Ricky Gervais Presents Anti-Poaching Dog in the Kruger with Global Award
Days before hosting the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles, Ricky Gervais teamed up with PDSA – the UK’s leading veterinary charity – to honour a special dog in South Africa with a PDSA Gold Medal, the highest honour a civilian animal can receive for bravery and devotion. (Update June 2020: The anti-poaching hero dog, […]
Days before hosting the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles, Ricky Gervais teamed up with PDSA – the UK’s leading veterinary charity – to honour a special dog in South Africa with a PDSA Gold Medal, the highest honour a civilian animal can receive for bravery and devotion. (Update June 2020: The anti-poaching hero dog, Killer, has sadly died.)
The brave recipient – K9 Killer – is South Africa’s most successful tracking dog in the fight against rhino poaching (which threatens the survival of the species).
In the past four years, his tracking skills have resulted in the arrests of 115 poachers in the Kruger National Park where he and his handler work!
PDSA said on their site that the award is in recognition of the five-year-old Belgian Malinois’ “extraordinary work” protecting rhinos from poachers.
British actor, comedian and animal welfare advocate Ricky Gervais announced the award in a special video broadcast (see above or below).
PDSA asked social media users to “please watch and share this wonderful tribute film to Killer to help us celebrate this extraordinary boy” and thanked the South African National Parks for their support, and ‘Stroop – die film‘ for their “fantastic footage of Killer in action”.
Watch Video: PDSA awards Gold Medal to ‘K9 Killer’
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