Last Known Sept. 11 Search Dog, Bretagne, Dies At 16
Source: NPR
Last Known Sept. 11 Search Dog, Bretagne, Dies At 16
June 7, 2016·8:27 AM ET
Bretagne, shown here at age 13, worked as a search dog at ground zero after the Sept. 11 attacks. She died Monday at 16, the last known surviving Sept. 11 search and rescue canine.
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Bretagne, a 16-year-old golden retriever and the last known remaining Sept. 11 search dog, was euthanized Monday in Texas.
Searching through the rubble of ground zero was her first-ever deployment, according to a press release by the Texas Engineering Extension Service, or TEEX, provided by KBTX-TV. Bretagne (pronounced Brit-nee) was 2 at the time, a newly certified FEMA Search and Rescue dog.
With handler Denise Corliss, Bretagne looked first for survivors, then for remains. They worked at the site for 10 days. ... Bretagne was both a dedicated worker and a source of comfort for the human search and rescue teams, according to Corliss and others who worked with the golden retriever.
"She has always taken her job as a search dog seriously, but herself not so much. Always ready for a belly rub, or a treat," an unnamed search and rescue teammate says in the TEEX statement. "In remembering her first deployment at the World Trade Center ... even then, she knew who needed the comfort of a dog, which firefighter needed to hold her close and stroke her fur."
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/07/481066589/last-known-sept-11-search-dog-bretagne-dies-at-16
Botany
(70,639 posts)I gotta admit 16 years is along run for a big dog but that doesn't take the hurt away.
I can not think about life w/out dogs.
Nay
(12,051 posts)niyad
(113,860 posts)Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)May she have dog biscuits and steaks for eternity.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)On Monday, she was given a "hero's farewell," as CNN puts it.
Firefighters and search and rescue workers lined both sides of the sidewalk, solemnly saluting as Bretagne was carried out of a vehicle and set on the ground for a final slow walk to the animal hospital.
Then they bid a tearful farewell to her body, carried out draped in an American flag.
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)Weird how that happens with some things. I almost never have that reaction to things.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)final trip to 'town'...
Gamecock Lefty
(701 posts)A life without dogs is not worth living. I wish I could rescue all the strays from here to the ends of the earth.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)*sob*
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)I think I'm done reading your posts.
Bye, Bye!!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)And why should I give a rat's ass about what does or doesn't surprise you?
Oh, I get it -- Since the party's over for Sanders you want to take it out on me somehow? Either way, you'll be gone after the convention, so I bid you adieu!
okasha
(11,573 posts)They are, respectively, the French and English names of a province of France.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Not one day passes I don't learn something new...
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Since approximately 1530. One being the French spelling, the other English.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)RIP Bretagne!
irisblue
(33,054 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)It must be a terrible loss for her owner. I hope Bretagne was happy to the very end.
okasha
(11,573 posts)Demonaut
(8,937 posts)they die too soon!