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Well, here at the Center, we are pretty self-sufficient.

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We have a full-time Veterinarian; CBP Veterinarian.

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She has a full operating room, X-Ray machines and everything she could need, right there.

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Everybody wants a job that they enjoy,

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and there's really not a whole lot better than to come in and hang out with dogs.

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I mean, they're pretty easy to get along with, on most days.

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They come with no preconceived notions of you.

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We consider ourselves part of the supportive mission.

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What we do is, we take care of preventative medicine, health care, vaccines, deworming;

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if there's minor sicknesses.

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Basically, we want to have a dog that's physically fit

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to do a very intense job for as long as possible.

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We work around their schedule.

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It's a very compressed schedule for them to be in training.

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If we need to do a procedure on a dog, we'll work and say,

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"Oh, just bring it down when you're done training,

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or if we can get it for an hour or so before you go out?"

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We try to do that, so that the dog can remain in the class.

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They do so many different things with them each and every day,

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that they just can't take days off and have that dog be able to graduate with their handler.

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There's always something you haven't seen before.

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You have different challenges with working dogs than you do with your pet.

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Their reward isn't a paycheck, in your and I's sense.

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The dog's we are using today, they've got a single purpose, a single focus,

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they're out there looking for that toy.

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They don't care about the people around them,

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they don't care about anything around them,

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all they care about is searching for that reward object

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and following that handler to help them look for that reward object.

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They basically will want to do their job before they care about much else in the world.

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These dogs are so intense and so excited to do the job they do

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that you have to protect them from themselves sometimes.

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There's a lot of pet dogs out there that could do this job...

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but they're few and far-between.

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