Friday 19 November 2010

I Love a News Like This on Fridays

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SGE6AI0BY.htm


Peach the Chihuahua: Japan's newest police dog
19 Nov 2010 09:52:55 GMT
Source: Reuters
TOKYO, Nov 19 (Reuters Life!) - Meet Japan's newest police dog -- all 3 kg (6.6 lb) of her. In what is a first for Japan and perhaps the world, a long-haired Chihuahua named "Momo" -- "Peach" -- passed exams to become a police dog in the western Japanese prefecture of Nara. The brown-and-white, perky Momo was one of 32 successful candidates out of 70 dogs, passing a search and rescue test by finding a person in five minutes after merely sniffing their cap. "Any breed of dog can be entered to become a police dog in the search and rescue division," said a Nara police spokesman. But he admitted that news a Chihuahua had been entered may still come as a surprise to many. "It's quite unusual," he said. Television footage showed the 7-year-old Momo bounding across grass or sitting proudly, long hair blowing in the breeze. Momo will be used for rescue operations in case of disasters such as earthquakes, in the hope that she may be able to squeeze her tiny frame into places too narrow for more usual rescue dogs, which tend to be German Shepherds. The public response to the news of Momo's selection took police by surprise, the spokesman said, adding: "The phone's been ringing all afternoon."


I am sure Fogarion can be trained up to this, if I really tried.
At the moment his special skills are;

Spring clean the house by demembraning things in, whether it was approved by Dee or not.
Keep Dee warm by using hyper thermal belly.

He is such a kickass, isn't he?

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