Updated 5/16/22
Just two months after a film based mostly on her life premiered on Netflix, Ruby the hero police canine has handed away. According to a Facebook put up from the Rhode Island State Police, Ok-9 Ruby was put to sleep following a “sudden, acute, and untreatable illness.”
The story of the outstanding pooch and her handler Cpl. Daniel O’Neil impressed the Netflix movie, Rescued By Ruby.
Before becoming a member of the pressure, Ruby, an Australian Shepherd and Border Collie combine, was an unruly shelter canine. She was practically euthanized earlier than Trooper O’Neil and a volunteer coach took an curiosity in her.
She went on to change into one of many first shelter canine to serve with the Rhode Island State Police. Throughout her 11 years of trustworthy service, Ruby participated in quite a few search-and-rescue missions. She is even credited with saving her former coach’s son throughout one in every of these searches.
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Col. Darnell Weaver, superintendent of the state police, expressed his gratitude for Ruby’s years of service, saying:
“K-9 Ruby dedicated her life to serve the citizens of Rhode Island and make a positive impact on every person she ever interacted with,” he stated in a press release. “She became a symbol of hope for all shelter dogs, showing the world what a shelter dog can do when just given love and the chance to shine.”
Ruby was honored for her achievements when she turned the 2018 American Humane Hero Dog Award’s “Search and Rescue Dog of the Year.”
“She had a full, happy, and wonderful life, not only as a trooper, but as part of a loving family,” Weaver stated. “She worked right until the end and never gave up doing what she loved most — making people smile.”
Read on to be taught extra about Ruby’s unimaginable life.
Updated 3/14/22
11 years in the past, Ruby was a rambunctious shelter canine on the verge of euthanasia. She had been adopted and returned 5 instances for her unruly conduct when Rhode Island state police Cpl. Daniel O’Neil took an opportunity on her.
The pair would go on to coach, work, and dwell collectively, with Ruby turning into an official police K9.
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“She was a total knucklehead,” shelter volunteer and canine coach Patricia Inman stated of Ruby. “She jumped and bit her leash. She wouldn’t sit or lie down. She just never stopped moving. She was special, and she needed a special person.”
Inman had no concept that the canine she skilled and advocated for would come again into her life in essentially the most unimaginable means: by saving her son! Now, Ruby’s story is being immortalized by Netflix in a heartwarming household movie. “Rescued by Ruby,” premieres March 17!
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It’s been seven years since an lively pup named Ruby joined the Rhode Island State Police K9 Unit.
She was surrendered to the Rhode Island Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RISPCA) by her first proprietor, then adopted – and returned – 4 extra instances earlier than discovering her place on this world.
Joseph Warzycha, a former police officer and the present director of operations on the RISPCA, informed PeopleTV’s Paws & Claws:
“After the fifth time [she had been returned] we would be assuming too much liability if we were to place this dog into the average home.”
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Ruby’s destiny could have been fairly totally different if it weren’t for Warzycha. He noticed potential within the boisterous, “generally unmanageable” 8-month-old Border Collie/Australian Shepherd combine. During his time as an officer, Warzycha had discovered a bit about working K9s and knew that Ruby’s excessive power could possibly be an asset – if it could possibly be harnessed.
Trooper Daniel O’Neil of the Rhode Island State Police had all the time dreamed of becoming a member of the K9 unit, so when he discovered about Ruby, he eagerly took on the problem of coaching her to channel her enthusiasm into scent work. The partnership acquired off to a rocky begin, however after six months of intensive coaching, O’Neil had a accomplice, and Ruby had a job and a without end residence!
“She really came into her own,” O’Neil stated.
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One fateful day in October 2017, Ruby and O’Neil had been referred to as in to assist find a lacking teenager. The boy had been gone for greater than 36 hours and all human search makes an attempt had failed. They efficiently situated the boy in grave want of medical consideration hours later. He was transported to an area hospital, and due to Ruby and O’Neil, made a full restoration.
When O’Neil met with the boy’s mom to provide her the excellent news, he found that she had as soon as been a volunteer coach on the RISPCA. Not solely did she bear in mind Ruby, she had additionally labored tirelessly to rehabilitate her and save her from euthanasia six years earlier.
The as soon as dominant, unruly canine had lastly paid again the girl’s kindness by rescuing her son! See the superb story from Trooper O’Neil’s perspective under.
These days, Ruby is one busy K9. In addition to her police duties, she has made it to the semi-finals of the 2018 American Humane Hero Dog Awards! Her story can also be featured within the new movie Searchdog, set to be launched on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play on July 18th.
Above all else, Ruby has discovered the loving, without end residence each shelter canine goals of. She will stay O’Neil’s beloved pet after her retirement from the K9 unit.
“She brings a little humility to a very negative environment,” O’Neil informed People Pets. “When you have a dog that has that emotion of pure love, it is really tough to be in a bad mood. She just wants to be with you.”
H/T to People Pets
Featured Image by way of Facebook/Rhode Island State Police
