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A Canadian First – Hawk the Trauma Dog

Calgary Police Trauma Dog

Hawk the Trauma Dog – Calgary Police



Here is a large step in understanding the abilities of our creatures on this planet of ours. I love animals. I am happy to showcase another example of the good animals give us. Which brings me to Hawk.

I call him the ‘Wonder dog’. You can refer to him as a Calgary Police dog. His title is a ‘Trauma Dog.’ Hawk started his career in 2013, and just over a year later he is helping a very little girl.

She had some play dates with Hawk, the Labrador Retriever. His ‘animal spirit’ of ‘unconditional acceptance’ rose right to the top. He walks past others and goes straight to her in the court room. He knows where he is needed.

Courthouse Dogs

It’s a Canadian first. Ellen O’Neill-Stephens, the founder of Courthouse Dogs came up with the idea of pairing victims of crimes and dogs. It is popular in the US and I am hoping it will become more prominent in the world. This REALTOR® hopes that as needs from Earths furry creatures increase also will come their treatment and rights.

This petition is going on now. There is a Canadian movement to change the laws for animals and their abusers. Without the law changing there is little to no recourse for how abusers and oppressors are dealt with.

The Animal Charter takes note that animals experience suffering and pleasure in a way that is not biologically distinguishable from that of humans. That discrimination on the basis of arbitrary characteristics (like species) is a violation of equity, natural justice and the rule of law. That our legal system must not exclude the most vulnerable members of society.

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Legislation

It is a telling comment on the western world that legislation for the prevention of cruelty to animals (started with horses) came before the protection of children in most areas. A century ago in England, eight- and nine-year-old children were forced to work longer hours in the coal mines while the pit mules, were protected by law. John Colam, Secretary of the RSPCA, helped to form the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1884.

I wish that neither the Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals or the Society for the prevention of cruelty to children had to exist in this world. Perhaps this type of pairing is exactly what the world needs to witness, to learn how to speak up and prevent cruelty to both.

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