Jackson's Kennel

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Meet Sunny, the only Doberman to work ground 0 following the attack on 9/11. "Shirley Hammond, of Palo Alto, California, said Sunny was trained to bark at live finds. But when Sunny began to signal by pawing at the ground, it was quickly evident that he was finding body parts.

Sunny was trained at a facility where cadaver dogs are trained. Hammond said that she believed this previous exposure to cadaver scent, however minimal, had somehow stuck with him. And Sunny wasn’t the only one; other dogs with little or no training in cadaver work began to find body parts. Most of these body parts wouldn’t have been recognizable or recoverable if the search had been left to people working without dogs, Hammond noted.

On one occasion, Sunny pawed at the ground in several spots in an area where a New York City Fire Department battalion chief had requested a search. Sunny found remains of a lost firefighter. As devastated as family members were, finding remains provided closure." https://stevedalepetworld.com/blog/remembering-the-dog-heroes-of-september-11/