Chicago Police Officer Nick Spencer finds the best reminder of what his job is about at the end of a leash. There, sniffing packages, garbage cans and even commuters at a downtown subway stop is Gillis — a 3-year-old black Labrador Retriever named after New York Police Department Sgt. Rodney Gillis, who died when the [...]

After recently being diagnosed with a rare form of canine cancer, K9 Morgan passed away this morning. A few weeks ago Morgan was diagnosed with hemangiosarcoma. Hemangiosarcoma is a rare, rapidly growing, highly invasive variety of cancer that is very common in German Shepherds. Earlier this morning, Morgan started to have serious complications and began [...]

She was born in a time of relative peace, two years before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, but by then her destiny was already set in motion. Two weeks later, in late September 2001, the bomb-sniffing dog named Mira left her home in central Indiana and boarded a plane [...]

Roselle and Michael Hingson first met on November 22, 1999 at Guide Dogs for the Blind. Although blind from birth, Hingson earned a Master’s Degree in Physics from the University of California, Irvine and has always competed successfully in a sighted world. Roselle was Hingson’s fifth guide dog and according to him “It was obvious [...]

I remember back in 2001 on a hot, but incredibly beautiful day in September. I left my apartment on Houston Street in Manhattan to begin my daily walk uptown to work. When I hit the street, I immediately felt a buzz in the air. Men in suits were talking to Soho Hipsters. Groups of people [...]

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A very sad, sobering reminder at how short our loyal dogs lives really are. – Kenn From The New York Daily News Taz, the last active duty member of the NYPD K-9 unit to have worked at Ground Zero after 9/11, has died of cardiac arrest. “He was the best partner I ever had,” heartbroken [...]

I was living in New York City during 9/11. I watched the first tower fall as I waited to use the public phone to let my family know I was okay. My memories of that day is one of sirens, flashing lights, incredibly kind New Yorkers (quite a miracle in itself) and a caustic, burnt [...]