Died 9\/17\/15
\nHandler – C. Dhanasekaran<\/p>\n
Fort City Dog Squad Loses Its Veteran Sniffer to Cancer<\/p>\n
After serving for almost seven-and-a-half years in the Police Dog Squad, the German Shepherd, Cheetah, breathed her last on Thursday after suffering from cancer for over two months. The was laid to rest with full police honors on the premises of the Sniffer Dog Squad at Kosapet in the Fort City. Cheetah was inducted into the squad on April 14, 2008 when she was merely a little over a month-old. She underwent six months training in the department\u2019s training centre for sniffer dogs in Chennai. Cheetah had put in a distinguished service with it being deployed in over 150 murder and theft cases, including the sensational murder of Hindu Munnani leader Vellaiyappan. \u201cCheetah was like my daughter. I am going to miss her forever,\u201d said her handler C Dhanasekaran. He said she fell sick in the month of July. The veterinarian examined Cheetah suspecting that she was suffering from cancer. Cheetah was taken to the Madras Veterinary College Hospital in Chennai, where the doctors detected that she was suffering from breast cancer. \u201cShe underwent surgery on July 27 in Chennai and the doctors removed he tumor, but her health did not improve,\u201d said SI of Police (Dog squad) Varadhan. With the demise of Cheetah the strength of the squad has been reduced to three. \u201cIt will double the workload of two-and-half year-old Simba, the other sniffer dog trained in crime. The unit has two other dogs – Tiger and Loosie – both experts in explosives detection,\u201d said Jerald Wilson, handler of Simba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Died 9\/17\/15 Handler – C. Dhanasekaran Fort City Dog Squad Loses Its Veteran Sniffer to Cancer After serving for almost seven-and-a-half years in the Police Dog Squad, the German Shepherd, Cheetah, breathed her last on Thursday after suffering from cancer for over two months. The was laid to rest with full police honors on the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-k9memorial","tag-india"],"yoast_head":"\n