<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of today's (September 25, 2013) Spokesman-Review.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 28px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Working dogs graduate at Penn</h1><p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PHILADELPHIA – A training center inspired by canine rescue work on 9/11 is graduating its first class of working dogs, some of whom will embark on search-and-rescue careers while others will serve as canine assistants to people with medical conditions.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An excited yellow Labrador retriever named Socks was fitted with a mortarboard and tassel at Tuesday’s commencement ceremony at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center before going off to start her new job on the campus police force.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Socks is among seven dogs in the inaugural class at the center, which opened in Philadelphia on Sept. 11, 2012. Cindy Otto, a longtime emergency clinician at the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school, wanted to honor the animals that worked so hard after terrorists struck the U.S. in 2001.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I spent 10 days at ground zero taking care of the working dogs there and recognized what an incredible gift those dogs are to our society and how important they are,” said Otto, now the center’s director.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All 16 dogs currently being trained at the center are named for canines who served on 9/11.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Labrador retriever named Socks has her cap adjusted during a commencement ceremony Tuesday.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible !important;"><img src="cid:6E1E155B-9E30-44CA-AC31-620F4C46904C" alt="Canine_Graduation52_t620.jpg" id="6E1E155B-9E30-44CA-AC31-620F4C46904C" width="620" height="416"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></body></html>