Final week, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake left Taiwan’s Hualien County shaken, actually and figuratively. At the least 13 individuals died within the quake, which additionally injured greater than 1,000 individuals. A labrador retriever named Roger is offering some optimistic power amid the catastrophe.
Roger didn’t turn into a police drug-sniffing canine as a result of the now-eight-year-old pup is “overly pleasant and playful”. However, don’t fear, he appears to have discovered his function in life. In accordance with CNN, he’s been serving to first responders rescue quake survivors and discover victims’ our bodies to return to their grieving households.
The identical attributes that made Roger a poor match as a narcotic-sniffing canine made him an excellent match as a rescue canine, mentioned Chen Chih-san, captain of the rescue canine unit of the Kaohsiung Fireplace Division, in an interview with CNN.
Chih-san mentioned Roger transferred to rescue coaching faculty when he was a one-year-old pet, after being born right into a coaching middle for drug-sniffing canines. He’s been doing good work ever since he made the swap, and the identical exuberance that bought him kicked out of drug-sniffing faculty has made him a beloved rescue canine in Taiwan.
Although Roger is only one of a number of canines collaborating within the quake restoration effort, this rescue labrador’s story of success after preliminary failure is especially inspiring and endearing.
Roger reveals us that you simply don’t need to comply with a prescribed path in life. In case you’re too pleasant to be a drug-sniffing canine, be a rescue canine as an alternative.
