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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

This happened to one of our county supervisors.  They ended up finding him 
when they arrested "a man" for drunk in public.  Turned out to be our 
supervisor who had been wandering around in this, I guess you could call it, 
haze.

I think all police forces should have seminars on this.  More and more folks 
have diabetes and more and more people have neuro disorders that cause these 
Alzheimerish symptoms where they "wander" off.

Step one on any of these should be the SAR dogs because police dogs simply 
are not all that well trained.  Heck my Keeshond bitch that was a week from 
whelping beat the police dogs in two of the training classes!  I really wish 
they'd stop using the police dogs and go straight to the SARs dogs who are 
REALLY trained to actually find people.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT gmail.com>


> Yeah, When they found his truck on Thursday afternoon (day 2), they called 
> in the police K-9 units, but found nothing.  Because no evidence of foul 
> play has been found, the police have not authorized further organizations 
> with dogs to search, and the family apparently cannot afford it.  Today is 
> day 8, and since it rained heavily on day 6 and 7, it wouldn't work now 
> anyway.   Most organizations with SAR dogs operate at the request of the 
> police OR are brought in by the family.  Keith's case seems to be falling 
> through the cracks due to, IMO, a lack of understanding about labile 
> diabetes.  I know I am learning a lot about this condition.  Alzheimers, 
> everyone knows, but diabetes??  We only think we know..