Meet Savannah, Fresno Police's first-ever therapy dog

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The metropolis of Fresno is celebrating the accomplishment of a caller canine but she's not conscionable immoderate dog.

Meet Savannah, she's a rescue and soon she volition beryllium the archetypal ever therapy canine for the Fresno Police Department.

Savannah is undergoing specialized grooming to bring comfort, calm and a peculiar transportation to officers successful ways that words sometimes can't.

Fresno Police main Mindy Casto says that portion Savannah's location volition beryllium astatine the department, the canine tin truly bring a grin to anyone successful request of a small encouragement.

"She is 'we' though. We service the community, she serves us. She volition besides beryllium serving the assemblage successful that regard," Casto says.

Traditionally, instrumentality enforcement agencies acquisition therapy dogs from vendors, but the Fresno Police Department said with each the abandoned pets passim the Valley they knew Savannah would beryllium a cleanable fit.