Police Dog Enjoys Meaty Reward For Finding Missing Massachusetts Man: ‘Can’t Hide His Smile’

Police Dog Enjoys Meaty Reward For Finding Missing Massachusetts Man: ‘Can’t Hide His Smile’

A Massachusetts community was delighting in the smile of their neighborhood community resource dog after he got a meaty reward for his good deed.

In the town of Avon, a known dementia patient went missing, and Cruiser the golden retriever cruised right to his location, tracking and locating him in the woods behind a school.

“Cruiser can’t hide his smile today,” Police Chief Bill McGrath said in a Facebook post.

“Got to play my favorite game of find the missing person. I won today when I located a 78 year old man suffering from dementia. No one worry, Sgt Morris got me my hamburger reward,” the post read.

Cruiser has 1,600 followers on Facebook where the department regularly posts pictures of what their golden boy has gotten up to over the week.

Cruiser arrived at the Wrentham Police Department in 2020 from Golden Opportunities for Independence which breeds golden retrievers for lives as service and police dogs. Beginning training as a puppy, they learn all the basic skills of being a service dog such as picking up dropped keys and phones, forming barriers around those suffering from anxiety, or staying close to their handler in an emergency.

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“I’ll get a police chief to call and say, Pauline, you have no idea what this dog has done for our community, for our police department, for our officers,” said founder Pauline Hoegler in an interview with WBZ TV

Missing people are as much a specialty of Cruiser as hamburgers are his favorite meal. He was also pictured chowing down on a burger in March after locating two runaway children in the woods.