Jordan took a kick to his snout. Hurricane was slammed to the ground and repeatedly punched. Both were rushed to a veterinarian for treatment. But by stopping a fence jumper from getting into the White House late Wednesday, the two members of the Secret Service’s K-9 unit accomplished something humans in the agency have been hard-pressed to do recently: They performed their duties flawlessly and at least for a day lifted the morale of a Secret Service that has been rocked by series of embarrassing incidents. What the two dogs, both Belgian Malinois, did was stop a man who had managed to get over the fence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday. The dogs, which can run 25 mph and have a bite that applies hundreds of pounds of pressure per square inch, knocked the man to the ground, and bit him. As the man tried to fend the dogs off, officers moved in and arrested him. The veterinarian determined the dogs had suffered only minor injuries. “All that’s hurt on the dog is its pride,” a uniformed Secret Service officer said Thursday afternoon as he stood guard outside the White House. “If you got kicked in the snout, your pride would be hurt, too.”
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:22:16 +0000
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