National Dog Day – Honoring the working dogs who keep us safe and healthy

Service dog “Titan” hangs out off the floor of the Quicken Loans Arena on first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 18, 2016. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

This undated photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows a police K-9 named Nicky. Police said Monday, April 4, 2016, that Nicky was killed by police gunfire while biting 31-year-old suspect James Craig Simpson during a running gun battle Thursday, March 31, 2016, in a residential neighborhood. (Steven Crupi/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

This handout photo provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department shows Aimee Hurt, right, Director of Operations for Working Dogs For Conservation, working with the aid of Lily to demonstrate a dog’s ability to sniff out invasive zebra mussels and their microscopic larvae at the Toyota Texas Fest in Frisco, Texas, Friday, May 20, 2016. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department launched a boater awareness campaign called “Clean, Drain and Dry,” to fight the spread of zebra mussels. (Earl Nottingham/Texas Parks & Wildlife Department via AP)

Aelane Vasquez,9, reads with Leslie Hight, a therapy dog handler for New York Therapy Animals, and Izzy, a Reading Education Assistance Dog therapy dog, at Public School 57 in the Spanish Harlem section of New York, U.S., May 16, 2016. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

A uniformed U.S. Secret Service police officer walks his K-9 dog in front of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. A blizzard with gale-force winds paralyzed the southern and eastern United States on Saturday, dumping snow as millions hunkered down at home, hoping their food supplies would last and the power won’t go out. Seven states declared a state of emergency, nine people were reported killed in accidents and parts of Washington were coated with nearly two feet (60 centimeters) of drifting snow. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Grace Baker, 10, pets Bila, a K-9 with the Los Angeles International Airport Police, as handler Robert Corchado looks at Public Square, Wednesday, July 20, 2016, in Cleveland, during the third day of the Republican convention. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Hope, a rescued shelter dog, wears a vest that legally identifies him as a service dog for a veteran, in Boston, Massachusetts on June 14, 2016. Operation Delta Dog gives service dogs to veterans with TBI’s or PTSD. The dogs are trained for each vet’s needs. Hope belongs to veteran K.J. (Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images)

A Mexican federal police officer © and other team rescue members search for victims at a collapsed store at the village of Manta, after an earthquake struck off Ecuador’s Pacific coast, April 21, 2016. (Henry Romero/Reuters)

Shellie Goldstein of Gaithersburg, Maryland holds her Shih Tzu therapy dog “Emma” outside the gates of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, October 4, 2013. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Safety & Security Team Belgian Malinois canines take part in helicopter proficiency training with the California Air National Guard in San Francisco Bay, California, in this U.S. Coast Guard picture taken April 5, 2016. The dogs are equipped eyewear and ear protection to keep them safe at sea from rotor wash, sea spray, foreign debris and engine noise. Picture taken April 5, 2016. (US Coast Guard/Handout via Reuters)

Blue is one of the bomb-sniffing dogs used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at National Airport on Tuesday, December 29, 2015, in Arlington, VA. As security measures shift for the TSA, the agency is using a growing corp of dogs to sniff out explosives carried by travelers. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Two small dogs wearing dog coats with Police written on them, are held on a leash by a visitor to the historic Grand Place in Brussels on Sunday, June 19, 2016. The Belgian security level stays at level 3 after the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said early Saturday that homes and car ports were searched in 16 municipalities, mostly in and around Brussels in an anti-terror sweep. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Service dog Kai is pictured with SST August O'Niell as they take part in the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games in Orlando Florida, U.S., May 8, 2016. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

In this Thursday, June 9, 2016, photo, Transportation Safety Administration dog trainer Melissa Ellis works with Toska, a bomb-sniffing dog, in a makeshift warehouse area during a drill at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Short-staffed and stung by a report showing banned items slipping through security, the TSA is training new agents and canine teams to do a better job. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Bonny O'Donnell and her service dog Carson in front of Savannah High School, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016 in Savannah, Ga. (Stephen B. Morton for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

In this photo provided by the San Bernardino County Fire Department, a San Bernardino Fire Department firefighter works with a cadaver dog searching the ruins for anyone who may have been overrun by the flames of a wildfire along State Route 138, in Phelan, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. Five years of drought have turned the state’s wildlands into a tinder box, with eight fires currently burning from Shasta County in the far north to Camp Pendleton just north of San Diego. (Louis Penna/San Bernardino County Fire Department via AP)

Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Police K-9 explosive detection dogs sit on command during agility training at the new MTA Police Department Canine Training Center in Stormville, New York, U.S. on June 6, 2016. (Mike Segar/Reuters)

A K-9 unit member and a sniffer dog walks past passengers at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Philippine President Benigno Aquino III has ordered an extra tightening of security in all airports, seaports and public transport terminals across the country following explosions in Brussels that killed many people. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Rescuers pull out a sniffer dog at the site of a collapsed residential building on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, July 31, 2016. (Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)

Elizabeth Reeve , a Cherokee/Delaware, and her service dog, Sazzy, wait for the start the Red Earth Native American Festival parade, Friday, June 10, 2016 in Oklahoma City. (J Pat Carter/Getty Images)

In this Thursday, June 9, 2016, photo, Transportation Safety Administration dog trainer Ford Rinewalt works with Sylvia, a bomb-sniffing dog, in a makeshift warehouse during a drill at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Short-staffed and stung by a report showing banned items slipping through security, the TSA is training new agents and canine teams to do a better job. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

A service dog is seen wearing a pin in support of Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump during the California Republican Convention in Burlingame, California, U.S., April 29, 2016. (Stephen Lam /Reuters)

Gunnery sergeant Christopher Willingham, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, poses with US Marine dog Lucca, after receiving the PDSA Dickin Medal, awarded for animal bravery, equivalent of the Victoria Cross, at Wellington Barracks in London, Tuesday, April 5, 2016. The 12-year-old German Shepherd lost her leg on 23 March 2012, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when Lucca discovered a 30lb improvised explosive device (IED) and as she searched for additional IEDs, a second device detonated, instantly loosing her front left leg. Lucca completed over 400 separate missions in Iraq and Afghanistan during six years of active service protected the lives of thousands of troops, with her heroic actions recognised by the UK’s leading veterinary charity, PDSA, with the highest award any animal in the world can achieve while serving in military conflict. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

A therapy dog wears a nurse Halloween costume as part of a program to de-stress passengers at the international boarding gate area of LAX airport in Los Angeles, California, United States, October 27, 2015. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

In this Thursday, March 24, 2016 photo, Army veteran Joe Aguirre drapes a tattooed arm across the back of his service dog, Munger, in Fayetteville, N.C. The Department of Veterans Affairs is in the middle of a multi-year study to determine whether it should pay for such psychiatric service dogs. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Glen Hoffman (L) of Extra Mile Ministries with K9 crisis comfort dog Beau (front) listens to a community meeting at the Newtown High school on the future of Sandy Hook Elementary School the site of the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history in Newtown, Connecticut January 13, 2013. K9 crisis comfort dog Dolly (rear) with her owner Laurie Buchele are also pictured. (Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters)

In this Thursday, April 14, 2016 photo, military veteran Cole Lyle, who suffers with PTSD, and his dog Kaya, wait in the hallway of the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to testifying before the House National Security subcommittee hearing on “Connecting Veterans with PTSD with Service Dogs.” (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Disabled person in weelchair shopping with Labrador mobility assistance dog in supermarket, Belgium. (Arterra/UIG via Getty Images)

A K-9 handler with the Miami-Dade police department patrols at Miami International Airport ,Friday, July 1, 2016, in Miami. There is increased security at the airport on this Independence Day holiday weekend after Tuesday’s terrorist attacks at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Police Officer Kevin Pimpinelli works with his K-9 partner Johnny, a German Shepherd, during a simulated bomb search aboard a dedicated Metro-North Railroad commuter train car permanently installed for training at the new MTA Police Department Canine Training Center in Stormville, New York, U.S. on June 6, 2016. (Mike Segar/Reuters)

Rescuers walk with dogs following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy August 24, 2016. (Ciro De Luca/Reuters)

Lawrence Spalla, holding his service dog Danny, attends Captain Ron Nielsen’s “Fearless Flying” class at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona April 4, 2015. Picture taken April 4, 2015.(Nancy Wiechec/Reuters)

Sydney Corcoran, her mother Celeste Corcoran, and Dave Fortier (L-R), survivors of the Boston bombing, visit with Pulse nightclub shooting survivor Angel Colon (2nd R) with service dogs Koda (L) and Zealand, at Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Florida, U.S. June 25, 2016. (Orlando Health/Handout via Reuters)

K-9 Officers with their K-9 partners attend a memorial for Port Authority K-9 Aren, at the Law Enforcement Memorial along the north shore of the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. A person was shot and killed by police and Aren was stabbed and killed during an incident Sunday in Wilkinsburg, Pa, near Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)