Another Heroic Dog

Although it is a Labrador, UGA should be happy that one of his species is getting the animal version of Victoria Cross (its called the Dickin Award) for valor (in this case bomb sniffing). The dog's name is Treo and he is now retired from the job of bomb sniffing. Apparently this has gone on for some time. However, this dog was especially photogenic.

UGA might be unhappy however that no dog has gotten an award for interrogation.


Information from this article

According to this other article, recipients of the award in the past include 32 pigeons, three horses and a cat.

Dog Brings Home A Snake

From Australia comes news of a dog who brought home a snake.

Here is a quote from the news article,

"The champion obedience dog stunned his Victorian owners when he recently returned to them to proudly show off his latest find.

Locked firmly in his jaws and coiled around his snout was a long, live snake, believed to be a deadly copperhead.

"He's normally an excellent duck dog but he'll pick up absolutely anything and return it to us, hanging on to it until we say 'give'," Deborah Allen said."

The article is here.

Another Win for UGA

Another News Headline for UGA to Like

In Florida there was another pro dog story.

A fire that the owners think may have started when a cat knocked over a candle led to a dog barking that alerted the owners to the fire.

Dog saves family from fire that cat started

The article is from a TV station (an NBC affiliate) which took the image of the dog that appears at the top.
alerted the owners to a fire.

Gate Uses His Influence

Gate Uses His Influence at the US Dept of Interior

Gate once worked at the Fish and Wildlife Service. Lately he has been using his contacts there and his influence at the Office of Legal Counsel to get the Dept of Interior's policy changed.

"... Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently announced plans to ban the import or interstate transport of nine snakes that are not native to the United States: Burmese and three other types of pythons, boa constrictors and four different kinds of anaconda...."

This quote is from an editorial in the NYTimes endorsing the new policy (which Gate had something to do with also).