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Porkchop, a one-year-old search and rescue dog receives eye drops Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2001, at a mobile clinic operated by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals just outside ground zero in New York. Porkchop, and her partner Erick Robertson, of Oakhurst, Calif., have been working at ground zero since Sunday. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)- Sep 19, 2001 5:53 PM ET
Erick Robertson, of Oakhurst, Calif., pets Porkchop, a one-year-old search and rescue dog as he receives a dehydration intravenous treatment, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2001, at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals mobile clinic just outside ground zero in New York. Robertson and Porkchop have been working at the World Trade Center attack site since Sunday. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)- Sep 19, 2001 4:57 PM ET
Emergency workers walk with two dogs down West Street as they leave the scene of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Monday, Sept. 17, 2001, in New York. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea)- Sep 17, 2001 6:33 PM ET
Several search dogs are at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon this week to help the rescue efforts. Here, one of the dogs finds time to rest Saturday in New York while cleanup efforts go on just feet away.
(AFP PHOTO/US NAVY/PRESTON KERES)
Veterinary doctor Deb Campbell, left, speaks with Officer Peter Davis of the New York Urban Search and Rescue Task Force about his dog Apollo at the veterinary MASH unit Tuesday while Dr. Glen Melrose, right, connects an IV for the dog. The doctors at the New York vet MASH unit are caring for as many as 100 dogs involved in the search.
(AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA)
An unidentified member of an Urban Search and Rescue team works with a dog Saturday in the effort to uncover victims. Shifts of about 20 dogs are working on the toppled buildings site in New York. After their shifts, they are bathed and checked for dehydration, chemical inhalation, and other potential dangers.
(AP Photo/FEMA, Andrea Booher)
A rescue dog is transported from the debris Saturday after searching for trapped bodies in the New York rubble moments earlier.
A canine officer and his dog rest Tuesday after search duty at the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack.
(AFP PHOTO POOL / Ryan Remiorz)
Ed Apple and his dog Gus with the Tennessee Task Force One Search & Rescue search for survivors in the wreckage at the Pentagon crash site Friday.
(AFP PHOTO/FEMA/Jocelyn Augustino)
>K-9 search dogs with their handlers go back to duty after their treatment at a veterinary hospital unit in New York.
(AFP PHOTO)
Uniformed Secret Service Agent T. Singh and his K-9 partner Rudy inspect a contractor's truck before it enters the White House grounds.
(AP PHOTO)
A U.S. military security dog dressed in a waterproof cape patrols with its handler outside the Royal Air Force Lakenheath USAF base in eastern England. U.S. bases are on heightened alert.
John Patrick of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources cries as he sits with his cadaver dog, Guese, inside St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel, near the site of the World Trade Center tower attack. Patrick was taking a break from searching for body parts in the rubble of the tower collapse with his dog.
Massachusetts State Trooper Kathleen Sampson and police dog Rico walk past passengers waiting in line at Logan International Airport's Terminal E.
Television stations covering the World Trade Center disaster reported that dogs currently on scene were going through booties at an amazing rate. In lieu of protective booties, burlap was being wrapped around the dogs' feet and legs, reportedly slowing progress considerably.
RuffWear came to the rescue and donated 100 pairs of booties, and other items. Where we work we collected a few!
Here's a link to make dog booties: http://body1.spfldcol.edu/html/dogboots/ from Springfield college...there is a woman there who is affiliated with the National Search and Rescue Dogs.
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