Coco doing her Therapy Dog thing with some of the finishers from the 5K run at Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale
Coco the German Shepherd Dog is part of the Margate Florida Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.). This is a picture of her before she got a harness ID with CERT Patches. She is a certified therapy dog with Canine Assisted Therapy of Oakland Park, FL. Her goal with Margate CERT is to become a Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) k9 Comfort Dogs or (C.E.R.T.) Therapy Dogs. She could then offer comfort and emotional support to victims of disasters and comfort to first responders in stressful situation. Read this if are asking “what is a therapy dog?” Here is a short article describing comfort dogs/disaster relief dogs.
Margate basketball alum and Phoenix Suns point guard Brandon Knight hosted and supported the “Back-2-School Backpack Tour” at Margate’s Firefighters Park Saturday Aug 15, 2015. The park is located at 2500 Rock Island Road. Approx 600 backpacks were handed out. Here are some pictures of Coco and her new friends. Coco was there as support and mascot to the Margate CERT Team She is happy to the be the only Dog on the CERT Team. For more information and pictures please check out the Margate CERT Facebook page or Coco’s Facebook Page.
