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Sheriff's Department Bloodhound Retires |
 Lexington County Sheriff’s Department Bloodhound Little Anne has retired after five years of service with the agency’s Mantracking Team. Little Anne began her tour of duty with the Sheriff’s Department in February 2004, when Little Anne was 1.
Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said Col. Mel Seboe, who supervises the Sheriff’s Department Mantracking Team, recently made the difficult decision to retire Little Anne after a veterinarian found that Little Anne had a lung tumor and heart murmur. Little Anne is receiving medical treatment while living at the home of a sheriff’s deputy as a beloved family pet.
Little Anne responded to 264 calls for service while serving on the Mantracking Team, Metts said. Little Anne found 74 percent of the persons whom she was assigned to track down, including a suspect in a murder, a missing child and a suicidal person.
“Little Anne was dogged in her pursuit of criminals and relentless in her efforts to find troubled persons who needed help,” Metts said. “She will be deeply missed as a member of our agency’s Mantracking Team.”
Duke Snodgrass with 832’s Deputy Dogs, a Florida non-profit organization, donated Little Anne to the Sheriff’s Department as well as Mike Hammer, who now serves as the primary bloodhound for the Sheriff’s Department Mantracking Team, Metts said. The sheriff said he makes the team available for any law enforcement agency during manhunts for criminal suspects as well as searches for missing children and endangered persons. Two of the deputies who are assigned to the team have been certified in court as expert witnesses in mantracking.
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