therapy dog.


31 posted on 09/04/2011 2:55:36 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic; Ditter

A LOT of credit goes to his handler too.

;)


32 posted on 09/04/2011 2:58:34 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Mr B has a new cousin on the way!)
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To: Brad's Gramma

~~~~~blush~~~~blush :)


33 posted on 09/04/2011 3:08:11 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Be proud. Very proud.

I have a service animal, I know of what I speak.

Working with her has been a dream come true. And YOU know what I mean.

;)


34 posted on 09/04/2011 3:30:55 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Mr B has a new cousin on the way!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Yes, the AKC has destroyed the breed. They should be jailed for animal cruelty


35 posted on 09/04/2011 4:50:07 PM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: SendShaqtoIraq

For some reason I’m not able to see the pic you’re all talking about..

:(


36 posted on 09/04/2011 5:56:03 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Mr B has a new cousin on the way!)
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To: SendShaqtoIraq

It’s not just the AKC (GSDCA). It’s the SV, too. And I’d say about anyone who’s classified as a “reputable breeder”, generally by those who are part of those org’s.


37 posted on 09/04/2011 7:48:47 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

How did the sloping back become so prevalent in the breed?


38 posted on 09/04/2011 10:35:20 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Immerito

After the decade that ruined everything. I mean, it really ruined everything.

(Actually, it’s not really a “sloped back”, but the exaggerated stance with over-long legs and exaggerated angles. Most “Americans” have legs that are so long they don’t walk right, but seen in average stand or walk they don’t slope much. “Germans” have created, meanwhile, a horrid roach back that belongs only on running dogs such as greyhounds. All degenerated at the same time.)


39 posted on 09/05/2011 7:24:37 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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