Tribute to Bretagne
Bretagne lived with her handler Denise Corliss, a volunteer Cy-Fair firefighter, all of her life.
Last summer, Bretagne celebrated her 16th Birthday with a return trip to New York City, where she had helped bring comfort and closure to many suffering humans.
Recently, she began experiencing kidney failure, an effect of her advanced age. Then, the inevitable...
CYPRESS, Texas — (Breitbart) The last known search and rescue dog who helped find victims of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks has died near Houston.
A sixteen-year-old Golden Retriever, Bretagne (pronounced Brittany) Corliss was greeted and saluted by approximately twenty-five firefighters when she arrived at a Cypress, Texas, veterinarian clinic, reported the Houston Chronicle.
About two-dozen firefighters and members of the search-and-rescue dog community lined the sidewalk to the veterinarian's office to honor and bid a tearful goodbye to the ailing dog as she walked by them for the last time. An American flag was draped over Bretagne's body as she was carried back out of the hospital.
She had lived with her handler, a Cy-Fair volunteer firefighter, for all of her 16 years. Bretagne was part of the Texas search-and-rescue contingent that descended on New York City after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to search for victims at Ground Zero. In all, around 300 dogs took part in the search efforts.
Amy Ramon, fire chief of the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department, said Bretagne "touched every station" in the agency.
"She's a part of the Cy-Fair family," Ramon said.
The last photo:
Well done, old buddy!
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