Land Mine Detection Dog

"Stitch"

NAME: Stitch
DOB:
BREED: German Shepard
SPONSORS: The Michael Lazar Family of Vermont
WORKING IN:Bosnia Herzegovina
DONATED TO:  BH Demining, NGO (Non-Government Organization)
FUN FACTS : Stitch was sponsored by Rotarian Michael Lazar and his family in 2005 during the Spring CHAMPS Vermont Campaign. 


Stitch and his handler completed training at the Mine Detection Dog Center, in Konjic, Bosnia Herzegovina, in early 2006 and began working with BH Demining.  BH Demining, a Bosnian NGO headquartered in Sarajevo, has spent the last 8 years dedicated to making Bosnia Herzegovina a Mine Safe Country. 

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