Join us in congratulating Dog Handler Chris Sharpe and Detector Dog Cinder on their retirement!
Chris retired last month with 30-plus years under his belt, most of it as a dog handler. He got his first chance to work with the dog teams in ...1984 and he got his own dog two years later when a new handler position came open. We had a chance to chat with Chris about his retirement…
Cute, furry, and nosy—these are not words we would normally use to describe our employees here at the Canada Border Services Agency. (Well, at least not the first two.) But they do describe the Agency’s hardest-working non-human resources: our detector dogs.
Many detector dog handlers choose to adopt their dog at the end of its service life, and Chris was no different. When Chris retired in September, detector dog Cinder retired right along with him.
“We spend more time with those dogs than we do with our families…She might as well just hang out with us and get used to being a regular part of the family without getting into a truck five days a week and going to work.”
“They’re the best partners ever… The only thing is that they’re notoriously cheap: I have never once had any one of them spring for a coffee!”
Everyone at the CBSA is wishing you both a relaxing retirement! See More
Chris retired last month with 30-plus years under his belt, most of it as a dog handler. He got his first chance to work with the dog teams in ...1984 and he got his own dog two years later when a new handler position came open. We had a chance to chat with Chris about his retirement…
Cute, furry, and nosy—these are not words we would normally use to describe our employees here at the Canada Border Services Agency. (Well, at least not the first two.) But they do describe the Agency’s hardest-working non-human resources: our detector dogs.
Many detector dog handlers choose to adopt their dog at the end of its service life, and Chris was no different. When Chris retired in September, detector dog Cinder retired right along with him.
“We spend more time with those dogs than we do with our families…She might as well just hang out with us and get used to being a regular part of the family without getting into a truck five days a week and going to work.”
“They’re the best partners ever… The only thing is that they’re notoriously cheap: I have never once had any one of them spring for a coffee!”
Everyone at the CBSA is wishing you both a relaxing retirement! See More
