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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,874 posts)
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 10:57 AM Jun 2016

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.

Charlotte Dumas/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

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

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Last Known Sept. 11 Search Dog, Bretagne, Dies At 16 (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 OP
Whooze a good girl? Whooze my good dog? Botany Jun 2016 #1
RIP, Bretagne, you good, good girl. Nay Jun 2016 #2
safe passage to the summerland, brave soul. what a beautiful girl you are!! niyad Jun 2016 #3
What a beautiful dog. Third Doctor Jun 2016 #4
Exit of the final 9/11 search and rescue dog (Cy Fair, TX Fire Department). (tissue alert) Purveyor Jun 2016 #5
That literally made my eyes tear up. PersonNumber503602 Jun 2016 #19
Hit me escpecially hard as I have a 12yo, diabetic Husky that I'm watching day-by-day before his Purveyor Jun 2016 #20
I agree, Botany! Gamecock Lefty Jun 2016 #6
what a Sweet Golden Girl Sunlei Jun 2016 #7
Sweet brave baby... BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2016 #8
Since when in the hell does "Bretagne" mean "Brittney?" Blue_Tires Jun 2016 #9
Why am I not surprised that THIS is your contribution to this thread? stillwaiting Jun 2016 #10
I'm sorry, just who the fuck are you again? Blue_Tires Jun 2016 #12
Since English split from Norman French. okasha Jun 2016 #15
Ah.. Thank you... Blue_Tires Jun 2016 #22
Since approximately 1530. LanternWaste Jun 2016 #21
What a brave, sweet girl! smirkymonkey Jun 2016 #11
. irisblue Jun 2016 #13
this made me cry lunatica Jun 2016 #14
Safe journey, Bretagne. okasha Jun 2016 #16
no life extension for humans..other than medically necessary, put the effort into dogs Demonaut Jun 2016 #17
Long life for a golden retriever. PersonNumber503602 Jun 2016 #18

Botany

(70,281 posts)
1. Whooze a good girl? Whooze my good dog?
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 11:27 AM
Jun 2016

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.

 

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
5. Exit of the final 9/11 search and rescue dog (Cy Fair, TX Fire Department). (tissue alert)
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 12:05 PM
Jun 2016

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)
19. That literally made my eyes tear up.
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 11:33 AM
Jun 2016

Weird how that happens with some things. I almost never have that reaction to things.

 

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
20. Hit me escpecially hard as I have a 12yo, diabetic Husky that I'm watching day-by-day before his
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 02:10 PM
Jun 2016

final trip to 'town'...

Gamecock Lefty

(698 posts)
6. I agree, Botany!
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 12:06 PM
Jun 2016

A life without dogs is not worth living. I wish I could rescue all the strays from here to the ends of the earth.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
8. Sweet brave baby...
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 01:00 PM
Jun 2016

*sob*

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

stillwaiting

(3,795 posts)
10. Why am I not surprised that THIS is your contribution to this thread?
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 02:02 PM
Jun 2016

I think I'm done reading your posts.

Bye, Bye!!

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
12. I'm sorry, just who the fuck are you again?
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 03:27 PM
Jun 2016

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)
15. Since English split from Norman French.
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 11:51 PM
Jun 2016

They are, respectively, the French and English names of a province of France.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
21. Since approximately 1530.
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 02:32 PM
Jun 2016

Since approximately 1530. One being the French spelling, the other English.

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