His handler, Officer Carl Ellis, quietly took Ringo to an animal shelter in a suburb of Jackson, where he waited for weeks for someone to adopt him. A police officer in the suburb texted a photo of Ringo to Randy Hare, a dog trainer in Jackson, Mr. Hare said in an interview on Monday. Mr. Hare had trained Ringo and another dog, a German shepherd named Alpha, for the Jackson Police Department about a decade ago. Mr. Hare said that while Ringo waited for adoption, the shelter’s administrator started to suspect that Ringo might have been a former police dog and sought the help of an officer who ended up messaging him. “Why would he turn his back on the dog and surrender his dog like that?” Mr. Hare said, referring to Officer Ellis, in an interview on Monday.

Source: New York Times December 17, 2018 21:24 UTC