9/11 Dogs Today

Rico says his friend Tex sends this:

Nearly a hundred dogs worked at the World Trade Center ten years ago; only thirteen are left. These are the surviving dogs that worked the Trade Center that are still alive but retired; they are heroes too. Their eyes say everything you need to know about them. Just amazing creatures... 

Moxie, 13, from Winthrop, Massachusetts, arrived with her handler, Mark Aliberti, at the World Trade Center on the evening of 11 September and searched the site for eight days.  

Tara, 16, from Ipswich, Massachusetts , arrived at the World Trade Center on the night of the 11th. The dog and her handler Lee Prentiss were there for eight days. 

 

Kaiser, 12, pictured at home in Indianapolis, Indiana , was deployed to the World Trade Center on 11 September and searched tirelessly for people in the rubble. 

 

Bretagne and his owner Denise Corliss, from Cypress, Texas, arrived at the World Trade Center on 17 September, remaining there for ten days. 

 

Guinness, 15, from Highland, California, started work at the site with Sheila McKee on the morning of 13 September and was deployed at the site for eleven days. 

 

Merlyn and his handler Matt Claussen were deployed to Ground Zero on 24 September, working the night shift for five days. 

Red, 11, from Annapolis, Maryland, went with Heather Roche to the Pentagon from 16 September until the 27th as part of the Bay Area Recovery Canines. 

 

Abigail (above, left) was deployed on the evening of 17 September, searching for ten days while Tuff (above, right) arrived in New York at 11:00 pm on the day of attack to start working early the next day. 

 

Handler Julie Noyes and Hoke were deployed to the World Trade Center from their home in Denver on 24 September 24 and searched for five days. 

 

Scout and an unknown dog lie among the rubble at Ground Zero, just two of nearly a hundred search and rescue animals who helped to search for survivors. During the chaos of the 9/11 attacks, where almost three thousand people died, nearly a hundred loyal search and rescue dogs and their brave owners scoured Ground Zero for survivors. Now, ten years on, just twelve of these heroic canines survive, and they have been commemorated in a touching series of portraits entitled Retrieved. The dogs worked tirelessly to search for anyone trapped alive in the rubble, along with countless emergency service workers and members of the public. 

Traveling across nine states, from Texas to Maryland, Dutch photographer Charlotte Dumas, 34, captured the remaining dogs in their twilight years in their homes where they still live with their handlers, a full decade on from 9/11. Their stories have now been compiled in a book, called Retrieved, which was published on the tenth anniversary of the attacks. Noted for her touching portraits of animals, especially dogs, Charlotte wanted Retrieved to mark not only the anniversary of the September 2001 attacks, but also as recognition for some of the first responders and their dogs. "I felt this was a turning point, especially for the dogs, who although are not forgotten, are not as prominent as the human stories involved," explained Charlotte, who splits her time between New York and Amsterdam. "They speak to us as a different species, and animals are greatly important for our sense of empathy and to put things into perspective."