Baltimore City K-9 “officer” down after $1900 root canal
February 13, 2008
Here’s wishing a big “get well soon” to Bobby the dog and the officers at the Baltimore City K-9 unit, who are sorely missing his contributions in drug-finding, gun-sniffing and apprehending, or rather, biting suspects. (Note: the picture above is not of Bobby himself.)
Every week I flip through the city Board of Estimate’s agenda looking for story ideas, and this week, on page 32, I ran across a dog-related item. As all our regular readers know, we here at the Daily Record are, if not all card-carrying members of the Maryland SPCA, concerned pet-lovers and animal rights activists.
The item read:
On January 16, 2008, Officer Jill Murphy took her departmental K-9 to the Animal Dental Center because of a broken right front canine tooth. The K-9 was examined and was found to have broken his canine tooth at the gum line exposing a nerve. The K-9 needed emergency root canal surgery to stop the infection from spreading and to grind down the remainder of the tooth.
Grisly, right? Poor pooch!
The dog, a 9-year-old German shepherd named Bobby who specializes in drug and gun-sniffing, has been a model employee, according Sgt. Kevin Daniels of the K-9 unit, but he said that he doesn’t know how Bobby’s tooth got broken.
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