By Darron Kloster for Time Colonist
BRITISH COLUMBIA – Meet Cliff, a four-month-old chocolate lab with big puppy paws, an over-waggy tail and a drunken-sailor swagger.
As dogs with jobs go, Cliff’s landed a peach of a position. No drug sniffing or dodging bullets like his K9 counterparts, no navigational hazards like his seeing-eye colleagues or the hazards of avalanche zones in rescue work.
He’s the new greeter and mascot at the Inn at Laurel Point, and will spend the rest of his days on a comfy little couch in the lobby greeting guests and getting them to take him for walks.
Nice work, not to mention a rewarding career for animals who live for human touch and recognition.
“As humans, dogs give us so much,” says Ian Powell, general manager of the Laurel Point. “And I think little Cliff here makes us, as a hotel, more human than institution.”
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