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Missing police dog found alive nearly a week after being lost
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
By LISA STIFFLER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
The missing German shepherd from Pierce County Sheriff's Department was found last night in the same spot from which he'd disappeared nearly a week earlier.
Ferro was "cold, wet and disheveled," Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said. He was still wearing his vest with the label "sheriff," though the vest's light had long since burned out.
The veteran police dog was found by a volunteer firefighter on state Route 410 near Greenwater. Ferro had vanished in the woods shortly before 11 p.m. last Tuesday. He was helping his handler, Deputy John Reding, track a suspected car thief.
Troyer said there was "a little bit of amazement" that the dog was found.
Police dogs "are very domesticated. They work really hard, and they're pampered in their off-duty time," he said. Troyer said Ferro would have about as good a chance at surviving in the woods as he would.
A police helicopter from King County and a fixed-wing plane were brought in to search for the dog, which disappeared after Reding lost sight of him in the rugged, wooded terrain near Mount Rainier.
The German shepherd lives with Reding, who searched for him throughout the night and day after he went missing. Other search-and-rescue volunteers joined the quest for the missing pooch.
Ferro is one of four Pierce County K9s, which typically have hundreds of hours of training under their collars. He is popular with schoolchildren and has been the star of several segments of the hit TV show "Cops," Troyer said earlier.
After a trip to a veterinarian, Ferro was expected to go home last night with Reding.
P-I reporter Lisa Stiffler can be reached at 206-448-8042 or lisastiffler@seattlepi.com
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