Saanich's Jessica Tuomela and her four-year-old golden retriever Lucy helped rescue a missing elderly woman near Elk Lake on May 17.
Four-year-old Lucy is trained to help find missing people using their scent.
Last year the Paralympic triathlete, who is blind, decided to try and train a dog for discriminate scent trailing, a method of search and rescue that involves collecting sample scents from missing persons to help find them. “Then she said to me very clearly ‘I want you to remember that I rely on my dogs to survive everyday’ and ‘I said I’m in!'”
“They knew that their family member was living with memory loss and so they got a kit and so I go the message that they were needing help,” says Tuomela.Sign up for the CHEK Now daily email newsletter to get breaking news and the day's top stories sent to your email.“Lucy and I went out, I presented her with the woman’s scent and off we went.”
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