November 4, 2016
Board of
Commissioners Regular Meetings November 15 at 6:30 PM December 6 at 9:00 AM Meetings held at: Administration Building Community Room 140 Henry Parkway McDonough, GA 30253 Regular Commission meetings air daily on Henry TV Channel 180 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99, at 9 a.m. & 7 p.m.
Henry County Shelter Dog Finds New Career with Federal Agency The Henry County Animal Care and Control Department is proud to announce that “Delphine,” one of the many homeless pets that the department shelters, has found her purpose. According to Animal Control Director Gerri Yoder, Delphine is now an official “Beagle Brigade” member. “The Beagle Brigade is a team of dogs, mostly beagles, and their human handlers who, as part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), inspect luggage at U.S. airports searching for illegal agricultural products,” said Yoder. According to the USDA, the Beagle Brigade program averages around 75,000 seizures of prohibited agricultural products a year. Since 2014 and including “Delphine,” a total of eight dogs from the Henry County Animal Control Shelter have graduated from the National Detector Dog Training Center, located in Newnan, Georgia, and joined the Brigade. Yoder said that a dog career with the Brigade usually lasts between six and ten years, and upon retirement, they are almost always adopted by their handlers (handlers and dogs are paired throughout the dog’s career). Otherwise, they are placed in screened and approved adoptive homes. Continued on page 2
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