DENNIS – Hundreds of motorcycles rolled from Dennis to Provincetown on a sun-splashed Saturday to raise money for retired local police dogs.
The Cape and Islands Police K9 Relief Fund Motorcycle Run began at Patriot Square in Dennis. Riders ended their trek on MacMillan Pier with a barbeque.
“When the dogs retire, the burden is on the officer to maintain the dog,” said event organizer Joe Ambrosini, a retired K9 handler with the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office.
“They live another five years, six years, and they get to be a dog again. If you’re a K9 officer and you retire a dog, when you bring him to the vets we pay the medical bills.”
“The dogs will do more than any police officer will,” Ambrosini said.
“They’ll go into a basement in the middle of the night, 3 o’clock in the morning. There’s so many things the dogs are utilized for, finding children, finding items, catching bad guys.”
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