Hero Dogs: 100 True Stories of Daring Deeds
By Peter C. Jones and Lisa MacDonald
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Hero Dogs celebrates the noble traits of man’s best friend—smarts, guts, devotion, perseverance, and intuition—in an extraordinary array of true stories accompanied by evocative photographs. Among the many adventurers: Mimi, a tiny peach-colored poodle, who saved a family of seven from a fiery death; Weela, an American pit bull terrier, who rescued thirty people, twenty-nine dogs, thirteen horses, and one cat from the perilous water of the swollen Tijuana River; Reona, the astonishing Rottweiler, who jumped three fences during an earthquake to come to the aid of an epileptic child. Everyone loves a hero, and everyone loves a dog. Here is a book that unites the two.
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Hero Dogs - Peter C. Jones
A Hero for Our Times
New York, New York—Zeus is a member of the elite NYPD K-9 unit. The four-year-old German shepherd is a peerless tracker who can locate evidence of any sort in any setting. With a nose like a one-dog crime scene laboratory, Zeus can identify a suspect who has dropped a hat or gun and then pursue, corner and detain the fugitive until his partner, Robert Schnelle, reaches the scene.
Working on a tip from an informant, the canine sleuth located the body of Nelson Figueroa, who had been missing for eight years. Zeus found the victim in a four-foot grave, stuffed in a plastic bag with his skull crushed by a baseball bat. After Zeus located the body, the murderer was extradited from Florida.
With the rise of terrorist attacks, Zeus’s job description has expanded to include search and rescue. He participated in the rescue effort and later the investigation of the World Trade Center bombing. An indispensable member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Zeus was sent to Oklahoma City in the aftermath of the 1995 bombing. Searching the rubble for survivors, he located twenty-four bodies.
Schnelle bought Zeus as a puppy so that he could train him from scratch. After three months Zeus could find and track. He joined the department shortly after his first birthday and continues to live with the Schnelles. Their two children think he is a swell pal as well as a great cop.
Stop, Drop and Roll
Brooklyn, New York—Hooper, a six-year-old Dalmatian and a second-generation fire dog, has lived at Engine Company 211 since he was a pup. Hooper is an educator. He works the elementary school circuit with his handler Ken Hanifin teaching lifesaving techniques.
Recently, Hooper visited a school in Staten Island after the kids had seen an elderly man emerge on fire from his house across the street. The man later died and the children were traumatized. Hooper alleviated their fears by teaching them to stop, drop and roll, which demonstrated how they could survive a fire.
Since appearing on David Letterman’s show, Hooper has become a celebrity, but he is still content to hang with his pals in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Winner of the 1995 Isaac Liberman Civil Service Award
Lab Blasts Bombers
Londonberry, Northern Ireland—Jason, a bomb-sniffing Labrador retriever, discovered a 150-pound bomb in a dustbin literally seconds before terrorists detonated it by remote control. The dog wagged his tail in warning, saving the lives of five nearby soldiers who dove for cover to escape the blast, which was heard twenty miles away. The heroic seven-year-old canine soldier was tossed high into the air but miraculously survived with only a concussion. His handler, Lance Corporal Simon Doyle, who was one of the fortunate five, said, His job means our lives, but to him it’s just a big game and he loves it.
An army spokesman hailed the dog a hero: The soldiers would almost certainly have died, or been seriously injured, but for Jason.
Winner 1989 Pro Dog Devotion to Duty Medal
The Fastest Nose in the West
South Texas—After he sniffed out $128 million in Mexican cocaine in eleven months, cranky drug dealers put out a $30,000 contract on Rocky, a Belgian Malinois. Unde-terred, the best narc in South Texas just keeps on sniffing.
Caps Puts Cap on Contraband
Queens, New York—Standing only two feet tall, Caps, an astonishingly cute beagle, cleared more than 320,000 passengers on 1,650 flights while making 3,500 busts during his first eleven months on the case at Kennedy Airport. A rising star in the USDA K-9 Beagle Brigade, Caps sniffs baggage for illegally imported food, plants and birds.
With his finely tuned investigative tool, Caps can detect the scent of an apple removed from luggage three days before. When Caps finds contraband, he sits down and looks up at his handler, Martin Queller, who then inspects the baggage.
Beagles were selected for this sensitive mission because they do not intimidate passengers in crowded airports. Even an eleven-year-old boy caught with a forbidden apple was unable to hold a grudge. Says his human partner, Caps is so cute, people don’t mind getting busted by him.
The $85 Million Nose
Orange County, California—Sometimes it takes a while to find the right career. Winston, a pedigreed yellow Labrador, failed as a show dog, hunting dog and family pet. Ultimately, he found his calling as a crackerjack drug buster, so hated by drug traffickers that a $50,000 bounty was placed on his head.
In his extraordinary career Winston sniffed out $44 million of illegal drugs plus a nearly equal amount of confiscated cash and property, bringing his total haul to over $85 million. Together with his partner, Don Lambert, the brilliant dog took part in the prosecution of thirteen hundred criminals. A judge once said, Winston has more credibility than most of the witnesses who have appeared before me.
Drug dealers desperately tried to foil the canine enforcer by shrouding their stashes with pepper, mothballs, garlic, coffee and even Vicks Vaporub. But Winston couldn’t be fooled. Incredibly, he was even able to identify the scent of illegal drugs on money that had passed through the hands of drug traffickers.
Winston undertook yet one more career, as a heroic role model to children. Visiting with his partner, he demonstrated his olfactory prowess, encouraging children to join him in the war against drugs.