FLORIDA:PAY POLICE DOG PENSION TO RETIRED DOGS HEALTH CARE COSTS/ COMMUNITY SERVICE

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Retired police dogs getting help


Unlike their human counterparts, canine cops don't get pensions, so a group is working to pay retired dogs health care costs.

Video|Sat, 11 Dec 2010
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Bosco has doggedly pursued and caught several violent suspects in the Tampa Police Department but the rigors of the job caused the seven year old German shepherd. To suffer back injuries and he had to compressed spine vertebrae in his back. -- Which when he did do that and temporarily paralyzed and so. He -- was no longer work arm as police nine retired Tampa police dogs usually taken in full time by their partners. Then become responsible for the animal's medical bills. Bills that could be thousands of dollars each year oddly enough Foster his partner -- hatch. Recently created the nonprofit Tampa police canine association.


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Its goal to help pay bills for retired dogs if they were just as hard as we do if not harder. Just two -- we don't wanna go to work they still wanna go to work. It go to work today if he could -- Cash came up with the idea about a year ago. Long before Bosco got hurt he was concerned after a co worker spent 3000 dollars on one dog's medical bills. And after you spent seven years of these dogs almost didn't really -- today basically. It's hard to let him go there just their tools of the city but also there. They've become a multifamily. My spend more time with this dog on anybody in my family -- go to work with him for twelve hours a day. And then on my days off Elizabeth mason had said Bosco and other police canines deserve for retirement plan. He gladly take his last frosts are protecting us for news Channel 8 I'm Josh -- love with the Tampa Tribune. 


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Temple police -- provide a valuable service to the community but unlike their handlers. They do not get a pension. . As Tampa Tribune reporter Josh -- alone explains. One officer created a nonprofit association. To help pay the dog's medical bills. 

Retired police dogs getting help

These dedicated companions give their lives to our communities, assisting law enforcement of every description.  Upon retirement, they are pretty much adopted by their lifelong partners and handlers.  They deserve a pension to help defray medical costs incurred while on the job of protecting our florida communities.

PLEASE sign this petiition, BOSCO needs your help and this will benefit all K-9 GROUPS IN OUR STATE,  and PLEASE to start a petition in your state.



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The North American Police Work Dog Association (NAPWDA) was formed in 1977 and is composed of law enforcement officers throughout the United States and several other countries. Our mission is that we are Dedicated to Assisting Police Work Dog Teams Throughout the World. We conduct in service training workshops in various states throughout the year and hold a major national workshop in a different state yearly. Officers and their K9's attend these workshops for problem solving, legal updates, new techniques in various phases of police work dog use and certifications to our standards.


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