Badge on My Collar II: To Serve with Honor

             …Between security sweeps in Washington, Buffy began to shine as the canine hostess of Washington. Her friendly personality allowed her to graciously welcome visitors and guests to the Capitol.

            …First night on post, Tom plopped down on the bunker and ate his C-rations as Rinny watched him closely. In the bright moonlight, Tom saw the sensitive eyes. Then Rinny put his front paws on each of Tom’s legs and licked his cheek

            …For a wintry Canadian night, the weather could have been much harsher. Cinder had had such nights where she hunkered down with wind swirling white around her as she lay in the snow perfectly still except for the occasional shiver.

            …As Ed had originally thought, during Conan’s career, his white coat never really presented a problem, except once when they searched an undeveloped area behind an old trucking company. Ed found out the hard way that the owners had discarded much of their used motor oil in the woods behind their lot. After sending the dog to search there, Conan emerged from the oil field a black dog.

            …Far to the north on the eastern side of Scotland…lies a sparsely-populated area of vast terrain…The worried policewoman pointed in one direction towards the branch of a tree standing in the river, and Senga turned to swim as best she could…The man still held tight to Senga’s collar slowing her like a heavy anchor when she started to swim the other way. As hard as she could paddle, Senga slowly pulled the man along with her.

            …Once a year, there was an exchange between the Royal Australian Air Force and the New Zealand Air Force. Duke was on his way to New Zealand….When their time in New Zealand ended, the team returned once more to Australia…Patrolling the base, Tricia could often see koalas lazily sleeping in the surrounding eucalyptus trees or crossing the road, and sometimes kangaroos with springs for legs jumped about.

            …In the Phoenix valley, where sun-drenched Saguaro cacti stand like sentinels, August temperatures could rise to 122 degrees…John’s sergeant and lieutenant, who both commanded the SWAT team, arrived… The sergeant asked if John could deploy Leon given that the baby was seemingly in such a precarious position in such close proximity to the raving man.

             …“See, when God made South Jersey, He said, ‘You know, sea level isn't low enough. Let’s make a big swampy hole in the middle of this woods right here, and I think I'll create a new plant to cover it all over. We'll call it ‘beggar patch’ and wrap it in another plant that we'll call ‘wait-a-minute vines.’…Wait-a-minute vines’ are those thorny vines with no leaves…as soon as you get into them, the first thing that comes out of your mouth is ‘Yow! Wait a minute!’…“Naturally, the detective that's with us already has an attitude, because he thinks we're on a wild goose chase… so he's gonna seize the opportunity to suggest that Snap took us the long way just to pee on that sign.”

            …Vago was eager to join the chase and galloped up the street...turned right and ran onto the sidewalk of a bridge. Chris looked ahead watching the chase …The dog and suspect ran about thirty yards on the sidewalk of the bridge when the man reached for the top of a five-foot barrier wall that ran the length of the bridge…he leapt over it disappearing into the night with the dog following right behind him.

            …In just nine minutes, a disturbed student went on a rampage and killed thirty-two fellow students at Virginia Tech University...Tom knew that he and Gina needed to be there to help heal the pain…In a hallway filled with bustling nurses and doctors, Gina Marie can often be found plodding along hooked to the wheelchair of a giggling child riding along in a vehicle suddenly transformed into a grand magic coach being pulled by a prized pony.

            …As Bear faced the twilight of his career, he was involved in probably two of his highest-profile and most-satisfying police dog wins…a prisoner had escaped from the low-security Cadell Prison …The vastness of Australia meant it would take two-to-three days to drive from one side of South Australia to the other, and any work that Bear and Bryan did in the outback usually required a plane or helicopter.

             …Two paths crossed that muggy Tennessee morning…A lone agitated man, holding two guns with his tattooed hands entered the Regions Bank…The dog was enraged. He saw the danger the robber presented and every inch of Aron’s body was geared to charge ahead and protect his handler from further assault…With renewed purpose, Aron thrashed through the woods to find the suspect and was soon out of sight.

            …In the heart of coal mining country…the white frame residence sat fifteen-hundred feet above sea level and was the highest-dwelling in South Wales…Deterred by Saxon’s protectiveness, the brazen and profane youths resorted to throwing hunks of wood at Mike and Saxon from a safe distance. As the wood sailed towards the downed officer and the dog, Saxon tried to deflect the missiles with his body or catch them in his mouth.

            …Modern-day Nottinghamshire was not spared its share of rats to catch, but these rats mostly ambulated on two legs instead of four…