A VETERAN search and rescue dog attached to the Sabah Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) has died just hours after taking part in what would become her final operational deployment.
Lexi, a yellow Labrador Retriever who joined the state’s K9 unit from the United Kingdom in 2017, was found dead inside her station enclosure at 6.15 am on Friday. Just a day earlier, the working dog had been assisting search teams looking for a missing person in the Kampung Pulutan Membawang area near Menggatal.
Sabah K9 unit chief Calvin Joe Jeafery said Lexi had displayed normal behaviour after completing the field assignment alongside her long-time handler, Athur Anderson Walter.
Upon returning to the station, she completed her usual post-mission routine of being washed and fed without showing any signs of exhaustion or illness.
