Kat Manning and Laura Davis, co-owners of Dog Gone Detectives, with Loki and Godiva after Loki was found in Fort Worth
Posted on 01/02/2009 7:01:31 PM PST by Dysart
For anyone keeping score at home, here’s the tally: Fort Worth police helicopter: 0, Godiva the search dog: 1.
Fort Worth police officers lost one of their own on New Years Day when Loki, a search and rescue canine, chewed through the fence of his handler’s backyard and escaped into the streets of Fort Worth.
After searching for hours with a helicopter and police cruisers, Fort Worth police called in Godiva, a chocolate Labrador, from Dog Gone Detectives — a firm that specializes in finding lost pets.
Within 15 minutes, Godiva had hunted down Loki about a half mile away from the backyard where he escaped.
“Usually, it isn’t that easy,” said Kat Manning, the co-owner of Dog Gone Detectives. “We got on the trail. Then all of the sudden, I looked up and there he was. He was just hanging out.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Kat Manning and Laura Davis, co-owners of Dog Gone Detectives, with Loki and Godiva after Loki was found in Fort Worth
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Great story! I so love dogs——
Doggie Ping!
They found Godiva devolve! snicker!
Thanks for the ping Peace4EarthNow. Sounds like it was a very expensive search if they used a helicopter for hours!
Off-topic soapbox:
“Godiva, a chocolate Labrador,”
This is rather minor, I know, especially here where they’re just describing the dog, but it sticks in my craw:
Why does every Labrador - especially the brown ones - have to be preceded by what color it is?
Lately every time someone talks about a Lab, they insert color (often in capitals when printed) as if it is a different breed! Drives me nuts how people treat a “chocolate Lab” as if it’s a breed distinct from “yellow Lab” or “black Lab”!
Is this simply because Labs are so popular now compared to every other breed (going by pure-bred reg’s) that we must distinguish between them?
OUR dogs could do this.....right?
:)
Maybe your dogs could. My dogs would find the first person with food. End of story.
Bummer.
MY dogs, of course, are *cough* Perfect. In Every Way.
*cough* *cough* *cough*
I’m not a Lab expert by any means, but I have heard very recently somewhere that Yellow Labs used to be considered inferior(ie not up to breed stds), and were actually plucked from the litters by hunters and not bred. And they became isolated for a while or some such...I think I have that right. If not, hopefully someone with more specific breed knowledge than I have clarify. Perhaps distinguishing them recalls historical views of various types of Labs. Sounds plausible anyway.:)
In this case, I think it adds because of Godiva Chocolates...
My 2 cents.
Dog is God spelled backwards.
They are treasures sent by God to be part of our lives.
Ornery, royalty, impish, and true blue.
Jus’ me ‘n mah dawg.
Oh yeah...this is true!
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Thanks for the pingeroo potlatch -
Great (Chocolate) Godiva thread
I thought this thread was going to be about Ace Ventura.
I guess that they could have used "Godiva, a Labrador bitch" ...but I think that chocolate Labrador sounds better.
Agree. The more people I meet, the more I treasure and love my dog.
This has your name all over it.
That is so cool. Fort Worth is also my hometown.
Those trained police dogs can cost up to $10,000 a piece.
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