Died 11\/10\/16
\nHandler – Edward Makaruk<\/p>\n
Franklyn the blood hound dies
\nDog helped solve local murders, find missing persons, and even missing cars<\/p>\n
Franklyn the bloodhound took his last trail home Nov. 10. His trainer, Edward Makaruk, remembered him this week as he prepares to bury Franklyn’s ashes. Franklyn not only worked for the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, California Oregon Regional Search and Rescue, and the Oregon State Sheriff’s Search and Rescue, but entertained crowds at the Farmer’s Market and visited students in local schools. \u201cEverybody knew him,\u201d Makaruk said. \u201cEverybody loved him.\u201dMakaruk was surprised to find himself training rescue and law enforcement dogs since he had never done it before until he was visited by Coos County Sheriff’s deputies at his house. \u201cTwenty years ago, the cops came to my place to talk to me,\u201d he said. \u201cI had my dog trained that when people came to the door, she stayed back and sat. The deputies loved it and one of them called me to see if I would train Franklyn. I was a natural.\u201d At first Makaruk didn’t want to take in another dog because the one he had was a German Shephard and already sick and dying. Franklyn was 8 months old at the time when Makaruk was asked to take him in, having been a show dog that was no longer being shown and had no place else to go. \u201cI had wanted to take him in long enough to find him a home, but when the deputy called me to see if I would train him, well, he stayed,\u201d Makaruk said. Makaruk was trained first and went through two levels with the American Society Trainers, studied with the Indiana Department of Corrections that specialize in blood hounds, and later trained with 832 Deputy Dogs out of Florida. \u201cWhen I started training Franklyn for Search and Rescue, we found a 4-year-old autistic boy and it was like crack, we just had to keep finding people to save,\u201d Makaruk said. \u201cWe later found a lady in Hauser that went down in the bushes. He worked on murders, worked on the case where a guy stole a North Bend Police car. Franklyn tracked it to Lakeside, tracked it all the way to the house. He was learning 24-hour hold treads in the rain. Bloodhounds are the most phenomenal sensing dogs. There’s nothing even close to being as good as them.\u201d Makaruk also studied with the FBI where he learned that dogs turn their heads to read the sides of people’s faces and read their \u201celectrical energy,\u201d and that they can even discriminate someone’s odor off exploded shells and mortars. Franklyn also did his own show at the summer Farmer’s Market where Makaruk would place a hot dog on Franklyn’s foot and make him sit with it laying there until he was told to move. \u201cPeople would watch and just loved him,\u201d he said. \u201cYou’d have to look through a thousand dogs to find that temperament.\u201d But in 2012, Franklyn was injured and had to be retired. \u201cWe held a party for him and he ate a cake,\u201d Makaruk laughed. \u201cBut he was still used to train other dogs, and really never retired because I used him to find missing kids or missing mushroom pickers.\u201d Franklyn helped train the new dogs Makaruk was asked to prepare for the workforce. \u201cYoung dogs learn better from each other than you and me,\u201d he said. \u201cThey would see him in his harness and they would learn.\u201d Franklyn and Makaruk trained three dogs together. There was Freddy, who went on to work in the Sterns County Sheriff’s Office; Angel, who went on to the New York City Police Department’s emergency and service unit; and Aspen, who works with the local emergency and response teams.\u201cWe were going to train another together, a puppy being sent to us in March,\u201d Makaruk said. \u201cI was going to name him Argo after Cape Arago. I like the two syllables because that’s the sound of a command. Argo is already sold, but I’m not allowed to know to who, which means the FBI or some other federal agency.\u201d But long before Argo arrived, Makaruk’s girlfriend found a tumor on Franklyn’s neck. It would have cost $2,000 to take it out, and his back was already going bad since life as a working dog usually takes a toll. \u201cI thought that if he makes it to the Farmer’s Market to get his hot dog, I would wait,\u201d Makaruk said. \u201cHe did, he made it, and got his hot dog, but then one morning he woke up and his tumor was the size of a softball. He wouldn’t get off the couch and I knew he wanted to go home. I wasn’t going to let him suffer, not after everything he’s done.\u201d Makaruk put him to sleep Nov. 10. \u201cI had a good cry, but you have to be happy for him,\u201d he said. \u201cHe’s helped train dogs, and the work he did will continue and continue. That’s a good feeling for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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