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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>In 1990, I was the assistant principal of an inner-city junior
high school. Although we were in a tough inner-city area, the vast
majority of our kids were good kids with tough lives, being raised by older
siblings, aunts, grandparents etc. We got an unconfirmed tip that a
particular boy was smoking marijuana after school. We wanted the message
to get out loud and clear that this behavior was unacceptable. I had a 6
month old basset puppy at the time, so I brought her to school. We put a
SMALL piece of McD’s hamburger in an empty locker, next to the suspect’s
locker, on the third floor. Then I started walking the halls with
her. Kids, of course, we totally smitten with her and asked lots of
questions. One of the kids asked if she was a drug dog – I answered
non-committally and proceeded to the third floor (having to carry her the last
set of stairs). When we got to the third floor, she made a beeline to the
McD’s locker (one of 100 or so lockers on that floor). Well .. let
me tell you, at the next change of classes there was a lot of locker activity
and toilet flushing going on. From then on, Abby came to school on a regular
basis to patrol the hall – and I can guarantee those kids thought she
could detect drugs, tobacco, alcohol and PlayBoy magazines!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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