{"id":17995,"date":"2015-12-18T10:03:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=17995"},"modified":"2015-12-18T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T15:03:40","slug":"sheriff-welcomes-new-four-legged-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=17995","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff welcomes new four-legged deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1245075\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sheriff-Carolyn-Bunny-Welsh-with-K-9-deputy-Melody-254x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1245075\" class=\"wp-image-1245075 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sheriff-Carolyn-Bunny-Welsh-with-K-9-deputy-Melody-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sheriff-Carolyn-Bunny-Welsh-with-K-9-deputy-Melody\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1245075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chester County Sheriff Carolyn &#8220;Bunny&#8221; Welsh with her newest K-9 deputy, Melody.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Chester County Sheriff Carolyn &#8220;Bunny&#8221; Welsh is welcoming\u00a0a new four-legged deputy, Melody, to her office\u2019s K-9 unit. Melody\u2019s appointment within the office is to serve as a \u201ccomfort\u201d dog in courtroom circumstances where she can help to ease the stress experienced by children and others who may be facing difficult situations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been researching the options of a comfort dog for more than a year, and have found a perfect match with Melody \u2013 or \u2018Mel\u2019 as she likes to be called,\u201d said Welsh.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Melody, a Labrador-Golden Retriever mix, has had two years of training with the Seeing Eye organization based in Morristown, New Jersey. Chester County Deputy Sheriff and master trainer Paul Bryant sourced and \u201crecruited\u201d Melody. \u201cMel was initially bred and trained to help people, but rather than being a Seeing Eye service dog, she will be helping people in a different way,\u201d noted Bryant.<\/p>\n<p>Once acclimated to the Chester County Justice Center and court offices, Mel will come to work every day and will be available whenever needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited to offer this kind of therapy to children and others in need of comfort during stressful times that can sometimes be a part of the judicial system,\u201d Welsh said.<\/p>\n<p>Mel joins the Chester County Sheriff\u2019s Office K-9 unit, which includes German Shepherds trained in tracking, drug detection, explosives detection and cadaver or human remains detection. She will be handled during the day by deputies and civilians within the office.<\/p>\n<p>Mel currently resides with Welsh until a handler is selected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI may have a hard time giving her up to anyone,&#8221; Welsh said. &#8220;She has a very loving and gentle disposition and has already become part of the family!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Chester County Sheriff Carolyn &#8220;Bunny&#8221; Welsh is welcoming\u00a0a new four-legged deputy, Melody, to her office\u2019s K-9 unit. Melody\u2019s appointment within the office is to serve as a \u201ccomfort\u201d dog in courtroom circumstances where she can help to ease the stress experienced by children and others who may be facing difficult situations. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[976,6919],"class_list":["post-17995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county-sheriffs-office","tag-k-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}