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Well, here at the Center, we are pretty self-sufficient.
We have a full-time Veterinarian; CBP Veterinarian.
She has a full operating room, X-Ray machines and everything she could need, right there.
Everybody wants a job that they enjoy,
and there's really not a whole lot better than to come in and hang out with dogs.
I mean, they're pretty easy to get along with, on most days.
They come with no preconceived notions of you.
We consider ourselves part of the supportive mission.
What we do is, we take care of preventative medicine, health care, vaccines, deworming;
if there's minor sicknesses.
Basically, we want to have a dog that's physically fit
to do a very intense job for as long as possible.
We work around their schedule.
It's a very compressed schedule for them to be in training.
If we need to do a procedure on a dog, we'll work and say,
"Oh, just bring it down when you're done training,
or if we can get it for an hour or so before you go out?"
We try to do that, so that the dog can remain in the class.
They do so many different things with them each and every day,
that they just can't take days off and have that dog be able to graduate with their handler.
There's always something you haven't seen before.
You have different challenges with working dogs than you do with your pet.
Their reward isn't a paycheck, in your and I's sense.
The dog's we are using today, they've got a single purpose, a single focus,
they're out there looking for that toy.
They don't care about the people around them,
they don't care about anything around them,
all they care about is searching for that reward object
and following that handler to help them look for that reward object.
They basically will want to do their job before they care about much else in the world.
These dogs are so intense and so excited to do the job they do
that you have to protect them from themselves sometimes.
There's a lot of pet dogs out there that could do this job...
but they're few and far-between.
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