A feel-good story about citizens in Santa Clara and Ivins banding together -- along with donors on both sides of the veil -- to raise funds to purchase a top-line police dog.
A few months into an effort to help a Southern Utah police department raise the funds needed to replace a recently retired police dog, community residents were in a bind.
“The family had to split up and take nothing with them to avoid the appearance of fleeing the country,” Cook said. “The , who was a child at the time, walked hundreds of miles and crossed the border into another country to reunite with her family before emigrating to the United States, where she arrived with nothing.
By that time, assured the money was coming, police representatives had already gone to Vohne Liche Kennels in Southern California and picked Rosko from the newly arrived Belgian Malinois dogs from Europe, which typically cost between $9,000 and $12,000 apiece. “He and Rosko have bonded so fast, and the dog is already the officer’s little buddy that always wants to be by his side,” said Jessica Bate, who oversees the department’s K-9 and patrol programs. “He is calm and fine around people, but when he is working he is super-attentive and driven … and focused.”
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