Since it's Labor Day, it seems only fitting to talk about dogs who labor.
Rebecca Huval, writing in the Miami Herald, asks the following question:
What 8-year-old is furry, slobbers profusely and gets paid $500 a day?Read the entire article and watch the video here.
Annette Alfonso's border collie Dealer, who made his silver-screen debut in the 2008 movie Marley & Me. Dealer and Alfonso's other three border collies jumped into the ocean with the dog that played Marley, and the scene took a week to film.
Huval also writes about companion and helper animals and cadaver and bomb sniffing dogs.
Sure Alfonso gets paid a lot for the use of her dog, but for service dogs, the work and pleasing their owners is the reward.
"Believe me, the dog understands praise,'' said trainer Chris Septer, as she watched her border collie Twist herd sheep at Free Spirit Farming & Training Center in South Dade.
"They want to make you happy, they live for that,'' said Jorge Lopez, a K-9 sergeant in the Miami International Airport explosives detection unit. "That's the cheapest source of labor. None of us would work for that.''
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