Kermit Durhman is a seven-year-old with a full-time job. This German Shepherd was trained to be a patrol dog. Due to a deformity in his left forepaw, Kermit’s trainers steered away from running intensive specialties such as drug-sniffing in favor of nitrate detection. Kermit is a bomb-sniffing dog. This skill led him to be […]
The Canine Heroes of Ground Zero
In the roughly 40,000 years that humans and dogs have been companions, canines have served us so well, so often, and in so many ways, it practically defies the imagination. Dogs have been our eyes and our noses. They have jumped between children and deadly snakes. They have saved skiers buried by avalanche, and […]