They help people with disabilities, help farmers take care of sheep and cows, help police fight crime, and help find people who are lost. Dogs can't see as well as people can. Something that looks bright red to you looks pink to your dog. But dogs have a much sharper sense of smell than we do. Dogs that assist blind people must know not to cross the street when a car is coming, even if the owner says it's OK to go.
Bloodhounds use their super-powerful noses to find people who are lost.
These dogs can detect a person's scent even many days after the person was in that spot. Write a paragraph explaining your opinion, using information from this week's issue or from the Fun Facts. If you believe there should be a monument, sketch what you think the monument should look like. If you would like, you can draw a monument to other types of working dogs instead. Not as much as we'd like.