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If you'd like a heartwarming story for your afternoon, read how a dog found wandering in Queens is now training to be on the K-9 Unit of the NY State Police. Found when he was tied up in Kissena Park, Duke the dog made such an impression at Brooklyn Animal Care & Control that shelter operations manager pegged him as being perfect for the K-9 Unit. The state police, who have adopted a stray dog for K-9 from Keller before, are interested, so Duke is bulking up and getting ready for the test. Go, shelter animals!
And Brooklyn Animal Recue Coaltion is having its first fundraiser tomorrow night at the Mojito Loco Restaurant and Bar in Williamsburg. The $10 donation includes free appetizers.
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That dog is thinking, "I'm sniffing for bombs. I used to have a carefree life. If the bombs don't get me I'll die of lung disease after sniffing for cadavers in the rubble. Thanks!"
"Heartwarming" would be to know the fella is going to go to a caring, loving family that will love him and keep him in the their 500 sq ft backyard ..when not taking him for long walks in the countryside.
Instead, poor Duke will live out his next 10 years sticking his nose into possible plastic explosives and lunging at armed suspects in dark alleyways while his handler cowers behind the squadcar. He'll have to walk over rubble, broken glass and discarded syringes. He'll have to crawl into tiny smoldering holes of disaster sites to sniff out dead people. He'll be kept in the tiny confinement of a patrol car in 100 degree weather for hours on end with the window barely cracked open.
Heartwarming, I think not.