A hero's send-off has been given to a Mexican rescue dog in his home country after he was crushed by rubble while searching for earthquake survivors in Turkey.
Proteo was one of the dogs who found an 8-year-old girl alive hours before he died.
Man’s best friend provides essential assistance to rescue teams called to the scenes of massive disasters across the globe. In fact, our four-legged heroes do 70 percent of searching on disaster missions.
With a sense of smell 100,000x better than humans, and the ability to run better and faster and dig deeper - it’s easy to understand why they are brought in to assist in rescue missions.
RIP Proteo.
