Died 9\/6\/18
\nHandler – Officer Jacob Palmer<\/p>\n
Police K-9 dies after sudden illness<\/p>\n
Gabber, a K-9 member of the Monroe Police Department, died suddenly on Thursday night. Public Safety Director Keith Glass said the dog became ill after a short training period Thursday. Gabber died at the University of Georgia Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Services. Glass said he shared the news \u201cwith a heavy heart.\u201dThe Police Department took Gabber to Monroe Animal Care Hospital, then to East Metro Animal Emergency Clinic in Covington before transferring him to Athens. There, Glass said, \u201cEverything humanly possible was done to save this heroic K-9.\u201d\u201cAfter several conversations with the attending vet, I made the only decision I could, (and) at approximately 11 p.m. last night, Gabber\u2019s tour of duty with MPD ended,\u201d Glass said Friday. \u201cWhile his tour of duty was short, it was noteworthy as indicated by his deployment and training record. RIP Gabber.\u201dGabber went into service with Officer Jacob Palmer on June 15. Together they made 15 deployments, eight of them detection deployments and seven on patrol. Gabber attended 53 training events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Died 9\/6\/18 Handler – Officer Jacob Palmer Police K-9 dies after sudden illness Gabber, a K-9 member of the Monroe Police Department, died suddenly on Thursday night. Public Safety Director Keith Glass said the dog became ill after a short training period Thursday. Gabber died at the University of Georgia Small Animal Emergency and Critical …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-5690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-k9memorial","tag-ga"],"yoast_head":"\n