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Posts tagged "working dogs"

U.S. Postal Service Honors Working Dogs

U.S. Postal Service Honors Working Dogs
Here’s the press release….a nice thing, I think…USPS honoring working dogs MERRIFIELD, VA — The U.S. Postal Service celebrates the enduring partnership between dogs and people with the issuance of the 65-cent Dogs at Work set of four stamps. “We are proud to commemorate these specialized dogs on stamps,” said U.S. Postal Inspection Service Homeland... Read more »
By Steve Dale,
January 27, 2012 at 10:25 am
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Who's Sleeping In Your Bed? Your Dog Can Find Out

Dogs can sniff out explosives, drugs, even cancer – and now there’s a new job for the canine nose; dogs detecting bedbugs.They’re crawling with business in New York City, where the bedbug population may soon rival the human population…but as people travel from the Big Apple to the City of Big Shoulders and elsewhere, they... Read more »
By Steve Dale,
March 11, 2010 at 9:36 pm
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Dogs at Work, Unusual Employment Opportunities

In response to the Red Eye’s and ChicagNow blogger Stephen Markley’s post on why he hates dogs, I outlined in defense of dogs some of the many many many many ways which dogs help society, from service dogs who assist the visually impaired to those who help people needing physical assistance to dogs who detect... Read more »
By Steve Dale,
October 20, 2009 at 12:49 pm
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